hh7节译:千子军团结构
The structure of the Thousand Sons was like no other Legion. Just as Magnus the Red rebuilt his Legion from the ruin of the Flesh Change, so he also shaped its every facet into a pattern which served his vision and the needs of his teachings, a pattern named in some sources as the “Pesedjet”. Where the formations and traditions of the old Legion coincided with his own designs he kept them, where they did not, he removed and replaced them.
千子军团的结构不同于其他军团，因为就像红王马格努斯从血肉异变的毁灭中拯救了他的军团，所以他也将军团的每个方面都塑造成了能服务于他的梦想与他的教义需要的模式——在某些资料来源中这种模式被命名为“九柱圣堂”。马格努斯保留了旧军团中与他的设计相符合的编队和传统，去除或替换了那些不相符合的。
No part of his Legion was accident or coincidence —a fact he is on record as having boasted of to Fulgrim— noting that even where practices or variation had sprung up seemingly spontaneously, that they were 'merely seeds long planted', and that “all which happens in my sons is held in my eye long before it is born in their hearts and minds". While we might doubt the extent of his prescience, the implication is clear; in the business of his Legion nothing that endured did so without his consent, Magnus the Red was lord and master, absolute.
根据记录，马格努斯曾向弗格瑞姆夸耀过一个事实：他的军团中没有意外或者巧合的部分，哪怕是那些看似自发的行为或变异，这些现象“仅仅是被长期播种的种子”，而且“关于发生在我子嗣们身上的全部全部情形，早在他们诞生于我子嗣的心灵与意识中很久之前，便已经纳入了我的眼中”。虽然我们可能会质疑马格努斯预见力的程度范围，但其中的暗示是清晰的：未经他允许的事情在军团中是绝不被容忍的。显然红王马格努斯就是千子军团独一无二的尊主。
Where the Thousand Sons most resembled their brother Legions was at the level of individual units. The full panoply of the Legiones Astartes was represented in the Legion, from lascannon-armed heavy support units, to Sky Hunter squadrons mounted on jetbikes and with every variation in between, they were left not lacking in any theatre of war. For all their psychic might, and the extent to which they used its power to augment the waging of war, they were still Space Marines and capable of destruction on a much more mundane —yet still highly effective— level. If the Thousand Sons displayed a favour towards a unit configuration, it was to the mechanised tactical squad as its principal infantry paradigm, with mobile speeder and flyerbased reconnaissance units embedded across the Legions deployments as a near-universal adjunct. The exact reasons for this are not recorded, but it is possible that it was simply seen as the most efficient and adaptable method of deploying warriors into the field, and that the psychic might of the Legion made greater specialisation less necessary that it might have.This possible explanation tallies with a number of engagements when the Legion deployed forces against armoured or fortified enemies without the full complement of heavy materiel and equipment that would have been used by other Legions under similar circumstances, relying upon psychic power rather than just shot and shell to carry the day.
千子军团与兄弟军团们最为相像的地方在于独立单位的级别。军团阿斯塔特的全套装备即代表着军团，从配备了激光炮的重型支援单位到骑乘着喷射机车的天猎者中队，以及中间的各种部队类型，他们在任何战场上都不会缺席。尽其千子战士们全部都拥有精神力量，而且他们在很大程度上也会利用灵能来作战，但他们仍然是星际战士，也能够以更平凡的方式进行颇为高效的毁灭。如果说千子军团偏好于某种单位配置的话，那就是以机械化战术小队作为主要步兵范式，并且将移动速攻艇和基于飞行载具的侦察部队作为近乎普遍的辅助单位嵌入到军团部署中。千子军团这么做的具体原因未被记录，不过可能仅仅是因为这是看起来最为有效且适宜的星际战士部署方法，而且军团的灵能能力也让军团中某些更为强大的特殊单位不是那么必要。这种可能的解释与军团的很多作战情形相符合：千子并非如同其他军团在相同的战局中所做的那样，完全使用重型武器装备来对付装甲和要塞中的敌人，他们会依靠灵能而非仅仅是弹药来取胜。
It is however also notable that despite this reliance on basic troops, the deadly arithmetic of attrition-based warfare was never a game that the Thousand Sons Legion entered into willingly, actively avoiding the meat grinder of mass-assault tactics and striving never to allow themselves to become encircled or undertake sacrificial holding actions, regardless of the prize at stake. Instead, they always strove to stack the odds of battle in their favour, either through exacting strategic planning, the considered use of ancillary forces such as battle-automata as shields and vanguards, and of course, by far more occult and less easily understood means.
但值得注意的是：尽管千子军团依赖基本部队，但消耗战的致命算法从来都不是他们愿意考虑的，他们会积极避免陷入基于大规模进攻战术的绞肉战，而且无论战果如何，他们也会努力不让自己被包围或者采取牺牲性的坚守行动。相反，他们总是以自己偏好的方式竭力争取有利的战斗机会，而非是通过的战略计划达成目标，当然，他们也会利用某些更为神秘和不易理解的方式控制诸如战斗机兵之类的辅助部队作为先锋和盾卫，而且千子们对于此类部队的使用是深思熟虑的。
Patterns and Symbols
图形和符号
All squad leaders within the Legion were warriors who had ascended through the first layers of knowledge within the teachings and mysteries established by their master, and many of them were also initiates in one of the Prosperine Cults. At the level above the individual squads, themselves sometimes name chantries, were the Circles. In other Legions, a Circle might have been called a line company, but their place within the Thousand Sons was more than a simple grouping of warriors under a commander. Each Circle could vary in size, being anything between a handful of squads to many hundreds of Legionaries strong. These variations in size were not accidental, but part of a pattern of relative strength and numerical relationship which functioned to form 4 structure of occult significance and hierarchy within the Legion.Each bore a designation formed of both letters and numbers, though the progression of each of these variables did not follow a strict order, but again seemed part of a spiralling design which formed part of the Prosperine Mysteries. From what remains known, the Circle of Iaed-9, for example, consisted of 512 warriors divided into squads kept at strengths of either 16,9 or 7.
军团中所有的小队领袖都是根据马格努斯所建立的教义和奥秘中的第一层知识所提拔起来战士，他们中的很多人也会加入某一个普罗斯佩罗教派。独立小队之上层级的单位是环会，千子们有时则自称为唱诗会。在其他军团中，环会可能被称为战线连队，但环会在千子军团中的地位不仅是一名指挥官和一群战士组成的简单团体。每个环会规模各异，少则几个小队，多则数百名军团战士之众。这种各异的规模并非偶然，而是某种相对军力和数值关系模式的一部分，这套关系模式正常工作以形成军团中关于神秘意义和等级体系的四组结构。每个环会都有一个由字母和数字组成的称呼，虽然这些变量的发展变化并不遵守某种严格的次序，但它们的变化看起来是某种螺旋设计的一部分，而这种螺旋设计也是普罗斯佩罗神秘学的一部分。例如，根据我们目前仍然知道的，Iaed-9环会就由512名战士组成，而他们被划分成了人数是16、9或7的小队。
All Circles were part of one of the nine Fellowships. It is said that when Magnus first began to reorder his Legion that there were ten Fellowships, but severe losses reduced this to nine. Whether this is true or if Magnus decided to change the structure because of some other, hidden, factor is not known. The number of Circles within each Fellowship varied just as the strength of each Circle was clearly purposeful, but was inconsistent at a superficial level. The number of Circles within a Fellowship also occasionally changed, but whenever this occurred, the number and size of the Circles within all the Fellowships also changed, though never in the same way twice. Within these Circles, or sometimes forming unique Circles of their own, came other, more specialised military sub-units more readily identified by outsiders, most notably the 'Sekhmet', also known as the Scarab Occult -the Primarchs own Terminator-armoured bodyguard, and the“Dreamers of the Ostron' -the Thousand Sons Legions cadre of Dreadnoughts and those Techmarines who stood attendant to them.
所有环会都是九个学会当中某一个的组成部分。据说马格努斯刚开始重新执掌军团时千子军团军团有十个学会，但严重的损失让其减少为九个。至于这件事是否属实，或是马格努斯是否出于其他某些被隐藏的原因而决定改变军团结构，我们不得而知。每个学会中的环会数量各不相同，正如每个环会的兵力数目各不相同一样，显然是有目的的。一个学会中的环会数量偶尔也会变化，但当这种情况发生时，所有学会当中环会的数量和规模也都会变化，但它们从不会按照一种方法变化两次。这些环会中有时也会形成自己的独特环会，独特环会中会出现其他更专业的军事次级单位，他们更容易被外界识别，最著名的就是“赛克迈特”（机仆：赛克迈特是古埃及猫神贝斯特的前身和另一面，狮首女体，所以铁加曼老师也曾称赛克迈特部队为狮卫）他们也被称为圣甲虫隐修会，是原体身着终结者动力甲的私人卫队；还有就是“盾甲梦者”，他们是千子军团的无畏机甲核心以及服侍他们的技术军士。
Besides the Circles, Fellowships, Orders and Cults, there were dozens of other cabals, collegium and symposia formed by the Thousand Sons to pursue a particular strand of knowledge or refine a branch of physic ability, offering a layer of subdivision that inevitably spilled over to their military structures. The membership and importance of these collectives waxed and waned with the rise and fall of their members, and the popularity of their concerns. Over the decades between the rediscovery of Magnus and the Council of Nikaea, there were likely many hundreds of these groupings formed within the Thousand Sons, of which few are now known. The 'Hands of the Drowned Moon' are recorded, for example, as having focused long hours of debate and ritual experimentation on what happened to a living being at the moment of death. The 'Aquilae', meanwhile, sometimes called the 'denied sixth Cult of Prospero', investigated the nature of the aether itself until it was disbanded upon the orders of Magnus. By contrast, the 'Atmon,' a group obsessed with the psychic observation of the distant past, was said to have never numbered more than ten initiates of the Corvidae.
除了环会、学会、修会和学派，千子们还组成了很多其他的隐修会、研修团和学会，目的是为了追求特定方面的知识或完善某个分支的灵能技艺，提供出一层不可避免地蔓延到他们军事结构的细分层级。这些团体的人数和重要性随着他们成员、以及他们关注方面的普及程度的崛起和陨落而增长和下降。在马格努斯回归和尼凯亚会议之间的几十年中，千子军团中可能组成过数百个此类团体，但我们现在仅知道其中的极少数。例如，“浸月之手”就被记录曾长时间专注于辩论和仪式实验以探讨生物体在死亡时的状况；而被称为“被否认的普罗斯佩罗第六教派”的天鹰教派则是调查以太的本质，直到被马格努斯命令解散。相反，“阿特蒙”是一个沉迷于对遥远的过去进行灵能观察的组织，据说他们的人数从未超过十名黑鸦学派学者。
The obscure nature of the structure of the Thousand Sons to outsiders is made all the more so because it was clearly driven by a precise design and guiding purpose, though what this was none outside of their ranks could say, and no member of the Legion ever broke the bindings of secrecy placed on them by their Primarch. This, amongst many other factors, further contributed to the suspicions of those outside of the Thousand Sons. Why, they asked, do these things if not for a reason, and if it was for a reason, why keep that reason secret? Of course, many other Legions had their mysteries; some might claim all held at least one secret in their hearts, but most were better at keeping them hidden or at least allaying suspicion, or in the case of the XXthh were so bound up in obfuscation as to be impenetrable, but unashamed in acknowledgement of their nature. The Thousand Sons though wore the fact of their secrets like a crown whilst all the while denying them. And unlike the Alpha Legion, whose secrets were those of the shadow warrior, a thing that outsiders could guess at if not fully understand, the lingering accusation of'sorcery’carried with it an infernal reek.
千子军团的结构对于外界而言是比较晦涩难懂，因为它显然是被精确的设计和指导目标所驱动的，不过也没有千子战士之外的人能够说出这些设计和目标为何物，也没有哪位军团成员曾经打破原体施加在他们之间的保密束缚。这些以及其他的因素进一步加剧了千子军团之外的人士对他们的怀疑。“为何”，他们询问到，“倘若一切都事出有因，那他们为何对原因严防死守？”当然，其他很多军团都有其自身的秘密;有些人可能声称所有人心中至少都隐藏着一个秘密，但大多数人都比较擅长将其隐藏或至少消除他人的怀疑，或如同第二十军团的情况那样，被迷惑缠住而无法参透真相，但他们并不以承认自己的天性为耻。千子军团则是把自己的秘密如同王冠一样戴在头上，但他们却却始终否认这些秘密。而且不同于阿尔法军团，第二十军团的秘密是那些暗影战士的秘密，外人无法理解也可以猜测，而其他人对于千子军团使用“巫术”的长期指控则带着一种令人憎恶的恶臭。
Legion Command Hierarchy
军团指挥等级
Authority within the Thousand Sons was a matter of perspective. As with all things a simple answer existed for all to see, but if one knew a little more and looked from a slightly different angle, that answer was replaced by another. A little more knowledge, another small shift in view point and another structure of seniority would layer over the first two, and so on and on with each new detail.
千子军团中的权力关乎想法观点。就像每件事都有一个所有人都能看见的答案，但如果某个人知道的更多一些，能从某个明显不同的角度看待事物，那么原有的答案就会被另一个所代替。只需多一点知识，观点上发生另一个小转变，那么另一套资历结构就会覆盖前两个，依此类推，每个新细节都如此。
At its simplest, the Legion can be seen as a pyramid. At its pinnacle was Magnus, supreme in every way, undisputed master of the Thousand Sons in war, scholarship and power. Beneath him were the high captains and magisteria of the Nine Fellowships, and beneath them in turn the legates and line captains, captains-adjutant and sergeant-aspirants who variously commanded the Circles within those Fellowships and led their tactical deployments and squads in the field. The most senior and trusted of the Legion's leaders formed a coven around Magnus, the so-called 'Rehahti,' which replaced the shattered and threadbare Legion command staff structure the Primarch had found when he had joined his sons.
最简单来说，千子军团可以被视为金字塔。塔尖是马格努斯，他在任何方面都至高无上，是千子军团无可争议的战争、学术和权力主宰。在他之下是高阶连长和各学会的尊师，而在他们之下则是指挥着学会中环会的战线连长、指挥使、连队副官和军士，他们也要在战场是率领自己的战术部队和小队进行作战。军团中最为高级也最受信任的领袖们组成了围绕着马格努斯的顾问团，被称为“苏生会”，他们取代了原体在回归军团时所发现的那套破烂不堪的军团指挥结构。
This first outward reading of authority within the Legion is accurate up to a point, but its simplicity hides another pattern. It is self-evident that most of the command structure of the Thousand Sons comprised accomplished psykers, though there were a few exceptions, and chose of the Legion who lacked manifest psychic ability usually ranked below their psychic brothers. Even where notional military rank was equal, often it was psychic mastery not veterancy which denoted seniority. Even though this distinction was never formalised, it was a fact obvious to any who had insight into the Legion. Amongst those with psychic power, two other factors determined their place within the order of things at any time: their rank within their Cult, and the prestige of that Cult relative to the others. A low-ranked initiate of one Cult would not outrank a senior member of another Cult, but between initiates of a supposed equivalent rank, the difference was all important.
军团内部对权力最初的外在解读在一定程度上是准确的，但其简单性隐藏了另一种模式。显而易见地，千子军团的大多数指挥结构由技艺高超的灵能者组成，不过也有少数个例，但这些缺乏明显灵能技艺的星际战士的级别通常低于他们的灵能者兄弟们。哪怕是在名义上军衔相等的人之间，也是对于灵能的掌握程度而非军事技艺的老练程度能够表示资历。即使这种区分从未正式化，但对于任何了解千子军团的人来说，这都是显而易见的事实。而在那些拥有灵能力量的人当中，有其他两个因素在任何时候都决定他们的地位：他们在自己学派中的等级，以及该学派相对于其他学派的声望。某个学派中的低级学者等级不会高于其他学派中的高级成员，但在假定拥有同等职级的学者之间，学派差异就非常重要了。
Beyond the Cults were other factors which could alter the authority of an individual. The membership of an Order and one's place within that Order, hierarchy of ceremonial authority in Prosperine culture (such as responsibility for a portion of the city of Tizca), all were absolute and measurable factors in calculating the standing of any member of the Legion. All of these subtle and hidden factors permeated every grain of authority within the Thousand Sons, and reflected back to the relative standing of Magnus close lieutenants within the Rehahti and who was included in its ever-shifting membership.
除了学派，还有其他因素能够改变个人的权力：一个学会的人数，一个人在该学会中的地位，在普罗斯佩罗文化礼仪权力中的等级（比如负责提兹卡城的一部分事务），所有这些都是在判断军团任何成员的地位时绝对且可衡量的因素。所有这些微妙且隐蔽的因素都渗透到了千子军团中的每一个权力细节，它们也反映出苏生会中那些马格努斯的亲近副官以及那些被这个日新月异的组织所纳入的成员的相对地位。
War Disposition
战争配置
The Thousand Sons Legion had never entirely shaken off the withering effects of the first decades of its existence. Over a century later, its near-extinction prior to the rediscovery of Magnus still left a shadow on the numerical strength of the Legion. Combined with its conservatism in recruitment, this legacy meant that they were amongst the smallest Legions at the time of the Burning of Prospero. Estimates of their strength place it as potentially being as high as 80,000-85,000 warriors —ironically perhaps their greatest ever number— immediately before their destruction, with the bulk of this strength located on Prospero when not explicitly sent upon a mission of conquest. Even at this level of manpower,the Thousand Sons comprised one of the smallest of the Space Marine Legions. Their Legion fleet was concomitant with this size comprising, by extant records, some forty capital class vessels with perhaps three times that number of smaller vessels of various classes at their disposal. The most potent of these was known to be the Photep, the Thousand Sons Primarch's flagship: a heavily modified Gloriana class vessel that was believed to have been augmented with a significant number of psychically augmented defences and weapons of Magnus' own unique design.
千子军团从来没有完全摆脱掉他在诞生的最初几十年所受到的破坏性影响。在一个多世纪之后的原体马格努斯回归之前，这些使军团近乎灭绝的危害已久在军团的兵力数中投下阴影，结合千子军团在征兵时的保守主义，这就意味着在普罗斯佩罗之焚时千子是人数最少的军团之一。据估计，千子的实力可能为80,000-85,000名阿斯塔特战士——颇具讽刺意味的是，这也许就是他们人数最多的时候：就在毁灭降临之前，大部分千子战士恰巧都位于普罗斯佩罗，而非被明确派去执行征服任务。而哪怕在他人数最多的时候，千子也是规模最小的星际战士军团之一。根据现存的记录，千子军团舰队由大概四十艘主力舰和数量三倍于其的各种小型舰船，已知其中最强大的战舰是弗泰普号：她是一艘经过大幅改造的荣光女王级战列舰，人们相信这艘战舰被马格努斯亲自设计的大量独特的灵能增强防御设备和武器所强化。
Like most Legions, the Thousand Sons forces had previously been distributed across the various fronts of the Great Crusade, but the events of Nikaea and Magnus’ reaction to them meant that the Thousand Sons had acted alone for much of the period following their master's censure. They shunned the close company of other forces, and while they continued to wage war unimpeachably in the Imperium's name, they undertook few far-ranging deployments that kept them from the touchstone of Prospero and their Primarch for long.
就如同大多数军团，千子的部队之前也被分散到了大远征的各个前线战场，但尼凯亚事件和马格努斯对其的回应意味着：在原体受到惩戒之后的大部分时间里，千子军团要独自行动。虽然他们回避与其他部队之间的密切配合，但他们依旧在无可指责地以帝国之名征战四方。他们几乎不会执行让自己长期远离普罗斯佩罗和基因原体的准则的远距离任务。
So it was that the bulk of the Legion was within range to heed their Primarch's call when the Wolves came for them. Of course it is possible, likely even, that other forces remained in Expeditionary or Conquest fleets that either did not return to Prospero in time, or never received the communication to do so. As with all things related to the vagaries of communication and travel within the Warp, absolutes must be treated with suspicion. The Burning of Prospero was the doom of the Thousand Sons Legion, with official estimates of their survival of the planetary assault as low as 1,000—once again, we see the numeration rears its head!
所以当太空野狼前来时，大部分军团成员都处于能够注意到原体呼救的距离之内。当然，可能也有些留在远征探索或征服舰队中其他的部队无法及时回到普罗斯佩罗，或者从来没有收到命令返回母星的通讯。就像亚空间中通讯和旅行以及任何相关的事物都是变幻莫测的一样，我们对于绝对的情况说法必须存疑。普罗斯佩罗之焚是千子军团的末日，官方统计只有一千名千子战士从惩戒部队的行星突袭中幸存下来——再一次地，我们又见证了千子军团的人数锐减到了那个可悲的数字！
While it is likely that several thousand more were far off-world at the time, some of these elements were swiftly hunted down in the years that followed, and others yet disappeared without trace. This should have seen the extermination of the Legion, yet it was not to be so, for in the years of the Horus Heresy, the Thousand Sons again appeared, this time siding with the Traitor, and in numbers that given their destruction make little cogent sense. If it is the case, as some claim, that the remnants of the Legion fled to the Empyrean, and there in the dark realms beyond human reason and beyond time grew strong again, who can say what befell them with certainty? Perhaps, even as the more crazed theorists claim, there were in truth no survivors of Prospero, only the echoes of the vengeful dead returned to haunt their destroyers. If this is true, what difference is made to the terrible power the Legion came to represent in the Age of Darkness that followed？
在当时可能还有数千名千子战士位于某些遥远的世界，其中的某些部队在接下来的几年中被快速捕杀，其他的则消失得杳无踪迹。这或许被看作是千子军团的覆灭，但事实并非如此，因为在荷鲁斯叛乱中，千子军团再次出现，这次他们站在了叛军一侧，而且从数量上来考虑的话，“帝国将其摧毁”这种说法并无说服力。倘若如此，那么就像某些人所宣称的那样，剩余的军团舰队逃往了巫师星，他们在那片超出人类理智和时间之外的领域再次发展壮大，毕竟谁又能确切说出有哪些事情降临在了千子军团身上？或许，甚至就像某些更为疯狂的理论说宣称的那样，普罗斯佩罗上本就是真的无人幸免，只有想要复仇的亡魂回归凡世来困扰那些屠戮他们的凶手。倘若此言非虚，这对于千子军团在之后的黑暗年代中所表现出的恐怖力量又有着怎样的影响？（我们不得而知）
