The Webway Project, also known as the Imperial Webway and the Emperor's Great Work, was a highly secretive project by the Emperor of Mankind during the Great Crusade and likely long before. The project was to be the culmination of the Emperor's ambition and its completion was His greatest concern above all other.
网道计划，也称为帝国网道和帝皇的伟大工程，是人类帝皇在大远征期间以及可能很久以前的一个高度保密的项目。这个项目是帝皇野心的顶峰，它的完成是他最关心的事情。
History 历史
The Webway Project was a revolutionary concept seeking to replace the primary means of interstellar transportation for humanity. In short, the project sought to replace Warp travel with access to the Webway. The Webway was a far more efficient means of travel, and most importantly bypassed the depredations of Chaos within the Warp. The ultimate objective of the Webway Project was for the Emperor to completely sever humanity from the Warp in its entirety, depriving Chaos of its power. This would come as the Emperor guided the species in its evolution into a fully psychic race, assuring its ascendancy on the galactic stage.
网道计划是一个革命性的概念，旨在取代人类星际航行的主要方式。简而言之，该项目试图用网道的访问权限取代亚空间航行。网道是一种更有效的航行方式，最重要的是绕过了亚空间中混沌的掠夺。网道计划的最终目标是让帝皇完全切断人类与亚空间的联系，剥夺混沌的力量。这将是因为帝皇引导物种进化成一个完全灵能的种族，确保其在银河系舞台上的优势。
It is uncertain as to where the technology came from. In a psychic musing with Custodian Diocletian Coros, the Emperor explained that He either improved on technology from the Dark Age of Technology or possibly came up with the idea on His own, but He refused to give a definite answer. Using a Psyker of great power (likely originally intended to be Magnus the Red), a portal into the Webway could be created from the Golden Throne. The Emperor was able to create such a portal deep within the Imperial Palace on Terra, and it was here that He began His work to expand human access in the Webway. The Emperor created a new caste of Mechanicum Tech-Priest known as the Unifiers to construct new Webway tunnels for human use. However, unlike the original Webway tunnels, these were not made of psychically resistant material. Instead, the psychic will of the Emperor via the Golden Throne protected the tunnels from Daemonic intrusion.
目前尚不清楚这项技术是从哪里来的。在与禁军戴克里先·科罗斯的心灵沉思中，帝皇解释说，他要么从黑暗技术时代改进了技术，要么可能是自己想出了这个主意，但他拒绝给出明确的答案。使用强大的灵能者（可能最初是赤红之马格努斯），可以从黄金王座创建一个通往网道的门户。帝皇能够在泰拉上的皇宫深处创建这样一个门户，正是在这里，他开始了在网道中扩大人类通道的工作。帝皇创建了一个新的机械神教技术神甫种类，称为统合士，为人类建造新的网道隧道。然而，与最初的网道隧道不同，这些隧道不是由抗灵能的材料制成的。相反，帝皇通过黄金王座的灵能意志保护了隧道免受恶魔的入侵。
After the Ullanor Crusade, the Emperor named Horus as Warmaster and returned to Terra in order to work on the Webway Project. The project was mired in the greatest secrecy. Not even the Primarchs knew why the Emperor returned to Terra and this created a degree of resentment among many, especially Horus. The Emperor's secrecy may have been motivated in part over fears of how the Navis Nobilite would respond if they felt their monopoly on interstellar travel was being threatened. Indeed, the Paternova of the Navigators dispatched an agent to destroy a prototype that would link with the Golden Throne, Dark Glass.
在乌兰诺远征之后，帝皇任命荷鲁斯为战帅，并返回泰拉进行网道计划。这个计划陷入了极度保密的境地。即使是原体也不知道帝皇为什么回到泰拉，这在许多人中引起了一定程度的怨恨，尤其是荷鲁斯。帝皇之所以保密，部分原因可能是担心如果导航者家族觉得他们对星际航行的垄断受到威胁，他们会如何回应。事实上，导航者的长老派遣了一名特工摧毁了一个与黄金王座有关的原型 — 黑暗琉璃。
Upon first entering the Webway, the previous masters of the Webway, the Eldar, began sealing portals to their own Craftworlds to prevent possible Imperial invasion.
在第一次进入网道时，网道的前任主人领主开始密封通往他们自己的方舟世界的门户，以防止可能的帝国入侵。
Ultimately, the Emperor's grand vision of human dominion over the Webway was doomed by Magnus the Red. Attempting to warn of the treachery of Horus and Erebus on Davin, Magnus used a forbidden psychic ritual to contact the Emperor personally deep within the Imperial Palace. The ritual created a massive psychic backlash, forming a chain reaction on the Emperor's carefully constructed wards across the Imperial Palace. The catastrophic event created multiple Warp Rifts known as Magnus' Folly within the Webway itself, through which countless Daemons poured. The Emperor was forced to try and contain the breach by permanently residing on the Golden Throne for much of the subsequent Horus Heresy while the Custodian Guard and Sisters of Silence battled hordes of Daemons to prevent them from entering the Imperial Palace and overrunning Terra itself.
最终，帝皇关于人类统治网道的宏伟愿景被赤红之马格努斯摧毁了。为了警告荷鲁斯和艾瑞巴斯在戴文的背叛，马格努斯使用了一种被禁止的灵能仪式，亲自联系了在皇宫深处的帝皇。这一仪式引发了巨大的灵能抵抗，在帝皇精心构建的、遍布帝国皇宫的防护屏障上引发了连锁反应。这场灾难性的事件在网道内部产生了多个亚空间裂隙，被称为马格努斯的愚行，无数的恶魔通过这些裂隙倾泻而下。在随后的荷鲁斯叛乱中，帝皇被迫永久居住在黄金王座上，试图遏制这一缺口，而禁军和寂静修女则与成群的恶魔作战，阻止他们进入皇宫并占领泰拉本身。
In the end, the Emperor was forced to seal the Webway portal within the Imperial Palace to prevent Terra from destruction, effectively dooming the Webway Project. However, as long as the Daemonic hordes threatened to force themselves through the breach and reach Terra, the Golden Throne would be the Emperor's prison. The Emperor could use temporary solutions to leave the Throne for periods of time, such as sacrificing massive amounts of Psykers or a substitute of great power such as Malcador.
最后，帝皇被迫封锁了皇宫内的网道门户，以防止泰拉被破坏，从而有效地毁掉了网道计划。然而，只要恶魔部落威胁要强行穿过缺口到达泰拉，黄金王座就会成为帝皇的监狱。帝皇可以使用临时解决方案在一段时间内离开王座，例如牺牲大量的灵能者或像马卡多一样有着强大力量的替代品。
When the Emperor decided to confront Horus aboard the Vengeful Spirit, Malcador was left to maintain the Golden Throne and keep the portal closed in his place. After the injured body of the Emperor was brought back to the Golden Throne, the immense effort exerted by Malcador nearly killed him. As the Emperor was placed back onto the Golden Throne, Malcador gave his life for The Emperor, reducing himself to dust, and letting The Emperor speak his final instructions. The Emperor has allowed the portal to remain closed for the last 10,000 years. Should the Emperor die, the Imperial Palace would be breached and Terra itself would be overrun by Daemons.
当帝皇决定跳帮复仇之魂号与荷鲁斯对峙时，马卡多被留下来维护黄金王座，并保持门户关闭。在帝皇受伤的尸体被带回黄金王座后，马卡多的巨大努力几乎杀死了他。当帝皇被放回黄金王座时，马卡多为帝皇献出了生命，自己化为尘土，让帝皇说出最后的指示。在过去的一万年里，帝皇一直维持门户关闭。如果帝皇死了，皇宫将被攻破，泰拉本身将被恶魔占领。
