IA2节译：原型兰德掠夺者

LAND RAIDER PROTEUS 

The ancient and venerable Land Raider has served the Adeptus Astartes since its earliest beginnings and many variants and patterns are recorded in the data-stacks of Mars. Adepts of the hallowed Adeptus Mechanicus collectively refer to the oldest of these as the 'Proteus' patterns, and examples of these mighty armoured vehicles that survive into the dark days of the 41st Millennium are held in the highest regard, war-relics beyond compare to the Chapters that possess them.

 自其诞生的最初阶段，古老而可敬的兰德掠夺者便一直服务于阿斯塔特修会，火星的大堆数据资料中也记录了此类载具的诸多型号与改型。神圣机械修会的教士们将那些最古老的种类统称为“原初”型号，此类强悍的装甲载具中那些幸存到第41个千年黑暗岁月中的个体都被人们以最高的敬意保存起来，对那些拥有他们的战团而言，这些载具都是无可比拟的战争圣物。

Mechanicus tech-savants believe that the Land Raider Proteus is a precursor to the Phobos pattern vehicle now found amongst the armouries of the Adeptus Astartes. Bulkier and faster than the Phobos, ancient and forgotten data-looms describe the Proteus as a forward assault vehicle, commonly fielded in Explorator missions during the dawning days of Mankind's fledgling galactic empire 

机械神教的科技学者们相信：原型兰德掠夺者是福波斯型载具的前身，后者仍能被发现于阿斯塔特修会的武库中。相比于福波斯型载具，原型兰德掠夺者体积更大且速度更快，古老且被遗忘的模糊数据资料将之描述为前进突击载具，在人类新生银河帝国的黎明时期，它们通常被用于探索任务。

Believed by certain war-savants to be an example of sacred machine-evolution, the Land Raider Armoured Proteus displays early features of the Mkllb Land Raider. These include enclosing its twin-linked lascannon in bulky armoured sponsons and adding to this formidable anti-armour firepower with a limited traverse twin-linked heavy bolter recessed into the forward hull armour.

某些战争学者相信装甲式原型兰德掠夺者是神圣的机械进化的样本，它们展现出了llb型兰德掠夺者的早期特征。其中就包括封闭于沉重装甲炮廊内的双联激光炮，以及安装于前侧装甲车体上的一门横向限制双联重型爆弹枪——这门武器增加了装甲式原型兰德掠夺者那可畏的反装甲火力。

It is likely that the Proteus was the most common mark of Land Raider used by the Imperial Army, the combined main line military of the Imperium that was split into the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Navy in the galaxy-wide reorganisations that took place in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy.Of course, no Land Raiders of any pattern remain in the armouries of the Imperial Guard, the vehicle long since reserved for the near-exclusive use of the Adeptus Astartes.

原型兰德掠夺者可能是帝国军使用过的最常见兰德掠夺者型号，而在发生于荷鲁斯叛乱之后的银河规模（军事结构）重组中，人类帝国中的复合型前线主力军事力量被拆分为了帝国卫队和帝国海军。当然，（现在）帝国卫队的武库中不再存留有任何型号的兰德掠夺者，此类载具长期以来几乎是仅供阿斯塔特修会使用。

Amongst the most revered of those few Land Raider Proteus still in existence are some that must surely have been utilised in the very earliest phases of the Great Crusade. Many of these war machines were equipped with an array of scanners and cognis-interpreters that are likely to pre-date the Age of the Imperium by countless millennia. Such devices may only be awakened and operated by the most lore-steeped adepts of the Machine God, for they utilise machine processes and logs protocols otherwise unknown in the 41st Millennium. Referred to in hushed tones amongst Tech-Priests as Explorator Augury Webs, these devices were once used to coordinate the epic battles fought by the Emperor's Space Marine Legions as they re-united the scattered worlds of Humanity.

在仍旧存在于世的少量原型兰德掠夺者中，最受崇敬的那些必定在大远征最初阶段被使用过的载具。这些战争机器中有很多都装备了一系列的扫描仪和认知解读设备——这些科技可能在距离帝国时代无数个千年之前便出现的。这些设备或许仅能由万机之神座下最为精通知识的专家们来唤醒和操作，因为它们所使用的机械流程和逻辑协议在等41个千年都是不为人知的。这些设备被技术神甫们低声唤作“探索者占卜网络”，当帝皇的星际战士军团重新统一起分崩离析的人类诸世界时，它们曾被星际战士们用于协调那些史诗般的战斗。