HH2节译：智控军团

One of the most feared and powerful of the Legiones Militant of the Mechanicum, the Legio Cybernetica carries the onerous burden and dread responsibility of the use of Battle-automata in warfare, as well as the development, propagation and maintenance of these terrifying machines under sacred charge of the Crimson Accords of Mars. These sacred accords were one of the cornerstones of doctrinal law created during the foundation of the Mechanicum during the Age of Strife, and forever forbade the creation of the abominable and soulless intelligences known as the Silica Animus, and pronounced a death sentence on any who remained or any Magos or mortal who would serve or seek to create them. These accords, however, allowed the survival and creation of the 'lesser and righteous works' of synthetic life deemed sacred, the Bestia Mechanica and their kindred, and of these the robotic engines designed for warfare and slaughter, the Battle-automata, were given to the hands of the newly founded Legio Cybernetica to control.

智控军团是机械神教最为可怕且强悍的军事团体之一，他们肩负在战争中使用战斗机兵这一繁重的负担与可怖的；而且他们还要在火星猩红协议的神圣制约下对这些恐怖的机械进行发展、维护和生产。当机械神教于纷争纪元中建立时，这些神圣的协议便是（用于）其创立的律法信条的基石之一，它们永远禁止（人类）创造被称为“硅素恶智”的可恶且无魂的智能（造物），并宣布对任何保留硅素恶智、服务于硅素恶智或试图创造硅素恶智的贤者或凡人都要处以死刑。不过这些协议也允许那些被认为神圣的“低级且正义”的人工合成生命的存续和创造，于是那些凶悍兽性的机械与它们的亲族，以及被设计用于战争和屠杀的机器人形引擎——战斗机兵都被交由新组建的智控军团进行控制。

Wary of the power these supreme killing machines could wield if joined together —power enough to overthrow empires as they had done in the dark times— it was decreed from the beginning that the Legio Cybernetica would be broken down into a myriad of self-contained and relatively small independent units known as Cohorts, effectively limiting the power any single Archmagos of the Legio could wield; the destructive power of the Cohort resting in an array of between 30-100 Battle-automata maniples, each comprising between one and five of the sacred war engines. Each Cohort was governed by a senior priest of the Machine Cult with whom the secret lore of the cybernetica resided, and below them a covenant of Magos Dominus who would govern the war machines themselves in the thick of battle, Myrmidons sworn to the Cohort's service and their own enginseers, servitors and thralls who would see to the Cohort's needs both on and off the battlefield. The Cohorts also commanded their own support networks, mobile workshops, transports, battlefield vehicles, orbital landers and even star vessels in some cases, but were otherwise forbidden to found their own forges or chantries, making them dependant on webs of fealty, supply and patronage from the great Machine Lords of the Mechanicum and its Forge Worlds for their long term survival and prosperity.

（机械神教也）提防着这些超强杀戮机器联合起来后可能会使用的力量——这种力量强到足以推翻人类的（各个）帝国，就像它们在黑暗岁月中所做的那样，因此从一开始，机械神教便规定智控军团要被分解成无数自给自足且相对较小的独立单位——这种单位被称为“机兵大队”，有效地限制了军团中单个大贤者所能动用的力量。机兵大队的毁灭性力量由30至100支战斗机兵中队组合而成，而每支战斗机兵中队都包含1至5台神圣的战争引擎。每支机兵大队都由一位掌握着智控技术神圣学识的机械教派高级神甫进行掌管，其麾下的统御贤者们则是在激烈的战斗中亲自掌管这些战争机器；而在战斗中和离开战场后，宣誓效忠于机兵大队的仆役、大队自身的引擎先知、机仆和技术契奴将会满足机兵大队的需求。机兵大队也指挥着自己的补给网络、移动车间、运输载具、战场载具和轨道登陆艇，某些情况中甚至还有自己的星舰；但在其他方面，他们被禁止建立自己的铸造厂和礼拜堂，因此为了自己的长期存续和繁荣，他们就要依赖于机械神教与铸造世界上那些伟大机械领主们的效忠网络、供给和资助。

The service of the Legio Cybernetica on the field of battle was part and parcel of the Mechanicum's treaty of union with the Emperor, and a great many Cohorts transferred from duties as defenders of the Forge Worlds and retainers of the great Mechanicum factions and sects to act as mendicant regiments in the Great Crusade, fighting on every battlefield imaginable and serving many masters. Although their Battle-automata were difficult to construct and maintain, the arcane lore of the Legio Cybernetica's Magos and the successes they enjoyed on the battlefield ensured that several thousand active Cohorts were in existence at the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. The Cohorts of the Legio Cybernetica were greatly valued by the forces of the Great Crusade and served closely alongside many of the Legiones Astartes, Rogue Traders Militant, Knight Houses and Imperial Army Hosts, although others feared and shunned them in memory of the horrors of Old Night.

智控军团在战场上的服务也是帝皇与机械神教之间签订的同盟协定的组成部分，很多机兵大队也从铸造世界守军、大型机械神教分支部门和教派的家臣转变为了大远征中四处游荡化缘的部队，他们在各个无法想象的战场上作战，侍奉于诸多的主人。尽管他们的战斗机兵难以制造和维护，但当荷鲁斯叛乱爆发时，智控军团中贤者们所掌握的玄奥知识和他们在战场上取得的成功（仍旧）确保了数千支活跃机兵大队的存在。大远征的部队们极其珍视智控军团的机兵大队，后者曾与许多阿斯塔特军团部队、武装行商浪人、骑士家族和帝国军部队紧密配合，并肩作战，不过出于对旧夜时代恐怖场景的记忆，其他人会害怕并避开它们。

When the wars of the Horus Heresy came, the independent nature of the Legio Cybernetica's Cohorts ensured that, as a whole, they sided in particular neither with Loyalist or Traitor, but were split between masters they had long fought for in many cases. Other Cohorts, mindful of their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor or fearful of a descent into anarchy, saw the Traitors as base renegades to be destroyed, while others harboured ambitions to be free of the Crimson Accords, and saw the Warmaster's war as a chance to pursue long forbidden rites and technologies.

当荷鲁斯叛乱的战争到来时，智控军团的独立性确保了他们整体上既不支持保皇派也不支持叛徒，而是分裂开来。他们在很多情况中都是为自己长期侍奉的主人而战。其他的某些机兵大队——由于铭记着自己对帝皇发下的忠诚誓言或害怕陷入无序混乱的状态，将叛军视为需要消灭的卑劣叛徒；而其他机兵大队则怀有摆脱猩红协议的野心，将战帅发起的战争视为追求长期被禁止的仪式和技术的机会。