IA12节译：米诺陶战团
The Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, the Spate Marines, the finest and most deadly warriors in the service of humanity. They are the Angels of Death, superhuman warriors who are the Imperium most able defenders and it's foremost weapons . Within their ranks, however， are a great many divisions and variants of character and form, from the Ultramarines，held up as paragons of all that the should be， to the zealous fervour of the Black Templars and the avenging fury of the Blood Angels. There are others, however，within the ranks of the thousand or so active loyal Chapters of the Space Marines whose tales，no less bloody or glorious, are of a darker hue. One such Chapter is the Minotaurs.
阿斯塔特修会，或者说星际战士战团是为人类服役的战士当中最为优秀和致命的。他们是死亡天使，这些超人战士是帝国最有才能的防卫者和最重要的武器。但他们也有着众多的差异，特点和形式各不相同，从被奉阿斯塔特应当成为的典范的极限战士，到满怀狂热的黑色圣堂与燃烧着复仇怒火的圣血天使。但在这一千个活跃的忠诚星际战士战团中，也有些其他（种类）的战团，他们的故事或血腥或荣耀，都带着一种更为黑暗的色调。米诺陶就是这些战团之一。
The Minotaurs Enigma
米诺陶之秘
A Space Marine Chapter of brutal repute within the Imperium,the Minotaurs have long been the brunt of suspicion and acrimony by other Space Manne Chapter. Furthermore they are thought by some within the Ordo Hereticus to possess unknown ties to the High Lords of Terra that they find disquieting to say the least. Whlie much of the Minotaurs' record going back over the last thousand years can be ascertained in outline by sifting through the myriad war reports and battle archives from across the imperium, their history before this point is not simply lost, but has been deliberately obscured and sealed under binding edicts even an Inqutsitor cannot readily undo Of circumvent .That there existed a Space Marine Chapter of the name "Minotaurs"，created as part of the 21st Founding is not widely contested, but wether or not they are the same Chapter as that bearing the name which took part in the suppression of the Macharian Heresy in the opening decades of the 41st Millennium (and the same Chapter that would later go on to play a crucial and bloody role in the Badab War)—that is not so certain.
在人类帝国中，米诺陶战团有着野蛮的恶名，他们在其他星际战士战团怀疑和讥讽的对象中高居前列。另外，讨逆修会中有某些成员认为米诺陶战团和泰拉高领主之间有着某种未知联系，而且他们发现这种联系至少说得上是令人焦虑不安的。米诺陶战团的大部分记录可以追溯到过去的一千年，这些记录可以通过浏览他们遍布帝国的无数战争报告和战斗档案来弄清轮廓概述。但他们在这个时间点之前的历史不是简单得遗失了，而是在某项哪怕连一位审判官也不能撤销规避的约束性法令（的命令）下被刻意地隐匿和封印了。有一件事在很大程度上是毋庸置疑的：拥有“米诺陶”这个名称的星际战士战团是存在的，他们被创建于第二十一次建军，但在第41千年最开始的几十年中那个顶着“米诺陶”的名称参与了镇压马卡里昂叛乱的战团（同样的战团之后将会在巴达布战争中充当关键且血腥的角色）和他们是否是相同的战团，人们不太确定。
Cursed Blood
被诅咒的血脉
From the time of their creation. the Minotaurs of the 21st Founding rapidly gained a reputation as a force whose ferocity and fury on the battlefield were all but unmatched, their Space Marines eschewing any form of combat that did not allow them to rapidly get to grips with their enemies. This highly autonomous, almost berserker, force was known for its ability to respond rapidly to the pleas and distress calls of besieged or invaded Imperial worlds, but was equally well known for refusing to form part of a wider strategic plan. Their presence was often announced in a war zone by the commencement of an all-out assault upon their chosen target without preamble or even much by way of reconnaissance, the Minotaurs hurling themselves at the enemy without heed of loss or cost. Their fury spent, they would then withdraw as Suddenly as they had arrived, whereas in the same tactical situation a more conventional Chapter might be expected to consolidate its gains or pull back in preparation for a counterattack. Although the Minotaurs' assaults more often than not left a smashed and disoriented enemy in their wake. Imperial commanders and other Space Manne Chapters found the Minotaurs too unpredictable and unreliable a force to count on, preferring allies of more stable temperament. As time progressed, their tendency to shun the command of others and their erratic gene-seed tithe to the Magos Invigila， combined with the diverse curses that seemed to afflict other Chapters of their Founding, raised much darker suspcions about the nature of the Minotaurs and the secrets they might be hiding.
自创建伊始，诞生自第二十一次建军的米诺陶战团便很快获得了一种名声：一支在战场上拥有几乎是无与伦比的狂暴与怒火的部队，米诺陶星际战士们规避任何不允许他们快速与敌人展开缠斗的战斗形式。这支近乎狂战士般的高度自主的部队因其快速响应遭到围困或入侵的帝国世界的恳求和遇难呼救的能力而著称，但也同样因拒绝组成更广泛的战略计划的一部分（的自行其是）而出名。他们在战区中通常会这样宣告自己的出场：米诺陶战团以对于他们选定的目标进行全军突击作为开场，这种突击没有预示、甚至都没有太多的侦查方式，他们会毫不在意损失地向敌人猛冲。发泄完怒火之后，他们就会像抵达时那样突然撤退，然而在同样的战术情况中，而更为常规的战团可能会希望巩固战果或者撤退以防备反击，不过米诺陶战团的突击通常只会在身后留下一群被碾碎且迷失方向的敌人。帝国指挥官们和其他星际战士战团发现米诺陶战团是一股过于不可预测且不可靠以至于不能指望的力量，他们还是偏好脾性更为沉稳的盟友。
Such fragmentary records that now remain show the Chapter's gene-seed branded as “Chimeric". This, as blasphemous as it may now seem, may have indicated that its origins were either from a prohibited source, mixed or adulterated , or somehow tampered with genetically during its creation. Secret experimentation of this kind is known to have been carried out on a number of the scions of the 21st Founding, and such annotations show that the Minotaurs were likely among those tampered with in some way. The folly of such hubris by the Magos Biologis of the time was to prove the undoing ofmany of the Chapters birthed by the 21st Founding as they succumbed either to spiralling psychological flaws, or worse，monstrous genetic deviation, leading to their disbandment or destructor in the following millennia. It is likely that the Minotaurs' barely controled fury and their desire to shun those they should have called comrade was a result of some particular curse laid on them in their blood, but whether their afflication mastered them or they mastered it remains unknown. Regardless, from the mid M38 onwards, the Minotaurs all but slipped from the Imperium's records, their deeds and battle honours suppressed or expunged by a series of edicts and data-purges.
现存的零碎记录显示：该战团的基因种子被标注为“嵌合体”。这些记录可能暗示：米诺陶基因种子的起源可能就和（资料中）看起来的一样亵渎，它们要么是来自某个禁忌的来源，遭到了混合或掺杂；要么就是在创建过程中被以某种方式篡改了基因。生化贤者们当时的这种傲慢愚行被证明是很多被创建于第21次建军的星际战士战团的毁灭原因：他们要么屈从于不断加剧的心理缺陷，要么情况更糟，出现了巨大的基因偏差。这导致他们在后续的一千年中遭到解散或是毁灭。可能米诺陶战团那几乎不受控制的怒火和避开那些本应被称为战友兄弟的人的欲望就是由血脉中某些具体的诅咒所导致的。但是他们的附属（诅咒）掌控了他们，还是他们掌控了自己的附属（诅咒），这个问题仍然是未知的。无论如何，从M38中叶之前，米诺陶战团就几乎被从帝国的记录中删除了，他们的事迹和战斗荣誉被一系列的法令和数据清除所压制或废除。
The Hammer of Terra
泰拉之锤
When the Minotaurs reappeared again millennia later, during the suppression of the Machanan Heresy, they were a Chapter both familiar by their reputation and profoundly changed. Still highly autonomous, the Minotaurs went they wiled but seemed far more content to operate within the structure and command of the imperial war machine than the Chapters distant history suggested. Both during the Macharian Heresy and on several other occasions since， they have responded quickly and without question to a call to arms from the High Lords, and this has been the case even when that call has been to castigate, apprehend or destroy formerly loyal Space Marines who have been declared renegade or that have had suspected transgressions lodged against them.
当米诺陶战团在一千年之后的镇压玛卡里昂叛乱时期再次出现时，他们因其名声而被（人们），但他们也发生了深刻的变化。他们依旧高度自主，根据自己的意愿行动，但相比于他们在过往遥远历史中的表现，他们（现在）似乎更为愿意在帝国战争机器的结构和指挥中运作。在玛卡里昂叛乱和其他许多情况中，他们迅速且毫无质疑地回应了来自高领主们的参战呼叫，哪怕高领主们是呼叫他们去惩戒、逮捕或摧毁那些被宣判为变节者、或被怀疑对于高领主们怀有违逆之心的前忠诚派星际战士，情况也是如此。
Given this seeming preditection for testing themselves against their fellow Space Marines, it was perhaps then unsurprising that the Minotaurs would appear during the Badab War responsing to Legate Inquisitor Frain's request for aid for the Loyalist cause. The Astral Claws and other Secessionist Chapters were certainly worthy foes by any estimation，and the Minotaurs' victories during the conflict, most notably their defeat of the Lamenters at Optera，were extremely important to the Badab War's outcome. The Minotaurs gained several important victories during this time and the action for which their fame would spread far beyond the conflict, despite a deliberate suppression of the wars progress by the Inquisition, would be their wholesale defeat of the Lamenters Chapter in a close quarters space battle in the Optera system in the closing days of 908 M41 .This latter triumph did much to laud the name of this grim and isolationist Chapter of the Space Marines to the Imperium at large, but has done little to salve the Chapters unquiet reputation with those with the wit to see beyond the veneration of the holy Adeptus Astartes espoused from the pulpits of the Ministorum across the Segmentum Solar.
考虑到米诺陶战团似乎有对抗他们的星际战士兄弟来测试自己的偏好，他们回应使节审判官弗莱恩支援忠诚派的要求，出现在巴达布战争中的行为也就不足为奇。以各种估计来看，星爪战团和其他分离主义者战团确实是相称的敌手。米诺陶战团在冲突中取得了诸多胜利，其中最为瞩目的是他们在Optera击败了恸哭者战团，这对于巴达布战争的结局极其重要。米诺陶战团在这一时期取得了很多重要的胜利，而且在908 M41的最后几天中 ，他们于Optera星系中用一场近距离太空战彻底击败了恸哭者战团，不考虑审判庭（事后）对于战争过程进行了刻意（信息）压制，这将会是一场让他们的名声远播到这次冲突之外的行动。之后的胜利在很大程度上向帝国赞扬了这个极端且孤立的星际战士战团，但并未怎么拯救他们那不佳的名声——那些有着看穿对于神圣阿斯塔特修会的崇敬的智慧的人们在遍布太阳星域的国教论道坛中得到了拥护。
Chapter Organisation and Tactics
战团组织和战术
In terms of broad organisation, the Minotaurs conform to both the structural and squad level patterns of the Codex Astartes, but at a tactical level differ significantly in their general approach to warfare. The Chapter prefers to operate as a whole, or at least with as few divisions of its forces as possible in any given theatre of war，concentrating and thereby maximising its destructive power. This is a strategy that has allowed the Minotaurs to excel at siegecraft and in combat against monstrous opponents, which they can overwhelm by sheer weight of numbers if needs be。
在广义组织的方面，米诺陶战团在结构和小队层次（单位）模式上都符合阿斯塔特圣典，但在战术层次上，他们的一般战斗方式与圣典有很大不同。米诺陶战团偏好于作为一个整体行动，或者在任何给定的战区中，至少要尽可能少地拆分部队，以集中和由此来最大化他们的毁灭性力量。这种战略使得米诺陶战团在攻城战和对付巨大恐怖的对手方面表现出色，倘若需要的话，他们能通过纯粹的数量压倒敌人。
Unlike most Space Manne Chapters,some of the Minotaurs' key tactics are partly dependant on the use of superior attrition within a confined area of engagement, and the Chapter's commanders are perhaps less mindful of the fate of its individual battle-brothers than some, just so Iong as victory is achieved. As well as a willingness to sacnfice their own flesh and blood to ensure the achievement of their battle aims, the Minotaurs are aided in their chosen pattern of warfare by two significant factors. The first is their excellent supplies of heavy arms and war machinery and the second, and perhaps more important, is the Chapter's markedly rapid influx of new battle-brothers to replace ongoing losses. The exact source of their war materiel has remained unconfirmed, but they have been observed to operate using large replenishable stockpiles of tanks and heavy armour, allowing the Chapter's battle companies to make extensive use of Vindicators and Predators as tactical support vehicles. The Minotaurs battle-brothers in action evidence widespread access to extensive supplies of the advanced MKVIII power armour and void-modified Mklll suits of unknown provenance, as well as a wide diversity of arms and weaponry, including power blades of the finest quality and rare advanced Ryza pattern plasma weapons. Further indication of the superior range of their armoury can be gleaned from the observation that they commonly field the bulk of their 1st Company Veterans as Terminators in combat, again with widespread access to rarer patterns of wargear such as the Tartaros and Arkonak Tatical Dreadnought Armour patterns, and wargear seldom found outside the hands of the honoured Chapters of the 1st Founding, such as extensive squadrons of Storm Eagle gunships and ancient Spartan assault tanks.
不同于大多数星际战士战团，米诺陶的某些关键战术在一定程度上取决于在有限的接触区域内对于超额减员（作战方式）的使用，相比于某些星际战士战团，米诺陶指挥官们可能更不在意个体战斗兄弟的命运，主要能够取得胜利的话。米诺陶战团愿意牺牲自己的血肉来确保战斗目标的达成，他们选择这种战斗方式是因为有两个重要因素的协助。第一个是他们极佳的重型装甲载具和战争机器供应，第二个，可能也是更为重要的，是战团标志性的用于弥补持续性损失的新任星际战士快速涌入。米诺陶战争军需的确切来源仍然未知，但他们被观察到使用大量可补给的坦克和重型装甲载具，这允许战团中的战斗连把维护者坦克和捕食者坦克作为战术支援载具大量使用。行动中的米诺陶战斗兄弟被证明能够广泛获得大量先进的MKVIII动力甲和起源未知的虚空（作战）改进型Mklll动力甲补给，以及广泛多样的动力甲和武器，包括质量最佳的动力剑和罕见先进的瑞扎型电浆武器。他们的武器装备优越，进一步的暗示包括战团第一连老兵们有大半在战斗中身着终结者动力甲，而且能他们能广泛获得诸如冥府和阿考纳克型战术无畏动力甲等更为稀有的装备型号，这些装备——比如数个中队的风暴鹰炮艇和古老的斯巴达坦克只曾出现在过初次建军中那些荣耀的战团手中。
