The Warp is a psychic dimension parallel to real space. It is known by many names: Warpspace, the Immaterium, the Empyrean, the Ether, the Sea of Souls, the Othersea, and also as the Realm of Chaos.
亚空间是一个与现实空间平行的精神维度。它有很多名字：亚空间、非物质界、至高天、以太、灵魂之海、异海，也被称为混沌领域。
Realm of Chaos 混沌领域
Overview 概述
Warpspace is a mirror dimension of pure energy. Existing as a mirror to our own reality, the Materium, it is the domain of the Gods of Chaos. These Gods dwell in their own realms, perpetually battling for one another in a struggle known as the Great Game. The size of these realms expands and contracts as the power of the Warp ebbs and flows.
亚空间是纯粹能量的镜像维度。作为我们自己的现实—物质世界的镜像而存在，它是混沌之神的领域。这些神居住在自己的领域，在一场被称为“伟大游戏”的斗争中不断地相互争斗。随着亚空间力量的涨落，这些领域的规模会扩大和缩小。
Map of the Realm of the Chaos Gods 混沌诸神领域地图
The Warp's existence is fueled by the emotions and souls of all sentient beings in the Materium. Warpspace is without form and the laws of time and space do not apply there, for both size and time are simultaneously infinite and irrelevant within The Warp. Its energies are in constant turmoil, subject to endless disturbances.
亚空间的存在是由物质世界中所有有情众生的情感和灵魂推动的。亚空间空间是没有形式的，时间和空间的法则不适用于那里，因为在亚空间中，规模和时间都是无限的，是不相关的。它的能量处于不断的混乱之中，受到无尽的干扰。
The common analogy used to describe Warpspace compares the Warp to a vast sea of energy, which is subject to constant movement, currents, undertows, etc. Immaterial space and real space bear a relationship as the dimensions parallel with each other. The fact that they share this relationship allows a Warp-capable craft to enter the Warp, carried for a time along the Warp flows until reemerging into real space a distance away from its starting point. The common metaphor used for Warp-jumping compares the Warp to a fast flowing stream. Its motionless banks represent real space. A leaf dropped into the water upstream will be carried along by the currents. This is a useful metaphor in understanding Warpspace, although the Warp is far more complex in its movements than a linear stream. The Warp moves in endlessly unpredictable and convoluted patterns.
用于描述亚空间的常见类比是将亚空间比作一个巨大的能量海洋，它受到不断的运动、洋流、潜流等的影响。非物质空间和现实空间具有相互平行的维度关系。他们共享这种关系的事实允许具有亚空间能力的飞船进入亚空间，沿着亚空间航道航行一段时间，直到重新出现在距离其起点一段距离的真实空间中。亚空间跳跃常用的比喻是将亚空间比作快速流动的洋流。它一动不动的河岸代表了真实的空间。落入上游水中的叶子会被水流冲走。这是理解亚空间的一个有用的比喻，尽管亚空间的运动比线性流复杂得多。亚空间以无休止的不可预测和复杂的模式移动。
The Warp is the final destination of the deceased souls of most races of the Galaxy. These souls will swirl endlessly within the Chaotic eddies of the Warp, and many are consumed by preying Daemons. The Craftworld Eldar use Spirit Stones to protect their departed souls from becoming the playthings of Slaanesh. While the Harlequin Eldar rely on the protection of the Laughing God. The Imperials believe that the Emperor will protect a virtuous soul once it has entered the Warp.
亚空间是银河系大多数种族已故灵魂的最终目的地。这些灵魂将在扭曲的混沌漩涡中无休止地旋转，许多灵魂被捕食的恶魔吞噬。方舟灵族使用魂石来保护他们逝去的灵魂，使其不会成为色孽的玩物。灵族丑角依靠笑神的保护。帝国相信，一旦一个有道德的灵魂进入亚空间，帝皇就会保护它。
The Warp is born from the thoughts, dreams, and emotions of every psychically attuned sentient race in the Galaxy. Every emotion and action in the Materium feeds the Warp and it is reflected back, creating its own reality. Should the races of the Galaxy somehow be cut off from the Warp, its malevolent entities would ultimately weaken and starve.
亚空间诞生于银河系中每一个精神上协调的有情种族的思想、梦想和情感。每一种情感和行为都会反馈给亚空间，并被反射回来，创造出自己的实体。如果银河系的种族以某种方式被切断与亚空间的联系，它的邪恶实体最终会削弱并饿死。
Notable Locations Within the Warp 亚空间内的著名地点
The Fortress of Khorne 恐虐堡垒
The Brass Citadel 黄铜堡垒
The Garden of Nurgle 纳垢花园
The Palace of Slaanesh 色孽宫殿
The Crystal Labyrinth of Tzeentch 奸奇水晶迷宫
The Impossible Fortress 虚妄堡垒
The Hidden Library 隐秘图书馆
The Formless Wastes 无形废地
The Forge of Souls 灵魂熔炉
The Well of Eternity 永恒之井
Warp Travel 亚空间航行
The Warp is an important factor in the survival of the human race. Spacecraft, capable of voyaging thousands of light-years in a matter of days, travel across the Warp. By such fragile means, humanity is bound together in a single Imperium. The Emperor's will may be mighty, but his reach is long only because Warpspace may be crossed by his fleets.
亚空间是人类生存的重要因素。太空舰船能够在几天内航行数千光年，穿越亚空间。通过这种脆弱的手段，人类被束缚在一个统一的帝国中。帝皇的意志可能很强大，但他的影响力很广只是因为他的舰队可能会穿越亚空间。
A spaceship may enter the Warp through the use of Warp drives. This is the means by which spacecraft effectively travel faster than the speed of light. This is achieved because Warpspace is a domain of pure energy, where spacecraft can navigate between streams, as in an ocean. The Imperium uses Navigators, a sub-race of humans, for this purpose. Time also proceeds a great deal slower- or faster- in the Warp than in the material universe, resulting in forms of time stasis, acceleration, reversal, and other chaotic violations of physics. While this solution is effective, it is far from perfect.
宇宙飞船可以通过使用亚空间驱动器进入亚空间。这是太空舰船有效地以超光速飞行的手段。这是因为亚空间是一个纯能量的领域，太空舰船可以在航道之间导航，就像在海洋中一样。帝国为此目的使用了人类的一个亚种—导航者。时间在亚空间中的进展也比在物质世界中慢得多，甚至快得多，导致时间停滞、加速、逆转和其他混乱的物理学违反。虽然这种解决方案是有效的，但它远非完美。
Long-distance journeys take months or even years, and the timing itself is unpredictable due to the very nature of the Warp.
长途航行需要几个月甚至几年的时间，由于亚空间的性质，时间本身是不可预测的。
Warp Disturbances 亚空间干扰
The Warp is an extremely volatile medium. At times, disturbances can turn areas of the Warp into raging storms of incomprehensibly destructive fury. These storms can last for days, months, or even centuries. Even more devastating are Warp Rifts, which are tears in reality that link The Warp to the Materium. These rifts are highly dangerous and allow the Realm of Chaos to spill into our own. Notable Warp Rifts include the Eye of Terror, Maelstrom, and Great Rift.
亚空间是一种极不稳定的形式。有时，干扰会将亚空间地区变成难以理解的破坏性狂怒的狂暴风暴。这些风暴可能持续数天、数月甚至数个世纪。更具破坏性的是亚空间裂隙，这是现实中将亚空间与物质世界联系起来的眼泪。这些裂隙非常危险，会让混沌领域蔓延到物质世界。著名的亚空间裂隙包括恐惧之眼、大漩涡和大裂隙。
Notable warp-storms M35-M41 M35-M41著名亚空间风暴
Warp Entities 亚空间实体
The Warp, though utterly hostile to creatures of the material realm, is home to its own form of life. These are often voracious entities which are drawn to the psychic emanations of mortals of real space - these creatures include the Vampyre, Psychneuein, Astral Spectre, Astral Hound, Enslaver and most terrifying and numerous of all, the Daemons of Chaos.
亚空间虽然对物质世界的生物充满敌意，但它是自己生命形式的家园。这些通常是贪婪的实体，被现实空间中凡人的灵能释放所吸引—这些生物包括吸血鬼、灵能毒蜂、星界幽灵、星界猎犬、奴役者，以及最可怕、数量最多的混沌恶魔。
Ships traveling in the Warp are shielded against attacks from these creatures. Without these shields, travelers through the Warp would be consumed by daemons.
在亚空间中航行的船只受到防护，免受这些生物的攻击。没有这些护盾，穿越亚空间的航行者将被恶魔吞噬。
The Warp is also the realm of the four Gods of Chaos: Khorne, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, and Nurgle. Though the Warp and the Chaos Gods are formed of the same energy and are practically synonymous, each god has a form that embodies their personalities and dwells at the heart of their realms.
亚空间也是混沌四神的领地：恐虐、色孽、奸奇和纳垢。尽管亚空间和混沌诸神由相同的能量组成，几乎是同义的，每位神明都有一种形态，这种形态体现了他们的个性，并且居于他们各自领域的核心之处。
