HH7节译：智库计划/旧夜污秽
The Librarius Project & the Taint of Old Night
As the 31st Millennium dawned, there were those within the Great Crusade who believed that the Thousand Sons and their master had simply gone too far down a road long prohibited by the Emperor the path of sorcery. But what is sorcery? To many, particularly those of superstitious mind, the manifestation of any psychic power might be called such, and there is perhaps some truth to this belief as all psychic abilities, no matter how rigidly controlled or slight in effect, are perilous by their very nature. But the more common definition has always held that 'sorcery', being an arcane and ancient term, was rather more readily applied in the Age of the Imperium to the reckless pursuit of psychic power or mastery over the forces of the Empyrean without due measures of control or caution, particularly where the use of certain forbidden texts and practices of ancient human and xenos origin were concerned. These arts, pursued in order to master forces of terrible power and breadthwithout any of the sanction or stricture the Emperor's will and wisdom had enforced on His new human civilisation, were to any sane mind understood to be incredibly dangerous, not only to the individual who sought them out, but to all around them. In short, they were the sins of the past wilfully repeated, and it was of this that the Thousand Sons were generally suspected.
随着第31个千年黎明时期的到来，大远征的参与者们相信千子军团及其主宰者已经走得太远了——他们踏上了被帝皇长期禁止的巫术道途。但何为巫术？对于很多人，尤其是那些迷信者而言，灵能力量的一切表现形式都可能被如此称呼，这种看法中或许也存在着一些真相：所有灵能能力，无论被控制得多么严密或效果多么微弱，其本质都是危险的。不过更为常见的定义通常认为：巫术是一个古老且神秘的术语，在帝国时代，这个词汇更容易去代指那些不顾一切追求灵能力量，或者在没有采取谨慎和控制手段的情况下掌控至高天力量的行为，尤其是在采用和古代人类或异形种族有关的某些禁忌文本或做法的情况下。如果有人不遵守帝皇的意志和智慧强加给他的新人类文明的任何限制或制裁，为了掌握具备可怕控制力与广度的力量而追求这些技艺的话，它们对任何理智者而言都要令人难以置信的危险性——而且不仅是会对寻求力量的人产生危险，还会对他们周围的所有人产生危险。简言之，这种行为就是在故意重复过去的罪恶，千子也是因此而受到广泛怀疑。
The loudest voices that called for the censure of the XVth Legion for straying from the path of sanity and law were those of the Primarchs Leman Russ of the Space Wolves, Corvus Corax of the Raven Guard and Mortarion of the Death Guard. All three had at various times come face-to-face with the all but unimaginable horrors that could result from the ultimate misuse of psychic power and feared that if left to their own devices, the Thousand Sons would bring such a calamity upon themselves and the worlds of the fledgling Imperium.
在呼吁对第15军团偏离理性和法律道路行为进行责难的人中，太空野狼原体黎曼 鲁斯、暗鸦守卫原体科沃斯 克拉克斯和死亡守卫原体莫塔里安最为声嘶力竭。这三位原体都曾在不同时期直面过灵能极度滥用所导致的近乎无法想象的恐怖场面，他们担心如果放任千子军团为所欲为的话，后者就会给其自身与新生帝国中的诸世界带来此种灾难。
This opinion had behind it the weight of history, for the Old Night that had consumed human civilisation and brought about the long Age of Strife was often considered to have had its origins in the proliferation of powerful and unrestrained psykers. Indeed, many of the worst warlords to have laid waste to Old Terra before the Unification Wars and turned other, once shining worlds of humanity into charnel houses had wielded the same dark powers, born from unchecked psychic mutation and the pursuit of terrible lore no mortal mind could control. Moreover, the Imperium itself had always distrusted the wielders of such powers, and while it relied upon the likes of the Navigators and the astrotelepaths of the Astronomican for its existence, it rigidly structured and controlled the nature and scope of these organisations and the psykers who made up their ranks, laying on them a heavy yoke of servitude and the strictures of Imperial law.
这种观念也是以史为鉴，因为吞噬了人类文明并带来漫长纷争纪元的“旧夜”事件就经常被认为起源于强大且不受控制的灵能者们的激增。事实上，在那些将旧泰拉变为废土和将其他曾经闪耀的人类世界变为藏尸地的最恶劣军阀中，有很多人就曾使用过相同的黑暗力量，他们生来就有不受限制的灵能突变，也是诞生自人们对于凡俗意识控制不了的可怕知识的追求。另外，帝国通常也并不相信此类力量的使用者，尽管其自身的存续要依赖如导航者和星炬厅的星语者之类的灵能者，但对于这些组织的性质和范围以及构成它们的灵能者，帝国都进行了严格地系统安排与控制，向他们施加了沉重的奴役枷锁和帝国律法的约束。
From the Great Crusade's outset, the Emperor Himself had created the Order of the Silent Sisterhood and set upon them the duty to cull the numbers of uncontrolled and unsanctioned psykers in the ever-growing Imperium, yielding them over to the Divisio Telepathica for either draconian testing and indoctrination, forcible subjection to techniques designed to channel and limit their powers, or simply committing them to eternal incarceration or death as needed. But as with all humanity, psykers existed within the ranks of the Space Marine Legions also, and with the biological might of the Legiones Astartes to house these abilities and their bellicose skills to hone them, such Space Marine battle psykers were terrifyingly powerful warriors, and from the beginning this raised questions.
自大远征伊始，帝皇本人便创建了寂静修女会，令其在规模不断扩大的人类帝国中负责清除诸多不受控且未经认证的灵能者；这些灵能者要么是被送交通灵分院（机仆：Divisio Telepathica，泰坦修会中专司灵能泰坦的部门。）进行严酷的测试与教化，被强制服从于那些用以引导或限制他们力量的技术，要么就是直接按照需要被永久监禁或处死。但就像在所有人类（群体）中那样，星际战士军团中也存在灵能者；阿斯塔特军团战士的强悍躯体容纳了这些能力，他们的好战技艺也对其进行了磨砺，这些星际战士战斗灵能者成为了可怖的强悍战士，而这从一开始就成了问题。
To their detractors, such as Russ and Mortarion, psykers in the ranks of the Legiones Astartes were fundamentally suspect. This was because they often had none of the overt limitations imposed upon the Scholastica Psykana and little direct oversight as was found elsewhere in the Imperium. This was doubly the case with the Thousand Sons, a Space Marine Legion who by its gene-seed's influence at its core formed one of the greatest concentrations of psykers ever encountered, and as time progressed, suspicion grew of the outsider XVth Legion, its hidden ways and its arcane secrets.
对其贬低者，诸如黎曼 鲁斯和莫塔里安而言，星际战士部队中的灵能者们在根本上就是可疑的。因为他们通常不会像灵能学院（中的灵能者）那样受到明显的限制，也几乎不受到帝国对其他（灵能）部门所采取的直接监督。这种情况在千子军团中更是如此——在其体内核心处基因种子的影响下，该星际战士军团成为了有史以来最大的灵能者聚集团体之一；而随着时间流逝，第15军团的隐秘处世之道和玄奥秘密也令外人对他们的怀疑与日俱增。
Yet the use of psychic powers within the Imperium's armed forces was not without its vocal advocates, for Sanguinius of the Blood Angels and Jaghatai Khan of the White Scars both adamantly supported the use of such uniquely gifted warriors within their own forces, imposing upon them their own structures and controls, however ad hoc they may have been. There is also the immutable fact that the Emperor Himself was a psyker of unprecedented power, although the scale of His psychic might was such that He was beyond the perils of the Empyrean, and that He Himself had no doubt deliberately made the Thousand Sons what they were, at least in inception.Furthermore and with greater discretion, Alpharius of the Alpha Legion, Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children and the Night Haunter—Curze himself was a potent psychic oracle by some accounts——all made active use of psykers within the ranks of their Legions, though perhaps with more reservation and less fanfare.
但也有人直言不讳地拥护在帝国武装力量中使用灵能力量，圣血天使原体圣吉列斯和白色伤疤原体察合台可汗都坚定支持在自己麾下的部队中使用此类具备独特天赋的战士们，他们对这些战斗灵能者施加了（军团）自身的结构与控制，虽然这些措施可能是临时性的。帝国中也存在着一个不可更改的事实：帝皇本人就是一位具备前所未有的力量的灵能者，不过怹的灵能力量规模是如此庞大，以至于能够抵御至高天中的危险，而且怹无疑是刻意将千子军团塑造成了这副样子——至少在初始阶段是如此。另外，阿尔法军团原体阿尔法瑞斯、帝皇之子原体福格瑞姆和午夜幽魂（根据某些报告，科兹本人也拥有强大的灵能预言技艺）也都更为谨慎地在自己的军团中积极使用灵能者，不过他们态度更为保守，也不那么大张旗鼓。
These Primarchs had all supported a proposed scheme of structured training within the Space Marine Legions that would allow psychically talented Legionaries to employ their powers safely and in a directed and regimented manner—an initiative that would become known as the Librarius Project during the mid years of the Great Crusade. This was an experiment, with the Emperors backing, that sought to prove the safety and usefulness of Legion battle psykers within Space Marine ranks. The inclusion of the Librarius in the Space Marine order of battle was at best a mixed success in retrospect. Its pattern, developed from existing structures originating within the Blood Angels, was embraced by some Legions, but paid only grudging lip service to by others.
这些原体全都支持一项在星际战士军团内部（对灵能者）进行结构化训练的提议方案，该方案将会允许那些拥有灵能天赋的军团战士们以某种有引导且有节制地安全使用自身力量——在之后的大远征中期，该提议将会被成为“智库计划”。这项得到帝皇协助的实验试图证明军团战斗灵能者在星际战士部队中的安全性与可用性。现在回头来看，将智库体系纳入星际战士战斗序列充其量就是一个好坏参半的成功。这套模式发展自圣血天使军团已存在的组织结构（这套结构发源于军团内部），它被某些军团所接纳，但其他军团只是勉强在口头上说会加以执行。
In truth by fluke of genetic intake and predilection, certain Legions simply didn't have a sufficiency of potential psykers in their ranks to make a full-scale Librarius possible, while others who had the required biological resources were set back by their temperament or prevailing culture from embracing what many still saw as a perilous and unpredictable force. As the Primarch Perturabo of the Iron Warriors is quoted to have said, "A blade without a hilt; as dangerous to the grasp as to the intended victim", To the Thousand Sons however, the Librarius Project was both a balm to outside suspicion and a justification of their own special nature, and was folded immediately into their existing structures, or perhaps more accurate to say, subsumed by them and used as an outward-facing front for the Legion.
事实上，由于基因摄入的偶然性与自身偏好，某些军团队伍中的潜在灵能者都不足以建成一个规模完整的智库团；其他军团拥有所需的生体资源，但其秉性或（内部）盛行的文化阻碍了他们接受那种很多人眼中危险且不可预测的力量。就像钢铁勇士原体佩图拉博所说的那样，“无柄之剑对于握剑者和其意图斩杀的受害者而言是同样危险的。”但对千子军团而言，智库计划既是对（他们遭受的）外界怀疑的一种安慰，也是对其自身特殊性质的一种辩护，智库体系立即被纳入了现有的军团结构中——或许更准确的说法是：军团战士们被归入了智库体系中，他们将之用作了自己向外（展示）的正面。
Ultimately, the Librarius Project and its attendant measures served only to delay the outcry against the Thousand Sons' perceived tampering with forbidden powers rather than negate it. In the wake of the Emperor's imminent withdrawal to Terra and the elevation of Horus to Warmaster, those of the Primarchs opposed to the Librarius called upon the Emperor to make a final judgement on the matter before He returned to His Throne World. Such was the power of Russ and Mortarion's arguments that eventually many within the brotherhood of Primarchs were swayed, and even the eternal rivalry of Rogal Dorn and Perturabo paused as the two grew to support the calls for an end to the Librarius and to openly condemn the actions of Magnus, Sorcerer of Prospero.
最终，智库计划与配套的措施只是减缓了人们由于认为千子军团篡改（滥用）禁忌力量而发出的抗议，而且否定了这种观念。在荷鲁斯当选战帅后，帝皇也即将返回泰拉时，反对智库项目的原体们呼吁帝皇在返回王座世界前对此事做出最终判决。鲁斯和莫塔里安的理由是如此具有影响力，以至于很多原体都最终产生了动摇，甚至连罗格 多恩与佩图拉博都停止了他们间永恒的较量，二人都逐渐支持了结束智库计划的呼声，也都公开谴责马格努斯——普罗斯佩罗巫师的行径。
This hour of judgement was to take the form of the Council of Nikaea, a specially convened conclave hosting representatives of all of the Space Marine Legions and many of the grand institutions of the Imperium. Its ostensible purpose was for the Emperor to hear from the gathered representatives of the various Librarius and those who had witnessed their actions in battle, and to cast His judgement on their continued existence. However many, both at that time and in later years, saw the council not as a closing act of the great experiment that had been the Librarius of the disparate Legiones Astartes or a final assessment on an experimental program by its creator, but instead as the trial of the Thousand Sons and their Primarch, Magnus the Red.
判决时刻是以尼凯亚会议的形式到来的，来自所有星际战士军团和帝国诸多重要部门的代表都参加了这次特别召开的秘密会议。此次会议表面上的目的是要让帝皇听取各个智库团聚集起来的代表们与那些曾在战斗中目睹过他们行为的人们的发言，并让帝皇判定智库团是否要继续存在。然而无论在当时还是在之后的岁月中，很多人都认为这次会议并非是在不同阿斯塔特军团中设立智库体系这一伟大实验的收尾做结，也并非是创作者对于其实验项目的最终评估，而是一场对于千子军团及其原体——赤红者马格努斯的审判。
