When the Legiones Astartes spearheaded the Emperor's conquest of the galaxy during the glorious age that was the Great Crusade, they were led by heroes the likes of which had never been seen before and in all likelihood will never be seen again. At some point before or during the Great Crusade, the Mechanicum learned how to save the life of a mortally wounded Space Marine by excising damaged tissue, in some cases all but his brain and spinal column, and implanting what remained into a life-sustaining machine of arcane design and dark provenance. Of course, for a mighty, vigorous hero to be preserved in such a manner without purpose would be a living purgatory and so the warrior and the mechanisms that preserved his life were sealed within an armoured sarcophagus and this in turn was mounted into the towering form of the earliest types of Dreadnought. The fragmentary histories of the Imperium do not describe the very first instances of the Space Marines of old serving?in this manner, but it is known that one of the first must have been the Contemptor, a class regarded as an irreplaceable relic in the 41st?Millennium, a relic that even the most machine lore-steeped Techmarine could not replicate. Other types known by little more than name include the Deredeo and the Furibundus, as well as the dreaded Lucifer pattern, thought to have been a variant, or perhaps even the progenitor, of the Contemptor stripped of its advanced systems and fitted with heavy armour, making it a peerless breaching unit long lost to the armies of the Imperium.?

在那段被稱為大遠(yuǎn)征的光榮歲月中，阿斯塔特軍團(tuán)是帝皇征服銀河的矛頭，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)著他們的是前無(wú)古人，后無(wú)來(lái)者的英雄們。在大遠(yuǎn)征之前或大遠(yuǎn)征時(shí)期的某些時(shí)間點(diǎn)上，機(jī)械神教學(xué)會(huì)了通過(guò)切除受損組織并將殘骸植入到有著玄奧設(shè)計(jì)和黑暗起源的方式來(lái)挽救遭受致命傷害的星際戰(zhàn)士——在某些情況中當(dāng)事人只會(huì)存留下大腦和脊柱。當(dāng)然，對(duì)一個(gè)強(qiáng)大且精力充沛的英雄來(lái)說(shuō)，以這樣毫無(wú)目的的方式存活下去將是一個(gè)活生生的煉獄，所以這些戰(zhàn)士和那些用于保持他生命的機(jī)械裝備都被密封到了一臺(tái)裝甲石棺中，而石棺又被反過(guò)來(lái)裝配成那種形體高大的最早期無(wú)畏機(jī)甲。帝國(guó)碎片化的歷史資料并未描述那些以此種方式（繼續(xù)）服役的星際戰(zhàn)士們的最初案例，但我們知道蔑視者無(wú)畏肯定是最初的無(wú)畏機(jī)甲類(lèi)型之一，該型號(hào)的無(wú)畏在第41個(gè)千年被認(rèn)為是一種不可替代的圣物，哪怕是最精通機(jī)械知識(shí)的技術(shù)軍士們也無(wú)法復(fù)制。我們僅知道其名稱的其他無(wú)畏型號(hào)還包括德雷都型和盛怒型，以及令人恐懼的路西法型——該型號(hào)被認(rèn)為是蔑視者改型，甚至可能是其先祖型號(hào)；它被拆除了先進(jìn)系統(tǒng)，并安裝上了厚重的裝甲，這令它成為了無(wú)與倫比的破城單位——帝國(guó)軍隊(duì)很久之前便失去了此類(lèi)單位。

Contemptors resemble other types of Dreadnought, although their armoured form is somewhat more refined and less angular than the types in common use in the 41st?Millennium.?It is not just in appearance that the Contemptor differs however, for its systems are of an order of magnitude more advanced than those that came later. The Contemptor is powered by an atomantic arc-reactor of a type now all but lost to humanity, and this venerated power source is coupled to a field protector of a type similar to that utilised in Space Marine storm shields, providing the Contemptor with a high level of protection against enemy attacks.

盡管蔑視者無(wú)畏的裝甲機(jī)體不如第41個(gè)千年那些常用型號(hào)精致，棱角也不那么分明，但它與其他類(lèi)型的無(wú)畏有相似性。然而，藐視者無(wú)畏的區(qū)別之處也不僅在外表上，它的系統(tǒng)也比之后出現(xiàn)的那些無(wú)畏機(jī)甲的系統(tǒng)先進(jìn)一個(gè)數(shù)量級(jí)。為蔑視者供能的是原子閃弧反應(yīng)堆，人類(lèi)現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)失去了這種技術(shù)；這種可敬的能量源也連接到了一個(gè)與星際戰(zhàn)士風(fēng)暴盾中所使用的力場(chǎng)防護(hù)器相類(lèi)似的裝置，這為藐視者無(wú)畏提供了抵抗敵人攻擊的高水平保護(hù)。

The ability to create new Contemptors is almost certainly now beyond the Adeptus Mechanicus, or at least jealously guarded by some secret order of Tech-Priests unwilling to share their lore even with those who could utilise it to crush the enemies of Mankind. Some believe that the Contemptor shares many systems with the dreaded, near mythical battle-automata of the Lego Cybernetica.If this is the case, it might go some way towards explaining why so few Contemptors remain in the arsenals of the Adeptus Astartes, for the war engines of the Cybernetica are regarded by many as technology taken beyond the acceptable limits of machine canon.

?我們基本確定，機(jī)械修會(huì)現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)無(wú)法再制造新的蔑視者無(wú)畏，或者至少是被技術(shù)神甫們的某些秘密教團(tuán)小心守護(hù)著——他們甚至不愿與那些可以利用這些技術(shù)來(lái)粉碎人類(lèi)之?dāng)车膽?zhàn)士們分享他們的知識(shí)。某些人相信：蔑視者無(wú)畏和智控軍團(tuán)那可畏并且近乎神話般的戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)兵共享著很多系統(tǒng)。倘若如此，這或許在一定程度上解釋了現(xiàn)存于阿斯塔特修會(huì)武庫(kù)中的蔑視者無(wú)畏為何如此稀少，因?yàn)楹芏嗳硕紝⒅强剀妶F(tuán)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)引擎視為超出了機(jī)械準(zhǔn)則可接受限度的科技。

Those few Contemptors that remain in the service of the Adeptus Astartes are invariably relics of the Great Crusade or of the Horus Heresy and the Scouring. Few if any are known to have been constructed since, their secrets lost and their legend tainted by association with the dread automata of the Cybernetica. Nevertheless, those Chapters that have inherited or otherwise come into possession of even a single Contemptor venerate them enormously. reserving them for the use of the mightiest of Chapter heroes. Others have been in continuous use since the earliest and darkest days of the Age of the Impenum, so ancient they are now awoken and activated only a handful of times a millennium, the oldest of heroes stirring to continue the wars of old.?

極少數(shù)仍在阿斯塔特修會(huì)中服役的蔑視者無(wú)畏是從大遠(yuǎn)征時(shí)期或荷魯斯叛亂與大肅清時(shí)期一成不變繼承下來(lái)的圣物。從那以后，它們幾乎沒(méi)有再被建造出來(lái)過(guò)，它們的秘密已被遺失，與智控軍團(tuán)那可怕的自動(dòng)機(jī)兵之間的聯(lián)系也玷污了它們的傳說(shuō)。然而，那些繼承或以其他方式擁有哪怕一臺(tái)輕蔑者無(wú)畏的戰(zhàn)團(tuán)，對(duì)它們都極為崇敬的，這些機(jī)體會(huì)被留給戰(zhàn)團(tuán)中那些最為強(qiáng)大的英雄們使用。其他蔑視者無(wú)畏則是自帝國(guó)年代那最早期也最黑暗的日子以來(lái)就一直在使用，他們是如此古老，以至于在一千年中僅會(huì)被喚醒和激活數(shù)次，這些最古老的英雄們?nèi)栽诩ぐ旱乩^續(xù)著往昔的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。