Of the myriad regiments and battalions of the Imperials Auxilia, more commonly referred to as the 'Imperial Army', the Solar Auxilia are among the most elite, disciplined and well-equipped fighting forces, widely considered by many second only to the superhuman Legiones Astartes in their unitary effectiveness in battle. While some observers may point to singular units and individual regiments whose skill, power and reputation may arguably exceed that of the Solar Auxilia, such as the legendary Lucifer Blacks or the gene-wrought Marnean Armsmen, what marks the Solar Auxilia apart is they are not simply a single regiment raised from a particular culture or displaced from a warlike Compliant world to serve the Imperium, but a pattern; a culture of warfare and an order of battle which had successfully been replicated on hundreds of worlds. As a result, the Solar Auxilia Cohorts and regiments have formed the backbone of the Imperium's military forces since the dawning of?the Great Crusade. While the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes have been both the standard bearers of?the Great Crusade, and without doubt its principal and unstoppable strength, the Solar Auxilia have often been its indispensable pathfinders and its most reliable foot soldiers. And, as the Imperium expanded to encompass thousands of worlds, its first line of protection against those who would destroy it from without or disturb its peace from within.

在帝國輔助軍——更常見的叫法是“帝國軍”的無數(shù)團和營中，太陽輔助軍是最為精銳、最為堅定以及裝備最好的戰(zhàn)斗部隊。人們都普遍認為太陽軍的單兵戰(zhàn)斗效率僅次于超人的阿斯塔特軍團戰(zhàn)士。某些觀察家或許會指出：（某些）獨特的單位或者單獨的輔助軍團，比如傳奇般的路西法黑衛(wèi)或基因（技術(shù)）制造的馬內(nèi)恩武士按理來說在技藝、力量和名聲上可能超越了他們，但令太陽軍脫穎而出的是：他們并非僅僅是在某種特定文化中成長起來，或者被某個好戰(zhàn)的歸順世界驅(qū)逐出來為帝國服役的單獨某個輔助軍團，而是一種部隊類型；他們的戰(zhàn)爭文化和戰(zhàn)斗序列可以在數(shù)百個世界上進行成功復(fù)制。于是，自從大遠征初期開始，太陽軍兵團和團就已經(jīng)形成了帝國軍事力量的基石。阿斯塔特軍團中的星際戰(zhàn)士們是大遠征的旗手，他們也無疑是大遠征最重要且不可阻擋的力量；太陽軍則通常是大遠征不可或缺的尋路者與最可靠的步兵。隨著人類帝國拓張到數(shù)千個世界，太陽軍成為了帝國的第一道保護防線——他們抵御那些會從外部摧毀帝國的敵人，也鎮(zhèn)壓那些從內(nèi)部擾亂帝國和平的宵小。

The Origins of the?Solar Auxilia

太陽軍的起源

As their name might suggest, the origins of the Solar Auxilia lie in the Sol System and on Terra in the earliest days of the Great Crusade. No doubt from the very beginning, the Emperor realised that while his Legiones Astartes would be his foremost agency of war and conquest, the sheer scope of the undertaking of the Great Crusade —no less than the liberation of the entire galaxy— would require far more manpower, spread over a wider area, than even hundreds of thousands of Space Marines could hope to achieve, simply because they could not be everywhere at once, nor would they be best served by undertaking roles ably filled by ordinary humanity. From this reality the Excertus Imperialis was born; billions of second line and support troops, functionaries, labourers, void crew, logisticians, almoners, adepts and staff officers, and the countless quantities of weapons, equipment and war machines, void conveyances and warships they needed; all to make the Great Crusade a reality. Within this vast body of men and women under arms, organised and formulated by the Emperor's own transhuman intelligence, were many highly specialised divisions, each created to serve a singular purpose, each a vital cog in the vast Imperial war machine. The Solar Auxilia was one such purpose-created division.

就像他們的名稱所說明的那樣，太陽軍是在大遠征最早期起源于太陽系和泰拉。帝皇無疑在最開始便意識到：雖然阿斯塔特軍團會成為他進行戰(zhàn)爭和征服的最重要力量，但進行規(guī)模極其龐大的大遠征——這場戰(zhàn)爭的規(guī)模不亞于解放整個銀河系，他就需要數(shù)量遠為龐大的人力。這些兵力要分散到更為廣闊的區(qū)域中，其面積超過了哪怕數(shù)十萬星際戰(zhàn)士有望實現(xiàn)（控制）的區(qū)域——因為星際戰(zhàn)士們無法立刻趕到任何地點，讓他們執(zhí)行普通人類就能干練承擔的任務(wù)也并非是這些超人戰(zhàn)士最好的服役方式。帝國民兵就是誕生自這一事實，他們需要數(shù)十億的二線和支援部隊、辦事員、勞工、虛空海員、后勤人員、賑濟員、（技術(shù)）專家和文職官員，以及無數(shù)的武器、裝備和戰(zhàn)爭機械、虛空運輸艦和戰(zhàn)艦，這一切令大遠征變?yōu)榱耸聦?。在這支由帝皇（依靠）自己的超人智慧所組織和制定的男女武裝人員所組成的龐大隊伍中，有許多高度專業(yè)化的部門，每個部隊都是為了服務(wù)單獨某個目標而創(chuàng)立的，也都是龐大的帝國戰(zhàn)爭機器中一顆至關(guān)重要的齒輪。太陽軍就是這樣一個為（特定）目標而創(chuàng)立的部門。

The parameters of this creation were exact; the raising of a large body of frontline soldiers whose principal theatre of war would be the void and hostile environments of all kinds, both to support the Legiones Astartes in battle, and by deployment free them for concentrated frontline operations. Where the Space Marines were to be foremost the hammer of the Great Crusade, the Solar Auxilia were to be its pathfinders and its watchmen. They were to garrison the great warships and frontier outposts; they were to serve alongside the Rogue Traders and in the Expeditionary fleets both as aggressors and as explorers, and as such they would need to be disciplined, trained and well equipped considerably beyond the level of the average militia solider. Once Compliance over an area of space had been achieved, and the battlefronts of the Great Crusade had moved on, it was also to be the Solar Auxilia, with their own fleets and assigned warships, that would guard those worlds and star systems that were now part of the growing Imperium from marauders from without and rebellion from within. While a Solar Auxilia taskforce would not, indeed could not, match the power and force of the Legiones Astartes, these compact fleet-based armies of colonial control were more than capable of dealing with most 'petty wars'?and local conflicts that might occur on their own. Where a threat proved stronger than a Solar Auxilia taskforce could match alone, they were conditioned and equipped to stalwartly hold the line no matter the odds, until aid could be summoned and the Emperor's Angels of Death unleashed?transgressors .

太陽軍創(chuàng)建的決定因素是具體的：為了集結(jié)起一大群將虛空和所有種類敵對環(huán)境作為首要戰(zhàn)場的前線（凡人）士兵們，目的即是為了在戰(zhàn)斗中支援阿斯塔特軍團，也是為了通過部署將他們投放到前線集中作戰(zhàn)行動當中。星際戰(zhàn)士軍團是大遠征最重要的重錘，太陽軍則是大遠征的尋路者和守望者。這些凡人部隊駐守在龐大的戰(zhàn)艦和前線哨站中；他們隨同行商浪人進行服務(wù)，并在遠征探索艦隊中擔任進攻者和探索者。因此，太陽軍需要一種訓(xùn)練有素且裝備精良、素質(zhì)明顯超過一般民兵水平的凡人士兵。當太空中某片區(qū)域歸順于帝國，大遠征的戰(zhàn)斗前線已經(jīng)發(fā)生移動時，也是太陽軍和他們自己的艦隊，以及被指派的（海軍）戰(zhàn)艦們負責保衛(wèi)這些成為不斷壯大中人類帝國組成部分的世界們，他們既要保護這些世界不受外部掠奪者的侵襲，也要鎮(zhèn)壓內(nèi)部的叛亂。在武力和能力上，一支太陽軍特遣隊不會——事實上也無法和阿斯塔特軍團相匹敵，這些負責控制殖民地的緊湊艦基軍隊充其量能夠應(yīng)付大多數(shù)“小規(guī)模戰(zhàn)爭”和可能發(fā)生在其自身防區(qū)的當?shù)貨_突。當威脅被證明已經(jīng)嚴重到超出了單獨一支太陽軍特遣隊的匹敵能力時，無論戰(zhàn)局多么艱難，他們都習慣于堅定地守住陣地，而且他們也為此進行了裝備，直到（人們）召喚到增援，以及帝皇的死亡天使們前來進攻這些有罪者們。

The Saturnyne Ordo

土星軍

In laying out the strategic formulation and pattern of organisation for the Solar Auxilia, the Emperor, in his wisdom, appears to have drawn on two principal sources: the great military forces of?the Unification Wars of Terra and the Satumyne Ordo. Warfare had been the general condition on Terra and in its star system for thousands of years, and the home world of humanity had seen many great empires rise and fall, and with them great armies and warrior cultures form and meet their destruction. From this crucible of battle, the Emperor drew much that would inform the structure and tactics of all of his armies, and the Solar Auxilia would be no different in this, but it was the highly militarised tech-enclaves of Saturn, whose expertise in void warfare was of peerless temper, that would most greatly inform the nature of the Solar Auxilia.

在制定太陽軍的戰(zhàn)略規(guī)劃和組織形式時，帝皇憑借自己的指揮，似乎從兩個主要來源中提取了內(nèi)容：泰拉統(tǒng)一戰(zhàn)爭時期的龐大軍事力量和土星軍。數(shù)千年來，戰(zhàn)爭一直是泰拉及其所在恒星系的常態(tài)，人類的故園世界已經(jīng)見證了諸多偉大的帝國興起與衰落，偉大的軍隊和戰(zhàn)士文化也隨之形成和迎來毀滅。從這些嚴酷的戰(zhàn)斗中，皇帝汲取了許多將會啟發(fā)他所有軍隊的結(jié)構(gòu)和戰(zhàn)術(shù)的信息，太陽軍在這方面也別無二致，但正是土星的高度軍事化科技飛地——那個在虛空戰(zhàn)方面擁有無與倫比專長的文明將會對太陽軍的性質(zhì)產(chǎn)生極大的啟發(fā)。

The Polities of Saturn had formed during the Age of Strife; they were a disperate league of independent domains and kingdoms formed from scores of asteroid-enclaves, orbital arcologies and lunar colonies around the gas giant which gave them their name. Over time they had established a common technologically advanced culture, and although inter-state conflict, competition and vendetta was rife among them, spurred on by survival, they quickly banded together in the face of outside threat, be it the baleful influence of Mars, or the horrific privations of xenos and mutant raiders come to plunder the wealth and resources they had so long strived for. Their military, combining by far the most powerful fleet in the Sol System prior to Unification and elite armed forces known as the Satumyne Ordo, had honed the weapons and tactics of void warfare for centuries and until the coming of the Legiones Astartes, in such techniques they were unsurpassed. Many have argued that it was only after the Polities of Saturn joined voluntarily with the Imperium that the Great Crusade truly began, their fleets, shipyards and void expertise fundamental to the speed and scale of the early years of Imperial expansion. The Solar Auxilia were also born in this moment, and the first ten regiments raised, known collectively as the 'Saturnyne Rams', were no more or less the Void Hoplites of the Saturnyne Order, reorganised and expanded —their arms and armament all but unchanged— and sent out with the first deployments of the as then only numbered Space Marine Legions to conquer the stars.

土星政權(quán)組建于紛爭紀元；它是由自治領(lǐng)地所組成的絕望聯(lián)盟，是數(shù)十個小行星飛地、軌道生態(tài)城們和圍繞這顆令其得名的氣體巨星旋轉(zhuǎn)的衛(wèi)星殖民地們組建的王國。隨著時間流逝，土星政權(quán)建立起了共同的技術(shù)先進文化，盡管領(lǐng)地間的沖突、競爭和仇殺在土星聯(lián)盟中很普遍，但在生死存亡的刺激下，他們迅速團結(jié)起來面對外部威脅——這些威脅是來自火星的惡毒影響，或者異形和變種人強盜們掠奪他們垂涎已久的財富與資源而造成的可怕貧困。土星政權(quán)的軍事力量由（整個恒星系被）統(tǒng)一之前太陽系中最強大的艦隊與一支被稱為“土星軍”的精銳武裝力量組合而成。在阿斯塔特軍團到來之前，土星軍的武器和戰(zhàn)術(shù)已經(jīng)被磨練了數(shù)個世紀，他們在這方面的技術(shù)無人能及。很多人聲稱：只有在土星政權(quán)主動加入人類帝國之后，大遠征才真正開始。他們的艦隊、船塢和虛空（作戰(zhàn)）專業(yè)技能是人類帝國早年高速大規(guī)模擴張的基礎(chǔ)。太陽輔助軍也就誕生于這一時刻，帝國建立起的最初十個太陽輔助軍團被統(tǒng)稱為“土星重錘”，他們?nèi)际莵碜酝列擒姷奶摽罩夭奖?，（只是）被進行了重組和規(guī)模擴大——他們的武器裝備幾乎沒有變化。這批太陽軍被送出土星，和當時只有編號（而沒有名稱）的第一批星際戰(zhàn)士軍團去征服群星。

Soon, more regimental raisings were to follow, with Terra and Luna both providing many newly raised regiments in the same pattern as those of Saturn to meet the strategic demand. These regiments were deployed with the same proven types of weaponry and equipment taken from the Saturnyne prototypes and rendered to the Mechanicum for approval, modification and mass production, including the highly effective and robust Saturnyne void armour, which would serve to single out the Solar Auxilia's particular appearance throughout the Great Crusade. This wargear was supplemented with additional variant weapons and equipment designed with hazardous environment and void use by an unaugmented human in mind; these became known as 'Solar'?pattern, a designation provided by the Mechanicum in keeping with the 'Solar' Auxilia forces for which they were intended.

不久之后，帝國組建了更多的太陽軍團——泰拉和月球都提供了許多與土星軍模式相同的新組建輔助軍團來滿足戰(zhàn)略需要。這些輔助軍團配備了與土星的部隊原型相同的被證明有效的武器裝備，而且這些武器裝備也被提供給機械神教來進行批準、改進和大規(guī)模生產(chǎn)，其中就包括高效且耐用的土星虛空甲——在整個大遠征過程中，這套裝甲令太陽軍們單獨擁有了一種獨特的外表。太陽軍的武備里還額外補充了改型的武器和裝備——這些武器裝備的設(shè)計旨在讓未接受過強化改造的凡人在危險環(huán)境和虛空中使用。這些戰(zhàn)爭裝備被稱為“太陽”型，這個名稱由機械神教提供，與將會使用它們的“太陽”輔助軍部隊相適應(yīng)。

Liberation and Conquest

解放和征服

As the Great Crusade progressed, the effectiveness of the Solar Auxilia as a distinct military concept and coherent fighting force was proved time and again, and the strategic demands of the ever expanding Expeditionary fleets and the galactic territory they conquered demanded that Solar Auxilia regiments be raised in increasing numbers. The Terran system alone could not meet this growing demand and so the Solar Auxilia pattern was used as an imprint elsewhere, and soon regiments and larger cohort formations were being raised across the Imperium, often set up around corps of experienced junior officers and non-commissioned ranks from existing regiments. These raisings were most common in star systems with an established tradition of void-capable military and privateer forces, and in many cases served to absorb such a culture more readily into the Imperium, particularly if armed struggle had been needed to subdue it into Compliance.

隨著大遠征的發(fā)展，太陽軍部隊作為一個獨特的軍事概念和連貫戰(zhàn)斗力量的有效性被一次又一次地證明，不斷擴張中的遠征探索艦隊的戰(zhàn)略需要以及他們在銀河系中征服的領(lǐng)土也要求帝國以不斷增加的速度組建太陽軍團。泰拉星系自身無法再滿足不斷增加的需要，所以太陽輔助軍的模式被作為一種部隊版本應(yīng)用到了其他地區(qū)。不久之后，全帝國各處都組建起了太陽軍團和規(guī)模更大的兵團，這些部隊通常是由成群經(jīng)驗豐富的下級軍官和現(xiàn)役團中未授軍銜的部隊組成。在那些有保持虛空作戰(zhàn)能力的軍事力量和私掠海軍部隊的既定傳統(tǒng)的星系中，這種部隊組建是最為常見的；在許多情況下，使這種文化更容易融入帝國，特別是在需要通過武裝斗爭使其歸順的情況下。

Such Solar Auxilia Cohorts were normally then sent far from their origin stars, thus severing ties with their home worlds and reducing any potential for later rebellion there. This was not however a unique practice, and with the introduction of mental and physical aptitude tests to a wider intake of recruits, Solar Auxilia regiments were also raised successfully from feral and feudal worlds without an overall high technological sophistication or void-operable tradition, often alongside more conventional regimental raisings. The most successful of these cohorts combined the savagery and elan often found on such warlike worlds with the discipline and firepower the Solar Auxilia was rightly famed for, forming a truly deadly combination. Famous incidences of this include both the Chthonian Headhunters which were to accompany the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet of Warmaster Horus, and the Carak'tal Scarborn?who entered into legend as the only non-Legiones Astartes force to survive the Khrave onslaught at Perdition's Gate.

這些太陽軍兵團通常會被派往遠離其源頭母星的地方，這樣就切斷了他們與母星的聯(lián)系，減少了他們以后在那里發(fā)動叛亂的可能性。但這并非是一種獨一無二的做法，隨著（來源）范圍更加廣泛的新兵接受了精神和生理資質(zhì)測試，帝國在那些全面科技復(fù)雜度并不高和沒有虛空行動傳統(tǒng)的荒蠻與封建世界上也成功召集起了太陽軍團。這些兵團中最成功的那些，是將好戰(zhàn)世界中常見的野蠻和銳氣，與太陽輔助軍著名的紀律和火力相結(jié)合，形成了一種真正致命的組合。此類太陽軍兵團中的著名部隊包括：克蘇尼亞獵頭者兵團，他們配合戰(zhàn)帥荷魯斯的第63遠征探索艦隊作戰(zhàn)；還有卡拉克’塔爾疤痕之子兵團，他們是毀滅之門戰(zhàn)役中唯一一支從克拉夫人進攻中幸存下來的非阿斯塔特部隊。

The Tradition of Service

服役傳統(tǒng)

By the second century of the Great Crusade, Solar Auxilia pattern forces formed perhaps 20%-25% of the overall human strength of the Imperialis Auxilia's void faring first line armies, with numbers ranging into the tens of millions. By the time of the Horus Heresy, in terms of deployment this force was split, with about two thirds of the Solar Auxilia Cohorts stationed permanently within the Imperium's boundaries divided into taskforce and garrison commands, and the other third separated out into various Expeditionary fleets, Rogue Trader detachments and deep-range pathfinder ships on the ever-expanding and increasingly remote frontier. As they were particularly suited and organised so that they had few ties to home and could easily operate as detached commands, it became common for many smaller-scale Expeditionary fleets which did not feature any substantial Legiones Astartes presence to be led by a core of Solar Auxilia under the particular authority of a Lord Marshal appointed by the Imperial War Council. The temporal power and authority of these Lords Marshal (and the most senior among them, the Lords Militant Imperialis) was formidable in its own right, and from them and the ranks of their subordinate staff and warship captains it was common for future colony Imperial Commanders to be drawn, and Rogue Traders also warranted. With the potential prize of absolute power under the Aquila over whole worlds as a draw, it is then unsurprising that commissions of rank within Solar Auxilia Cohorts destined for the frontier became a thing sought after by ambitious officers, petty nobles and the scions of great houses of Terra alike. Some such commissions were earned and others acquired by more direct, means, but fate and the limitless dangers of battle and alien worlds unnumbered served in most cases to weed out those whose ambition outweighed their aptitude swiftly enough. Regardless of this, it is the salutary truth that the pursuit of plunder as well as the quest for personal wealth and power were motivations that often served the Great Crusade just as well as duty and the desire for glory and belief in the unification of humanity. For those of the lower ranks, the lure of service ultimately may have been more prosaic, but no less valuable; fine living standards, pay and the respect of the Imperium for their life's blood with, if they desired it, upon retirement after serving a minimum tour of thirty years’?service, full citizenship and commensurate land, money and position in a newly founded or newly Compliant colony world. For the many that choose to serve several tours and for whom the Solar Auxilia became a consuming way of life, the eventual reward was greater, and they were furnished with basic anti-agthaics and medicae treatments to extend their lifespans and military usefulness accordingly.

等大遠征進行到第二個世紀時，在帝國輔助軍虛空一線部隊的全體兵力中，太陽軍類型部隊的占比大約為20%-25%，人數(shù)拓展到了數(shù)千萬。等到荷魯斯叛亂時期，太陽軍在部署上被一分為二：大約三分之二的太陽輔助軍兵團永久性駐扎在帝國邊境以內(nèi)，他們被拆分分為特遣部隊和衛(wèi)戍指揮部；另外三分之一被分散到了各種各樣的遠征探索艦隊、行商浪人分遣隊和遠程尋路者艦船上，他們身處帝國不斷擴張且日益偏遠的邊境。由于太陽軍極為適合作戰(zhàn)，組織性極強，以至于他們和自己的故鄉(xiāng)幾乎沒有聯(lián)系，而且他們也能作為獨立指揮部輕松運作，所以帝國中出現(xiàn)了一種常見現(xiàn)象：許多（隊伍中）不存在重要的阿斯塔特軍團部隊的遠征探索艦隊是由一群太陽軍進行領(lǐng)導(dǎo)，而以特定授權(quán)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)這些太陽軍的是一位由帝國戰(zhàn)爭議會指派的領(lǐng)主元帥。這些領(lǐng)主元帥們（他們中級別最高的是帝國軍務(wù)領(lǐng)主們）手握的臨時權(quán)力和（被給予的）權(quán)威身份是很強大的，帝國從他們及其下屬官員以及戰(zhàn)艦艦長中挑選未來的殖民地帝國指揮官是一種常見現(xiàn)象，行商浪人們也會得到此類授權(quán)。人類帝國中掌握著絕對權(quán)力的人將整個世界作為太陽軍軍官們的潛在賞賜，所以不出意料得，前往位于邊境的太陽輔助軍兵團任職的委任狀成為雄心勃勃的軍官、小貴族和泰拉大家族的子嗣爭相追求追求的事物。在這些委任狀當中，有些是被委任者（依靠實力）贏得的，其他的則是通過更直接的手段獲得的，但是在大多數(shù)情況中，命運以及存在于戰(zhàn)斗中和無數(shù)外星世界上的無止境的危險會迅速淘汰掉那些野心超過其能力的人們。但盡管如此，這個過程中仍有一個有益的事實：對掠奪的追求、對個人財富和權(quán)力的渴求，就像對榮譽的渴望、責任心和對人類統(tǒng)一的信仰一樣，都經(jīng)常會成為一個為大遠征服役的動機。對于那些級別較低的人來說，服役的最終誘惑可能更加平淡無奇，但同樣有價值：優(yōu)越的生活標準、酬金和帝國對他們犧牲的敬意；如果愿意的話，他們可以在服役至少三十年后退休，在一個新建立或新歸順的殖民地世界上得到完整的公民身份和與之相稱的土地、金錢和地位。而對于許多選擇數(shù)度出征的人，以及那些將在太陽軍中服役作為一種令人著迷的生活方式的人而言，最終獎賞則更為豐厚：他們會被提供基本的抗衰老手術(shù)和藥物治療，以延長他們的壽命和相應(yīng)的軍事效能。

At its core, the Solar Auxilia became and remained a hardened body of professional soldiery, equipped and trained to the highest standards of the Imperium's human forces, and a keystone of the Great Crusade's tremendous progress.

在其本質(zhì)上，太陽輔助軍成為且仍然是一個由專業(yè)士兵組成的堅定群體，他們的訓(xùn)練和裝備達到了帝國凡人部隊中的最高標準，他們是大遠征取得巨大進步的基石。