hh5节译：源还修会
The Ordo Reductor
Known to their fellow adherents in the Machine Cult as the "Bringers of Blessed Ruins", the Ordo Reductor is a distinct and highly specialised military division of the Mechanicum. Theirs is the sacred role of un-maker, slaughterer and breaker; they embody the animus of the Omnissiah, its duality not as creator or embodiment of knowledge, but as destroyer and bringer of oblivion. Their given title, whose prefix was unusual for the servants of the Mechanicum, was invoked first by the great treaty between the Lords of Mars and the Emperor of Humanity, although their true and forgotten origins delve back into the dust and blood of the Age of Strife on the red world of their birth. By this order, a sub-clause of the very compact by which the alliance between the Mechanicum and Terra was sealed, was the Ordo Reductor created for the express purpose of sundering and destroying those who would stand against the Great Crusade.
源还修会是机械神教中一个独特且极为专业化的军事部门，他们被机械教派中的同僚们称为“受祝毁灭的使者”。他们是神圣的毁灭者、屠杀者与破坏者；他们具象出了万机之神的怒火，展现出万机神作为毁灭者与湮灭使者，而非创造者和知识化身的一面。“源还修会”这个头衔第一次被引用是在火星领主们与人类帝皇缔结的伟大条约中——他们名称的前缀对于机械神教的仆人们来说并不寻常，但他们仍旧是生于红色的世界，他们真实且被遗忘的起源要回到火星在纷争纪元中鲜血与沙尘里去翻找。根据机械神教与泰拉结盟契约中的某项条款，创建源还修会有一个明确的目的：击败并毁灭那些抗拒大远征的势力。
Where a new and terrible alien form of life was encountered that would not succumb to the Imperiums panoply of war, it would be the biologis of the Ordo Reductor who would find a way to kill it, where a recalcitrant human techno-empire stood strong against the Great Crusade fleets, it would be the preceptors of the Ordo Reductor who observed and analysed their weapons and defences to find their weakness and, most famously, where a fortress stood seemingly impregnable, it would be the Ordo Reductor who would find a way to bring it low.
当人类遭遇到那些不会屈服于人类的全套战争装备的全新且可怕的外星生命形式时，源还修会的生物学家们就会去寻找对其进行杀戮的方法；当某个桀骜不驯的人类科技帝国顽强对抗大远征舰队时，则是源还修会的导师们去观察与分析对方的武器和防御体系，以找到其弱点，而源还修会最有有名的一点，便是他们会找出办法摧毁敌军看似坚不可摧的堡垒。
The Ordo Reductor's numbers however were always relatively few, accounting only for a handful of the most bellicose of the magos of Mars in the beginning, split from their forges and domains henceforth to serve the Great Crusade first and their feudal masters of the Mechanicum second in all things. Even as other Forge Worlds were contacted and brought into the fold, their numbers did not increase greatly and it is often said, and not without evidence, that those Tech-Priests and magos given up to the Ordo Reductor by their birth worlds or who were drawn to it of their own volition were often already seen as outcasts; either dangerously heretical in their leanings or overly-independent and perhaps psychologically unstable by their peers. However, within the fold of the Ordo Reductor were such individuals redeemed in the doctrine of the Cult of the Omnissiah and given righteous purpose in the service of the Mechanicum —as well as removed largely from the feudal politics of the Forge Worlds— and so while they became 'other' to those who remained directly under the shadow of Mars, they were not considered with the same levels of suspicion and often distrust as followed that parallel Mechanicum faction which also shared the battlefields of the Great Crusade with them, the Legio Cybemetica.
但源还修会的人数相对稀少，其最初的成员只是一些最为好战的火星贤者们，这些人从自己的铸炉和领地上分离出来，从此之后他们在任何事项上都是优先服务于大远征，其次才是自己在机械神教中的封建主子们。哪怕是帝国联系到其他铸造世界并使其加入后，源还修会的人数也并未大量增加；尽管并无证据，但据说那些被自己的母星放弃给源还修会，或者遵循自己的意愿被吸引进去的贤者与技术神甫们通常已经被视作了弃儿；他们要么是偏好危险的异端技术，要么就是相比于同僚们过于独立，或者心理不稳定。不过在源还修会的群体中，也存在那些于万机之神教派的信条中得到救赎的人们，这些人也被给予了服务机械神教的正义使命，但也在很大程度上脱离了铸造世界的封建政治；虽然对那些仍然直接受到火星荫蔽的人们而言，这些人成了“他者”，但他们所受到怀疑和不信任的程度与智控军团受到的并不相同，后者也是与他们共享大远征战争的机械神教平行分支。
The Covenants of War
战争盟约团
The individual commands of Ordo Reductor magos and their attendant servants and war machines, known commonly as 'Covenants', were based almost entirely on purpose- configured warships, often long-range, self-sustaining Galleass types birthed in the vast shipyards of Saturn for this express task, rather than the more common Arks- Mechanicum. It was these ships which served as transport, fane and permanent base for the Ordo Reductor in the days of the Great Crusade and were their only sovereign domains, but domains they guarded jealously, even from their brother Mechanicum. The very treaty that had created them had also split the Ordo Reductor from the Forge Worlds and the bulk of the Mechanicum in a very real sense, and set them in thrall on the front lines of the Great Crusade from where they would seldom stray.The "Brazen Vultures" of the Ordo Reductor, as the void captains of the Imperials Armada came to call their ships, passed as baleful mendicants and nomads from war zone to war zone as the ebb and flow of the fighting —or the will of some Primarch or other great lord of the burgeoning Imperium— dictated.
源还修会贤者们构成的独立指挥部与他们的随从和战争机器通常被称为“盟约团”，他们几乎完全以按（特定）目标进行配置的战舰为基地，这些飞船通常是土星的巨大造船厂为了明确的任务（要求）而制造的远程且自我维持的“加莱赛型巨舟”型战舰，而非更为常见的机械方舟。在大远征时期，这些飞船充当着源还修会的运输舰、神殿和永久性基地，也是他们唯一的主权领地，但他们也小心翼翼地守护着自己的领地，甚至对他们的机械神教兄弟们也是如此。创造出源还修会的条约也确实将他们从铸造世界和机械神教的主体中分离了出来，并让他们受缚于大远征的前线（战场）——他们在那里几乎不会迷失方向。帝国舰队的虚空舰长们称源还修会的飞船为“黄铜秃鹫”，它们作为恶毒的乞丐和游牧民从一个战区旅行到另一个战区，而决定它们航程的要么是战争的起起落落，要么就是某位原体或新生人类帝国其他某位重要领主的意愿。
Because of their relatively small number, wide physical dispersal and their calling as war-savants, more often than not Ordo Reductor Covenants served the various Expeditionary fleets and theatre commands in the roles of battlefield intelligence gatherers, warrior-seers and savants of carnage rather than as conquerors in their own right—the Space Marine Legions more often than not putting into practise what an Ordo Reductor magos' blood-drenched wisdom had learned to deadly effect. The Reductor's own forces were seldom seen to act directly in battle save to conduct targeted raids and probing strikes ahead of a main advance, or to haunt still burning battlefields making a tally of the dead and the destroyed to further their studies. This disposition held true in most cases except one; that of siegecraft. This sphere of warfare with all of its lethal complexities and unforgiving logic was to the magos of the Ordo Reductor a thing of sublime and dark mystery, and in its discipline they found purity and in its merciless execution they found the echo of the divine Omnissiah. In the arts of the siege, the magos of the Ordo Reductor acknowledged no superior and few equals in their cold pride, save a handful of the Primarchs of the Legiones Astartes. This presumption was not without its justification, as in countless sieges and assaults, the Covenants of the Ordo Reductor proved able to sunder defences thought unconquerable and survive Zones Mortalis battles located where no human and perhaps no Legiones Astartes could have fought and lived.
由于他们数量相对较少、地理分布广泛而且有作为战争学者的使命，服务于各种战区司令部和远征探索舰队的源还修会盟约团们更多是充当战场情报收集者、战士贤者和屠杀专家，而非担任征服者的角色——星际战士军团们通常会把源还修会贤者们血腥的智慧付诸实践，以达到致命的效果。源还修会自己的部队从未被看到过直接进行战斗，除非是进行针对性的掠袭、在主要推进开始前进行试探进攻，或者是在仍旧燃烧的战场上徘徊，统计死亡和被毁灭的人数，以供进一步研究。这种倾向在大多数情况下都成立，只有一种例外：攻城战。对于源还修会的贤者们而言，此类战争领域中的致命复杂性与无情逻辑是一种崇高且黑暗的神秘知识，它们在攻城战的纪律中找到纯净性，在对于攻城战的无情执行中发现了万机之神的神圣回响。源还修会贤者们冷漠高傲得认为：在攻城战的技艺上，除了少数阿斯塔特军团原体之外，无人比他们更优秀，能与他们相提并论的也只有极少数人。但这种假设也并非全无道理，因为在无数次的攻城战和进攻中，源还修会的盟约团证明自己能够粉碎曾被认为是不可征服的防御，并在死地战区的战斗中幸存下来——没有凡人，可能也没有军团战士能在此类区域中作战和生存。
In structure, the Covenants of the Ordo Reductor fought and operated as autonomous warbands, self-sufficient in almost all respects, containing a mixture of magos and Tech-Priest savants whose specialities ranged from tactical assault to macro-firepower to mimetic and forensic battlefield analysis to munitions production. Its weapons were many and deadly beyond reason, for to the Ordo Reductor was the right given to bear arms forbidden since the Dark Age of Technology and arcana deemed too unpredictable and dangerous for general deployment by the Great Crusade. Also, theirs by dictate Imperial was the right —within certain parameters— to innovate new weapons and war machines in order to overcome the countless enemies the Great Crusade faced. This license bore fruit in many ways during the countless wars which made up the Great Crusade,from the development in concert with the Imperial Fists Legion of the peerlessly durable Land Raider Achilles, to the development of the powerful eradication cannon mounted on the Hellion-Minoris war machines of the Centurio Ordinatus, devised expressly for the Rangdan campaigns.
在结构上，源还修会是作为独立自主的战帮进行作战和运作，它们在几乎所有方面都自给自足。修会中专家们既有贤者，也有科技神甫，他们的专长各式各样，从战术进攻到对于巨量火力的运用，从模拟和辩论战场分析（报告）到弹药生产制造，应有尽有。他们武器繁多且致命到不合理，因为源还修会被给予了一项权力：他们可以携带自从黑暗科技时代以来就被禁止的武器，以及使用那些被认为过于不可预测且危险、不适合在大远征中全面使用的玄奥技术。此外，帝国也决定给予他们在特定参数范围内创新出新的武器和战争机器的权力，目的是为了战胜大远征所面对的无数敌人。在组成大远征的无数战争中，这一授权也在让帝国于很多方面取得了成果，从与帝国之拳军团合作开发出的无比耐用的阿基里斯型兰德掠夺者，到开发出安装在百机队的赫利昂型小将军炮上的根除炮——这种武器是专门为冉丹战役而设计的，都在这些成果之列。
Perhaps the most widespread of the Ordo Reductor's creations is however the Thallaxii; heavily augmented cybernetic shock troops created by the Ordo Reductor to replace the skitarii legions of Mars, to which, owing to their now separated status, they no longer had direct or ready access to for support. As well as serving first and foremost as the Ordo Reductor's soldiers of the line, the extremely potent and durable Thallax were also gifted or traded by the Ordo Reductor magos to other factions of the Mechanicum as the Great Crusade went on, most notably to the Taghmata of Forge Worlds and outposts that were far separated from Mars, as well as elements of the Legio Cybemetica and the Myrmidon sub-cult (which often found common doctrinal cause with the Ordo Reductor) in return for reciprocal agreements of supply and allegiance. This served to both greatly increase the power and independence of the Ordo Reductor and, it has been argued by some, also contributed to the waning of Mars' direct military control over its outlying Forge Worlds in the decades before the Horus Heresy.
不过，源还修会分布最广泛的造物可能是死隶机兵；他们创造出这些大幅增强的智控突击部队是为了替代火星的护教军团——由于源还现在被从机械神教中分割出来，他们不能再直接且随时地获取到护教军团的支援。这些极度强悍且耐用的死隶机兵们首先且最重要的作用是充当源还修会的前线士兵，随着大远征的进行，它们也会被修会中的贤者们赠送或交易给机械神教中的其他部门，尤其是铸造世界的机神禁卫军与远离火星的前哨站们，以及智控军团分队和处于仆从地位的次级教派（它们通常会发现自己与源还修会有着共同的教义），以此来换取盟约和互惠的供给协议。这极大提升了源还修会的力量和独立性，某些人声称：在荷鲁斯叛乱之前的几十年中，这一现象也减弱了火星对于边远铸造世界的直接军事控制。
The Hidden Order
隐蔽修会
As diffuse a military organisation as the Ordo Reductor was during the Great Crusade, and as unfathomable as its inner workings were to outsiders, it nevertheless showed a long history of successful tactical and strategic integration with the forces of the Great Crusade alongside which it served. This was evidenced not least of all by the willing incorporation of the heraldry and livery of the Space Marine Legions with which a particular Covenant (or more rarely a demi-Legio comprised of several Covenants) had been embedded for an extended period, and honours from such campaigns were retained in pride of place in the livery of their war machines and servitors. It was for this reason, much as with other detached Mechanicum military formations such as the Titan Legions, that when the Horus Heresy erupted across the galaxy and split the forces of the Imperium, so was the Ordo Reductor also split, with its bellicose sigil of the broken tower present among the banners of Loyalist and Traitor alike.
在大远征时期，源还修会是一个松散的军事组织，其内部运作对外人而言是深不可测的。但尽管如此，它还是展示了自己和大远征部队在战术和战略上成功融合的悠久历史。相关的证据是：当某个特定的盟约团（更罕见的情况是数个盟约团组成的次级军团）长时间嵌入到星际战士军团中后，他们会自愿将双方的纹章和配色集合起来，而且从双方合作的战役中取得的荣誉会被保留在盟约团战争机器和机仆的涂装最重要的位置上。因此，就像诸如泰坦军团之类的其他机械神教独立分散军事编队那样，当荷鲁斯叛乱在全银河中爆发、帝国的部队发生分裂时，源还修会也发生了分裂，忠诚派和叛军的旗帜中都出现了他们破裂高塔的好战标志。
It is however true in the final analysis that a discernible percentage of the Ordo Reductor ultimately sided with the Loyalists' cause over that of the Warmaster, and a very few took the same path as other certain outlying Forge Worlds and chose to withdraw support from either side of the conflict, declaring independence. It is not known why in this the Ordo Reductor should be so singularly different to the Titan Legions or the Martian Mechanicum, who on reflection favoured to a margin the Traitors' cause, or the various Taghmata, swayed by the rulers of their Forge Worlds going where they led. But it may simply be that the majority chose to ultimately honour the deeds and purposes of their genesis over more temporal concerns, or as some have less favourably theorised, that in opposing the forces of the Warmaster and his treachery, many saw the greatest challenge to their arts of war.
但在最后的分析中，我们发现确实有相当比例的源还修会最终站在了忠诚派而非战帅一边；另有极少数人走上了与其他某些边远的锻造世界相同的道路，他们选择从冲突中的某一方撤回支援并宣布独立。我们目前还不知道为何源还修会在这方面的表现与泰坦军团和火星机械神教的非常不同，后两者经过深思熟虑，在一定程度上倾向于（支持）叛军的恶业；而他们与各种各样机神禁卫军也不一样，禁卫军们受被自己所属铸造世界的统治者们所左右，前往主子所引导的方向。但也可能仅仅是因为绝大多数源还修会成员最终选择信守自己起源的目标和事迹，而非去追求那些更被世俗所关注的事物；或者就像某些不为人所喜的理论声称的那样，在对抗荷鲁斯反叛与战帅军队的战争中，许多源还修会成员看到了对于自己战争艺术的最大挑战。
