hh2节译：钢铁之手军团组织结构
As is perhaps unsurprising from so calculating and methodical a master as Ferrus Manus, the Iron Hands Legion was a highly structured military force, with numerous tactical and strategic divisions of power and organisation within its ranks. However, on close inspection, the precise nature of this structure is a very particular one, instituting a system of “organised compartmentalisation”within the Legion. This stands in contrast to other highly-structured Legions such as the single overarching hierarchy of many fine gradations as was found in the Emperor's Children or the Imperial Fists. Nor did the Iron Hands subscribe to the utterly rationalised clarity and dogmatic adherence to order and stricture espoused by the Ultramarines. The Iron Hands Legion was instead deliberately composed from a series of interlocking components, each with its own specialisation, duties and chain of command, beholden only to itself and its immediate superiors. Each of these components; be they Legionary squad, armoured vehicle squadron, support elements, etc, came together first as companies in the broadly standard model. But beyond this, each company was a part of a larger grouping with its own independent command, support and logistical network, armoury and ships created for a particular campaign or battle. These formations were referred to as Orders and were superficially equivalent to a specialised battalion in general Legiones Astartes terms, but far more concrete in makeup and isolated in operation. Inside an Order, the component companies were configured in such a way that each unit's function combined together to form a gestalt whole whose tactical and strategic capacities, like the components of a machine working together in unison, were capable of actions outweighed by the sum of their parts. In battle each Order was given a specific task which it was expected to fulfil without needing assistance and succeed it would at any cost, for pride, honour and sheer belligerence would allow no other outcome. Orders were often formed from a larger single Clan grouping, and sometimes units from different clans fought together within them, often as rivals for glory and achievement.
对于像费鲁斯 马努斯这样一位如此精于算计且有条不紊的军团之主而言，钢铁之手军团是一支高度结构化的军事力量，而且其内部拥有大量关于权力和组织的战术战略分支机构这件事或许不足为奇。但是，仔细检查的话，我们会发现这种结构有非常特殊的精确性质，这在军团中建立起了“有组织的隔离区划”制度，这与其他高度结构化的军团形成了对比——比如我们可以在帝皇之子或帝国之拳军团中找到的独有的细微层次的综合等级体系。铁手军团也不认同极限战士们所拥护的纯粹理性化解析（机仆：wtm都想给它翻译成纯粹理性批判）和对命令与约束的教条化坚持，相反，铁手军团是故意由一系列相互连接的部份组成的，每个部分都有其自身的特长、职责和指挥链，只对他们自己和他们的直接上级负责。这些部份中的每一个，无论他们是军团战士小队、装甲载具中队还是支援部队等等，他们最初是作为广义标准模板中的连队出现的。但除此之外，每个连队都是一个更大型团体的组成部分，而这些大型团体都有自身独立的指挥、支援和后勤网络，以及为特定的战役或战斗而制造的装甲单位和舰船。这些编队被称为修会，他们在表面上通常等同于一个阿斯塔特军团中的特种营，但是他们在结构上更加具体，在运作上更加独立。在修会内部，连队们都是如此配置的：每个单位的功能结合起来形成一个完形（机仆：也称为格式塔）整体，后者的战略战术能力能够超越各组成部分的简单总和，就像一台机器的各组成零件齐心协力地工作。在战斗中，每个修会都会被给予一项具体的任务，这些任务被期望在不需要援助的情况下完成，并且会为完成任务而不惜一切代价，因为第十军团战士们的自豪、荣誉和纯粹的好斗性格不会允许其他结果的产生。修会往往是由一个大型的单一氏族形成的，某些时候来自不同氏族的单位也会加入他们共同作战，通常是作为荣誉和成就的竞争对手。
Clans were notionally the Iron Hands' equivalent of the chapters of other Legions but again, on close inspection, were in practice of distinct character, being patterned to a larger extent on the Medusan feudal system and were linked to the planet's nomadic barbarian populations as recruiting bases. These Iron Hands Clans were in fact “pocket Legions”, fully self-sufficient and self-supplied, and each had a single Chieftain or Iron Lord to rule them by Primarch-given right. Each Clan had a very real and distinct identity and each vied against each other for glory, attainment and for resources, as well as for the favour of their Primarch.
理论上，铁手军团的氏族等同于其他军团的战团，但仔细观察的话，我们会发现他们实际上具有鲜明的特点，他们在很大程度上模仿了母星美杜莎的封建制度，而且与作为他们征兵基础的星球上的游牧蛮族息息相关。铁手氏族们实际上就是“口袋军团”，他们完全自给自足，而且每个氏族都有自己单独的首领或者钢铁领主通过原体给予的权力来统领他们。每个氏族都拥有一个实际且独特的身份，而且每个氏族都会为了荣誉、成就和资源而互相竞争，当然，还有就是为了获得原体的青睐。
The level of integration and strength the Iron Hands Legion's system manifested was extraordinary if somewhat inflexible. Whether deployed as a single company or a full Legion in scale, it was a crushing leviathan when in action; extraordinarily difficult to stop, but also at times brutally intractable and slow to change course through its single-minded pursuit of its starting objectives. This was Ferrus Manus' deliberate intention, and as part of that design he invested authority and initiative with the few, not the many. Accordingly he created several distinct tiers of organisational structure where field commanders wielded absolute power and authority, and were to be obeyed without question by those beneath them, ensuring any responsibility for failure would be identified and dealt with with merciless efficiency. Within the Iron Hands Legion, command carried with it the power of both life and death; Each Shield-Centurion was empowered to enact at will both reward and preferment, as well as immediate punishment—including execution, over any Legionary beneath them without recourse, hearing or trial. Likewise, at the higher echelons of the Legion, an Iron-Captain had the same rights over their War Leaders and other subordinate officers within their Order, and the ranks beneath them, an Iron-Lord over the Iron-Captains in their Clan, and so on. Overarching this structure, Ferrus Manus was the single judge, ruler and master over all in his Legion without contest or gainsay.
尽管有些不灵活，但钢铁之手军团的体系表现出的整合程度和力量非同一般。无论是作为一个单独的连队进行派遣还是作为一个完整的军团进行派遣，铁手们在行动中都是一头毁灭性的巨兽，他们非常难以停止，但有时他们会由于一心一意地追求其起始目标而变成极其棘手的敌人，并且会缓慢地改变进程。这正是费鲁斯 马努斯深思熟虑的意图，而且作为其规划的一部分，他只与少数人而非多数人分享权力和对策，因此，他创建了几个不同层次的组织结构，在这套结构中，指挥官们被给予了绝对的权力和权威，他们麾下的部队要对他们（的命令）进行毫无迟疑的服从，他们确保任何失败的责任都要被识别出，并且对其进行毫不留情的处理。在铁手军团内部，军团指挥组拥有生死大权，每名盾卫百夫长都被授权随意进行奖励和提拔，也被给予马上对违规者进行惩罚——包括处决的权力，他们有权如此处置麾下的所有军团战士，无需追索，听证或审判。同样，在军团的高层中，一位钢铁连长也对麾下的战争领袖、修会中的其他下级军官和两者麾下的部队拥有同样的权力，一位钢铁领主也对其氏族内的钢铁连长们拥有同样的权力，并以此类推。费鲁斯 马努斯则凌驾于这套结构之上，是军团中无可辩驳否认的唯一至高无上的法官、统治者与主宰。
The Iron Hands were a Legion whose numbers remained relatively constant throughout the latter phases of the Great Crusade, balancing their intake of new recruits largely with losses in the field. This was achieved despite the fact that many failed the Legion's notoriously rigorous and unforgivingly harsh training and assessment methods on Medusa. They were, however, known to maintain a particularly extensive and sophisticated arsenal of war engines —particularly tanks, armoured vehicles and Dreadnought walkers— the equal of any Legion save perhaps for Perturabo’s IVth. Thanks to long-standing ties to elements of the Mechanicum and the technological aptitude displayed by many in their number, they possessed access to numerous cybernetic implant systems seldom seen outside the Machine Cult, and they were also able to widely reproduce and maintain large stockpiles of grav-weapons, conversionbeamer and laser-destroyer systems, and other arcane and esoteric machineries of death. This range of materiel extended both to extensive numbers of servitors (often created from failed Legion aspirants and, it has long been rumoured, prisoners taken in battle), and advanced super-heavy tanks such as the Fellblade. In addition, battle-automata and troops from the Mechanicum were preferred by the Iron Hands Legion for strategic support when available as the Legion was largely dismissive of most Imperial Army units as unfit for frontline work.
在大远征的后期阶段，铁手军团的人数相对稳定，他们征召的新兵与他们在战场上的损失大体平衡，而且这一情况的实现，是在不考虑有很多人没能经受住军团恶名昭著的残酷考验、毫不留情的严酷训练和美杜莎上的评估方法的情况下。不过，铁手军团因保有极其庞大且复杂的战争引擎军备——尤其是坦克、装甲载具和无畏机甲而著称，也许除了佩图拉博的第四军团之外，铁手军团的装甲储备能匹敌任何军团。由于和机械神教之间的长期联系与许多铁手战士所展示出的技术才能，他们拥有很多在机械神教之外无法被看到的生化植入系统，而且他们也能广泛地仿制和保有大量的重力武器、转换光束发射器和激光破坏者系统以及其他神秘玄奥死亡机器的储备。铁手军备的范围也拓展到了数量庞大的机仆（通常用失败的军团应征者改造而成，而根据长期存在的传言，战俘也会被铁手军团改造成机仆）和诸如残暴之刃之类的先进超重型坦克。另外，在可能的时候，铁手军团偏好让战斗机兵和来自机械神教的部队提供战略支持。第十军团对大多数帝国军单位都不屑一顾——因为（铁手们认为）他们不适合前线作战。
It is also worthy of note that the Iron Hands Legion, and its master Ferrus Manus, was at the forefront of the introduction of a number of weapons systems and armour patterns over the course of the Great Crusade. The fruits of some, such as their contribution of the prototype Indomitus pattern to the Tactical Dreadnought Armour project and the powerful Stormbreaker pattern thunder hammer, would later be widely disseminated to the rest of the Legions. While the secrets of certain other weapons and metallurgic and cybermantic crafts, they kept to themselves and their most trusted confidantes within the Mechanicum.
同样值得记录的一点是，在大远征期间，铁手军团及其主宰费鲁斯 马努斯处于推行多种武器系统和装甲载具型号的最前沿。其中的某些成果——比如他们为战术无畏动力甲计划贡献的不屈型终结者动力甲原型机和强大的破飓者型雷霆锤之后将会被广泛传播到其他军团。不过，对于某些其他武器、冶金学和智控技术造物的秘密，他们保留在了自己和机械神教中那些他们最为信任的盟友手里。
The strength of the Iron Hands pseudo- feudal system of organisation created a highly disciplined and motivated force which both despised and punished failure and weakness, and rewarded and glorified strength, accomplishment and success. This created an environment in which the most competent and strongest-willed rose quickly within the ranks, and those who did not make the measure were quickly weeded out. It also provided a set of boundaries and strictures which channelled the raw aggression and adversarial tendencies of the Iron Hands themselves, many of whom shared their Primarch's volatile temperament, kept in check through a mixture of coldly-imposed Legion discipline and with Medusan cultural values of bloody- minded pragmatism which were taken as the Legion’s creed.
铁手军团组织结构中的伪封建制度的长处创造出了一支纪律严明、干劲十足的部队，他们鄙视惩罚失败和软弱，同时奖励赞颂力量、成就和成功。这创造出了一种氛围：最为称职和意志最为坚定的人会被快速提拔，而那些没有做出成就的人很快就被淘汰了。它也提供了一套（用于）引导铁手们自身那的强烈的侵略性和敌对倾向都界限和约束——很多铁手战士们都分享了他们原体那喜怒无常的易变性情，要通过冷酷强加的军团纪律和被当作军团信条的美杜莎血腥实用主义文化价值观来加以控制。
It also had the effect of creating not inconsiderable friction and indeed direct competition between the Legion's Clans, both to attain glory and praise in their Primarch's eyes and to outdo each other in battle. This competitiveness had a very practical consideration also as the most successful Clans were favoured by their Primarch with a greater proportion of recruits and additional resources —a matter not of favouritism but logic in their master's eyes— a distribution weighted to prefer the Clan who had proved itself most able to utilise what it was given in the Legion's service. For the rest the message was equally clear; it was a matter of the survival of the fittest; adapt, grow strong, overcome—or fail and wither to destruction. It has been argued by some that the embodiment of this philosophy, particularly in the person of its Primarch Ferrus Manus, contributed greatly to the crisis and mental shock endured by the Iron Hands Legion after the dire events of Isstvan V
这也让军团的各个氏族之间产生了不小的摩擦和实际上的直接竞争，各氏族彼此竞争既是为了获得荣耀和原体眼中的褒奖，也是为了在战斗中超越彼此。这种竞争性也有非常实际的考虑：最成功的氏族会得到原体的青睐，被给予更多的征兵份额与额外的资源——在他们的主宰看来，这不是出于偏袒，而是出于逻辑——分配权重优先给予那些已经证明自己最有能力利用原体提供的资源为军团效劳的氏族。而对其他氏族来说，信息同样清晰：优胜劣汰。适应，变得强大，克服困难——或者失败并走向毁灭。有人认为，这种哲学尤其体现在钢铁之手原体费鲁斯 马努斯身上，它也严重地导致了铁手军团在伊斯特万五号的可怕事件后所承受的危机和精神震撼。
War Disposition
战争配置
At the outset of the Horus Heresy, the Iron Hands Legion is commonly estimated to have had an operational strength just in excess of 113,000 Legiones Astartes, with a huge operating reserve of wargear and supplies, alongside a diverse fleet of around a hundred capital vessels of various classes. This placed the Iron Hands within the mid-tier of Legion strengths recorded at this date by their numbers alone, but in general terms, their resource in wargear, war materiel and supply made them a considerably greater military power in practice than their number alone would suggest.
在荷鲁斯叛乱开始时，人们通常估计钢铁之手军团的作战兵力刚超过113,000名军团阿斯塔特，拥有数量庞大的作战装备和供给物资的储备，而且配备了一支拥有大约一百艘各种型号主力舰的多样化舰队。单靠他们的兵力数量，铁手军团的实力在当时被记录的各个军团的实力中处于中游，但总的来说，他们当时所拥有的装备、战备和供给资源使铁手军团实际的军事力量大大超过了其人数所能表明的水平。
At the time the events at Isstvan III were taking place, the major constituent of the Legion (believed to be around two thirds its strength both in terms of manpower and ships, comprising the majority of its most powerful Clans), were under the direct command of their Primarch, forming the 52nd Expeditionary fleet. Owing to the perfidious treachery of Fulgrim, and the uncontrollable wrath of Ferrus Manus in response, the Iron Hands Primarch broke ranks from this force and reached Isstvan V with only an elite cadre chosen from his then-favoured Avemii Clan alongside him, almost all of whom were annihilated with their slain Primarch during the Dropsite Massacre. A great many more vessels of the 52nd Expeditionary fleet following on behind their Primarch were also destroyed, along with tens of thousands of Iron Hands on board as they later transited into the Isstvan system, rushing unknowingly into a death trap from which only a few ships were to escape. Taken together, these losses were great, although this left more survivors from the Iron Hands Legion in number than could be ascribed to the Dropsite Massacre's other victim Legions overall. This was largely the case as large groups of Iron Hands were presently engaged elsewhere and unable to heed, or ignorant of, their Primarch's rushed call to assault the traitors at the Isstavan system. The legion was nevertheless savagely reduced;the suvivors scattered physically and utterly shattered spiritually by its losses.
在伊斯特万三号暴行发生时，军团的主力部队（据信这是铁手军团人力和舰队数的大约三分之二，由军团中几个最强大氏族的主力部队构成）在原体的直接命令下组成了第52远征舰队。由于弗格瑞姆的背信弃义与费鲁斯 马努斯对此而产生的不可控制的震怒，铁手原体离开了这种部队，并且仅仅率领着一支由他从自己最为器重的阿维尼氏族中挑选出的精锐核心部队就前往了伊斯特万五号，而在登录点大屠杀当中，这些精锐几乎全部同他们被害的原体一起殉国。第52远征舰队追随原体前往伊斯特万星系，大量舰船也惨遭毁灭，船上被运送到伊斯特万星系的数万铁手军团战士也壮烈牺牲，他们浑然不知地闯入了一个死亡陷阱，只有极少数舰船逃出生天。总的来说，虽然钢铁之手军团的幸存者人数超过了登录点大屠杀中其他受害军团幸存者人数的总和，但他们仍然损失惨重。在大部分情况下这是因为大量的钢铁之手当时正在其他地区作战，无法理会或者干脆无视了原体的紧急召唤：进攻伊斯特万星系的叛军部队。第十军团遭受了惨重的损失，这些损失不仅让幸存者的组织四分五裂，而且让他们的精神彻底粉碎了。
Initially sent reeling and psychologically devastated, the Irons Hands Legion's survivors fractured, and the full story of what happened to its scions remains clouded to this day. It is known, however, that some Clans re-organised a council of Iron-Fathers on Medusa to take charge of the ravaged Legion, and speeded the recruitment and creation of new Space Marines from the extensive stores of gene-seed kept there with the goal of rebuilding the Legion. Alongside this, it is widely believed that in the aftermath some Iron Hands units and, in some cases, entire Clans shunned the Medusan Council's assumed authority and went their own way, consumed by their own hatred and need for revenge. These fractured forces fought their own war and it is widely believed some delved into the use of dark and forbidden forces from humanity's ancient past to do so, although this has been strenuously denied since by the Iron Hands Clan Council.
在最初阶段，铁手幸存者们感到的是震惊与精神崩溃，军团成为一盘散沙，时至今日，当年发生在费鲁斯 马努斯子嗣们身上的完整故事仍然被隐藏着，不过据我们所知，某些氏族们在母星美杜莎上重组了铁父议会来管理被摧毁的第十军团，而且他们动用为重建军团而保存在美杜莎的额外基因种子储备来加快星际战士的征兵和创造。除此之外，人们普遍相信之后有某些铁手单位——有些情况下甚至是整个氏族躲开了美杜莎议会假定的权威，并且走上了自己的道路，他们被自己的仇恨和复仇的需要所吞噬。这些分裂出去的部队进行着自己的战争，人们普遍相信其中的某些部队深入研究了对于人类在古老的过去所使用过的黑暗禁忌力量的利用，虽然这种行为是被铁手氏族议会极力禁止的。
What cannot be contested, however, is that other lone Iron Hands and small scattered groups cast off their Legion's livery entirely and either fought on alone or went renegade—Iron Hands no more. Regardless of the hidden truths of these terrible times, the Iron Hands Legion in the years that followed the Dropsite Massacre, and largely under the auspices of the Medusan faction, managed to re-enter the fight against the Traitors with devastating results on several outer worlds, but it was as a shadow of its former strength; no longer a Legion whole，united or entirely sane.
但无可争辩的是：其他孤身一人的铁手战士们和分散的小型铁手团队们完全摆脱了军团的制服标志，他们要么独自作战，要么就是叛变投敌，他们再也不是钢铁之手。但不考虑这些悲惨年代中被隐藏起来的事实，很大程度上也是在美杜莎派系的支持下，钢铁之手军团在登录点大屠杀之后的岁月中设法重新与叛军交战，并对数个边远世界进行了毁灭性的打击，但这只是往昔铁十军团的残影；他们不再是一个统一且完全理性的完整军团。
