The Golden Throne is an ancient and arcane device located in the Imperial Palace on Terra. It currently houses and sustains the remains of the Emperor of Mankind.
黄金王座是一个古老而神秘的装置，位于泰拉上的皇宫。它目前容纳并保存着人类帝皇的遗体。
The remains of the Emperor of Mankind upon the Golden Throne 人类帝皇在黄金王座上的遗体
History 历史
Pre-Heresy 叛乱前
The Golden Throne was thought to be an ancient relic dating back to the Dark Age of Technology which the Emperor discovered in sunken ruins within Asia's deserts, although even the Emperor Himself was unsure whether the idea was His, or to what extent the devices he discovered had served as inspiration. Another similar device likely used to test the technologies by whoever made it, known as Dark Glass, was also discovered by the Emperor during the Great Crusade and he set about restoring it as well.
黄金王座被认为是一个古老的遗物，可以追溯到黑暗技术时代，帝皇在亚洲沙漠中的沉没废墟中发现了它，尽管就连帝皇自己也不确定这个想法是否是他的，或者他发现的装置在多大程度上起到了灵感的作用。帝皇在大远征期间也发现了另一种类似的设备，被称为黑色琉璃，可能是由制造者用来测试这些技术的，他也着手修复它。
The Emperor then went to work to restore the device for his own ends, providing Human access to the Eldar Webway. Once installed under the Imperial Palace the Golden Throne took the form of a bulky machine-like chair suspended over gigantic mechanised doors made of gold metal. The doors were said to be large enough for a Warhound Scout Titan to walk through unbowed. The chair was linked to the portal by huge bundles of cables, wires and conduits. The whole machine was made of the same golden metal. The throne was built at one end of a vast hall big enough to house up to six fully equipped Space Marine Companies. This was the Emperor's main laboratory, which was itself at the centre of his underground complex, known as the Imperial Dungeon. Even after the Throne's construction, the lab remained littered with other huge machines and storage crates. Hundreds of red-robed technicians and labourers worked in the lab. According to Pieter Achelieux, the Golden Throne would have required an extremely powerful Psyker to operate and implied that one of the Primarchs may have been designed for this role. The Emperor's disappointment with Magnus the Red's betrayal suggests that he was intended to sit upon the throne.
然后，帝皇开始为自己的目的修复该设备，为人类提供了通往灵族网道的通道。一旦安装在皇宫下，黄金王座就变成了一把笨重的机械椅子，悬挂在由金色金属制成的巨大机械门上。据说这些门足够大，可以让一名战犬侦察泰坦不受约束地穿过。椅子通过一大捆电缆、电线和导管与大门相连。整台机器都是用同样的金色金属制成的。王座建在一个巨大大厅的一端，这个大厅足够容纳六个设备齐全的星际战士连队。这是帝皇的主要实验室，它本身就是他的地下建筑群的中心，被称为帝国地牢。即使在王座建造之后，实验室仍然散落着其他巨大的机器和存储箱。数百名身着红袍的技术人员和工人在实验室工作。据彼得·阿舍利厄介绍，黄金王座需要一个极其强大的灵能者来操作，并暗示其中一名远征可能是为这个角色设计的。帝皇对赤红之马格努斯的背叛感到失望，这表明他预期应该坐上王座。
The Emperor built the throne as a means of entering the Webway. Having this fixed point of entry was meant to free humanity from its reliance on Warp-ships and astrotelepathy, since humans could simply enter the Webway and emerge wherever they chose in the galaxy. He sent armies of workers through the portal and had them construct a new short section of Webway linking to the rest of the abandoned Eldar network. Since the original Webway was built of a psychically resistant material which the humans could not replicate, the Emperor used his powers, via the Golden Throne, to protect the human-built section from the Warp. Because of the sensitive nature of the project and due to fears of how the Navis Nobilite would react to their monopoly on interstellar travel being rendered obsolete, the Emperor kept the Throne a secret from even his sons.
帝皇建造王座是进入网道的一种手段。拥有这个固定的入口点意味着将人类从对亚空间飞船和星语通讯的依赖中解放出来，因为人类可以简单地进入网道，并在银河系中的任何地方出现。他派遣了大批工人通过门户，让他们建造了一段新的小段网道，与废弃的灵族网络的其他部分相连。由于最初的网道是由人类无法复制的抗灵能物质建造的，帝皇通过黄金王座使用他的力量来保护人类建造的部分免受亚空间。由于该项目的敏感性，以及担心导航者家族会如何应对他们对星际旅行的垄断被淘汰，帝皇甚至对他的儿子们都保密了关于王座的信息。
The Golden Throne is connected to a massive Warp beacon known as the Astronomican which generates a system of signals making faster-than-light travel in the Imperium possible.
黄金王座与一个名为星炬的巨大亚空间信标相连，该信标产生一个信号系统，使帝国中的超光速旅行成为可能。
The Horus Heresy 荷鲁斯叛乱
At the outset of the Horus Heresy, when Magnus the Red used his sorcerous powers to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery, he inadvertently created huge holes in the Emperor's psychic shield. Daemons poured into the human-built portion of the Webway and slaughtered thousands of Adeptus Mechanicus workers there. The Custodian Guard and Sisters of Silence were left fighting a desperate battle to prevent the daemons from reaching the portal and breaching Terra itself. Eventually the Imperial forces had to abandon the Webway and retreat back into the Imperial Palace. The portal was closed but only the psychic power of the Emperor was enough to keep it that way so he was forced to remain on the Golden Throne or find a suitable replacement. Later Vulkan arrived in the throneroom, where at the Emperor's guidance he installed the Talisman of Seven Hammers. This device acts as a dead man's switch which would destroy not only the Imperial Palace but also all of Terra should the Golden Throne fail. This would deny the forces of Chaos from ever taking the throneworld.
在荷鲁斯叛乱开始时，当赤红之马格努斯使用他的魔法力量警告帝皇荷鲁斯的背叛时，他无意中在帝皇的灵能屏障上制造了巨大的洞。恶魔涌入网道的人造部分，并在那里屠杀了数千名机械神教工人。禁军和寂静修女正在进行一场绝望的战斗，以阻止恶魔到达入口并破坏泰拉本身。最终，帝国军队不得不放弃网道，撤退回皇宫。大门被关闭了，但只有帝皇的灵能力量足以保持这种状态，所以他被迫留在黄金王座上或寻找合适的替代品。后来，沃坎来到了地下密室，在帝皇的指导下，他安装了七锤护符。这个装置就像一个失能开关，如果黄金王座失败，它不仅会摧毁皇宫，还会摧毁整个泰拉。这将使混沌势力永远无法占领王座世界。
The Emperor upon the Golden Throne during the Siege of Terra 在泰拉围城期间登上黄金王座的帝皇
When the Emperor was forced to battle Horus on board the Sons of Horus flagship, the Vengeful Spirit, his place on the throne was taken briefly by Malcador the Sigillite. Malcador perished performing this endeavor, and the mortally wounded Emperor was reinstated upon the Throne after his battle with Horus. At his instruction, it was then enhanced and converted into the life-sustaining form it currently bears. The Emperor's physical form is kept alive on the Golden Throne through advanced stasis fields and psi-fusion reactors that has become beyond the understanding of the Imperium.
当帝皇被迫跳帮荷鲁斯之子旗舰复仇之魂号与荷鲁斯作战时，他在王座上的位置被掌印者马卡多短暂地占据了。马卡多在执行这一任务时牺牲了，受了致命伤的帝皇在与荷鲁斯作战后回到了王座。在他的指示下，它被增强并转化为目前所具有的维持生命的形式。帝皇的身体形态通过先进的停滞场和灵能聚变反应堆在黄金王座上保持活力，这已经超出了帝国的理解。
The Emperor sits upon the Golden Throne during the Horus Heresy 荷鲁斯叛乱时期，帝皇坐在黄金王座上
Malfunction 故障
By late M36, the Golden Throne began to require more and more sacrifice of Psykers to remain functional. By early M41, four times the amount of Psykers were required to maintain optimal power levels of the Throne. In the last year of M41, Techpriests discovered failures in the mechanisms of the Golden Throne that are far beyond their ability to repair. Faced with this cataclysmic scenario, several high-ranking members of the Imperium decided to act. Shortly before the formation of the Great Rift the scheme manifested when the Lord Inquisitor Adamara Rassilo attempted to smuggle a Dark Eldar Haemonculus onto Terra in cooperation with three members of the High Lords of Terra: Fabricator-General Oud Oudia Raskian, Speaker for the Chartist Captains Kania Dhanda, and Master of the Astronomican Leops Franck. However the Haemonculus betrayed the conspirators, disappearing beneath the Imperial Palace and conducting grotesque killings and experimentations. Ultimately the Haemonculus was cornered and slain by Lord Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl and Custodes under Navradaran and Rassilo's cabal was shattered with it. Despite this setback Leops Franck was able to send out a delegation of Tech-Priests and Xanthite Inquisitors for the final phase of the Project. Launching an expedition into the Webway, the Tech-Priest and Inquisition forces battled through Harlequins and Daemons alike before reaching Commorragh. There, a dark bargain was struck.
到M36晚期，黄金王座开始需要越来越多的灵能者牺牲才能保持功能。到M41早期，需要四倍的灵能者来维持王座的最佳功率水平。在M41的最后一年，技术神甫发现了黄金王座机制的故障，这些故障远远超出了他们的修复能力。面对这场灾难性的场景，帝国的几名高级成员决定采取行动。在大裂隙形成前不久，当大审判官阿达玛拉·拉西洛试图与泰拉高领主的三名成员合作，将一只黑暗灵族血伶人走私到泰拉上时，该计划浮出水面：铸造将军乌德·乌迪亚·拉斯基、宪章船长卡尼亚·丹达的发言人和星炬庭之主利奥普·弗兰克。然而，血伶人背叛了密谋者，消失在皇宫之下，进行了怪诞的杀戮和实验。最终，血伶人被纳瓦拉达仑手下的禁军和大审判官伊拉斯谟·克劳逼入绝境并杀死，拉西洛的阴谋集团也随之瓦解。尽管遭遇了挫折，利奥普·弗兰克还是派出了一个由技术神甫和赞瑟斯派审判官组成的代表团，参加了该项目的最后阶段。技术神甫和审判庭部队向网道发起探险，在到达科摩罗之前，他们与丑角和恶魔之间进行了战斗。在那里，达成了一项黑暗的交易。
The Emperor's Palace, the Sanctum Imperialis: The Emperor, his Custodians 帝皇宫殿，神圣帝国：帝皇，他的禁军
The bargain saw the Mechanicum give up billions of Humans as slaves and access to the Golden Throne by the Dark Eldar in exchange for a technical solution to its malfunction. In truth the bargain was beneficial for both parties, for it allowed the Dark Eldar to begin development of their own Golden Throne in an attempt to stop the destructive Daemonic incursions that had erupted into Commorragh which have only intensified since the formation of the Great Rift. However according to Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl, the Mechanicum has only delayed the destruction of the Golden Throne by a few centuries through their dealings with the Dark Eldar.
根据协议，机械神教放弃了数十亿人类作为奴隶，并让黑暗灵族得以接近黄金王座，以换取其故障的技术解决方案。事实上，这笔交易对双方都有利，因为它允许黑暗灵族开始发展自己的黄金王座，试图阻止爆发在科摩罗的破坏性恶魔入侵，自大裂隙形成以来，这种入侵愈演愈烈。然而，根据审判官伊拉斯谟·克劳的说法，机械神教通过与黑暗灵族的交易，只将黄金王座的毁灭推迟了几个世纪。
