The Milky Way Galaxy is the realm in which Warhammer 40,000 takes place. It is a vast spiral galaxy, ninety-thousand light years across and fifteen-thousand light years thick, containing roughly four hundred billion stars.

银河系是战锤40000发生的领域。它是一个巨大的螺旋星系，直径9万光年，厚度1.5万光年，包含大约4000亿颗恒星。

Map of the Galaxy 银河系地图

History 历史

Billions of years old, the earliest known sentient race in the galaxy were the Old Ones. Mastering advanced technologies derived from the Warp and creating the Webway, they soon established an empire across the whole galaxy. They believed that all life was useful and they are known to had brought about the rise of numerous new species, such as humanity, as well as impregnated thousands of worlds which they made their own. The Old Ones soon came into contact with vampire incorporeal beings which fed on the energy of stars known as C'tan. The Old Ones battled the C'tan, forcing them into hiding. At some point, the Old Ones came into conflict with the Necrontyr, a race of highly advanced but short-lived beings. The two civilizations eventually clashed in a massive galaxy-spanning conflict known as the War in Heaven which the Old Ones were winning until the Necrontyr turned to the C'tan in desperation, converting themselves into the mechanical Necrons. This time, the conflict was far different from the previous wars as the Old Ones mastery of the Warp was now countered by the C'tan's supremacy of the material universe. In time, the C'tan began to dominate the galaxy whilst the Old Ones bastions were besieged and their nurtured races being fed upon like cattle by the eternal hunger of the star-gods. Entire worlds were razed, suns extinguished and entire star systems devoured whole by the terrible C'tan. In desperation the Old Ones sired new races to fight the Necrons and C'tan such as the Eldar and Orks.

数十亿年前，银河系中已知最早的有情种族是古圣。他们掌握了源自亚空间的先进技术，并创建了网道，很快在整个银河系建立了一个帝国。他们相信所有的生命都是有用的，众所周知，他们带来了许多新物种的崛起，如人类，以及他们创造的数千个世界。古圣很快就接触到了吸血鬼般的无形生物，它们以被称为星神，以恒星的能量为食。古圣们与星神作战，迫使他们躲藏起来。在某个时刻，古圣与惧亡者发生了冲突，惧亡者是一个高度发达但寿命短暂的种族。这两个文明最终在一场跨越星系的大规模冲突中发生了战争，这场冲突被称为“天堂之战”，古圣逐渐赢得这场战争，直到惧亡者绝望地转向星神，将自己变成了机械死灵。这一次，这场冲突与之前的战争大不相同，因为古圣对亚空间的掌握现在被星神对物质宇宙的权能所抵消。随着时间的推移，星神开始统治银河系，而古圣的堡垒被围困，他们培育的种族像牲畜一样被星神永恒的饥饿所吞噬。整个世界被夷为平地，太阳熄灭，整个恒星系统被可怕的星神吞噬。在绝望中，古圣渴望新的种族来对抗死灵和星神，如灵族和欧克。

A distant view of the Galaxy 银河系的远景

However this still did not prove enough and slowly the Old Ones were broken, scattered, and finally annihilated by the Necrons and C'tan. In the power vacuum following the war, the lesser creations of the Old Ones such as Mankind were known to had continued to develop but in unforseen ways. The mantle of galactic dominion would eventually pass to the Eldar who had fought alongside the Old Ones during the war. Exhausted from the War in Heaven, the Necrons departed into the Great Sleep on their Tomb Worlds in order to rebuild their strength and take control of the galaxy once more. Shortly before the Great Sleep the Necron Silent King, Szarekh, engineered a betrayal of the C'tan. The star-gods were shattered and enslaved by the Necrons and Szarekh went into self-imposed exile outside of the Galaxy.

然而，这仍然不够，慢慢地，古圣被死灵和星神摧毁、分散，最终被消灭。在战争后的权力真空中，众所周知，人类等古圣的较小创造物继续发展，但以不可预见的方式发展。银河系的统治权最终将传递给在战争中与古圣并肩作战的灵族人。由于在天堂之战中筋疲力尽，死灵们回到了他们的墓穴世界，进入了大休眠，以重建他们的力量，再次控制银河系。在大休眠之前不久，死灵寂静王斯扎拉克策划了对星神的背叛。星神被死灵粉碎并奴役，斯扎拉克自我放逐，前往银河系之外。

With the Necrons in hidden hibernation, the Eldar rose to the position as the masters of the Galaxy. Creating a vast empire and utilizing the Webway for travel, the Eldar Empire and its advanced technology flourished for millennia. However the Eldar were not the only major galactic power at this time. Humanity was eventually able to utilize Warp Drives and Navigators to finally leave the Sol System to colonize a large part of the Galaxy during a period that would become known as the Dark Age of Technology. Ultimately, this first interstellar empire of Humanity would collapse after a series of disasters that included a devastating machine uprising, Warp Storms, and the sudden appearance of large amounts of Psykers. In the subsequent Age of Strife most of humanity's domains regressed and the species seemed doomed.

随着死灵隐藏蛰伏，灵族升任银河系的主人。创建了一个庞大的帝国，并利用网道进行航行，灵族帝国及其先进技术繁荣了数千年。然而，灵族并不是当时唯一的主要银河系力量。人类最终能够利用亚空间驱动器和导航者最终离开太阳系，在后来被称为黑暗技术时代的时期殖民银河系的大部分地区。最终，这个人类的第一个星际帝国将在一系列灾难之后崩溃，其中包括毁灭性的智械起义、亚空间风暴和大量灵能者的突然出现。在随后的纷争时代，人类的大部分领域都倒退了，物种似乎注定要灭亡。

Meanwhile, the Eldar Empire grew increasingly hedonistic, arrogant, and cruel. As the depravity of the Eldar grew, their psychic resonance was giving birth to a new God of Chaos. When this being of pure desire, Slaanesh, exploded into life the psychic backlash decimated the Eldar race and empire. The souls of billions of Eldar and most of their Gods were consumed by Slaanesh and a massive Warp Rift was created in the epicenter of the Eldar portal. This rift has since become known as the Eye of Terror. Only a small portion of the Eldar race survived the birth of Slaanesh, mainly those on Craftworlds or Exodite Worlds as well as their dark kin which resided in the Webway.

与此同时，灵族帝国变得越来越享乐主义、傲慢和残忍。随着灵族的堕落越来越严重，他们的精神共鸣正在孕育一位新的混沌之神。当这种纯粹的欲望，色孽爆发出来时，精神上的反弹摧毁了灵族的种族和帝国。数十亿灵族的灵魂和他们的大多数神都被色孽吞噬了，在灵族门户的中心制造了一个巨大的亚空间裂隙。这个裂隙后来被称为恐惧之眼。只有一小部分灵族种族在色孽诞生后幸存下来，主要是那些生活在方舟世界或蛮荒世界的人，以及他们居住在网道的黑暗亲属。

Around the time of the Fall of the Eldar in M30, humanity's homeworld of Terra had recovered from the Age of Strife and united once more under the Emperor of Mankind. Forming the Imperium of Man, the Emperor and his offspring, the Primarchs, embarked on the Great Crusade. The Crusade succeeded in uniting thousands of human worlds which had become lost and isolated during the Age of Strife and mankind rose to become the Galaxy's largest single empire. However the events of the Horus Heresy forced the Emperor's remain to be forever shackled to the Golden Throne and over the next ten thousand years the Imperium would become increasingly theocratic and fall into a state of decay.

在M30的灵族陨落前后，人类的家园世界泰拉已经从纷争时代恢复过来，并在人类帝皇的统治下再次统一。建立了人类帝国，帝皇和他的后代，即原体，开始了大远征。大远征成功地团结了数千个在纷争时代迷失和孤立的人类世界，人类崛起为银河系最大的单一帝国。然而，荷鲁斯叛乱事件迫使帝皇的遗体永远被束缚在黄金王座上，在接下来的一万年里，帝国将变得越来越神权政治，陷入衰落状态。

Nonetheless for the last ten thousand years the Imperium has endured, battling not only Xenos races but also the forces of Chaos. The Orks have risen to become the most numerous of the Galaxy. Meanwhile, newer and more dynamic civilizations such as the Tau Empire would develop and the Necrons slowly began to reawaken from the Great Sleep. The Galaxy would face a new and grave threat at the close of M41 when the Tyranids, a ravenous race seeking to devour all organic life, finally arrived in The Galaxy to begin their feast.

尽管如此，在过去的一万年里，帝国一直在与异型种族和混沌势力作战。欧克已经成为银河系中数量最多的。与此同时，像钛帝国这样更新、更有活力的文明将发展起来，死灵慢慢开始从沉睡中醒来。M41结束时，银河系将面临一个新的严重威胁，寻求吞噬所有有机生命的贪婪种族泰伦终于抵达银河系开始他们的盛宴。

After the Thirteenth Black Crusade, the Warp was thrown into such turmoil that much of the Galaxy was effectively split in two by a disturbance known as the Great Rift.

第十三次黑色远征后，亚空间陷入如此混乱，以至于银河系的大部分实际上被一种称为大裂隙的干扰一分为二。

Territories and Civilizations 领土和文明

The Imperium 帝国

The Imperium is the largest empire in the Galaxy, centred around Terra in the galactic west, consisting of at least a million worlds which are dispersed throughout the entire Galaxy. Space ruled by the Imperium is divided into five fleet zones, known as Segmentums:

帝国是银河系中最大的帝国，以银河系西部的泰拉为中心，由至少一百万个分散在整个银河系的世界组成。帝国统治的空间分为五个舰队区域，称为星域：

Segmentums of the Galaxy 银河星域

• Segmentum Solar 太阳星域

• Ultima Segmentum 极限星域

• Segmentum Tempestus 暴风星域

• Segmentum Pacificus 太平星域

• Segmentum Obscurus 朦胧星域

Space is then further divided into Sectors, which typically cover seven million cubic light years equivalent a cube with sides almost 200 light years long; Sub-sectors, which usually comprise between two and eight star systems within a ten light year radius; and systems. Imperial planets are categorised into several broad classes according to their function, type of civilisation and technological level.

然后，空间被进一步划分为星区，星区通常覆盖700万立方光年，相当于边长近200光年的立方体；分区，通常包括十光年半径内的两到八个恒星系统；以及星系。帝国行星根据其功能、文明类型和技术水平分为几个大类。

Current situation for the Imperium 帝国当前情况

There remain vast areas, in fact the majority of the stars in the Galaxy, that are unexplored, uninhabited, inaccessible by the Warp, or are controlled by alien empires. These areas are known by various names including wilderness space or wilderness zones. By far a greater majority of habitable worlds exist outside the borders of Imperial civilization than within.

事实上，银河系中的大多数恒星仍然有广阔的区域，这些区域尚未被探索、无人居住、亚空间无法进入，或者被外星帝国控制。这些地区有各种各样的名字，包括荒野空间或荒野地带。到目前为止，大多数可居住的世界都存在于帝国文明的边界之外，而不是内部。

Space Marine Deployments 星际战士部署

The Fringes surround the galaxy and are outside the light of the Astronomican and so beyond easy reach of the Imperium. They are known to contain human planets settled in ancient times as well as many alien worlds. The Eastern Fringe is the largest fringe area located to the far galactic east boarding the Ultima Segmentum.

边缘环绕着银河系，位于星炬之光之外，因此帝国无法轻易触及。众所周知，它们包含古代定居的人类行星以及许多异型世界。东部边缘是位于银河系远东，极限星域的最大边缘区域。

Imperial Guard Deployments 帝国卫队部署

Beyond the Fringes lie the Halo Stars — very ancient stars ringing the Galaxy, the majority almost extinguished and circled by long-dead worlds.

边缘之外是光环星 — 环绕银河系的非常古老的恒星，大多数几乎熄灭，被早已死亡的世界环绕。

Adeptus Mechanicus territory across the galaxy 整个银河系的机械神教

The forces of the Imperium are recruited from and posted to defend the many worlds of the Imperium. The immense armies of Imperial Guard are recruited from every single Imperial planet and regiments are shipped across the Galaxy to the frontlines of warzones . The elite Space Marines typically operate from a Chapter Planet, although some Chapters maintain their base on space-bound fleets, space stations or asteroids . The Imperium can also call upon the pious warriors of the Adepta Sororitas, the fleets of the Imperial Navy, and the mighty god-machines of the Collegia Titanica to come to its defense.

帝国的军队从帝国的许多世界招募并驻扎，以保卫帝国的许多星球。帝国卫队的庞大军队从每一个帝国星球招募，兵团被运送到银河系的前线。精英星际战士通常在战团星球上作战，尽管有些战团以太空舰队、空间站或小行星为基地。帝国还可以召唤修女会的虔诚战士、帝国海军的舰队和泰坦修会的强大神机来为其防护。

Ecclesiarchy territory and activity across the galaxy 整个银河系的国教领地

Chaos 混沌

The forces of Chaos such as the mighty Chaos Space Marine Legions keep hidden lairs within Warp storms, notably the Eye of Terror. Warbands exist on ships hiding in the wilderness zones between Imperial sectors or on hidden bases. The Lost and the Damned can emerge from fallen Imperial forces to plague the Galaxy. Chaos Daemons exist in the Warp but are capable of invading realspace through means such as breaking through the tear in realities opened by the unprotected mind of a psyker, or being ritually summoned by followers of Chaos .

混沌力量，如强大的混沌星际战士，在亚空间风暴中隐藏着巢穴，尤其是恐惧之眼。战帮存在于隐藏在帝国区域之间的荒野地带或隐藏基地的船只上。迷失者和被诅咒者可以从堕落的帝国军队中出现，困扰银河系。混沌恶魔存在于亚空间中，但能够通过各种方式入侵现实空间，例如突破由灵能者的无保护思想打开的现实裂隙，或被混沌追随者仪式召唤。

Chaos Space Marines 混沌星际战士

Daemon Strongholds 恶魔据点

Chaos Knight Strongholds 混沌骑士据点

Eldar 灵族

The Eldar, whose Empire once spanned the Galaxy, survive mostly on vast ships known as Craftworlds. A Craftworld contains Webway gates which connect to other Craftworlds or to hidden gates throughout the Galaxy, providing a means for their war parties or spacecraft to travel the Galaxy. A minority of Eldar also inhabit Exodite Worlds or Maiden Worlds, wander the Galaxy as Eldar Outcasts or Corsairs, or travel the Webway as part of the Harlequins.

灵族的帝国曾经横跨银河系，他们主要依靠被称为“方舟世界”的巨大船只生存。方舟世界包含网道门，可以连接到其他方舟世界或整个银河系的隐藏门，为他们的战党或宇宙飞船提供在银河系航行的手段。少数灵族也居住在蛮荒世界或未开发世界，作为灵族放逐者或海盗在银河系漫步，或者作为丑角的一部分在网道航行。

Eldar Activity 灵族活动

Dark Eldar 黑暗灵族

The Dark Eldar live in Commorragh, a city located within the labyrinth of the Webway, with hidden Webway gates leading to points all across the Galaxy, allowing them to emerge and strike from seemingly nowhere and vanish again before any significant resistance can be mobilised.

黑暗灵族居住在科摩罗，这是一个位于网道迷宫中的城市，隐藏的网道大门通往整个银河系的各个地点，让他们能够出现并从看似无处发起攻击，并在任何重大抵抗被动员之前再次消失。

Dark Eldar Activity 黑暗灵族活动

Necrons 死灵

Necrons are scattered all throughout the galaxy, awakening from Tomb Worlds where they were buried in stasis for centuries. They are finding the Galaxy a changed place, infested with younger races to be harvested.

死灵散布在整个银河系，从墓穴世界中醒来，在那里他们被埋葬了几个世纪。他们发现银河系是一个变化的地方，到处都是年轻的种族。

Necron Activity 死灵活动

Orks 欧克

Orks are spread everywhere throughout the Galaxy, in fact possibly outnumbering every other race. However due to their aggressive and warlike nature, the Ork race wars amongst itself and is split into hundreds of tiny empires. Only when a great Waaagh! is called do an uncountable number of Orks unite and channel their need for battle towards conquering planets, systems and other races.

欧克遍布整个银河系，事实上，它们的数量可能超过其他所有种族。然而，由于他们的侵略性和好战性，欧克种族之间发生了战争，并分裂成数百个小帝国。只有当一个巨大的Waaagh！将无数的兽人联合起来，将他们的战斗需求引向征服行星、星系和其他种族。

Primary Ork Domains 主要欧克区域

Tau 钛

The Tau control an upstart Empire located near the Eastern Fringe and are now expanding across the galaxy thanks to the Startide Nexus, bringing them into conflict with the Imperium and other races.

钛控制着一个位于东部边缘附近的新兴帝国，现在由于星潮枢纽的存在，他们正在整个银河系扩张，这使他们与帝国和其他种族发生冲突。

Tau Planets 钛行星

Tyranids 泰伦

The Tyranids are invading the Galaxy from beyond its borders, the majority of Hive Fleets having attacked from the Eastern Fringe. Though new Hive Fleets are emerging from the galactic north and south, most notably Hive Fleet Leviathan.Tyranid forces also include deadly Genestealer Cults.

泰伦正从银河系的边界之外入侵银河系，大多数虫巢舰队都是从东部边缘进攻的。尽管新的虫巢舰队正从银河系的北部和南部出现，最著名的是虫巢舰队利维坦。泰伦势力还包括致命的基因窃取者教派。

Tyranid Incursions 泰伦入侵

Genestealer Cult forces 基因窃取者教派部队

Leagues of Votann 沃坦联盟

The Kin are an Abhuman race likely originating from pre-Imperial Terra which settled the Galactic Core in the distant past. Largely keeping to themselves within their fabulously wealthy realm, the Great Rift has finally forced them to come into frequent contact with other civilizations.

炉裔是一个亚人种族，可能起源于遥远的过去定居在银河系核心的前帝国时代。在很大程度上，在他们极为富庶的领地内，大多时候都独善其身，然而大裂隙的出现最终迫使他们频繁地与其他文明接触。

Some of the Leagues of Votann holdings in the Galactic Core 沃坦联盟在银河系核心的一些资产

Other Civilizations 其他文明

The Ulumeathic League, Church of Dracolith, Draxian Hegemony, and Reek Worldweave are other emerging alien empires which are beginning to challenge the might of the Imperium while Hrud migrations are a constant bane to any civilization.

乌卢梅亚蒂克联盟、龙石教会、德拉西安霸权和瑞克世界编织者是其他新兴的外星帝国，它们开始挑战帝国的力量，而赫鲁德迁移是任何文明的持续祸害。

The Slaugth sport extremely advanced technology, even compared to the Eldar, and are currently infiltrating the Calixis Sector. They are able to disguise as humans, but most of the time they use human agents, bribed or threatened into service. Their long-term goal is to gain political influence and then to conquer the Calixis Sector by military means. Then they could openly feast on the human populations there.

与灵族相比，史洛斯人运动技术极其先进，目前正在渗透到卡利西斯星区。他们能够伪装成人类，但大多数时候他们使用人类代理人，贿赂或威胁服役。他们的长期目标是获得政治影响力，然后通过军事手段征服卡利西斯星区。然后，他们可以公开地享用那里的人口。

There are dozens, if not hundreds of minor alien civilizations in the Galaxy.

银河系中存在数十个，甚至数百个小型外星文明。

Galactic travel 银河航行

Inter-stellar travel around the galaxy is dependent on Warp jumps, a form of faster-than-light travel by means of entering the warp, a parallel psychic dimension, and re-emerging to a new location in real space light years away from the starting position.

恒星间围绕银河系的航行依赖于亚空间跳跃，这是一种比光速更快的航行形式，通过进入亚空间（一个平行的精神维度），并重新出现在距离起始位置光年远的现实空间中的新位置。

Other galaxies 其他河系

The distances between galaxies are so vast as to make inter-galactic travel unfeasible even with advanced warp jumps. Being thrown drastically off-course by a Warp storm can result in emerging outside of the galaxy, or stepping through an ancient portal of the Webway.

河系之间的距离如此之大，以至于即使有先进的亚空间跳跃，河系间的航行也不可行。被亚空间风暴彻底偏离轨道可能会导致出现在河系之外，或者穿过网道的古老门户。

The Imperium has no established presence outside the galaxy. Although, it is known that alien life exists out there - the Tyranids come from somewhere beyond the galaxy.

帝国在银河系外没有既定的存在。虽然，众所周知，外星生命存在于那里——泰伦来自银河系以外的某个地方。

Trivia 琐事

It appears to be inspired by the real life Milky Way galaxy, as it shares the same shape of a spiral and the same location of Earth (Terra) as the real Milky Way galaxy, as well as the same general configuration of planets and moons in the Solar/Sol system. Additionally, the real-life star Proxima Centauri has been referenced in in-universe material. However, the majority of official depictions do not have the central galactic bar that the real Milky Way is thought to have, nor the same number of arms.

它似乎受到了现实银河系的启发，因为它与现实银河系具有相同的螺旋形状和相同的地球（泰拉）位置，以及太阳/太阳系中行星和卫星的一般配置。此外，现实生活中的比邻星在宇宙内的相关资料中曾被提及。然而，大多数官方描绘中既没有现实中银河系被认为所拥有的中央银棒结构，旋臂的数量也与现实中的银河系不同。