IA2节译：塞伯鲁斯重型坦克歼灭车

The Cerberus is a product of technologies predating the Age of the Imperium by uncounted millennia, its neutron laser battery tracing its origins far into the darkness of Old Night before even the Great Crusade united the scattered worlds of Humanity.The vehicle utilises the same basic hull as the Typhon, but mounts within it a very different type of weapon indeed.The neutron laser battery is powered by an atomantic arc-reactor and fires a pulsed beam of intense radiation that scythes straight through even the thickest of armour and wreaks havoc on delicate systems within, whether biological or electronic.The weapon has a particular drawback however, in that should the target's armour withstand the attack, its energies are prone to deflection back along the beam, potentially inflicting heavy damage on its own systems if its neutron bleed-shunts fail.

塞伯鲁斯坦克歼击车是（出现时期）比帝国时代还早了无数个千年的技术们的产物，其装备的中子激光炮塔能将之起源追溯到黑暗的旧夜时代——那甚至是大远征将分崩离析的人类世界们统一起来之前的岁月。这种载具使用了与提丰重型攻城坦克相同的基本底盘，但其搭载的是种类极为不同的武器。中子激光炮塔是由一台原子能电弧反应堆供能，发射出的是一道能直接穿透最厚重装甲的强辐射脉冲光束，并对目标内侧脆弱的电子系统和（驾驶员）生理系统都造成严重破坏。但此类武器有一个独特的缺陷：倘若目标的装甲承受住了进攻的话，能量就很容易沿着光束向后偏转，而如果武器的中子分流器失效的话，就可能会对自身的系统造成严重损害。

Knowledge of the systems utilised in the neutron laser battery is all but lost in the 41st Millennium and it is likely it was only barely understood even during the Great Crusade.Archives suggest that the technologies at the heart of the weapon were recovered from a forbidden and long forgotten battlefield, and developed and applied in ways that caused great consternation among certain factions within the Mechanicum. Even once the vehicle had entered production, there were apparently those who objected to its widespread use. Certainly, the arc-reactor that powers the Neutron laser battery is prone to wild fluctuations that make it highly dangerous to operate for any crew other than a Space Marine or a much augmented Tech-Priest. A non-augmented human crew would in all likelihood be slowly cooked alive by the reactor's unstable energy field, while a Space Marine crew's superior constitution would allow them to avoid the worst effects for a much longer time before succumbing to them.

在第41个千年，关于中子激光炮塔所使用的系统的知识已经几乎遗失了；很可能即便在大远征时期，人们也对其知之甚少。（相关）档案们表明，此类武器核心处的技术是回收自某处被长期遗忘的禁忌战场，其发展和应用方式在机械神教内部的某些派系中引发了极大恐慌。尽管此类载具曾投入过生产，但明显有人反对其被广泛使用。当然，为中子激光炮塔供能的电弧反应堆很容易出现剧烈波动，这导致对于除星际战士或者被大量强化过的技术神甫之外的乘员们而言，操作此类装备都是极其危险的。未接收过强化的凡人乘员十有八九会被反应堆不稳定的能量力场活活烤熟，而星际战士乘员的卓越体质将允许他们在屈服于最恶劣的影响前抵御（伤害）更久的时间。

Like other examples of the heavier types of war machine utilised at the height of the Great Crusade, the Cerberus is rarely deployed by the Adeptus Astartes in the 41st Millennium.As with other vehicles designed to support the massive Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade, the smaller Chapters have less use for it. In the case of the Cerberus however, the numerous systems that power the neutron battery, as well as those that contain the worst of its fluctuations, are all but impossible to maintain and the construction of new vehicles is almost unheard of. With each deployment, the vehicle's reactor is prone to grow ever more unpredictable and its shielding less effective. Ever more plaintive supplications are required to quiet the surly machine spirit, which some Techmarines suspect is being slowly corrupted by the very systems it governs.Some battle-brothers who have crewed a Cerberus have reported its machine spirit as having acted in an unpredictable or even capricious manner, furthering the war engine's steadily increasing reputation as a dark relic of a forgotten age that has no place in the arsenals of the Imperium.

就像其他曾在大远征高潮阶段被使用过的重型载具那样，阿斯塔特修会在第41个千年极少部署塞伯鲁斯。就像被设计用于支援庞大的阿斯塔特军团的其他载具那样，塞伯鲁斯对于规模更小的战团而言也用处更少。不过就塞伯鲁斯而言，其为中子炮塔供能的诸多系统，以及那些控制着其最为严重的波动问题的系统，几乎都是无法被维护的；新载具的建造则几乎是闻所未闻。随着每一次部署，这种载具的反应堆都易于变得更为不可预测，防护效果也变得更差。驾驶者们也就需要发出更为哀怨的乞求来让其乖戾的机魂安静下来，这让一些技术军士怀疑塞伯鲁斯正在被其所管理的系统们慢慢腐化。某些曾经驾驶过塞伯鲁斯的战斗修士也报告称它的机魂已经表现出了不可预测性，甚至是反复无常性；这也令塞伯鲁斯的名声进一步稳定增长：某种来自被遗忘年代的黑暗圣物，而且其在帝国的军火库中没有一席之地。

Nonetheless, there are times when the Adeptus Astartes must face enemies all but immune to conventional weapons and which only the esoteric systems of the Cerberus have any hope of defeating.As the 41st Millennium grinds ever onwards and the enemies of Mankind draw in,so such deployments increase, regardless of the risk.

但无论如何，阿斯塔特修会也总有这种时候：他们必须面对免疫于常规武器，且只有塞伯鲁斯的神秘系统才有望将其击败的敌人。随着第41个千年的不断前进与人类之敌的大举进犯，无论风险如何，此类部署（的次数）是在增加的。