IA2节译：提丰重型攻城坦克

This mighty war machine is named after the 'Great Beast' of ancient Terran myth, a title entirely appropriate for this most bellicose of engines of war. The vehicle was developed during the Great Crusade and shares a common STC heritage with the Spartan Assault Tank. Some fragmentary accounts claim that the Typhon was created at the express order of Perturabo, the Primarch of the Iron Warriors Legion. Given that Perturabo led his Legion into treachery during the Horus Heresy, it is little wonder that the Typhon's origins remain obscure. Some even hold that the machine's origins taint it still, some echo of that calamitous age resounding down the millennia .

这种强悍的战争机器是用古代泰拉神话中的“巨兽”来命名的，这个头衔也完全适合此类最为好战的战争引擎。提丰重型攻城坦克是在大远征时期被开发出来的，它和斯巴达突击坦克有着共同的STC遗产。某些碎片化的报告声称：提丰是在钢铁勇士军团原体佩图拉博的专门命令下建造的；考虑到佩图拉博在荷鲁斯叛乱时期率领他的叛变，也就难怪提丰的起源（至今）仍旧模糊。某些人甚至坚称这种机械起源的污点仍旧存在，某些来自那段灾难年代的回声回荡了数千年之久。

The Typhon was created to provide the Legiones Astartes with the ultimate in mobile firepower and mounts the largest cannon it is possible to carry on the Typhor/Spartan hull. Prior to the creation of the Typhon, the dreadhammer siege cannon had only been utilised on static super-heavy siege ordnance of the type used to pound enemy-held cities to dust. By mounting the dreadhammer in the Typhon, the Space Marines gained access to a vehicle as mobile and as heavily armoured as any in their arsenal, but able to engage even the heaviest of fortifications. Spearheaded by a Typhon, there were few if any enemy bastions a Legion assault force could not engage and no walls thick enough to shield those who would deny the Imperial Truth.

创造提丰的目的是向阿斯塔特军团提供终极的移动火力，并且在提丰/斯巴达车体上安装其可能运载的最大型火炮。在提丰被创造出之前，恐惧之锤攻城火炮只能被用于静态的超重型攻城重炮——此类型的武器被用于将敌军控制的城市轰为尘埃。通过将恐惧之锤攻城火炮安装到提丰上，星际战士们获得了一辆和武库中其他载具那样可移动且装甲厚重，但也能够进攻哪怕是最坚固要塞工事的载具。在一辆提丰作为矛头（带领冲锋）的情况下，几乎没有阿斯塔特军团进攻部队无法攻击的要塞，也没有厚重到足以保护那些否认帝国真理之人的城墙。

As with many other classes of heavy Tank, the Typhon fell out of use in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy. With the decimated Legions divided into far smaller Chapters, the need for massed heavy assaults against entrenched enemies for which the Typhon was created became a thing of the past or was left to other forces more able to absorb the inevitable losses. Nonetheless, many Chapters retain a small number of Typhon Heavy Siege Tanks in their arsenals, reserved for use when they must assault the heaviest of enemy fortifications and no other form of artillery support is available.Invariably, such attacks see the Typhon join heavy armoured spearheads alongside Land Raiders and even Spartans. There they unleash devastating fire upon enemy heavy fortifications, creating a breach through which the squads transported by the Land Raiders can launch their assaults. In the unlikely event that any defenders may have survived the attack of the Typhon's dreadhammer siege cannon, Terminators and other assault units attacking from their Land Raiders will cut them down without mercy, forcing the breach and delivering victory in short order.

就像其他很多类型的重型坦克那样，荷鲁斯叛乱之后提丰也就不再被使用。随着毁灭性的军团被拆分为规模远为小型的战团，（星际战士）对于应对固守（要塞）的敌军（提丰被创造出来就是解决这种问题）的需要也成为了过去，或者被留给了其他那些更能承受不可避免损失的其他部队。但尽管如此，很多战团还是在自己的武库中保留了少量提丰重型攻城坦克，当他们必须进攻敌人最坚固的要塞，而且还没有其他形式的炮兵支援可用时，才会使用提丰。通常来说，在这种进攻中我们会看到提丰和兰德掠夺者甚至斯巴达突击坦克共同加入重型装甲矛头。它们向敌军坚固的要塞工事释放出毁灭性的炮火来炸出缺口，兰德掠夺者运载着（步兵）小队穿过缺口以发动进攻。在不太可能的情况下，有些人会从提丰恐惧之锤攻城火炮的进攻下幸存，兰德掠夺者上出击的终结者和其他突击单位将会无情击倒他们，强行突破并在短时间内取得胜利

Despite the staggeringly heavy weight of fire the Typhon is able to bring to bear upon the battlefield in direct support of assaulting units, its legacy as a product of the mind of the Primarch Perturabo remains a powerful disincentive to many Chapters utilising it. The Primarch of the Iron Wamors was at once a master of siege warfare, and a bitter, even megalomaniacal character deeply jealous of the glories his brother Primarchs had won. He and many of his Legion were apparently possessed of a bitter resentment that some claim resides yet within the heart of the Typhon, its machine spirt having inherited something of that twisted demeanour. Even those few Typhons constructed long after the Horus Heresy are said to harbour something of the darkness of those times, a legacy that follows the works of Perturabo millennia after his fall 

尽管提丰拥有惊人的火力，而且能够在战场上直接支援突击单位，但对于很多使用它的战团们而言，其作为原体佩图拉博思维产物遗产的身份是一个严重的阻碍。钢铁勇士的原体曾是一位攻城战大师，但他性格却是充满愤恨甚至妄自尊大的，深深地嫉妒着他的原体兄弟们所赢取的荣耀。他和自己军团中的很多人明显怀有一种苦涩的怨恨——某些人声称这种怨恨仍然寄居于提丰的心中，其机魂也继承了某些扭曲的行为举止。据说，哪怕是那些在荷鲁斯叛乱很久之后被建造出的提丰也隐藏着那个时代的一些黑暗，在佩图拉博堕落很久之后，这份遗产仍旧延续在他的作品中。

So deeply rooted is the taint that resides within the machine heart of the Typhon that some Masters of the Forge are reluctant to sanction its use in all but the direst of circumstances. They remain certain that to field the Typhon in combat is to invite ill fortune or to court the stain of treachery. Certainly, it is generally held that the Typhon's machine spirit is amongst the most bellicose and obstinate, driven by its own unknowable drives that might have little, if anything in common with those of its Chapter.

这种污点在提丰的机械心脏中扎下的根是如此之深，以至于某些铸造大师仅会在最可怕的情况下批准使用这种武器。他们仍旧确信：在战斗中部署提丰将会招来厄运或招致背叛的污点。当然，人们（还是）普遍认为提丰是机魂最为好战和顽固的战争引擎之一，它由自身未知的驱动器进行着驱动——这种驱动器可能与战团中其他载具的几乎没有共同之处。