hh6节译：破碎军团

Born upon the blood-soaked sands of the Urgall Depression, the Shattered Legions were the consequence of betrayal and fratricide. At the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, three entire Legions were rendered all but destroyed: the Salamanders, Raven Guard and Iron Hands, all cut down by the treachery of their supposed brothers when the Word Bearers, Night Lords, Iron Warriors and Alpha Legion forces that constituted the second wave of the assault revealed their allegiance to the Warmaster. Of the hundreds of thousands of Legiones Astartes warriors committed to the initial drop, few broke out of the Traitors' murderous trap, and even then thousands more would be cut down in the brutal pursuit that followed and the titanic void battle that ensued between the Traitor and Loyalist fleets throughout the Isstvan System.

破碎军团们诞生于Urgall绝望平原那被鲜血浸透的沙土之中，他们是阿斯塔特军团背叛与自相残杀的后果。在伊斯特万五号的登录点大屠杀中，整整三个军团几乎惨遭毁灭:当怀言者、午夜领主、钢铁勇士和阿尔法四个军团露出了自己战帅盟友的真面目，发动了第二波进攻时，火蜥蜴、钢铁之手和暗鸦守卫军团都被他们所谓的兄弟们的背叛所摧毁了。在最初的空降行动中，数以十万计的军团阿斯塔特战士们降落到了地表，但最后只有少数逃出了叛徒们的谋杀陷阱。即便如此，在随后的残酷追捕以及在叛军和忠诚派舰队之间那遍及伊斯特万星系的巨大规模虚空战当中，仍有超过数千人惨遭杀害。

In the days and weeks following the Dropsite Massacre, elements of the Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard were scattered far and wide across the northern Imperium having been forced to make hastily plotted warp jumps to escape the Traitors' ambush. While some scattered alone, it was also the case that vessels of all three Legions came together in small clusters in the darkness, wounded and distrustful of one another following the Massacre, and violently shorn from their Legion's chains of command. Often, once damage was repaired and wounds bound, these clustered forces split apart again to seek their own paths, often cast wide by the burgeoning warp storms that would slowly erupt into the great Ruinstorm，in order to find their way back to their homes or reliable commands, but in other instances, these ragged squadrons remained together, seeking better odds of survival in a galaxy at war in the company of allies who had borne the same savage trial they had, and so were the Shattered Legions born.

在登录点大屠杀之后的一段时间里，钢铁之手、火蜥蜴和暗鸦守卫的残兵部队们分散在帝国北部的各个角落，他们被迫匆忙地进行亚空间跳跃来逃避叛军的伏击。有些部队独自分散，也存在三个军团的舰船在黑暗中聚集起来形成小型集群的情况，在登录点大屠杀后这些部队受损严重，彼此之间也互不信任，他们也被从军团的指挥链中粗暴地剥离出去。通常而言，一旦修复好了损伤、包扎好了伤口，这些聚集起来的部队们便会再度分开去寻找自己的道路，他们经常会被迅速发展的亚空间风暴所分散，这些亚空间风暴会慢慢地演变为强烈的毁灭风暴。但在其他情况下，为了寻找回家的道路或者可靠的指挥，这些衣衫褴褛的中队会留在一起，他们会在那些接受了同样的残酷考验的盟友的陪伴下寻找在这个战火纷飞的银河当中提升存活几率的方法，破碎军团就是如此诞生的。

Meduson’s Labour

美杜森的任务

Of the three Legions betrayed at Isstvan V ，the Iron Hands remained yet the most numerous, for most of their forces were held in orbital reserve when the Massacre was unleashed. What remained of the Iron Hands ruling cadre after the Dropsite Massacre —a body called the Clan-Council— bereft of contact with Terra, convened in an effort to assume command of the fightback against Horus, but at Oqueth Minor they fell prey to a further ambush by the Warmaster's forces, and with the destruction of their warship, the Council was no more. It fell to Shadrak Meduson, commander of the Iron Hands Clan Sorrgol to take command of what remained of the bulk of the Iron Hands formations within contact and to re-mould it into a force capable of exacting vengeance for the betrayal at Isstvan V and to contest the Warmaster’s inexorable advance on Terra.

在那三个于伊斯特万五号惨遭背刺的军团当中，钢铁之手的幸存者最多，这是因为当大屠杀发生时，大多数钢铁之手部队都在轨道上留守待命。在登录点大屠杀之后，残存的钢铁之手管理核心——被称为氏族议会的团体失去了和泰拉的联系，他们召开会议来指挥对荷鲁斯的反击作战，但是在Oqueth Minor，他们牺牲在了战帅部队的进一步伏击中，随着他们的战舰被摧毁，氏族议会也不复存在。指挥剩余的一大半仍能联系到的铁手部队的责任落到了索古尔氏族的指挥官沙达克 美杜森身上，美杜森会把这些部队重新塑造成一股能够为伊斯特万五号上背叛进行复仇的力量，并且阻碍战帅对于泰拉的无情推进。

Meduson achieved his mission by alloying forces drawn from disparate elements of the three Legions into a new and unbreakable whole, its strengths far greater than the sum of its constituents. The process was far from simple however, for each of the Legions was possessed of its own idiosyncrasies and foibles, and on numerous occasions bitter and grieving Legionaries came within a blade's breadth of shedding one another's blood. Meduson's visionary genius was to divide the survivors of Isstvan V； in total upwards of 20,000 Legionaries, into mixed, independent cells and to distribute them across the territory that the Warmaster had won. His goal in doing so was two-fold——most importantly, Meduson's forces would wage a guerrilla war behind the main lines and with every victory, no matter how seemingly insignificant, bleed the Traitor forces and slow the Warmaster's march on Terra. Meduson's secondary goal was simply to exact raw, bloody vengeance from the Traitors for Isstvan V. For three years, Meduson oversaw a campaign so subtle in its strategy and execution that even the Warmaster himself did not realise that the thousands of raids, assassinations, sabotages and ambushes inflicted upon his hosts as they advanced across the Imperium were in fact the work of one man—that the three Legions Horus believed he had left broken upon the black sands of the Urgall Depression lived yet, and had been reforged into a force of unforeseen potency and value to the Loyalist cause.

通过将来自三个军团的不同种类部队融合为一个全新且牢不可破的整体的方式，美杜森完成了他的使命。不过，这个过程是颇为艰难的，因为每个军团都有其自身的特质和不足，在许多场合中，痛苦悲伤的军团战士们在加入美杜森的部队时，他们之间甚至出现过流血冲突。美杜森富有远见的天才之举是将伊斯特万五号的幸存者们拆分开，总计超过两万名军团战士被转变为混合的独立独立单元，并将他们分散在战帅所夺得的领地上。他这么做有双重目的：最重要的是美杜森的部队将在主要战线的后方发动游击战争，他们每取得一次胜利，不管这些胜利看起来多么微不足道，叛军部队都将流血一次，战帅向泰拉的推进也都将被减缓一些；美杜森的第二个目的则只是为了向叛军进行残酷血腥的复仇——让他们为伊斯特万五号的暴行血债血偿。在三年的时间里，美杜森监督了一场战争，这场战争的战略和执行是如此的微妙，以至于战帅本人都没有意识到：在他们穿越帝国的过程中，他的部队所遭受的数千次掠袭、暗杀、破坏和伏击都是由一群人所为——荷鲁斯相信暗鸦守卫、钢铁之手和火蜥蜴这三个军团已经在Urgall绝望平原的黑色沙地上被屠杀得支离破碎，但他们其实存活至今，而且被重铸为了一股对忠诚派的事业有着不可预见的力量和价值的力量。

The Lost

迷失者

While the survivors of Isstvan V were the first of those who would be dubbed the “Shattered Legions”, they were far from the only example of disparate Legiones Astartes elements coming together under such circumstances and fighting their own shadow wars far from their respective masters. The anarchy and woe that the Warmaster treachery had unleashed across the galaxy cannot be understated nor fully assayed, and as the Ruinstorm expanded, numerous Legiones Astartes forces were stranded, isolated from their regular chains of command and left bereft of orders from their Primarch or any other authority they might recognise. Some Legiones Astartes forces, in particular those serving with fleets yet exploring the dark reaches of the galaxy when the Horus Heresy erupted, had no notion which side of the galactic civil war their Primarch had declared for and where their own alliance should thereby fall. While many outlying Legion forces attempted to brave the rising tempest that was the Ruinstorm and rejoin their sires, many to be lost for all time in its raging depths, many more were simply too isolated or too distant from their parent Legions when the Horus Heresy broke out to do so. Many leaders faced with this impossible decision choose to declare openly for neither side and instead pursued the last orders they had received from their Primarchs, regardless of the outcome.

虽然伊斯特万五号的幸存者们是第一批将会被称为“破碎军团”的部队，在那种状况下，各不相同的阿斯塔特军团残军聚集起来并为他们各自的主人进行一场暗影战争，但他们也远非此类情况的个例。我们无法理解和完全确定战帅叛变在全银河中释放出的混乱与灾难，而且随着毁灭风暴扩大，很多军团阿斯塔特部队都被困在某处而且被与他们常规的指挥链隔离开，他们失去了来自原体或者其他任何可识别的帝国机构的命令。某些阿斯塔特军团部队，尤其是当荷鲁斯叛乱爆发时，仍在那些正在探索银河系黑暗边境的舰队上服役的星际战士们，他们不知道自己的原体在这场银河内战中宣誓效忠于哪一方，也不知道自己与盟友的关系是否要因此而瓦解。而许多边远的军团部队则试图勇敢地穿越正在增强的毁灭风暴，重新加入自己原体尊父的部队，许多人将永远迷失在亚空间风暴那愤怒的深渊中，更多人则是只在荷鲁斯叛乱爆发时与母军团太过遥远或太过隔绝。许多面对着这一不可能的结论的领袖们选择公开宣布不支持任何一方，相反，他们会继续执行从原体那里收到的最后命令，不计后果。

While the Shattered Legion forces operating under Shadrak Meduson were united in their ultimate mission, many other groups fought towards myriad divergent goals. Many had no greater ultimate goal in mind than vengeance, a cause that would sustain them throughout the Age of Darkness and in many cases long into the Great Scouring. Even these often unwittingly served the interests of one side of the civil war or the other, their attacks drawing off resources and disrupting strategic plans with often far- reaching consequences.

虽然沙达克指挥下的破碎军团部队为了他们（共同）的最终目标而团结在了一起，但也有很多其他的群体为了诸多不同的目标而战。很多人最终极的目标就是复仇，这件事将支撑他们挺过黑暗年代，在很多情况中甚至会持续到大清洗时期。这些部队甚至会在无意中为内战的某一方效力，他们的进攻会剥夺资源并破坏战略计划，往往造成深远的影响。

Command Hierarchy

指挥等级体系

Regardless of the circumstances of its coming into being, it is unlikely that any heterogeneous Legiones Astartes body would have remained a cohesive force without the leadership of a strong-willed or charismatic commander. Separated from their Primarchs, such forces had much to overcome and few survived long without some other surrogate-liege. Meduson was far from the only Legiones Astartes officer who was able to draw together elements from several different Legions into a single, effective force, and each had their own way of doing so. Some Shattered Legion commanders were warriors of singular vision or unique wisdom, able to meld their forces into a coherent whole with just words alone. Others led by example, inspiring their forces to emulate their deeds. Some were tyrants however, enforcing their right to lead with threats or with brutal punishment.

不考虑他们的形成环境，如果没有来自意志坚定或魅力非凡的指挥官的领导，任何不同的阿斯塔特军团组织都不可能保持凝聚力。这些部队与自己的原体分离，他们有许多事情要克服，而且几乎没人能在没有其他代替性君臣关系的情况下存活很久（机仆：说白了，在当时的情况下，阿斯塔特们如果不形成一种类似于军团/战团或连队的组织结构的话，很难幸存下去）。美杜森绝不是唯一能够将来自不同军团的阿斯塔特分队凝聚问一支独立且高效部队的阿斯塔特军官，而且每位领袖都有自己的行事方法。某些破碎军团指挥官是拥有卓越远见或独特智慧的战士，他们用寥寥数语就能将他们的部队融合成一个协调的整体；而其他的，举例来说，通过激励他们的部队效仿他们行为的以身作则方式来领导部队。还有些人则是暴君，用威胁或残酷的惩罚来加强他们的领导权利。

In their chains of command, the constituent elements of the Shattered Legion forces generally adhered to the inter-Legion codes laid down at the outset of the Great Crusade. These codes defined an equivalency of rank between commanders of different Legions so that mixed forces could operate side by side in the wars to unify Mankind. These codes laid down at the outset of the Great Crusade. These codes defined an equivalency of rank between commanders of different legions so that mixed forces could operate side by side in the wars to unify Mankind. These codes recognised such terms as praetor, centurion, sergeant and many others, even though the officers in question might be known by myriad titles drawn from the culture of their own Legion or the home world from which it recruited. Even in the aftermath of whatever great betrayal or disaster had brought them into being, the inter-Legion codes remained largely intact and so even in forces constituted from multiple Legions, a default chain of command already existed. Given the trauma to which many officers had been subjected, the transition was often far from smooth and the divergent command styles frequently sat ill, but in the main, a potent leader was able to command in a manner broadly in line with the long established Legion standard. 

在他们的指挥链中，构成破碎军团的各分遣队通常会遵循制定于大远征开始时期的军团间准则，这些准则规定：来自不同军团的（同级别）军官们拥有同等军衔，这样，混合的部队就能在统一人类的战争中肩并肩作战。这些准则承认诸如军团执政官、百夫长、军士和其他很多称呼，即使这些军官们可能有许多头衔——这些头衔取自于他们自身的军团文化或者军团征兵的母星。哪怕是在发生了严重的叛乱或者灾难之后，这套军团间的准则也仍旧保持着高度的完整，即便是在由来自多个军团的阿斯塔特分队组成的部队中，一条默认的指挥链也是存在的。考虑到许多军官们已经经受过的苦痛，这种转变往往会非常不顺利，不同的指挥风格也经常会让人感到不适，但总的来说，一名强大的领袖能够让自己的指挥方式在大体上符合长期确立的军团标准。

Because Legion ranks were invariably kept intact, it was not uncommon for Shattered Legion forces to feature an uneven proportion of officers and Legionaries from different Legions. For example, a praetor might be accompanied by but a single squad of his own Legion, but by dint of his rank have command over an entire company of warriors drawn from another Legion, themselves led by no officer with rank higher than centurion. Other Shattered Legion groups were heavily dominated by a single faction, but had far smaller contingents from several other Legions in their ranks.

因为军团的军衔总是保持不变，所以在破碎军团中，来自不同军团的军官和军团战士的比例不平衡是种常见现象，比如，一位军团执政官身边可能只有一支来自他自己军团的小队，但是凭借他的军衔，他指挥着一整个来自其他军团的连队，而后者自己领袖的军衔不会超过一名百夫长。其他的破碎军团组织会被某一个军团的成员严重控制，但是他们的队伍中也会有几个来自其他军团的小得多的分遣队。

As the Horus Heresy progressed, it became evident that the Traitors had their own Shattered Legion forces, though often brought into being under somewhat different circumstances. Many were simply forces cut off from their own Legions and pursuing existing orders for fear of censure or worse. Some Traitor forces appear to have come into being as some manner of punishment, cast into exile and instructed not to return until some grave task was completed, often the execution of scattered Loyalist survivors. Thus Shattered Legion formations made of mixed Legiones Astartes forces orphaned from their parent Legions were to be found on both sides of Mankind's galactic civil war, engaging in ceaseless, unseen and bitter shadow wars throughout the Age of Darkness and beyond.

随着荷鲁斯叛乱的进行，很明显叛军也拥有了他们自己的破碎军团部队，不过这些部队通常是在略微不同的环境下产生的。有些部队只是被切断了和自己军团的联系，他们因为害怕遭到责难或者更糟的惩罚而继续执行现有的命令。有些叛徒部队似乎是遭到了某种方式的惩罚，他们被判处流放，并被勒令只有完成某些严峻的任务后才能返回——通常是去处决分散的忠诚派幸存者。因此，破碎军团编队通常是由失去母军团保护支持的混合阿斯塔特军团部队组成的，我们在人类银河内战的参战双方都能发现这些孤儿部队，他们参与了一场无休止、不可见而且苦涩的阴影战争，时间贯穿且超越了黑暗年代。（机仆：其实要提一下，黑暗年代是一个特定称谓，指的是大概是登录点大屠杀到梅左阿会战结束这段时间，大体是31千年的006到009，荷鲁斯在挺进泰拉之前稳定后方的时间段，hh4到hh9基本都在这个时间段内）

Materiel Strength

军备力量

Constituted as they were from the remnants of the betrayed, the orphaned and the defeated, most groups that could be counted as Shattered Legions were comparatively small compared to the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands-strong ranks of their parent Legions. Nevertheless, most numbered in excess of several hundred Legiones Astartes and some may have numbered as many as 2,000. Beyond the fact that each Shattered Legion represented a mix of several different Legions, three being the most common, there was little or no commonality in organisation. Some were able to field the iconic units for which their parent formations were well known, such as the Medusan Immortals of the Iron Hands or the Pyroclasts of the Salamanders, while fate and misfortune had stripped others of any trace of such heritage.

破碎军团是由遭到背叛、沦为孤儿且被击败者的阿斯塔特残军构成，相比于他们数万甚至数十万之众的母军团，多数破碎军团相对较小。不过，大多数破碎军团也有超过数百名的军团阿斯塔特，而有些可能拥有2000名阿斯塔特。除了每个破碎军团都代表着多个不同军团的组合（由三个军团构成是最常见的情况）这一事实之外，他们的组织结构几乎没有共同性可言。有些破碎军团能够派出他们的母军团里那些著名的标志性单位，比如钢铁之手的美杜莎不朽者和火蜥蜴的焚岩小队（机仆：也叫岩浆小队），而其他破碎军团则被命运和不幸夺走了任何的此类遗产。

One feature common in many amongst the Shattered Legions was the ability to adapt to circumstance, for without such a capacity, most would not have survived the betrayal that had brought them into being. Shorn of Legion lines of communication and supply, they had at best limited access to specialised war machines and were forced to rely primarily on the post-human strengths and abilities bred into each and every Legionary by the genius of the Emperor and his gene-wrights. Standard Legion orders of battle were impossible to impose and so commanders used whatever mix of squads and vehicles they had to complete the mission at hand. This fact made guarding against Shattered Legion attacks a difficult task indeed, for it was largely impossible for their enemies to predict what forces might be brought to bear on a potential target. Over time, Legionaries from often very different Legions learned not only to appreciate their cousins unique ways of war, but to integrate them into their own tactical doctrines. Company-sized forces made up of squads from several different Legions would therefore deploy and fight so as to amplify the strengths of each Legion's traditions.

许多破碎军团有一个共同特征：适应环境的能力，倘若没有这项能力，他们也无法从导致他们四分五裂的背叛中幸存下来。因为被切断了军团通讯和补给线，他们最多只能接触到有限的专用战争机器，被迫主要依靠每位军团战士们超越人类的力量和能力——这是帝皇和他的基因工匠们发挥自己的天才为他们培育而出的优势。强行使用标准的军团战斗序列是不可能的，指挥官们使用了他们所拥有的任何小队和车辆组合来完成手头的任务。这些事实让防备破碎军团的进攻成为了一项真的很困难的任务，防守方基本不可能预测潜在目标会带来什么样的部队。破碎军团的战士们通常来自差异很大的军团，但随着时间推移，他们不仅学会了欣赏表亲们独一无二的战争之道，而且将这些技艺融入到自己的战争信条。因此，来自几个不同军团的小队会组成连队规模的部队来展开部署和战斗，以放大每个军团的传统优势。