IA9节译：星爪战团及其组织结构

CHAPTER NAME：THE ASTRAL CLAWS

战团名称：星辰之爪

FOUNDING：RECORDS CONTRADICTORY, BELIEVED 10th (CIRCA MID-M.35)

组建时间：记录自相矛盾，据信是第十次建军(大概在M35中期)

CHAPTER WORLD：BADAB PRIMARIS, FORMERLY FLEET BASED.

战团母星：巴达布主星，之前是舰基战团。

FORTRESS MONASTERY：THE PALACE OF THORNS/HIGH GUARD ORBITAL FORTRESS

要塞修道院：王座宫/至高守卫轨道要塞

GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR)：UNKNOWN (INFORMATION CONTRADICTORY]

基因种子来源（母团）：未知（信息自相矛盾）

KNOWN DESCENDANTS： TIGER CLAWS/UNKNOWN（THE APOCRYPHA KAALI LISTS THE CHAPTER AS HAVING 'THREE SONS’ BUT DOES NOT NAME THEM）

已知子团：虎爪/未知（药剂师卡艾里列举出战团的“三个子嗣”，但没有名称）

The Astral Claws; a name vilified within the Imperium, synonymous now with infamy and treachery, and in time perhaps a name that will be wiped from history altogether, but it was not always so. For more than five thousand years, the Astral Claws Space Marine Chapter stood shoulder to shoulder with the finest of the Imperium's warriors, their deeds were legendary and their honour unquestioned. It was in fact this glorious record of exemplary service that won for them the singular honour of the overall command of the Maelstrom Warder force when they were assigned to the Badab Sector in 587. M41. lt is remarkable to think that one man, even one as extraordinary as Lugft Huron who rose to the leadership of his Chapter in 697.M41 could bring so mighty and loyal a force over to the brink of heresy and rebellion, but do so he did. There are some, however, who would argue that Lugft Huron was no more than the result of the Chapter's long standing sins finding fruition, and without a fissure created by the Astral Claws' overweening arrogance and self-imporiance, a man like Lugft Huron would never have been allowed to rise to command, nor would have the Chapter so blithely and wilfully followed him to damnation.

星辰之爪这个名称在帝国中倍受蔑视，它现在是耻辱和背叛的同义词，也许在某个时候，它就会被从帝国所有的历史中清理出去，但它也并非向来如此。在超过五千年的岁月中，星爪战团也曾位列帝国最伟大的战士之中，他们的故事曾是传奇，他们的荣耀无可置疑。事实上，当他们在587. M41被指派前往巴达布星区时，星爪战团因为其表率般的荣誉记录而获得了全权指挥大漩涡守卫部队的非凡荣誉。他们是一股如此强大且忠诚的力量，而他们会被一个人，哪怕是在697.M41获取了战团领导权的休伦这样一个非凡人物代入异端和反叛的边缘，想来都令人惊奇。但休伦确实做到了。不过，也有人会争辩到：休伦也不过是战团某些长期存在的罪恶所结出的恶果，是星爪战团的傲慢自负与妄自尊大所造成的裂隙允许拉夫特 休伦得到了战团的指挥权，导致战团如此任意且乐意地随着他沦为变节异端。

The Astral Claws Chapter of old is believed to have been part of the 10th Founding although some sources differ on this . Created amid the dark times of the Nova Terra Interregnum. Few records remain surrounding this Founding, which was believed to be created to try to counteract the rapid erosion and contraction of the Imperium's borders during the period. The few such records that survive relating to the Astral Claws in this period paint them as a crusading Chapter, despatched from warzone to warzone in order to battle Mankind's enemies. Evidence of their presence can be found on Departmento Munitorum records relating to the Perfidian Wars and anti-Ork purges of Lord Solar Jurastis Macro, while further traces of their exploits can also be found on battle shrines relating to the later battles against Nova Terran forces during the Cataclysm of Souls. One of the Chapter’s greatest accolades is known to have been gained in the defence of Cadia from the 5th Black Crusade, for which their standard was taken for display in the halls of the Eternity Gate in the Palace of Holy Terra itself. For much of M37 and early M38 the Astral Claws appear to have confined their range of operations to the Segmentum Obscuras (and may have maintained a Chapter world there for the time). Their deeds are mentioned repeatedly in the Apocrypha Kaali, a valuable historical resource compiled by, and still held in the great Scholastica Corpus on Cypra Mundi, which details the turbulent events of the Occluisad War and its aftermath. The Apocrypha further mentions the Astral Claws Chapter as having “three sons" which most likely Implies that three Successor Chapters had been drawn from their ranks, which would be a remarkable number if true, given their relative youth as a Chapter at the time, and if so a testament to the high regard in which they were held. Matters seem to have taken a darker turn for the Chapter in early M38 however, as the Astral Claws are recorded as being destroyed in action during the Altid Crusade while fighting alongside the Dark Angels in 288.M38。

人们相信曾经的星爪战团建立于第十次建军，但有一些资料与该结论相左。他们创建于新星泰拉中断期的黑暗岁月中。关于这次建军的记录几乎没有留存，据信这次建军的目的是要努力抗击这一时期的侵袭和帝国边境的沦陷收缩。遗留的少数关于星爪战团的记录声称他们在这一时期是个远征战团，他们被从一个战区派往另一个战区，对抗人类之敌。我们可以在军务部关于太阳领主乌莱斯提斯对于兽人的净化战争和背信战争的记录中找到他们出战的证据，而在关于灵魂灾厄时期那些帝国讨伐新星泰拉势力的战斗圣地上，我们也能找到更多关于他们的英勇事迹。他们已知的最为崇高的荣誉之一是在第五次黑色远征中参与了卡迪亚的防御战，他们的军旗因此被陈列到了神圣泰拉帝国宫永恒之门的大厅中。在M37的大部分时期与M38早期，星爪战团似乎把他们的行动范围限制在了朦胧星域（他们在该时期可能保有过一颗战团母星）。这些事迹被药剂师卡艾里反复提及，这份有价值的历史资料被编纂并依旧保存在Cypra Mundi世界（机仆：朦胧星域的首府兼朦胧星域舰队司令部）上那篇幅宏大的经院文献中，其中详细记述了封禁战争及其之后的混乱情况。药剂师另外提到星爪战团有“三名子嗣” ，这最有可能是暗示星爪战团从自己的部队中取出基因种子组建了三个子团，倘若属实，这将是一个惊人的数字，毕竟在当时他们仍是一个相对年轻的战团，不过倘若真是这样的话，这也是他们受到高度重视的证明。但在M38，这个战团似乎陷入了某种更为黑暗的命运转变：根据记录，星爪战团于第38千年288年在阿尔提徳远征的行动中被摧毁，他们当时在与黑暗天使战团并肩作战。（机仆：所以是被谁摧毁了…）

It is not until the fall of the Gorgon Pentarchy nearly eighteen centuries later that the Astral Claws are reported again fighting at full strength, with some mention of them undertaking a penitent crusade in-between. Their war record for M39 and M40 places the Astral Claws firmly as a fleet-based crusading Chapter, ranging within the Segmentum Solar and Segmentum Tempestus responding to emergencies and adding their strength to ongoing conflicts, often tipping them in the imperium's favour. Although some commentators at the time accuse the Chapter of a greater lust for glory than the rewards of duty. One action by the Astral Claws which was to have unforeseen later repercussions was the relief of the besieged Executioners Chapter at Stygia-Aquilon. The battle engendered a blood-debt between the two Space Marine forces that Lugft Huron would later call on to gain the Executioners’ aid during the Badab War.

直到十八个世纪之后的戈耳工五星同盟覆灭时，星爪战团才再次被报告以满员兵力作战，有些材料提到他们在这之间的时间中是进行了一场赎罪远征。M39和M40的战争记录坚称星爪是一个舰基远征战团，他们在太阳星域和暴风星域中流浪，回应各种紧急事件，前往各个冲突中助拳，帝国也经常给予他们恩惠。不过在当时也有某些评论者指责他们贪图比职责回报更多的荣誉。星爪战团曾在Stygia-Aquilon地区救助了被围困的处刑者战团，这次行动之后将会给他们带来未曾预料的影响。这次战斗让两个战团之间形成了一笔血债，在之后的巴达布战争中，拉夫特 休伦将会呼叫处刑者战团要求援助。

It was in recognition of their service that the High Lords named them to the Maelstrom Warders and entrusted them with the overall leadership of the force. During this time at Badab Primaris, the Chapter thrived, taking to the overlordship of the Badab sector with skill and diligence. They used their new home world's production capacity and connections to the isolated forge world of Angstrom to further augment their abilities and increase their capacity to wage war. Once Lugft Huron took over mastery of the Chapter, the Astral Claws' grip on the Badab Sector grew measurably and rapidly tighter, as did the visibility of the Space Marines as the sector's direct rulers and defenders. This very much fed into the existing psychology of the Chapter, who had always been proud and imperious, much enamoured of martial glory and the veneration of the heroes of the past. They saw themselves as the inheritors of the Emperor's will and sworn to his task of reuniting all of Humanity under the Space Marines' protection. While it cannot be doubted that in the past they saw themselves as first and foremost as Mankind's defenders, they also believed Space Marines to be set above those they ruled and worthy of subservience, even reverence by the common citizen. Under Lugft Huron's command, the fervour and degree in which this belief was held strengthened greatly, as did his Chapter's conviction in their own superiority over other agencies of power within the Imperium, along with a growing resentment of what they saw as outside interference in the Chapter's holy mission. This hubris resulted first in the Astral Claws secretly absorbing the remnants of their long-lost successor Chapter, the Tiger Claws, into their ranks and ultimately led to Lugft Huron's dreams of expanding his Chapter into a force with the strength of one of the Space Marine Legions of antiquity, in order to pacify the Maelstrom permanently and crush Mankind's enemies.

出于对他们效忠的认可，高领主们任命他们为大漩涡守卫，并且放心地允许他们全权领带守卫部队。在这一时期中，战团在巴达布主星上繁荣发展，靠着能力与勤奋成为了巴达布星区的霸主。他们利用新家园世界的生产力以及与偏远铸造世界Angstrom之间的联系进一步增强了自己的实力，提升了自己发动战争的能力。而在拉夫特 休伦掌管战团后不久，星爪对巴达布节区的控制显着增加并迅速收紧，星际战士们有成为节区的直接统治者和保卫者的迹象。这一现象在很大程度上融进了战团的现有心态：现在的星爪战团傲慢专横，非常沉迷于（夺取）军事荣耀和崇拜过去的英雄。他们自视为帝皇意志的继承者，发誓要让全人类在星际战士的保护下重新统一起来。在过去，他们无疑是优先将自己视为人类的守护者，他们还相信星际战士（的地位）优于受到他们统治的凡人人，阿斯塔特值得凡人表示臣服，甚至应当受到普通公民的尊敬。在拉夫特 休伦的指挥下，星爪战团持有这种信念的热情和程度极大加强，他们确信自己比帝国当中的其他势力都更优越，同时他们也对所谓“外界对于战团神圣使命的干涉”愈发不满。这种傲慢在一开始就使得星爪战团秘密收编了他们长久失散的子团——虎爪战团的残军，并最终导致拉夫特 休伦妄图将战团的兵力扩张到古早时期星际战士军团的水平，以永久性地平定大漩涡地区，驱逐人类之敌。

To Huron and the Astral Claws, the triumph of the Imperium over all other forms of life was a long crusade that would last millennia, and while Humanity was to be preserved at all costs, they believed that individual human lives mattered little. While this may indeed be the case, and the sacrifice of millions, even billions, are sometimes a tragic necessity in these dark times, this authority was not invested in Lugft Huron's hands as far as the daily lives of those that toiled in the Maelstrom Zone was concerned, but in the hands of the High Lords -a fact he soon came to resent. It was such presumptions as these, embraced by the Astral Claws Chapter as they were, that lay at the heart of the secession and the Badab War.

在休伦和星爪战团看来，人类帝国要通过一场持续千年之久的漫长远征来战胜其他所有生命形式，同时也要付出任何代价来保卫人类整体，但他们认为单个人类的生死无关紧要。虽然情况可能确实如此，在黑暗时期中牺牲掉数百万甚至数十亿人有些时候也是一种悲剧的必要性，但对那些在大漩涡地带辛勤工作过着日常生活的人们而言，这种权力并未被给予拉夫特，而是握在高领主手中——但休伦很快就对这一事实感到愤愤不平。这种妄自尊大的想法被星爪战团欣然接受，这也正是日后分裂行径与巴达布战争的核心。

When Lugft Huron rose to power within the Astral Claws, it was the start of a significant re-organisation and shift of focus for the Chapter that would eventually lead to outright heresy. An undoubted genius both on the battlefield and in the realms of logistics and politics, Huron was the first to fully exploit the economic power of the Badab Sector to his Chapter's advantage, massively increasing the Astral Claws' stockpiles of arms and equipment far beyond the possible operational needs of a single Space Marine Chapter. There were some items of wargear such as Terminator armour or Land Raiders the Aslral Claws could not readily produce (because they required many lost techno-arcane arts and rare resources) but less exotic materiels such as Rhino STC pattern vehicles and bolt weapons were well within Badab's advanced manufacturing capacity to fabricate. As a result, such things became almost disposable to the Chapter, and were distributed to the other Warder Chapters, further binding them to Huron's debt.

当拉夫特 休伦攫取到星爪战团的权力后，他开始对战团的工作重心进行明显的重组和改变，而这些行径最终会导致公开彻底的叛乱。休伦在战争、后勤和政治方面都是无可置疑的天才，休伦是第一个完全发挥出巴达布星区经济实力的人，他将这份实力转化为战团的优势，大量增加星爪战团的武器装备库存，数量远超单个星际战士战团可能的运作需要。虽然星爪战团不能轻易生产诸如终结者动力甲和兰德掠夺者之类的某些装备（因为它们需要很多失落的科技秘术和稀有材料），但诸如基于犀牛STC模板的载具和爆弹武器等较为普通的军备巴达布还是能够依靠自己先进的生产能力进行制造的。结果就是星爪战团几乎可以任意支配这些装备，并且可以分送给其他守卫战团，进一步用债务绑定他们。

Organisation

组织结构

While still a crusading Chapter, and during the opening centuries of their Chapter's deployment to the Maelstrom Zone, the Astral Claws maintained an organisational structure very close to that of the Codex Astartes with its standard division of ten companies, Chapter command，Apothecarion and large armouries. The Chapter stained a strong fleet and favoured rapid strike missions and boarding actions, and as such fielded strong additional auxiliary contingents of assult bikers and Dreadnoughts in its armouries. Rapid speed and relentless attack were the cornerstones of the Astral Claws combat tactics, although their pride in their prowess occasionally led them into overconfidence, and to assaulting superior forces or failing to retreat when a more rationally governed Space Marine Chapter might have otherwise regrouped or withdrawn. The Astral Claws themselves saw no folly in this - there was no foe they would not challenge, and they were proud to fight and proud to die if needs be in the Imperium's great cause, and the graver the odds the greater the chance for glory.

在他们还是一个远征战团，以及被部署到大漩涡地区的最初几个世纪中，星爪保持着极其接近阿斯塔特圣典要求的组织结构：部队划分为十个连队，有战团指挥部、医疗会和大型军械库。星爪战团拥有一支强悍的战团舰队，偏好快速进攻和跳帮行动，他们也因此在军械库中组建了由突击骑士和无畏机甲组成的额外的强大辅助分队。快速和无情进攻是星爪战术的基石，不过他们对于自身实力的自负偶尔也会导致他们过度自信，所以在遭遇到那些更为理性的星际战士战团会进行重整和撤退的境况时，星爪战团（反而）会去进攻更为强大的敌军或拒绝撤退。但星爪战团并不认为这是一种愚行——他们会挑战任何敌人，如果需要为帝国的伟大事业而战，他们就会自豪地战斗，自豪地牺牲。越是严峻的逆境，获取荣誉的机会也就越多。

As the Badab Schism worsened in the lead-up to the war，and later as the cession gathered pace, the Astral Claws Chapter changed, expanding dramatically beyond the limits set down within the Codex Astartes. Slowly but with gathering speed they became something more akin in structure to Space Marine Legion (or least Lugft Huron's conception of one at any rate). As part of this transformation an entire additional Chapter-sized force of battle companies is raised, with a heavy emphasis on the use of concentrated firepower and fighting close boarding actions inherent in their makeup, and seeded throughout the Chapter fleet. Further this another force, totalling well over thousand additional battle brothers is dispersed widely throughout what is known as the Tyrant's Legion. This force was a series of mixed armies comprising human Defence Auxilia troops (following largely an Imperial Guard pattern) formed around a specialised core of Astral Claws Space Marines, whose task it was to secure the Badab Soctor from any who would dare to Invado. It was the creation of the Tyrant's Legion that most crossed the bounds of what was permissible for an Adeptus Astartes Chapter, let alone Huron's massive expansion in the ranks of Space Marines he commanded. The Tyrants Legion Space Marines forces specialised in using their 'inferiors' as disposable cannon fodder and as living shields to maximise their own effectiveness in battle. Found within their ranks were both the infamous 'Retaliator' squads and the so-called 'Corpse Takers',non-codex forces of Huron's personal design. The Reialiators were hand-picked Space Marine assault troops, selected for their brutality and unquestioning obedience who served as line breakers in battle and as the bloody hand of the Tyrant's will inside his own realms, conducting punitive extermination missions against 'dissidents' when needed. appearing only in the final years of the Badab war, the Corpse Takers were specially tasked Apothecaries who specialised in harvesting gene-seed from fallen Space Marines —that of both enemy and friend alike. This final betrayal of their fellow Astartes by the Astral Claws was a blasphemy too far and ensured the bitter hatred and enmity of any loyal Astartes they fought in open battle and meant that no prisoners were taken on either side.

随着巴达布的分裂（倾向）在战争前越演愈烈，已经后续的割据步伐不断加快，星爪战团也发生了改变，他们的兵力拓展明显超过了阿斯塔特圣典所规定的限制。星爪战团的改变速度虽然缓慢，但是也在不断加快，他们在结构上变得更为类似星际战士军团（或者至少是拉夫特 休伦自己的概念）。作为这种转变的一部分，星爪组建起了一整个由战斗连队组成的额外的战团规模部队。星爪战团非常强调使用集中火力和近战跳帮战术（星际战士的固有身体素质也支持这一战术），这些战术也在战团舰队中播种传播。此外，还有一支总人数超过一千名战斗兄弟的额外部队被广泛分散到了所谓的“僭主军团”当中。僭主军团由一系列的混合部队组成，由凡人防御辅助军（在很大程度上模仿星界军的模式）围绕一个专门的星爪星际战士（指挥）核心组成，他们的任务是保卫巴达布星区免受胆敢入侵的部队的进攻。组建僭主军团完全超过了阿斯塔特战团的（权力）许可范围，更不用说休伦还对自己指挥的星际战士部队进行了大规模扩张。僭主军团中的星际战士们擅长将自己的“下属”用作炮灰部队或活体盾牌以最大化自己在战斗中的效率。这些人中也有臭名昭著的“报复者”小队和所谓的“掠尸者”，他们是休伦个人设立的非圣典单位。报复者是休伦亲手挑选的星际战士突击部队，成员们都是因为自己的残忍和对命令毫无质疑的遵守而获选，他们对外在战斗中充当战线突破者，在自己的疆域内则是执行暴君休伦意志的满手血腥的残忍镇压者，在需要时，他们也会对“异见分子”进行惩罚性的灭门抄斩。掠尸者只出现在巴达布战争的最后时期，他们是执行特殊任务的药剂师，专门从敌我双方战死的星际战士遗体上一视同仁地回收基因种子。星爪的这种行径是对自己阿斯塔特兄弟们的最终背叛，这种极其严重的亵渎行为确保所有与他们交战的忠诚阿斯塔特都在公开战斗中对他们满怀仇恨和敌意，这也以为着双方都不会留存战俘。