hh1节译：星际战士军团

THE SPACE MARINE LEGION

A Space Marine Legion is a frontline of shock-infantry comprising tens of thousands (and in some cases vastly more) of biochemically and surgically enhanced super-warriors armed and equipped with the finest wargear the Imperium can supply, Each member of the Legiones Astartes carries the martial worth of many times their number in terms of regular troops; each and every one is a killing engine——tireless, stronger, braver, more disciplined, clear-sighted and more deadly than any unaugmented human soldier, no matter how skilled or experienced. Together in disciplined order the power of the individual Marine is amplified to incredible levels and a force of hundreds can quell a city in hours. Thousands together can conquer worlds in days, and tens of thousands and or hundreds of thousands wielded at once have been able to doom entire species and reduce civilisations to mere dust and memory in a span no greater than the single course of Terra's orbit around its sun.

星际战士军团是由数万名（而且在某些情况中数目要远多于此）接受过生化与外科手术强化的超人类战士组成的震击步兵前线部队，他们装备了帝国能提供的最精良装备，就常规部队而言，每位阿斯塔特军团战士所拥有的军事价值是其人数的许多倍，他们每个人都是一台杀戮机器——他们不知疲倦，而且无论与技艺多么精湛、经验多么丰富的未经强化的普通凡人士兵相比，星际战士们都更剽悍、更勇敢、更有纪律性、目标明确且更为致命。集合在纪律严明的次序中时，星际战士个人的力量被放大到了令人难以置信的水平，数百名星际战士组成的部队就能在数个小时内镇压一座城市。数千名星际战士集结起来能在在数天中征服一个世界，数万或数十万星际战士则能够一次性毁灭整个种族，或者在不到一个泰拉恒星年的时间中将文明摧毁得仅剩尘土和记忆。

Founded amid die bloodshed of the unifcation Wars of Terra that swept the Emperor to dominion over the cradle of humanity, the original military formation of the Legions was the division of twenty numbered units of enhanced warriors, organised very much along the lines of the Thunder Regiments that proceeded them in the Emperor’s service and who they would eventually entirely replace. Much of the discipline and organisation of the early Ligions owed greatly to the ancient and proven Terran patterns of strategy hierarchy and function as laid down in the revered texts of the Principia Belicosa of Roma and Krom's fragmentary New Model that had survived in the hands of the Old Earth down the blood-stained generations. To these venerable treatises the Emperor and his commanders had added their own genius and created a sturdy but adaptable strategic framework that spoke to the fundamental strengths and superhuman abilities of the Legionaries themselves. The chain of command was simple and direct, and the Legions' officers, themselves mighty warriors, would lead them into battle personally as had long been the wont of the techo-barbarian tribes of Ancient Earth, and the battle would be taken always to their enemy because of defeat a foe was never enough for the Legiones Astartes, only the utter destruction of a foe was victory.This cold logic, coupled with their inhuman strength and bearing, and the sheer dread they inflicted on friend and enemy alike, was to give them one of their earliest appellations, and perhaps their most appropriate—`the Angels of Death'. It would be a name they would earn time and time again. 

统一战争为帝皇扫清了统御人类故乡世界的道路，而星际战士军团也是在这场浸透鲜血的死战中建立起了的。军团最早的军事编队被划分为二十个由强化战士构成的编号单位，组织方式极其类似在他们之前为帝皇服务并最终为他们所完全取代的雷霆军团。早期军团的大多数组织结构和纪律很大程度上要归功于古老且被证明有效的泰拉式战略等级体系和运作模式，这些内容被书写于罗马的基础军典和克罗姆零碎的军事新章等可敬的文献中，这些典籍从旧地球数代人血腥的战争中了幸存下来。帝皇和他的指挥官们也将自己的才智添加到了这些可敬的著作中，创造出来一套适应军团战士的基本兵力和超人能力的牢固而又带有适应性的战术框架。军团的指挥链简单且直接，军团的军官们自身也是强大的战士，早在对抗古老地球的科技野蛮人部落时，他们就会亲自率队参战，他们会频繁地向敌人发起战斗，因为对阿斯塔特军团而言击败敌人是不够的，彻底毁灭敌人才是他们的目标。这套冷酷的逻辑，搭配上他们超人的力量和耐力，以及他们同样施加给敌人和友军的纯粹恐惧将会给予他们最早的称呼之一，这可能也是他们最为恰当的称呼——“死亡天使”，这将是他们一次又一次赢得的名称。

Of these twenty Legions, steadily expanding in numbers over time, eighteen would survive to grow into vast forces by the end of the Great Crusade—as to those that did not, nothing can be said in this record.  Each Legion had grown to be a powerful military force in its own right, with its own supporting fleet to carry it between the stars and many times its number in servants, supporters and auxiliaries who lived and died at the behest of its commanders and Primarch.Taken together the eighteen Legions represented an unmatched apex of force unequalled in the galaxy.

二十个军团的数量将会随着时间稳定扩张，其中十八个军团将会幸存下来，并在大远征末期发展为庞大的力量——至于那两个没能幸存下来的军团，我们在这份记录中无可奉告。每个军团都会凭借自己的力量成长为强大的军事力量，他们会用自己的支援舰队运载着星际战士们征战群星，而且会拥有数倍于自己的仆役、支援劳工和辅助军，这些凡人会在原体和军团指挥官的命令下出生入死。这十八个军团加在一起就代表了银河系中无与伦比的（军事）力量顶点。

Legion Integration and Development 

军团的融合与发展

The Legions of the Great Crusade were a fusion of dual natures. In one part they were the product of the Emperor's conquest of Terra and the Sol system. Selected from Terran stock and moulded by the wars of the nascent Imperium, these Legions held a certain commonality of character. A sense of unity and an almost familial bond pervaded their ranks. Given they were all of the first generation, born of Terra，they shared the imprint of their genetic forging and warlike history, and it is no surprise that members of the Legions regarded each other as siblings, as brothers. Training, indoctrination and the shared experience of battle reinforced this belief within the Legiones Astartes—that they were a family born in the cradle of war. This bond of brotherhood would survive as the Imperium grew, but perhaps it was never as strong as it was when the Legions first conquered under the Terran sun. 

大远征时期的星际战士军团具有二重特性。一方面他们是帝皇征服泰拉和太阳系的产物。他们被从泰拉兵员储备中挑选出来，并在新生人类帝国的战争中被塑造出来。这些军团的性格中中存在着某些共性，他们的部队中弥漫着一种统一感和近乎亲情般的羁绊。他们都是第一代星际战士，全部生于泰拉，分享着基因铸造和好战历史所构成的印记，军团成员们视彼此为手足兄弟，这并不令人惊讶。训练、灌输教育和共享的战斗经验在阿斯塔特军团中增强了一种信念：他们是诞生于战争摇篮中的家人。这种兄弟情义将会随着帝国的崛起而流传，但它可能永远都不会如同军团在泰拉上第一次征战时那般强烈。

The second face of each Legion was that of people and cultures which had flourished under different stars. As the war to unify Earth became a crusade to conquer the galaxy the Legions grew. Casualties had to be replaced, and as the wars grew in scale so too did the number of losses and the number of recruits that were needed to take the places of the fallen. Initially intakes were drawn from Luna, Saturn's stations, the Proximal worlds, and dozens of others of the near Segmentum Solar fed the Legions' need for warrior stock. As this occurred the Terran foundation of each Legion became diluted butwas never overwhelmed, for the warrior tribes and cultures of Ancient Earth were many and their commitment to the Great Crusade resolute.

每个军团的第二面是在不同的群星中兴旺发展而出的兵员和文化。随着统一地球的战争发展为征服银河的远征，军团也在扩张。伤亡者被替换，随着战争规模扩大，兵力损失数量和需要用于替补死者的新兵数量也不断增加。最初的替补兵员挑选自月球、土星空间站和靠近太阳系的其他时间，另外还有数十个其他靠近太阳星域的世界供养着军团对于战士的需求，这些变化稀释了每个军团中的泰拉裔基础，但却从未压倒他们，因为来自古老地球的战士群体和文化依旧众多，他们仍然坚定地为大远征奉献着力量。

With the founding of the Primarchs and in many cases the granting of new home worlds as Legion fiefs (most commonly the worlds upon which their new master had been found), this was to change the character of the Legions profoundly. Some alterations were superficial: a habit of speech, a change in close-quarter tactics, martial traditions and warranted additions to iconography and even language. But for others the change would prove dramatic, with entire paradigms of culture, tradition and even ideology overwriting what had come before, such as in what came to be known as the Space Wolves and Dark Angels Legions, for example. In many cases the stamp of the Legions and the will of the Primarchs on their recruits came to largely outweigh differences of birth or blood. By the middle years of the second century of the Great Crusade the on-going effect of these shifts within the Legions had resulted in wide disparity between them. The outward sign of this was the development of distinct character which meant the original Terran military patterns they had adhered to at the outset had been largely abandoned or become so modified and diluted as to be in some cases unrecognisable. There were of course exceptions in whole or in part, such as could be found within the Ultramarines and Iron Warriors Legions who built upon rather than abandoned what had gone before, as well as those such as the White Scars to who the strictures of the Prinripia Belicosa could no longer be even notionally applied. There are those that have cited this increasing idiosyncrasy in hindsight as the seeds of division—of a sense of insularity and otherness growing between one Legion and another. This itself only fuelled rivalries and feuds that had begun to simmer beneath the surface of the Great Crusade, both between Primarchs and their Legions, that would later be exploited by Horus and his heretical conspiracy, and lay them open to the introduction of the Davinite Warrior Lodge avenue by which the stain of the Warp would taint them.

但随着原体的发现以及在很多情况中军团被赐予了新母星作为封地（最常见的就是把发现他们新主人的世界作为母星），军团的性格也发生了深刻的改变。有些军团变化非常表面：发言习惯、近战战术的改变、军事传统和纹章标志的恰当增加，甚至是语言的变化。其他军团的变化则是巨大的，他们的全套文化范式、习俗甚至是思想观念都被重写，比如黑暗天使和太空野狼军团发生的转变。在很多情况中，军团的印记和原体们对于新兵们的意愿开始很大程度地超过了出生地和血统上的差异。在大远征第二个世纪的中期，这些正在进行的转变的影响导致军团间出现了广泛的差距。这种现象的外在标志是（各军团）不同特点的发展，这意味着他们最初所遵循的泰拉军事模式已经在很大程度上被抛弃，或者在某些情况中，他们都大幅度地改造和稀释，以至于无法再被辨别出。当然，也存在着一些整体或部分上的例外，比如钢铁勇士和极限战士军团就没抛弃原有的模式，而是以此为基础构建了自己的模式；而也有某些军团，比如白色伤疤，他们的结构甚至在名义上都不符合基础军典。在有些人事后看来，这种日益增长的特质是分裂的种子——军团彼此之间逐渐形成的孤立感与另类感。在大远征（平静）的表面之下，原体和他们麾下军团之间的竞争和夙怨开始加剧，这些问题之后将会被荷鲁斯和他的叛乱阴谋所引爆，也使他们向达文战士结社敞开大门——这正是亚空间污染他们的手段。

Legion Structure

军团结构

By the time of the outbreak of inter Legionary hostilities, the command and organisational structure of a Legion was often more a mirror of the character and preferences of its Primarch and its abiding culture than formal writ. While cenain formations and features were common, as an outgrowth of practical matters such as deployment and logistics their organisarion and use was far from standardised. We may talk of great companies, regiments, chapters, battalions, cohorts, demi-chaprers, companies, squads and maniples, but these are as much terms of convenient external classificacion as they were realities during the Great Crusade. More often the practical reality of their disposition would vary still more as terminology used within different Legions for equivalent ranks and specialisations bore the mark of the Legions character rather than the desires of central administrators for a common nomenclature. In some cases this discrepancy increased as local languages such as Fenrisian or Khal’d had come to replace Imperial Terran. With these caveats in mind, the Strategic Disposition of a Space Marine Legion chart describes the broad and most common structural basis of a Legion (as well as some of the more commonly used terminology of rank) in the latter half of the Great Crusade.

在军团战士之间的内战爆发时，一个军团的指挥和组织结构通常更像是其原体性格和偏好及其长久文化的反映，而非正式的规制。虽然某些特定的编队和特征也是共有的，但这是部署和后勤等实际问题的需要，其组织和运用远非是标准化。我们可能会谈到大连、团、战团、战斗营、大队、半团、连队、小队和中队，但这些都是方便我们进行外部分类的术语，这像大远征期间的现实情况一样。其实际情况往往会更为复杂，因为不同军团在称呼同等军衔时使用的术语和军团的特殊部队所佩戴的标志都带有着军团都特色，他们不会按中央政务部官员们的意愿来使用通用命名法。在某些情况中，这些差异上升到了（母星）当地语言（比如芬里斯语和卡尔德语）开始替代帝国泰拉语的地步。考虑到这些注意事项，下文的星际军团战略部署图描述了在大远征的后半个时期中一个军团泛用且最常见的结构基础（以及军团中某些最为常用的军衔术语）。