hh9节译:黑暗天使军团天军

The Hosts of the First Legion

机仆：在此要感谢塔西佗和铁加曼这两位大佬的贡献——两位老师认为这里应该是Angelic Host的梗，毕竟一开始就是叫死亡天使，铁加曼老师也有提过“天军”。该翻译并非出自我手，我不能贪功。另外还要感谢塔西佗老师在我翻译DA相关内容时提供的诸多帮助。

In the days before the coming of their Primarch, the Hosts of the First Legion were named and organised difierently to the Wings that were the later creation of Lion El'Jonson. The foundation of the doctrine that would lead to the formation of the Hosts is often credited to the Emperor Himself in the histories of the Legion, a strand of the great plan that He had formed for the first of His Legions. The list that follows is reconstructed from the records from 753.M30, a median point in the early history of the First Legion, and shows the main Hosts still known to history, which would later be reconfigured into the six Wings of the Hexagrammaton:

在原体到来之前，第一军团的各天军以不同于六翼体系的方式进行命名和组织，后者是由莱昂 艾尔庄森在后来创建的。在第一军团的历史中，领导天军体系形成的信条的创立通常被归功于帝皇本人——帝皇为自己的第一军团设定了一系列伟大计划。下面的列表修复自753.M30——第一军团早期历史中间点的记录，它展示了在历史上依旧为人所知的主要天军部队，这些部队在后来被重组进入了六翼体系的各翼军当中。

The Host of Crowns: Among the oldest of those Hosts still known in the records of the First Legion, being the original core of the First Legion's warriors who had served as champions among the vast hosts of the pre-Unity armies on Terra. The Host of Crowns specialised as linebreakers and vanguard warriors, experts in the honour-duels that had once been a key feature of Mankind's wars and icons of victory as much as they were fighters.

宝冠天军：宝冠是仍然已知于第一军团记录中的最古老的天军之一，他们是泰拉上那些在统一之前的部队的巨大集群中担任冠军的第一军团战士们组成的最早的核心部队。宝冠天军专门担任战线突破者和先锋战士，擅长曾是人类战争核心特征的荣誉决斗，他们是战士，同样也是胜利的符号。

The Host of Blades: The core of the Legion as its numbers grew and it took to the field as a true army; The Host of Blades were the infantry cohorts that formed the ranks and held against the assault of the foe, the gun line that threw back their warriors and the bold columns that shattered their lines. They were masters of the close order infantry tactics that were the crux of the early Legiones Astartes order of battle, formed around the primacy of the Legion Tactical squad and the principal agent in the development of the first volumes of the Principia Bellicosa.

利刃天军：随着人数的增长，利刃天军成为了军团的核心，它作为一支真正的军队被带往了战场。利刃天军是组成部队和抵抗敌人进攻的步兵大队，他们是回击敌军战士的枪线部队和粉碎敌军阵线的英勇纵队，他们是近距离步兵战术——早期阿斯塔特军团战斗序列关键点的大师。它围绕着军团战术小队的首要地位和基础军典最早卷册发展中的首要动因而形成。

The Host of Pentacles: Now little more than a forgotten legend to most, the Host of Pentacles was the earliest attempt to incorporate the war-witches of Old Earth into the line of battle, to bring the might of the psyker to bear upon the foes of Mankind. It was a Host oft-maligned by those its adepts fought alongside, for in its early days there were as many calamities as triumphs for the battle psykers of the First Legion, and in time it would be an experiment that was brought to a close by the Grandmaster of the Legion.

五芒天军：现在对于大多数人而言，五芒天军只不过是一个被遗忘的传说，但它是将旧地球上的战争巫师们纳入到战斗行列的最早尝试，目的是利用灵能者的力量来对抗人类之敌。与五芒天军一同作战的战士们经常会污蔑中伤它，因为在其早期阶段，第一军团的战斗灵能者们带来的灾祸就和他们带来的胜利同样多。随着时间的流逝，这将是一个被军团大导师所终结的实验。

The Host of Iron: Drawn at first from the hardy nomads of the Thulic tribes on Old Terra, adapting their ancient traditions to the modern battlefield, the Host of Iron was expert in the employment of armoured vehicles on the field of battle. From the lumbering gun-crawlers of Old Earth's pre-Unity armies, to the war engines designed and built for use by the Emperor's Legiones Astartes, the Host of Iron would pioneer many of the strategies that underpinned their use on the battlefield.

坚铁天军：该天军（的战士）最早是从古泰拉Thulic部落的强壮游牧民中挑选而出的。他们将自己的古老传统与现代战场相适应，擅长于在战场上部署装甲载具，从古地球统一前军队中笨拙的火炮爬行者到为帝皇的阿斯塔特军团而设计与建造的战争引擎，坚铁天军将会率先提出了许多在战场上巩固它们的使用的策略。

The Host of Fire: Among the most secretive of the early Hosts, the ranks of the Host of Fire were filled with spies, assassins and all the subtle tools of war. In war it was the eyes and bloody left hand of the Legion, the first to take to the field in the form of infiltrators and lone invigilators and the last to draw blood, and its interrogator consuls were widely feared for their talent.

焚焰天军：焚焰是最为神秘的早期天军部队之一，它的部队中充满了间谍、刺客和所有精妙的战争工具。在战争中它是军团的双目和血腥左手，他们会首先以渗透者和孤独监视者的形式前往战争，最后再（给敌人）放血，而且该天军中的审讯官军团领事也因其他们的（审讯）天赋而广受畏惧。

The Host of Bone: Sometimes known as the Skandic Host, both for the wild and bloodthirsty tactics that were its preference as well as the primary recruiting ground of its warriors. The Host of Bone fought not to break the lines of a single army, but to crush the spirit of the foe entirely, seeking to find the weakness that almost all enemies hid and then cut it apart. Reavers without equal, they gave little credence to the noble ideals of civilised warfare and brought the most terrible weapons and tactics to the field of battle.

枯骨天军：有些时候也被称为斯坎代克天军——既是因为他们对于野蛮嗜血战术的偏好，也是因为天军中战士们的主要征兵基地。枯骨天军并不是要打破某支军队战线，而是要碾碎敌军的精神，他们寻求找出几乎所有敌人隐藏起的弱点并切碎它。他们是不讲平等的掠夺者，基本不信任关于文明战争的高贵理想，他们在战场上使用最为可怕的武器和战术。

The Host of Stone: Experts in the static arts of war of siege and the destruction of fortifications. The grim demeanour of these warriors is a key feature of many of the most bitter defences and bloody assaults in the early years of the Great Crusade, for to the adepts of the Host of Stone all war was a simple matter of determination. Those that did not yield to the foe, who stood impassive in the face of utter destruction, would find victory and those who gave way would be crushed underfoot.

磐岩天军：磐岩天军擅长攻城和摧毁要塞的静态战争艺术，磐岩天军战士们的残酷行为是大远征早期诸多最为艰苦的防御战和血腥进攻行动的关键特征，因为对于磐岩天军的侍僧们而言，所有战争都是一个关于决心的简单问题（机仆：其实从传承上来讲，六翼才是天军的继承者，不过六翼中最普通的SM被成为initiate，我译为新徒，倒是百艺里称普通SM为adept，我译为侍僧，虽然我也很想译为“干员”…相关内容我之前搬运过豆腐块，文末会放个链接）：那些不屈服于敌人、在彻底的毁灭面前也无动于衷的人将会获得胜利，退缩的人则会被碾碎在（敌人）脚下

The Host of Wind: Skirmishers and cavalry warriors, the Host of Wind excelled where warfare moved at the speed of the storm that was their namesake. Experts in the use of light armour and jetbikes, as well as swift assault troops, the Host of the Wind enjoyed a reputation as one of the most glorious in the First Legion, though it also bore one of the highest tallies of the dead for its reckless valour.

号飓天军：号飓天军是散兵和骑兵战士，他们擅长那些以风暴——就像他们名称那样的速度移动的战争。他们擅于使用轻型载具、喷射机车和快速突击部队，而且享有着作为第一军团中最为荣耀的天军之一的名誉，但因为其鲁莽的勇气，号飓天军也成为死亡率最高的天军部队之一。

The Host of the Void: One of the last Hosts to emerge as a major force within the First Legion, the adepts of the Void were masters in the use of teleport assaults from low orbit as well as war amongst the heavens themselves. Shock assault infantry equipped with teleport displacement beacons, shipboard assault cadres and aircraft pilots were all to be found within the Host once the First Legion reached the stars in the wake of the wars on Old Earth.

虚空天军：作为第一军团中的主力部队，虚空天军是最后出现的天军之一，该天军的侍僧们从低轨道上进行传送突击与在天堂中进行征战（机仆：意思应该就是擅长虚空作战）的大师。在旧地球上的战争结束后，第一军团远抵群星，征战银河，装备着传送部署信标的突击步兵、舰船跳帮攻击核心部队与飞行器驾驶员都能在虚空天军中被找到。

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