八版圣典节译：混沌变节者战团

Over the course of centuries, the forces of Chaos have been further swelled by Space Marines who have turned from the light of the Emperor to pursue their own agendas. Freed from the dogma and traditions of their Chapters, these renegade Space Marines become corsairs and mercenaries, using their unequalled battle skills to gather wealth and power. The most powerful then set themselves up as the tyrannical figureheads of pirate fleets and rulers of bases hidden on desolate planets. 

在过去的诸多个实际中，那些背离帝皇的光芒转而追求自己的目标的星际战士们进一步扩大了混沌的力量。这些变节星际战士们摆脱了他们战团的信条和传统，成为了海盗和雇佣兵，依靠自己无与伦比的战斗技艺来聚集财富和力量。之后，其中最强大的那些会成为海盗舰队们的暴君首领，或者统治着隐藏在荒凉星球上的基地。

As they explore this new freedom, these Space Marines inevitably turn at some point to the Gods of Chaos to grant them more power to do with as they will. From this point on, they are as doomed to walk the path of the Chaos champion as any Traitor from the Horus Heresy. These renegades are hunted men; they are especially loathed by other Space Marine Chapters, who consider it a duty of honour to crush any renegades lest their perfidious behaviour become a stain upon the honour of all Space Marines. 

随着他们经历了这种新的自由，这些星际战士们就必然会在某个时候转向混沌诸神来寻求更多力量，以令自己随心所欲。从此刻开始，他们就和荷鲁斯叛乱时期的那些叛军一样，注定要走上成为混沌勇士之路。这些变节者们会成为被追捕之人；其他星际战士战团尤为憎恨他们——在忠诚星际战士们看来，粉碎一切变节者，以免他们背信弃义的行为玷污所有星际战士的荣誉，是一件荣耀的职责。

Though never rivalling the size and power of the Legions, a Space Marine Chapter is a potent military force. When an entire brotherhood turns renegade, it is a grave threat that can destroy armies, conquer worlds and despoil whole sectors of Mankind's realm. Such events always warrant an extreme response from the Imperium, usually involving the intervention of other Space Marine Chapters. It is perhaps the most trying test of faith for a Space Marine to have to pit his skill, training and loyalty against another Space Marine. Though the scions of Chaos do not have the unshakeable faith of their loyalist brethren, the disturbing gifts they receive from the Ruinous Powers in return for their allegiance can more than compensate. Because of this, these internecine conflicts often have a calamitous effect on other Chapters nearby. Inter-Chapter wars tend to escalate quickly, engulfing many worlds in war and bloodshed. On occasion, those forces sent to deal with the treacherous Chapter may actually end up, in whole or in part, joining with those they were sent to destroy. 

尽管在规模和力量上都无法与军团相提并论，但一个星际战士战团仍是一支强大的军事力量。当一个完整的（阿斯塔特）兄弟会叛变时，他们就成了能够摧毁军队、征服世界并蹂躏劫掠人类疆域中的整个星区的威胁。帝国总是会对此类事件进行极端应对，而且通常会涉及到其他星际战士战团的介入。对一名星际战士而言，让他以自己的技艺、训练和忠诚去对抗另一名星际战士，或许是对其信仰最严峻的考验。虽然混沌的子徒们没有他们的忠诚兄弟们那般不可动摇的信念，但通过效忠于混沌所换取的令人不安的赠礼也胜过了对于他们（精神劣势）的补偿。因此，这种自相残杀的冲突经常对附近的其他战团造成灾难性的影响。战团间的战争往往会迅速升级，许多世界都会被卷入战争和流血事件。在这种情况中，那些被派去对抗这些叛变战团的部队可能也会在事实上全部或部分地加入那些变节者——他们原本是被派去毁灭后者。

Just such an occurrence took place during the Obscuran Uprisings of the late 34th Millennium. During the four hundred years of separatist rebellions that were spread across much of Segmentum Obscurus, at least seven Chapters broke their oaths to the Emperor and took part in the pillaging of hundreds of vulnerable or war-ravaged worlds. Of these Chapters, two - the Sons of Vengeance and the Silver Guards - initially fought on the side of the Imperium, but fractured into warbands and turned renegade after their actions against the Free Council of Hannedra II. Insurgencies such as these plague the history of the Adeptus Astartes, and each has been a devastating setback to the Imperium that its masters are eager to suppress. 

爆发于第34个千年的朦胧星域起义中就出现了此类状况。这场遍布朦胧星域大部分地区的分离主义者叛乱时间长达四百年，在其过程中，至少有七个战团打破了自己对帝皇发下的誓言，并且掠夺了数百个脆弱或遭到战争蹂躏的世界。在这些战团中，复仇之子和白银守卫两个战团最初是站在帝国一边，但在结束对于Hannedra二号世界上自由议会的行动之后，他们也分裂为了战帮并转变为了变节者。在其全部历史中，此类叛乱（一直）困扰着阿斯塔特修会，而且每一次阿斯塔特战团叛变都是帝国的主宰者们急于镇压的毁灭性挫折。

THE MARK OF THE HERETIC 

异端的记号

Whether he be a traitor from the prehistory of the Imperium or a renegade turncoat from a recent war, a Chaos Space Marine will find himself slowly reshaped by the eldritch powers he worships into a form that better echoes the darkness in his soul. The energies of the warp will cause a warrior's flesh and blood to meld with his armour over time until they become one and the same, just as it conjoins his consciousness with the once-pure machine spirits of his wargear. Over the years a Chaos Space Marine obsessed with death may find his helm transforming into a flayed skull that is fused to his own features, whilst one who seeks to glut himself on flesh finds his intestines mingling with the recycler cables of his power armour until he is a living engine of consumption. Often, these perverted anatomies echo the shapes and hues of the Daemon servants of the Ruinous Powers, marking the Chaos Space Marine as the property of his patron, body and soul. 

无论他是在帝国古早时期成为了叛徒，还是在最近的战争中背叛了帝国，一名混沌星际战士都将会发现：他们会被自己所崇拜的骇人力量慢慢重塑成了一种更能反映其灵魂中黑暗的形态。随着时间推移，亚空间的能量会令这些战士们的血肉与动力甲融合起来，直到两者成为一体且相同的事物；他们的意识与战争装备中曾经纯净的机魂也会以同样方式结合起来。数年之后，一名痴迷于死亡的混沌星际战士可能会发现自己的头盔转变为了一颗剥了皮的颅骨，而且融入了他自己的特征；贪食血肉的那些混沌星际战士则会发现自己的肠子与动力甲的（能量）循环线缆混合到了一起 直到他变成一台活生生的消化引擎。这些扭曲的解剖结构通常会与毁灭大能们的恶魔仆人的形态和颜色相呼应，这表明混沌星际战士的身体和灵魂都成为了其庇护者的所有物。