During Old Earth's isolation in the Age of Strife，the Emperor had for long years furthered his plans and worked to make the future Imperium possible. In preparation for the reconquest of the galaxy he conceived of and created the twenty Primarchs to be his agents of change and lords of?war, long before he reconquered Terra. These unique individuals, wrought of gene-craft and lore beyond the understanding of any save the Emperor himself were to be his generals and the executors of his will—great leaders who would conquer millions of worlds in his name. Each Primarch would have powers and skills beyond those of any other human——abilities possibly rivalling those of the Emperor himself. Furthermore no two would be alike; each would embody a different facet of war and generalship and make it his own. Together, united with the Emperor and with the Legions at their command, they would make for a force unseen and unequalled in all creation. But the Emperor's ambitions for the Primarchs appeared to be thwarted, by a cataclysmic event, the true nature and scope of which has never been revealed. Some unknown force snatched the still foetal Primarchs from the Emperor's care and cast them in scattered disarray across the galaxy. Each Primarch was cast onto separate worlds where they matured in circumstances good or ill as fickle fate decreed.

在古老的地球于紛爭(zhēng)紀(jì)元中被被孤立的時(shí)期中，帝皇有漫長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間來完善他的計(jì)劃，他努力讓未來的人類帝國(guó)成為可能。為了給重新征服銀河做好準(zhǔn)備，遠(yuǎn)在他重新征服泰拉很久之前，帝皇便構(gòu)思并創(chuàng)造了二十位原體來?yè)?dān)任他改變銀河的代理人與他的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)領(lǐng)主。這些獨(dú)一無二的個(gè)體由只有帝皇本人才明白的基因技術(shù)和知識(shí)鑄造，他們將會(huì)成為帝皇的將軍們和他意志的執(zhí)行者——以帝皇之名征服數(shù)百萬(wàn)世界的偉大領(lǐng)袖。每位原體都擁有超越其他任何凡人的力量和技藝——他們的能力可能足以匹敵帝皇本人。另外沒有哪兩位原體是類似的，每位原體都體現(xiàn)了戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)和指揮作戰(zhàn)的某個(gè)不同方面，并且將其內(nèi)化于心。當(dāng)他們與帝皇和自己指揮的軍團(tuán)團(tuán)聚在一起時(shí)，他們就會(huì)成為一支任何造物都不可見又無可比擬的部隊(duì)。但帝皇對(duì)于原體的宏愿似乎被某次災(zāi)難性事件阻撓了，而這次事件的本質(zhì)和詳情至今未被揭露。某種未知的力量將尚且是胎兒的原體從帝皇的關(guān)懷中奪走，并將他們分散到銀河系中。每位原體都被分送到了不同的世界上，在無常命運(yùn)的決定下，無論好壞，他們都將在這個(gè)世界的環(huán)境中長(zhǎng)大成熟。

As the years passed each Primarch came into marurity outside the Emperor's protection, each a superhuman far beyond the power and ability of those around them. Some came to dominate their surrogate worlds becoming powerful warriors and leaders, others were transformed by predilection or circumstance into shadowed monsters of legend. Over the course of the Great Crusade the Emperor was reunited with each Primarch in turn?and, save two whose secrets are far?beyond this record, each was sooner or later placed in command of one of the Emperor's Space Marine Legions as its master, second only in authority to the Emperor himself

隨著時(shí)間流逝，原體們雖然失去了帝皇的保護(hù)，但也都長(zhǎng)大成人了，他們每一位都是能力和力量遠(yuǎn)超身邊常人的超人。某些原體逐漸控制了他們所在的世界，成為了強(qiáng)大的戰(zhàn)士和領(lǐng)袖，其他原體則被自己的偏好或生活環(huán)境轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)榱藗髡f中的暗影主宰。隨著大遠(yuǎn)征的推進(jìn)，帝皇與原體們逐一團(tuán)聚，而且除了兩位其秘密遠(yuǎn)非我們這份記錄能記述的原體之外，每位原體都或早或晚地作為主宰者接過了某支星際戰(zhàn)士軍團(tuán)的指揮權(quán)，他們的權(quán)力僅次于帝皇本人。

The true nature of the Primarchs—be they to live on in glory or infamy—is shrouded still in great and lasting mystery. It is believed by many of the learned that the Primarchs were created from the Emperor's own genetic stock. That?each was engineered to be a leader and a warrior, each a mighty warlord whose superhuman martial prowess would be matched in charisma, mental prowess and foresight, each with powers that set them apart both from normal men and from the still superhuman but markedly inferior warriors they would lead. Whether it was the Emperor's plan that they would be his godlike generals from the start or whether they were merely a by-product of the experiments that resulted in rhe creation of the Space Marines, we cannot guess at. Just as we shall never perhaps know the force that by accident or design scattered them across the stars.

無論榮耀傍身還是聲名狼藉，是原體們的真實(shí)本質(zhì)都依舊包裹在諸多依舊存在的謎團(tuán)中。許多學(xué)者相信帝皇是用自己的基因儲(chǔ)備創(chuàng)造了原體，他們每個(gè)人都被規(guī)劃成為一名領(lǐng)袖與戰(zhàn)士，都是擁有超人軍事實(shí)力以及相當(dāng)?shù)镊攘Α⒕窳α亢瓦h(yuǎn)見卓識(shí)的強(qiáng)大戰(zhàn)將，這些實(shí)力不僅把他們與凡人區(qū)分開來，就連由原體率領(lǐng)的那些超人戰(zhàn)士也不及他們。無論帝皇的計(jì)劃是從一開始就要讓原體們成為神明般的將帥，還是說原體們僅僅是創(chuàng)造星際戰(zhàn)士的實(shí)驗(yàn)副產(chǎn)品，我們猜不透，就像我們可能永遠(yuǎn)也不會(huì)知道是哪種力量將他們有意或無意地分散到了銀河當(dāng)中。