hh7节译:赤红修会

In addition to the core structures of the Legion, there were three Orders which existed both within and beyond its circumference. The Orders stood apart from the Fellowships and their Circles, and indeed the Temples of Prosperine psychic lore, their membership crossing such divides. Their purpose was not the practice and ascendancy of psychic mastery, for that was the purview of the great Cults, nor the day-to-day tactical operations of the Legion, but rather they were macro-military structures. Perhaps as much an outgrowth of the traditions and culture of the Legion as a deliberate structure, they were made to cope with the wider factors of the conducting of the Great Crusade, the furtherance of the Legion as a whole and its relation to the wider Imperium.

除了军团的核心结构之外，还有三个修会（同时）存在于千子军团主体的内部和外部。这些修会独立于学派和环会，它们事实上就是普罗斯佩罗教授灵能知识的圣殿，其中的成员们跨越了这些差异。他们的目的不是练习和精进对于灵能的掌握——这是大型教派的研究范围，也不是进行军团的日常运作，而是作为一种宏观的军事结构。这些修会可能是军团传统和文化的产物，也可能是精心设计而成的结构，他们是千子军团为了应对大远征中更广泛的因素而设计的，促进了军团整体的发展和千子军团与人类帝国的关系。

The Order of Ruin 一 The Unmakers

毁灭修会——抹消者

Known by the symbol of a poised serpent, the Order of Ruin were a sect of mystics said to be obsessed with numerology and the hidden structure of the universe. Calculators, logicians, analysts and organisers of supreme ability, the Order of Ruin were the siege makers, logistical specialists and planners of the Thousand Sons. When the Legion deployed its armour and ordnance to lay waste to a city or break a planet's defences, it was the formulae of the Order of Ruin which guided the number, placement and timing of shells, explosives and force. It is said that the Order of Ruin knew the strength of every warrior and war machine within the Legion, and weighed them all in calculations that only they and their Primarch understood.

毁灭修会的标志是一条镇定自若的长蛇，他们是一个神秘教派，据说痴迷于命理学和宇宙的隐藏结构。修会成员们是能力超凡的筹算学者、逻辑学者、分析家和组织者，修会中汇聚了千子军团的攻城大师、后勤专家和规划大师。当军团部署装甲部队和炮兵去将城市夷为平地或突破行星的防御体系时，就是毁灭修会制定计算公式来引导炮弹的数量、发射时机和架设位置，以及爆炸与部队的状况。据说毁灭修会知晓军团中所有战士和战争机器的力量，而且会用只有他们的原体才理解的计算公式衡量这一切。

When a force was raised for a campaign, the Order of Ruin would be in the background assisting by arcane means in the determination of the disposition and strength of that force. The arraying and maintenance of the Legion's warships also fell under the Order's hand, as did the creation and supply of all its material. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Order of Ruin also maintained the closest contact with the Mechanicum, in particular with the isolated Forge World of Zhao-Arkhad, which the Legion had liberated and with which it had maintained many binding ties afterwards. Under its general command laboured all of the Legion's forge-masters and Techmarines, many of which came directly from within this Order's ranks.

当千子军团为某场战役而聚集起一支部队时，毁灭修会将以用奥术手段确定该部队配置和兵力的方式提供背后支援。军团战舰的配置和维护也完全由该修会负责，所有军备的制造和供应亦然。或许并不令人惊讶的是，毁灭修会也与机械神教保持着紧密的联系，尤其是与遥远孤立的铸造世界赵-阿卡达——千子军团解放了这个世界，并在之后与其建立了许多有约束力的联系。军团中所有的铸造大师和技术军士都在其整体指挥下辛勤工作，其中有许多都是直接来自毁灭修会。

The Order of the Jackal 一 'The Measure of Life and Death

胡狼修会——生与死的度量者

The Order of the Jackal had a presence in every other structure and faction of the Thousand Sons, including the other Orders. The role of this small Order was twofold: to remember the dead and to raise the next generation of warriors for the Legion. The grave urns of the dead kept beneath the pyramids of Tizca were tended by their hands, and it was in the memories of each member of this Order that the deeds of the fallen were held.

胡狼修会的成员会出现在千子军团其他所有的结构和派系中，也包括其他修会。这个小型修会具有二重角色：铭记死者，并为军团培养下一代战士。他们亲手照管保存在提兹卡金字塔内部的死者骨灰瓮，修会中的每位成员的记忆中都保存着已故兄弟们的事迹。

When a warrior on the edge of death was considered for the honour of internment in the iron embrace of a Dreadnought, it was the Order of the Jackal who weighed his worth and decided his fate. To them also fell the task of assessing and selecting aspirants for induction into the Legion. On Prospero and many other worlds, they would walk amongst the gathered throngs of potential recruits, testing with their minds and casting divinations of their fates. In this way, the Order were the guardians of the Legion’s past and future. The Legion's Apothecarion, who also were all but indivisible from the Order of the Jackal, maintained the Legions geneseed and were but a practical manifestation in some ways of the Order of the Jackal's wider purpose. In their role as protectors of the Legion's traditions, the Order served another highly important ritual position as arbiters within the Legion, as their members within each of the Five Cults formed the guardians of each Cult's temple; their dual allegiance and responsibility marked by their ceremonial jackal-masked helms and emblems alongside the symbols of their Cult.

当一位处于死亡边缘的战士被认为应当享受被葬入无畏机甲钢铁怀抱的殊荣时，正是胡狼修会衡量他的价值并决定他的命运。他们也肩负着评估并挑选被纳入军团的预选者的职责。在普罗斯佩罗和其他世界上，胡狼修会的成员们会在聚集起来的潜在新兵人选中走过，测试他们的意识并占卜他们的命运。胡狼修会就以这种方式成为了军团过去与未来的守护者。军团的药剂师们几乎也与胡狼修会密不可分，他们保管军团的基因种子，并且在某些方面上，他们是胡狼修会更广泛目的的实际表现。而且身为军团传统的保护者，胡狼修会的成员也是军团内的仲裁者，他们还担任了另一个仪式性的职务：五个学派中的修会成员们都会组成学派圣堂的护卫队，他们佩戴着豺狼面具的仪式头盔、徽章以及他们的学派标志，以展示自己的双重效忠（对象）和职责。

The Order of Blindness - The Hidden Ones

无明者修会——隐藏者

It is only by extrapolation, and the interpretation of scraps of intelligence, that the wider Imperium knows of the existence of the Order of Blindness. Thought to have been headed by Magnus' equerry, and former tutor, Amon ，the so- called Hidden Ones appear to have been an Order of infiltrators, spies, interrogators and scouts deployed to gather intelligence. How the members of this Order were recruited, controlled and deployed remain unclear, through there is evidence that the use of psychically conditioned non- Legiones Astartes humans were a part of their broader methodology. Beyond this, their membership and purpose remain shrouded, though there is some evidence that the Order may also have been responsible for the control of certain fringe military elements within the Legion, whose purposes were less to do with stealth than the creation of chaos in a foe, such as the Thousand Sons' few Destroyer-type units, although this remains unconfirmed.

只有通过外推法和情报碎片的解释，帝国才得知了无明者修会的存在。考虑到该修会的首脑是马格努斯的侍从武官兼前任导师——阿蒙，这群所谓的“无明者”似乎是被部署去搜集情报的渗透者、间谍、侦察兵和审讯官所组成的修会。我们仍不清楚该修会征召、控制和部署成员的方式，但有证据表明，使用精神受调控的非阿斯塔特军团凡人是他们众多行动手段的一部分。除此之外，他们的人数和目标仍被掩盖着，不过也有某些证据显示他们控制着军团中特定的边缘化军事要素，其目的与其说是为了进行隐蔽偷袭，不如说是在敌人中制造混乱，例如千子军团的极少数毁灭者单位，但这一点仍然未经证实。