HH3节译：星辰要塞

Fortresses in the Stars

The Imperial Fists were and are makers and breakers of fortresses, but the greatest fortresses they built were amongst the stars. The Legiones Astartes are warriors of the stars, but the Imperial fists made the cold void their battlefield of choice. While there were great and grand fortresses on the ground both to defend and assault aplenty in the Great Crusade, the greatest sieges and defences were in fact fought in the murderous environment of space. The defence of star systems, the creation of kill zones and intersecting orbits were skills that the Imperial Fists honed to a keen edge on the grindstone of thousands of battlefronts. To them the methods of defending or taking a position, whether terrestrial or void-borne, were the same in principle even if different in application. After all what were star ships but fortresses of stone and metal broken free of gravity? It was an approach which saw them become the pre-eminent masters of high- intensity void warfare among the Space Marine Legions, and peerless in the spheres of boarding assault and close quarter ship-to-ship combat.

帝国之拳即是要塞的建筑者，也是要塞的破坏者；他们曾经是，现在也是。不过他们建造过的最伟大要塞位于群星之间。阿斯塔特军团战士是征战于群星的勇士，但帝国之拳将寒冷的虚空选为自己的战场。虽然在大远征期间，星球地表上有着大量可供防御和进攻的巨大宏伟要塞，但最伟大的围城战和防御战实际上是在残酷的太空环境中进行的。构建星系防御体系、创造杀戮区和交叉轨道，帝国之拳在数千次前线战斗中磨砺出了这些技能。对他们而言，无论是在星球上还是在虚空中，虽然进行防御或夺取据点的方法在应用上有所不同，但在原则上是相同的。毕竟，星际飞船不就是一座摆脱了重力的由石头和金属组成的要塞吗？帝国之拳正是通过这种方法成为了星际战士军团中出类拔萃的高强度虚空战大师，他们在跳帮进攻和舰对舰近距离作战方面都是无与伦比的。

Of these war bastions of the stars, the greatest was the Phalanx. A pre-Imperial relic of vast size and unimaginable power, Rogal Dorn rebuilt the cold wreck, found orbiting Inwit, where it had drifted dead since the Dark Age of Technology, and presented it to the Emperor on their reuniting. Although ponderous and a difficult voyager in the Warp, this titanic star fortress was nevertheless a space-carried weapon whose firepower dwarfed entire attack fleets by comparison. The might of the Phalanx alone broke the back of dozens of xenos species during the Great Crusade, hammered worlds to burning cinders and served as an impregnable fortress against the horrors of the void. The Phalanx served both as the Imperial Fists' principal base of operations and a lynchpin first of the Great Crusade and later, during the terrors of the Horus Heresy，in the defiance of the Sol System and Terra.

在那些群星间的战争堡垒中，最伟大的自然是山阵号。这件来自人类帝国诞生之前的时代的遗物有着巨大的体积和难以置信的力量，罗格 多恩重建了这座被发现于因维特轨道上的冰冷残骸——自从黑暗科技时代开始，它就死寂地漂浮在那里，并在与帝皇重逢时将其献给了自己的父亲。尽管它笨重且难以在亚空间中航行，但这座巨大的星际要塞也是一件太空武器，它的火力能使整支攻击舰队相形见绌。在大远征时期，山阵号仅凭借自身的强悍力量就击溃了数十个异形种族，不止一个世界被它轰为燃烧着的灰烬，而且这座坚不可摧的要塞也抵御着虚空中的恐怖之物。山阵号即是帝国之拳的主要行动基地，也在大远征中起到了关键作用。而在之后恐怖的荷鲁斯叛乱时期，它参与到了太阳系和泰拉的防御行动中。