One of the most ancient pillars of the Mechanicum, the Collegia Titanica operates the mighty Titans, each a bipedal metal giant armed with weapons able to level entire districts, and protected by armour and void shields capable of shrugging off attacks from all but the heaviest of foes. Though few in number compared to the uncountable hosts of the Great Crusade, the Titan Legions fought at the forefront of the Imperium's expansion, carrying the light of Unification to the benighted worlds of Mankind.

泰坦修會是機械神教最古老的支柱之一，它們運行著泰坦，這些雙足行走的金屬巨物每一臺都裝備了能夠夷平整個區(qū)域的武器，而且由裝甲和虛空盾保護(hù)著——除了最強大的敵人之外，它們毫不在意（其他）所有敵人的進(jìn)攻。相比于大遠(yuǎn)征中的無數(shù)部隊，泰坦軍團(tuán)數(shù)量稀少，但他們也征戰(zhàn)在帝國拓張的前沿，將統(tǒng)一的光芒帶給各個愚昧落后的人類世界。

The so-called 'god-engines' of the Titan Legions have served Mankind since long before the Age of Strife, their origins lost in the Dark Age of Technology. The Legios themselves came into being on Mars during the anarchy of Old Night, when the fabled "Triad Ferrum Morgulus"?was established. This trio of nascent Orders consisted of the Legio Tempestus, Legio Mortis and Legio Ignatum, and while all three stood against the horrors of Old Night, from ravening xenos to thinking-machine aberrations, they were just as equally likely to fight one another for each served the interests of its home Forge above all else, so that throughout the long age of anarchy, rivalries were established that much later would bear bitter fruit indeed.

早在紛爭紀(jì)元很久之前，泰坦軍團(tuán)中所謂的“神之引擎”便已經(jīng)服務(wù)于人類，它們的起源遺失在了黑暗科技時代中。軍團(tuán)是在舊夜的混亂中誕生于火星，出現(xiàn)于“三支鋼鐵神軍”被組建之時。組成這一新生團(tuán)體的三巨頭是：風(fēng)暴軍團(tuán)、死亡軍團(tuán)和火蜂軍團(tuán)。從貪婪劫掠的異形到思維機器所引發(fā)的異?，F(xiàn)象，三個軍團(tuán)都在抵抗著舊夜中的恐怖之物；但由于每支軍團(tuán)都認(rèn)為維護(hù)自己家園鑄爐的利益高于其他一切，他們可能也同樣會彼此爭斗。所以這三個軍團(tuán)在漫長的混亂年代中建立起了（彼此）競爭的關(guān)系，而這種關(guān)系事實上會在很久之后結(jié)出苦果。

The Lord of Terra

泰拉之主

When the Emperor of Mankind came to the Red Planet, having brought unity to war-shattered Ancient Terra, upon Olympus Mons the Lords of the Red Planet ascended to their place alongside the Imperium of Man, but the Mechanicum would ever remain an empire within an empire, for machine domains other than Mars existed across the galaxy and would in time swear fealty to the Fabricator-general of Mars. In recognition of the fact that the Unification of all humanity could not be achieved without the technological and scientific aid of the Mechanicum, Mars became an ally to Terra rather than her subject, and so began the Great Crusade.

在已經(jīng)統(tǒng)一了被戰(zhàn)爭嚴(yán)重破壞的古泰拉后，人類帝皇來到了紅色星球。在奧林匹斯山上，紅星的領(lǐng)主們登上了自己在人類帝國中的寶座；但機械神教永遠(yuǎn)都是人類帝國中的另一個（獨立的）次級帝國，因為除火星之外的機械神教領(lǐng)地分布于銀河系各處，它們也遲早要效忠于火星鑄造將軍?；鹦且惨庾R到一個事實：沒有機械神教在科學(xué)方面的援助，帝皇統(tǒng)一全人類的目標(biāo)就無法實現(xiàn)；所以它成為了泰拉的盟友而非臣下，大遠(yuǎn)征由此開始。

As the Emperor's hosts pushed ever outwards into the galaxy, casting back the horrors that had gripped the scattered human worlds for so many long centuries, the Titan Legions marched with them. Fighting alongside the trans-human Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes, the elite void-soldiers of the Solar Auxilia and numerous other forces in the rapidly expanding Excertus Imperialis, the Titan Orders came upon other planets dominated by their long-lost kin, Forge Worlds not unlike Mars and ruled by similar techno-theocracies. A few refused to acknowledge the primacy of the Red Planet and had to be forced to submit, or in some cases were even destroyed. The majority however knew of the Red Planet through the few fragments of archive data and echoes of legend which had managed to survive the Age of Strife, and willingly took their place in the new order.

隨著帝皇的軍隊沖出泰拉向銀河挺進(jìn)，擊退了那些在諸多漫長世紀(jì)中掌控著四分五裂人類世界的恐怖惡物，泰坦軍團(tuán)也與他們同行。泰坦修會與阿斯塔特修會的超人星際戰(zhàn)士、太陽軍的精銳虛空士兵和快速拓張的帝國輔助軍中的無數(shù)其他部隊并肩奮戰(zhàn)，他們踏足了自己長期失散的族親所統(tǒng)治的其他星球，還有那些雖不同于火星、但也別類似的科技神權(quán)（政體）所統(tǒng)治的鑄造世界。其中有少數(shù)世界拒絕承認(rèn)紅色星球（在機械神教中）至高無上的權(quán)力地位，他們要么被迫臣服，要么就是在某些情況中被毀滅。但大部分鑄造世界都通過在紛爭紀(jì)元中幸存下來的少量檔案數(shù)據(jù)碎片和傳說得知了紅星（的存在），也心甘情愿地加入新秩序。

The Might of the Titan Legions

泰坦軍團(tuán)之力

The greatest of the newly-discovered Forge Worlds were found to host their own Titan Orders, and while many had developed their own unique and sometimes idiosyncratic cultures, others were found to have organised themselves along a similar line to the original Martian Triad Ferrum Morgulus, suggesting some underlying machine principle or pattern at work, which the Lords of Mars looked upon and found pleasing. Of the lesser Forge Worlds not possessed of the necessary templates, resources or expertise to construct and operate their own Titans, Mars favoured those who swore fealty with such patronage that they might do so.

人們發(fā)現(xiàn)，在新找到的鑄造世界中，最強大的那些也擁有自己的泰坦修會，而且很多都形成了他們自己獨特和有些時候（甚至）是怪異的文化，其他的則被發(fā)現(xiàn)采用了與火星上最初的三支鋼鐵神軍類似的結(jié)構(gòu)，這表明有某些根本（潛在）的機械原理或模式在發(fā)揮作用，火星的領(lǐng)主們看到了這一切并感到喜悅。至于那些沒有建造和運行泰坦所必要的神殿、資源和專業(yè)知識技能的次級鑄造世界，火星可能會向宣誓效忠的那些惠贈此類支援。

Within scant decades of the outset of the Great Crusade, the Mechanicum had discovered or founded a score of Titan Orders, and by the turn of the first century of the Great Crusade, the orders of battle by which the Legios arranged themselves had become somewhat codified, and while individual bodies exercised considerable variation in strategy, a degree of standardisation was evident. The Fabricator-general proclaimed that the many Titan Orders should be recognised as a distinct class within the greater corpus of the Mechanicum, that its doctrines, traditions and battle honours might be propagated and preserved for the good of all Mankind. This body was to be known as the Collegia Titanica, and while the Legios themselves would remain subservient to the will of the individual forge lords, it would become a politically influential entity within the emerging structures of the nascent Imperium of Mankind.

在大遠(yuǎn)征開始的短短幾十年里，機械神教已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)或建立了十?dāng)?shù)個泰坦修會；等到了大遠(yuǎn)征第一個世紀(jì)的轉(zhuǎn)折點時，軍團(tuán)用于自我安排的作戰(zhàn)命令已經(jīng)在某種程度上被編寫成了法典，雖然各個主體在戰(zhàn)略上有相當(dāng)大的差異，但他們的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化程度已經(jīng)很明顯了?；鹦氰T造將軍宣布：許多泰坦軍團(tuán)應(yīng)該被視作更大規(guī)模的機械神教主體中的某個獨立分類，它的信條、傳統(tǒng)和戰(zhàn)斗榮譽可能會為了全人類的利益而被傳播和保存。這個團(tuán)體將被稱為泰坦學(xué)會，雖然軍團(tuán)本身將會繼續(xù)服從于單個鑄造領(lǐng)主的意志，但泰坦學(xué)會將成為新生人類帝國的新興結(jié)構(gòu)中具有政治影響力的實體。

The Collegia Titanica came to rate the strength of each Titan Legion according to a complex formula that allotted each a Militaris grade. First tier designations ranged from 'primus'?to 'dnarii', with a range of further clausal numerical definitions describing the Legios specific capabilities, specialisations and other characteristics. Though it rarely told the whole truth, the most obvious measure of a Titan Legions strength was ever the number of god-engines it could field, with the largest maintaining as many as 200-300, while the smallest might be able to muster barely a dozen. In reality however, the mixture of Titan classes was a far more reliable indicator of potency than raw numbers. Few indeed could field the colossal Imperator class, while almost all fielded significant numbers of Warhound Scout Titans, the lightest common engine, with the ubiquitous Warlord and the standard Battle Titan, a proven and powerful design which made up the bulk of most Legios'?main strength. There were many other classes besides, notably the ancient Reaver and several Warlord variants such as the Nemesis and Nightgaunt and other, rarer chassis whose designs such as the Apocalypse, Carnivore and Komodo were unique.

泰坦學(xué)會開始根據(jù)一套為每個軍團(tuán)分配軍事級別的復(fù)雜公式來計算每個泰坦軍團(tuán)的力量。第一層級的稱呼從“首席”到“末席”不等，外加一系列描述軍團(tuán)的特定能力、專長和其他特征的更進(jìn)一步子項數(shù)據(jù)定義。雖然這幾乎不能代表完整的真實狀況，但一個泰坦軍團(tuán)軍力最為明顯的衡量標(biāo)準(zhǔn)就是他們能動用多少神之引擎；規(guī)模最大的軍團(tuán)保有200-300臺泰坦，而最小的軍團(tuán)或許僅能集結(jié)起十?dāng)?shù)臺泰坦。不過在現(xiàn)實中，泰坦種類的組合狀況比純粹的數(shù)量更能顯示出軍團(tuán)的力量。事實上，只有極少數(shù)軍團(tuán)能部署巨大的帝皇級泰坦，而幾乎所有軍團(tuán)都能部署大量常見的最輕型神之引擎——戰(zhàn)犬級偵查泰坦，以及普遍存在的戰(zhàn)將級泰坦和標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的戰(zhàn)斗泰坦——這種得到證明的強悍型號組成了大部分軍團(tuán)主力部隊的主體。除此之外，還存在許多其他類型，尤其是古代掠奪者（型號）與數(shù)個戰(zhàn)將改型，比如復(fù)仇女神型和夜魘型；而諸如啟示錄型、噬肉者型和科莫多型之類其他更為罕見型號的設(shè)計則是獨一無二的。

Many Titan Legions had a particular mix of god-engines they preferred to commit to battle, exemplifying their own specific battle doctrines. Legio Audax, also known as the 'Ember Wolves', for example, fielded a large number of Warhound Scout Titans, employing them as fast-moving hunting packs that were fearsomely effective at harrying and bringing down far larger enemy engines. Most Legios however, sought to maintain a balanced and flexible force able to prosecute a wide range of operations and confront many different foes.

每個軍團(tuán)都有自己所偏好用于指派作戰(zhàn)的一套獨有的神之引擎組合（模式），這是對于他們自身具體戰(zhàn)斗信條的舉例說明。例如，也被稱為“灰燼群狼”的奧達(dá)克斯軍團(tuán)會使用數(shù)量龐大的戰(zhàn)犬級偵查泰坦，他們會被部署作為快速移動獵群部隊，在襲擾和擊倒遠(yuǎn)比自己（體系）龐大的敵軍引擎方面非常有效。但大多數(shù)軍團(tuán)都試圖保持一支平衡且靈活的部隊——其能夠執(zhí)行范圍廣泛的行動，對抗許多不同的敵人。

Though some Titan Legions used their own vernacular, the Collegia Titanica enforced a degree of standardisation in unit nomenclature. Depending on their role, Titans were fully capable of operating individually, and often did so when supporting conventional ground units. In practice, they were often deployed in formations of anything from two to ten god-engines, but broken into formal units known as a 'maniple' comprising five god-engines 一 the numeral '5'?having an occult and numerological signifier of destruction in many numiscantic systems of prognostication favoured by the Omnissian cult. The most senior Titan commander —or princeps— was appointed as the maniple's leader and this force was considered sufficient to prosecute all but?the most apocalyptic of battles.

雖然某些泰坦軍團(tuán)會使用他們自己的方言，但泰坦學(xué)會在單位命名上實行一定程度的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。由于他們的角色，泰坦完全有能力單獨行動，他們在支持常規(guī)地面單位時也經(jīng)常這樣做。在實踐中，他們通常是以2到10臺神之引擎組成的編隊被部署，但（在戰(zhàn)斗中）被拆分為由5臺神之引擎組成的被稱為“支隊”的正式單位——數(shù)字“5”在萬機神教派所青睞的預(yù)言（占卜）系統(tǒng)中擁有具備命理學(xué)意義且神秘的毀滅示意。最高級別的泰坦指揮官——機長會被指派為泰坦支隊的領(lǐng)袖，這種部隊被認(rèn)為足以參與除了那些最為啟示錄般慘烈的戰(zhàn)斗之外的所有沖突。

The Warriors of the Collegia Titanica?

泰坦學(xué)會的戰(zhàn)士們

Titan crews rank alongside the elite of the Imperialis Armada in the skill and courage with which they operate their mighty engines of war, although compared to the crews of void-faring warships they are few in number indeed. The princeps is in total command of the Titan via a mind impulse unit, a complex and not entirely understood?device that merges body and mind with that of the engine so completely that a princeps controls the Titans metal form as they would their own flesh. The process is a two-way one however, for each Titan, in particular the more ancient machines, is invested of its own individual anima which is the product of its deeds and its former masters, and which bleeds into the consciousness of the princeps to create a gestalt of the two. So immersive is this connection that should the Titan suffer damage, the princeps feel?it as if their own flesh were wounded. Severe damage is likely to cause crippling stigmata on the princeps'?body, and should the engine be dealt a killing blow, the cyber-neural feedback is almost certain to kill them.

盡管在與那些遠(yuǎn)航虛空的戰(zhàn)艦的船員們相比時，泰坦乘員們數(shù)量稀少，但他們在操作強大戰(zhàn)爭引擎方面的技能和勇氣可與帝國艦隊的精英們相媲美。機長通過一套意識脈沖單元對泰坦進(jìn)行全權(quán)指揮，這種復(fù)雜且并未被完全理解的裝備能將人與引擎兩者的身心極其完整地融合到一起，以至于機長能像控制自己的血肉之軀那樣控制泰坦的金屬軀體。不過，這個過程是雙向的，因為每一架泰坦，尤其是那些更為古老的機械，都擁有自己的靈魂——這是他們自身的事跡與前代主人的造物，它會滲透進(jìn)入機長的意識中，來為兩者創(chuàng)造完型（連接）。這種聯(lián)系是如此擬真，以至于當(dāng)泰坦機體受到傷害時，機長會覺得仿佛是自己的身體受了傷。機體受到嚴(yán)重?fù)p傷可能會令機長身上出現(xiàn)極其嚴(yán)重的圣傷，而如果引擎遭到致命一擊，智控神經(jīng)（接口）所產(chǎn)生的反饋幾乎必定會殺死機長。

Assisting the princeps are a number of specialist crew, the exact number and their roles dependent on the class of Titan as well as the doctrines of the parent Legio.These are known as?moderate and each has responsibility for a different system, such as the sensors or the helm, adding their own oversight towards the mind impulse commands of the princeps. Several of these moderati are stationed at the princeps, side within the 'head' of the god-engine, while others are located elsewhere in the Titans mighty form—the gun moderati, for example, are often stationed in the carapace as near to their weapons as the Titans complex anatomy allows. In addition, one or more Tech-Priests watch over the god—engine's mighty plasma generator, assisted by a small cadre of servitors. While a lighter class of Titan, such as a Warhound, might have but a handful of crew, a Warlord might have a dozen and an Imperator even more.

協(xié)助機長的是多位專業(yè)的乘員，他們的具體數(shù)量和角色取決于泰坦的型號與母軍團(tuán)的信條。他們被稱為操作官，每個人都負(fù)責(zé)一套不同的系統(tǒng)——比如傳感器或方向舵。他們將自己負(fù)責(zé)的內(nèi)容添加到機長的意識脈沖指揮（信號）里。其中有幾位操作官會位于機長身邊，處在神之引擎“頭部”的側(cè)邊；而其他人則會位于泰坦強大身軀的其他位置，比如在泰坦復(fù)雜的解剖結(jié)構(gòu)允許的范圍內(nèi)，火炮操作官們通常位于靠近武器的機殼處。另外，還有一或多位技術(shù)神甫來照看神之引擎強大的電漿發(fā)電機，一小群機仆會協(xié)助他們。一架諸如戰(zhàn)犬之類的輕型泰坦可能只有幾名乘員，而一臺戰(zhàn)將泰坦可能會有十?dāng)?shù)名乘員，一臺帝皇級的乘員甚至更多。

Not all of a Titan Legion's subjects serve within the mighty god-engines, for many more fight in their shadow. Each Forge World is served by massive cohorts of skitarii, scutarii and secularis, and these are often assigned to provide the Titan Legions with massed ground forces capable of performing the battlefield duties which the Titans themselves are too large to perform. Furthermore, there are those Forge Worlds which, having compacted with subservient Knight Houses, march to war preceded by a fast moving skirmish line of Knight-Lancers and similar classes of walker that bridge the gap between infantry and Titan, engaging enemy vehicles and allowing the Titans to concentrate on the heaviest of enemy war machines, in particular enemy Titans.

但并非所有的泰坦修會成員都是在泰坦內(nèi)部進(jìn)行服侍，更多人是在泰坦的陰影中戰(zhàn)斗。每個鑄造世界都有大量的護(hù)教軍部隊、泰坦禁衛(wèi)和世俗步兵，他們通常會被指派去為泰坦軍團(tuán)提供大量的地面部隊，以完成那些泰坦因自身過于龐大而無法執(zhí)行的戰(zhàn)場任務(wù)。另外，那些與自己的臣屬騎士家族關(guān)系緊密的鑄造世界在奔赴戰(zhàn)場時，由長槍騎士和類似型號的步行機甲所組成的快速移動戰(zhàn)線會沖在他們前方，架起步兵和泰坦之間的橋梁。騎士們會進(jìn)攻敵軍載具，以使泰坦專心對付敵軍最重型的戰(zhàn)爭機器——尤其是敵方泰坦。

It is when an army is to confront an enemy that is itself supported by Titans that they truly come into their own, and this only came about with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. From the very outset, the Warmaster ensured that as many Titan Legions as possible rallied to his banner and first amongst these was the Legio Mortis —the Deaths Heads— and soon others followed. Traitor Titans saw service in the very earliest battles of the Horus Heresy, including the Isstvan III Atrocity and the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre. The Collegia Titanica was split asunder by the war and as it spread across the galaxy, the battlefields of the sundered Imperium burned with the staggeringly destructive potential of these mighty god-engines. The battle was never so bitter nor all-consuming however as when Traitor and Loyalist Titans faced one another in open war, the mortal soldiers fighting at their feet as inconsequential as insects and slain by the thousands as unimaginable energies were unleashed.

當(dāng)一支軍隊面對一群由泰坦支援的敵人時，他們就得自食其力了，而這一切只會隨著荷魯斯叛亂的爆發(fā)而到來。從一開始，戰(zhàn)帥就確保有盡可能多的泰坦軍團(tuán)集結(jié)在他的旗幟下，其中最早投奔他的是死亡軍團(tuán)——也稱死顱軍團(tuán)，不久后其他軍團(tuán)也臣服于荷魯斯。人們在荷魯斯叛亂最早期的戰(zhàn)斗中便見到了叛軍泰坦，其中包括伊斯特萬三號暴行和伊斯特萬五號登陸點大屠殺。戰(zhàn)爭令泰坦學(xué)會分崩離析，而隨著戰(zhàn)火燒遍了整個銀河，人類帝國變得支離破碎，各處戰(zhàn)場都在這些這些強大神之引擎驚人的破壞性力量下燃燒著。然而，當(dāng)忠誠派和叛軍雙方的泰坦在公開戰(zhàn)爭中彼此相遇時，戰(zhàn)斗的苦澀和吞噬一切的破壞性也是前所未有的，在它們腳下戰(zhàn)斗的凡人士兵們就如同蟲豸那般微不足道，成千上萬的人都會被泰坦所釋放出的難以想象的能量所殺死。