The Council of Nikaea was a great convocation called by the Emperor of Mankind in 001.M31 to discuss the use of psychic powers in the Imperium, particularly within the Legiones Astartes. It took place in the waning years of the Great Crusade, and would be one of the last notable gatherings of historically important personages before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. While termed a 'council', the methodology of the debate and the persecution they felt they suffered because of it led the Thousand Sons Space Marine Legion to refer to the event as the Trial of the Thousand Sons or the Trial of Magnus the Red. To some later Imperial scholars, the Council was also known as the Hearing of the Thousands.
尼凯亚会议是人类帝皇于001.M31召开的一次大型会议，讨论在帝国，特别是在阿斯塔特军团内部使用灵能力量的问题。它发生在大远征的最后几年，将是荷鲁斯叛乱爆发前历史上重要人物的最后一次著名聚会之一。虽然被称为“会议”，但辩论的方法和他们所感受到的迫害导致千子星际战士将这一事件称为“千子审判”或“赤红之马格努斯审判”。对于后来的一些帝国学者来说，该会议也被称为千子审讯。
History 历史
The Librarian Crisis 智库危机
The young Imperium was wary of the development of psychic potential among the population; the means to reasonably successfully monitor and control such mutant developments did not yet exist, and there was deep distrust and bias amongst the various factions that saw, or did not see, a benefit to allowing those with psychic powers to remain unchained...or even alive. Many individuals with psychic powers were put to use by the Imperium, the most important being the Navigators who made safe space-travel possible, but even these psykers were barely tolerated by some. Any grouping of psykers was bound to draw comment, and so it proved with the Thousand Sons Legiones Astartes.
年轻的帝国对人口中灵能潜力的发展持谨慎态度；目前还不存在合理成功地监测和控制这种突变发展的手段，各派系之间存在着深刻的不信任和偏见，他们看到或没有看到允许那些拥有灵能力量的人保持不受约束的好处...甚至活着。帝国使用了许多具有灵能能力的人，其中最重要的是使安全太空航行成为可能的导航者，但即使是这些灵能者也几乎无法被一些人容忍。任何一种灵能者都必然会引起评论，千子军团阿斯塔特也证明了这一点。
The Thousand Sons drew regular criticism simply for existing throughout much of the early part of their career, seen as potentially dangerous due to the psychic talents of their Legionaries. Anti-psykers decried them as an example of the problem writ large, an imminent threat to the Imperium. Cries for their disbandment were loud; the discovery of their primarch, Magnus, quietened these calls for a time.
千子经常受到批评，仅仅是因为他们在服役生涯早期的大部分时间里都存在，由于他们的军团成员的灵能天赋，他们被视为潜在的危险。反灵能者谴责他们是问题的一个例子，对帝国构成迫在眉睫的威胁。要求解散他们的呼声很高；他们的原体马格努斯的发现，暂时平息了这些呼声。
Magnus and two other primarchs - Sanguinius of the Blood Angels, and Jaghatai Khan of the White Scars - proposed that Librarius Departments should be formed in the Legions to harness the latent psychic powers that were beginning to manifest in the Astartes of some Legions. Initially, the Emperor sanctioned the experiments and then allowed the deliberate recruitment of psychic candidates into Legions that did not already posses such mutants; however, as he withdrew from the fighting of the crusade, many called for him to pass judgment on whether the experiment should continue.
马格努斯和另外两位原体—圣血天使的圣吉列斯和白色伤疤的察合台可汗—提议在军团中成立智库部门，以利用一些军团的阿斯塔特中开始显现的潜在灵能力量。最初，帝皇批准了这些实验，然后允许有意招募灵能候选人加入尚未拥有这种突变的军团；然而，当他退出大远征的战斗时，许多人呼吁他对是否应该继续进行实验做出判断。
The reasoning for this was twofold. Firstly, as the Great Crusade reached further from the light of Terra, stranger and stranger foes were faced. Many times the Legiones Astartes or the Imperial Army would discover a new world, only to be met by hostile action from beings who wielded mysterious, sorcerous-seeming powers; powers that resembled those employed by the Thousand Sons and the legion Librarians.
这样做的理由是双重的。首先，随着大远征离泰拉之光越来越远，面临着越来越多的陌生敌人。很多时候，军团或帝国军队会发现一个新世界，却遭到了拥有神秘、看似魔法的力量的生物的敌对行动；这些力量类似于千子和军团智库所使用的力量。
The second was that the Thousand Sons were seen to be potentially dangerously unstable by none other than Leman Russ, primarch of the Space Wolves and long a distruster of the Thousand Sons' martial doctrines and battle-philosophy. On the world of Shrike, the Russ witnessed a Thousand Son fall victim to a malady called the flesh-change; uncontrolled physical degeneration and grand mal mutation apparently brought on by the loss of psychic control. Announcing that he had turned a blind eye to Magnus' "obvious" dabbling in black arts up to this point, the Wolf King declared that he was done ignoring his brother's tainted ways and claimed that the entire Thousand Sons legion was corrupted. He further promised a reckoning.
第二个原因是，千子被认为是潜在的不稳定危险，正是太空野狼的原体黎曼·鲁斯，长期以来一直不信任千子的军事学说和战斗哲学。在伯劳世界里，鲁斯目睹了一个千子成为一种叫做血肉转变的受害者；失控的身体退化和大量突变显然是由灵能控制的丧失引起的。狼王宣布，到目前为止，他无法对马格努斯“明显”涉足黑魔法的行为视而不见，并宣布他已经无法无视他兄弟的肮脏行径，并声称整个千子军团都被腐蚀了。他进一步承诺会进行清算。
Leman Russ' voice joined that of Mortarion's, long a critic of the Thousand Sons and psykers in general and who now openly accused Magnus of sorcery, and that of Corax and Rogal Dorn, who both refused to field their Legions alongside the Thousand Sons and even other legions that deployed Librarians upon occasion. Their outcry now so insistent that it soon became a major point of contention across the entire Imperium, with the primarchs split over the issue. Eventually, on the brink of leaving the Great Crusade after the ascension of Horus Lupercal to the position of Warmaster, the Emperor was forced to call a conclave of the War Council of the Great Crusade to resolve the issue of psykers amidst the Legiones Astartes, with himself acting as arbiter. The world chosen for the great Council was called Nikaea.
莫塔里安加入了黎曼·鲁斯的发声，莫塔里安长期以来一直是千子和灵能者的批评者，现在公开指责马格努斯是巫术，还有科拉克斯和罗格·多恩的发声，他们都拒绝与千子军团并肩作战，甚至偶尔部署智库的其他军团。他们的强烈抗议现在如此强烈，以至于很快成为整个帝国争论的焦点，原体们在这个问题上意见分歧。最终，在荷鲁斯·卢佩卡尔升任战帅后，在离开大远征之际，帝皇被迫召集大远征战争议会召开秘密会议，以解决阿斯塔特军团中的灵能者问题，并由他自己担任仲裁者。被选为召开大会议的世界被称为尼凯亚。
Nikaea 尼凯亚
Nikaea was a world that, during the time of the Great Crusade, was in its geological infancy. Clouds completely obscured the surface while tectonic movement created constant pyroclastic eruptions and storms across the planet. Its very fabric in flux, clods of ejected matter were caught in orbit or drifted across the system, with gravitational waves and electromagnetic discharges swamping local space. Navigating through all this to a point on the surface would've been impossible if not for a psychic beacon generated by the Emperor. The planet was said to be galactically remote. The surface of the still-forming world was littered with curious extrusions of rock and magma that had taken on various largely geometric shapes; Magnus claimed that this oddity was likely a reason the Emperor had selected the planet, as it echoed the origins of Magnus' belief in the ordered nature of the universe.
在大远征时期，尼凯亚是一个地质上还处于起步阶段的世界。云层完全遮蔽了地表，而构造运动在全球范围内造成了持续的火山碎屑爆发和风暴。它的结构在不断变化，喷出的物质块被困在轨道上或在系统中漂移，引力波和电磁波覆盖了局部空间。如果没有帝皇生成的灵能信标，要想在这一切中导航到表面上的某个点是不可能的。据说这颗行星在银河系中很遥远。这个仍在形成的世界的表面到处都是奇怪的岩石和岩浆喷出物，它们呈现出各种几何形状；马格努斯声称，这一奇怪现象可能是帝皇选择这颗行星的原因，因为它与马格努斯对宇宙有序的信仰起源相呼应。
Perturabo both designed and built the council chambers. Although originally designed as an arena for competitive events, The Emperor would later repurpose it for his own use. The council chambers were created on Nikaea within a hollowed out stratovolcano, a massive amphitheatre having been carved out of its heart. The beacon projected by the Emperor was visible to those with mindsight as a beam of light shooting straight up out of the volcano, wreathed in golden lighting. Magnus saw this as a magnificent sign of the wonders of psychic powers and a validation of his stance before the Council even began. His Chief Librarian, Ahzek Ahriman, on the other hand, was dismayed by the sheer power on display, realising it was tied to a prophetic vision he had previously experienced that promised disaster. Casual use of psychic powers at the Council was difficult; Ahriman put this down to the presence of the Emperor.
佩图拉博设计并建造了会议厅。虽然最初设计为竞技活动的竞技场，但帝皇后来将其改为自用。会议厅是在尼凯亚一座挖空的层状火山内建造的，一座巨大的圆形剧场从其中心雕刻出来。帝皇投射的信标对那些有灵能的人来说是可见的，就像一束光从火山中直射出来，被金色的灯光环绕着。马格努斯认为这是灵能力量奇迹的一个宏伟标志，也是他在会议开始之前立场的验证。另一方面，他的首席智库阿扎克·阿里曼对所展示的纯粹力量感到沮丧，意识到这与他以前经历过的预言景象有关，这预示着灾难。在会议中随意使用灵能力量是困难的；阿里曼将此归因于帝皇的存在。
Security within the Council was a privilege taken by the Adeptus Custodes, as was their right and duty when the Emperor himself was present; though a three-Great Company-strong force of Space Wolves were present to act - according to them - as a no-quarter safety measure in case Magnus made the 'wrong decision' in reaction to events. They were accompanied by a detachment of the Sisters of Silence, which made their presence (and that of their primarch, Leman Russ) psychically undetectable. Arrivals to the Council site had to submit control of their vessels to Custodes remote pilots, who berthed the ships at secured landing zones. Private quarters for attendees ringed the amphitheatre, which itself could seat thousands upon the tiered black stone seating. The amphitheatre was open to the elements, but workings of the Mechanicum kept the storm at bay. Massive environmental control machinery allowed the juvenile world to prematurely support life. The command and control position for the entire installation was staffed by several hundred operatives of the Imperial Fleet, the Hegemonic Corps, the Space Wolves, the Sisters of Silence and the Adeptus Custodes. The Emperor and his immediate retinue sat upon a pyramidal dais at one side of the amphitheatre (the side opposite on which Magnus' quarters were located).
会议的安全是禁军的特权，帝皇亲自在场时，他们的权利和义务也是如此；尽管据他们说，三个大连强大的太空野狼部队在场，作为一项无条件的安全措施，以防马格努斯对事件做出“错误决定”。他们由寂静修女的一支分队陪同，这使得他们的存在（以及他们的原体黎曼·鲁斯的存在）在灵能上无法被察觉。抵达会议现场的人员必须将其船只的控制权交给禁军远程飞行员，他们将船只停泊在安全的着陆区。与会者的私人宿舍环绕着圆形竞技场，圆形竞技场本身可以在分层的黑石座位上容纳数千人。圆形竞技场向外界开放，机械教的运作使风暴得以控制。大规模的环境控制机制使青年世界过早地支持生命。整个设施的指挥和控制位置由帝国舰队、霸权军、太空野狼、寂静修女和禁军的数百名特工组成。帝皇和他的随从坐在圆形竞技场一侧的金字塔台上（马格努斯的住处所在的对面）。
The Council Convenes 会议召开
The Council was presided over by Malcador the Sigillite, Regent Lord of Terra and personal confidant of the Emperor. He carried the Emperor's golden scepter as a sign that he held authority over the assembled. The Thousand Sons delegation was the last to arrive, uninformed of the true nature of the Council. Immediately after their arrival, Magnus and Ahriman were taken into the crowded public amphitheatre to be sworn in; it was at this moment that they realised, wearily and with shocked dismay respectively, the true nature of the 'council' they had been summoned to attend, at least for them.
会议由掌印者马卡多主持，他是泰拉的摄政王，也是帝皇的私人密友。他拿着帝皇的金杖，作为他对会议拥有权威的标志。千子代表团是最后一个到达的，他们不知道会议的真实性质。他们抵达后，马格努斯和阿里曼立即被带到拥挤的公共露天竞技场宣誓就职；就在这一刻，他们分别疲惫地和震惊地意识到，他们被召集参加的“会议”的真实性质，至少对他们来说是这样。
The primary objective of the Council of Nikaea was to determine what to do about the Librarian Crisis that described the division between the Legions over the continued use of Librarians on the battlefield and for Magnus to face the charges of sorcery. Many interpreted the Council as in actuality the Trial of Magnus the Red; he was accused of sorcery and of corrupting the Space Marine Legions through the introduction of Librarians into them and their training by seconded warrior-scholars of the Thousand Sons.
尼凯亚会议的主要目标是确定如何应对智库危机，该危机描述了军团之间在战场上继续使用智库的分歧，以及马格努斯面临巫术指控。许多人将会议解释为实际上是对赤红之马格努斯的审判；他被指控使用巫术，并通过向引入智库以及千子军团借调的战士学者对他们进行培训，腐蚀了星际战士军团。
Malcador announced that those gathered had been summoned to freely debate the issue - causing some consternation in the crowd - and whether the use of Librarians was outright sorcery that caused a threat to human galactic domination, or if such claims were fearful, ignorant mewlings. He closed this opening address with an invite for anyone to make the first speech. The first to stand was a Rune Priest of the Space Wolves known as Othere Wyrdmake.
马卡多宣布，与会者被召集起来自由辩论这个问题，这在人群中引起了一些恐慌，以及使用智库是否是对人类银河统治构成威胁的彻头彻尾的巫术，或者这些说法是否是可怕的、无知的喵喵叫。他在开幕词的最后邀请大家做第一次演讲。第一个站起来的是太空野狼的符文牧师，被称为奥瑟瑞·命造。
The Accusations 指控
Wyrdmake, as a psyker himself and as someone considered a respected colleague by Ahriman, may have been thought to have spoken out in defence of Librarians. Quite the opposite occurred - claiming knowledge of the Thousand Sons due to fighting alongside them on Shrike and Aghoru, he denounced each and every one of them as warlocks, deceivers and sorcerers, swearing the truth of the matter upon his oath of loyalty to Leman Russ. Malcador commented that this was a serious accusation, and asked if anyone would support it; Mortarion, primarch of the Death Guard legion stepped forth.
命造本人是一名灵能者，也是被阿里曼认为受人尊敬的同事，他可能被认为为智库辩护。恰恰相反，他声称由于在伯劳和阿格鲁与千子并肩作战而了解千子，并谴责他们每个人都是术士、骗子和巫师，在宣誓效忠黎曼·鲁斯时发誓事情的真相。马卡多评说这是一个严历的指控，并问是否有人会支持它；死亡守卫军团的原体莫塔里安走了出来。
Mortarion repeated his charge that Magnus was a practitioner of sorcery. He illuminated his side of the debate by reminding the listeners of his personal experiences, and the worlds he had seen ruined by individuals who peered too long into dark places. He further reminded them all that Old Night was caused by psykers, their actions almost destroying the species. He pointed to the existence of the Sisters of Silence, an Imperial body specifically created to do the apparently essential job of not only guarding against the danger of psykers, but hunting them down. He dwelled upon horrific imagery he had seen, memories of sorcerous powers and the horrors they can conjure, and the power of such arcane barbarians to hold off or defeat Imperial purity. He closed by stating that he did not believe that Magnus was such a monstrous person as he had described and dealt with in his younger days...but that he was walking on the same path. Acknowledging his long-held anti-Librarian beliefs, he pressed that he was condemning Magnus not out of hate, but out of brotherly love and concern, so that Magnus may stop before it was too late.
莫塔里安再次指控马格努斯是一名巫师。他通过提醒听众他的个人经历，以及他所看到的被那些长时间凝视黑暗之地的人摧毁的世界，来阐明他在辩论中的立场。他进一步提醒他们，旧夜是由灵能者造成的，他们的行为几乎摧毁了这个物种。他指出了寂静修女的存在，这是一个专门为做显然重要的工作而创建的帝国机构，不仅要防范灵能者的危险，还要追捕他们。他详细讲述了他所看到的可怕画面，对魔法力量及其所能唤起的恐怖的记忆，以及这些神秘蛮人抵抗或击败帝国纯洁性的力量。他最后说，他不相信马格努斯是一个像他年轻时描述和处理的那样可怕的人...但他走的是同一条路。他承认自己长期以来的反智库信仰，并强调他谴责马格努斯不是出于仇恨，而是出于兄弟般的爱和关心，这样马格努斯就可以在为时已晚之前停下来。
Mortarion and Wyrdmake then invited chosen other speakers to the podium, where they made the case against Librarians for some three hours. After this, an interval took place before Magnus was scheduled to answer the accusations made against him.
莫塔里安和命造随后邀请了其他选定的演讲者到台上，在那里他们对智库进行了大约三个小时的辩论。在此之后，在马格努斯计划回答对他的指控之前，经过了一段时间。
The Testimony of the Crimson King 深红之王的见证
Magnus recounted many great deeds of Librarians, and pointed out that psykers were essential to the running of the Imperium, gesturing at the assembled astropaths to illustrate his point. He essayed that being fearful of the unknown was the mark of the ignorant and uneducated, ridiculous superstition, and that those without the courage to face new ideas sought to swamp them with scare-mongering. He pointed out that to people of previous historical periods, everything about a single individual at the Council would be regarded as magic, and that such long-ago people had beliefs that were proven wrong; the Sun does not orbit Terra after all, for example. He made an aside to Mortarion's testimony, claiming that the deepest desire leads to hate and lies, not love and concern.
马格努斯讲述了智库的许多伟大事迹，并指出灵能者对帝国的运作至关重要，他指着组装好的星炬来说明他的观点。他试图指出，对未知的恐惧是无知、未受过教育、荒谬的迷信的标志，那些没有勇气面对新思想的人试图用散布恐惧来淹没它们。他指出，对于以前历史时期的人来说，会议中关于一个人的一切都会被视为魔法，而很久以前人们的信仰被证明是错误的；例如，太阳毕竟不围绕泰拉运行。他对莫塔里安的证词置若罔闻，声称最深切的欲望会导致仇恨和谎言，而不是爱和关心。
He then spoke of he future; telling of what great deeds psykers can achieve and how much of a travesty the Council of Nikaea would be seen as by future Imperial citizens, as a barbarous event orchestrated by the ignorant. He refuted the claims against his legion, pointing out that the Thousand Sons fight at the forefront of the Great Crusade, taking the light of the Imperium to places others fear to tread and widening Imperial knowledge with their hunt for information. He then told a parable of men sitting around a fire in the dark of an underground cavern; one of their number discovers the light of outside, but his fellows are unwilling to believe him, content with the light from their fire. Wishing to illuminate his fellows, the explorer works hard, digging a great tunnel into the ceiling of the cavern and bringing the light to all his colleagues. That man knew he had to show his friends the truth, and strove to do so, despite their rejection and disbelief. Magnus claimed that in this case, the light is knowledge of the empyrean that he simply wanted to make available to everyone.
然后他谈到了他的未来；讲述了灵能者可以取得的伟大成就，以及未来的帝国公民将如何看待尼凯亚会议，将其视为无知者策划的野蛮事件。他驳斥了针对其军团的指控，指出千子在大远征的最前线作战，将帝国之光带到了其他人害怕践踏的地方，并通过寻找信息扩大了帝国的知识。然后，他讲了一个寓言，讲的是在地下洞穴的黑暗中，人们围坐在火堆旁；他们中的一个人发现了外面的光，但他的同伴们不愿意相信他，满足于火中的光。为了照亮他的同伴，探险家努力工作，在洞穴的天花板上挖了一条巨大的隧道，把光带给所有的同事。那个人知道他必须向朋友们展示真相，尽管他们拒绝和怀疑，他还是努力做到了。马格努斯声称，在这种情况下，他只是想让每个人都能获得关于至高天的知识。
"If I am guilty of anything it is the simple pursuit of knowledge."
“如果说我有罪的话，那就是对知识的简单追求。”
- Magnus the Red, at Nikaea
- 赤红之马格努斯，在尼凯亚
Magnus had spoken passionately with great power and the Council became even more divided. While effective, the Witch Hunters could not match Magnus' persuasiveness. The Council was once again adjourned. After the break, Magnus, who had felt that he had swayed many of those present with his testimony, was dismayed to pick up on a wide cloud of negative judgement now emanating from the Council, for reasons unknown to him, but perhaps having something to do with the events surrounding a servant of the Space Wolves...
马格努斯以极大力量的热情发表了讲话，会议变得更加分裂。虽然有效，猎巫人无法与马格努斯的说服力相媲美。会议再次休会。休息后，马格努斯觉得自己的证词动摇了在场的许多人，但他沮丧地发现，由于他不知道的原因，会议现在发出了一片广泛的负面评价，但也许与围绕太空野狼仆人的事件有关...
Hidden Events 隐藏事件
Present amidst the concealed Space Wolves contingent - much to the consternation of Constantin Valdor - was Kasper Hawser, Skjald of Tra, or Third Company. The reason Valdor was perturbed by his presence was that Leman Russ had earlier made it clear to the Chief Custodian that the Space Wolves suspected that Hawser was a Hidden One of the Thousand Sons; a deep-cover intelligence agent who unaware of their own status as a scouting conduit. His presence in the command centre constituted a serious security risk, even with the psi-blocking skills of the Sisters of Silence and the inert materials used in the construction of the Nikaea complex. However, these factors were the very reasons that the Russ decided to explore the possibility that Hawser was a Hidden One. After his debrief, Hawser was committed to the supervision of a senior Custode, Amon Tauromachian, and allowed to watch the Council deliberate. It was during this time that the Thousand Sons made an apparent attempt to remove their apparently-compromised spy, as Amon , Master of the Hidden Ones and Equerry to Magnus the Red made a sorcerous attack on Amon Tauromachian and attempted to eliminate Hawser. Amon was driven off by the intervention of Bjorn of the Space Wolves, and the incident reported immediately; the Space Wolves fully under the impression that news of it would influence the judgement of the Emperor.
在隐蔽的太空野狼特遣队中，有卡斯帕·豪瑟尔、特拉的吟游诗人和第三连，这让康斯坦丁·瓦尔多大为震惊。瓦尔多对他的出现感到不安的原因是，黎曼·鲁斯早些时候向首席禁军明确表示，太空野狼怀疑豪瑟尔是千子的一个隐藏者；一个不知道自己作为侦察渠道的身份的卧底情报人员。他在指挥中心的存在构成了严重的安全风险，即使有寂静修女的灵能阻断技能和建造尼凯亚时使用的复杂灵能惰性材料。然而，这些因素正是鲁斯决定探索豪瑟尔是一个隐藏者的可能性的原因。在听取汇报后，豪瑟尔被委托给高级禁军阿蒙·塔罗马奇监督，并被允许观看会议的审议。正是在这段时间里，千子显然试图清除他们明显受到威胁的间谍，因为隐者之主兼赤红之马格努斯的侍从官阿蒙对阿蒙·塔罗马奇进行了巫术攻击，并试图消灭豪瑟尔。阿蒙在太空野狼的比约恩的干预下被赶走，事件立即报告；太空野狼完全相信这一消息会影响帝皇的判断。
Tragically for everyone concerned, it would later be revealed that the 'Amon' that attacked Tauromachian and Hawser was not in fact Amon of the Thousand Sons, but an aspect of the Primordial Annihilator masquerading as the Master of the Hidden Ones as part of a convoluted scheme to remove the threat presented by both the Space Wolves and the Thousand Sons to the grand chaotic plan that would result in the Horus Heresy. The real Amon - and all the Thousand Sons present, including Magnus - had no idea of what had transpired in their names.
可悲的是，对所有相关人员来说，后来发现袭击塔罗马奇和豪瑟尔的“阿蒙”实际上不是千子的阿蒙，而是伪装成隐者之主的原初毁灭者的一个方面，这是一个复杂计划的一部分，该计划旨在消除太空野狼和千子对导致荷鲁斯叛乱的大混乱计划的威胁。真正的阿蒙和所有在场的千子，包括马格努斯，都不知道他们的名字里发生了什么。
The Librarians Speak 智库发言
As the end of the Council approached, Malcador arose, and asked if there were any remaining who would like to speak, before final judgement was made.
随着会议接近尾声，马卡多尔站了起来，问在做出最终判决之前，是否还有人想发言。
The tension could easily have been cut with a knife when a group of Space Marine Librarians stood and approached the dais. Malcador the Sigillite acknowledged them with a nod, and all fell silent. Among the group were some of the greatest Librarians of the Space Marine Legions. One of their number, a junior White Scars marine called Targutai Yesugei, spoke up, saying that there was nothing inherently evil about a Librarian. An Astartes psyker was akin to an athelete, a gifted individual who must be trained for the greatest results, or a bolter or Land Raider, a weapon that must be treated with respect and not loosed indiscriminately. They proclaimed that the best way forward would be to firm up the training of human psykers across the galaxy, and that this be made an Imperial priority, not their eradication; for with such a group of trained specialists loyal to the Emperor, the galaxy could be taken with ease. They also stated that any study of sorcery must of course be forbidden, effectively presenting a 'third way' to the Council. Some versions of the story of the Council claim that the Emperor immediately agreed to this proposal, as if waiting for it. However, other events, more believable in the light of what would transpire, are also presented.
当一群星际战士智库站起来走近讲台时，气氛紧张得简直能用刀子切断。掌印者马卡多点了点头，然后大家都沉默了。其中包括星际战士的一些最伟大的智库。他们中的一位，一位名叫塔里忽台·也速该的白色伤疤星际战士，大声说，智库本身并没有什么邪恶。阿斯塔特灵能者类似于运动员，一个有天赋的人，必须经过训练才能取得最大的成绩，或者一个爆矢枪或兰德掠袭者者，一种必须受到重视而不能随意松开的武器。他们宣称，最好的前进方向是在整个银河系加强人类灵能者的训练，并将其作为帝国的优先事项，而不是根除；因为有了这样一群忠于帝皇的训练有素的专家，银河系可以很容易地被占领。他们还表示，当然必须禁止对巫术的任何研究，这实际上向会议提出了“第三条路”。会议故事的一些版本声称，帝皇立即同意了这一提议，仿佛在等待。然而，根据将要发生的事情，其他更可信的事件也被呈现出来。
According to the Grimoire Hereticus, a number of Librarians attempted to storm out of the hall after they were horrified of the reactionary as well as the misguided direction the debate was taking place.
根据《异端魔籍》的说法，许多智库在对辩论的反动和误导方向感到震惊后，试图冲出大厅。
The Emperor's Decision 帝皇的决定
Ultimately, in a speech to the gathered Astartes (which seemed to Ahzek Ahriman to be directly intended for Magnus himself), the Emperor issued what would become known as the Edict of Nikaea, decreeing that the Legiones Astartes, beyond the use of Navigators and Astropaths, would no longer employ psykers. They were to disband their Librarius departments, the Librarians re-deployed to the battle companies and the primarchs themselves were to refrain from using any psychic powers they possessed. This of course applied to Magnus, whose use of sorcery was declared not proven. The Emperor also gave one final warning:
最终，在对聚集在一起的阿斯塔特的演讲中（在阿扎克·阿里曼看来，这似乎是直接针对马格努斯本人的），帝皇颁布了后来被称为《尼凯亚法令》的法令，规定阿斯塔特军团除了使用导航者和星语者外，将不再使用灵能者。他们将解散他们的智库部门，智库将重新部署到战斗连队，而原体本人将避免使用他们拥有的任何灵能力量。这当然适用于马格努斯，他使用巫术的行为被宣布为未经证实。帝皇还发出了最后的警告：
'"Woe betide he who ignores my warning or breaks faith with me. He shall be my enemy, and I will visit such destruction upon him and all his followers that, until the end of all things, he shall rue the day he turned from my light."
“谁不听我的警告，谁违背对我的信仰，谁就有祸了。他将成为我的敌人，我将毁灭他和他的所有追随者，直到一切结束，他都会后悔自己偏离我的光芒的那一天。”
- The Emperor, at Nikaea
- 帝皇，在尼凯亚
The Emperor was much enraged with Magnus personally. While he chose to refrain from outright announcing to the Council that Magnus was a sorcerer, the Emperor believed that Magnus had at least dabbled with the black arts. Seeing this as a personal betrayal - for the Emperor had, many years earlier, chosen to reveal secrets of the Warp to Magnus and Magnus alone - he issued his wayward son with a personal warning:
帝皇对马格努斯本人非常愤怒。虽然他选择不直接向会议宣布马格努斯是一名巫师，但帝皇认为马格努斯至少涉猎过黑魔法。他认为这是一种个人背叛—因为多年前，帝皇选择向马格努斯和马格努斯单独透露亚空间的秘密—他向任性的儿子发出了个人警告：
'"If you treat with the Warp, Magnus, I shall visit destruction upon you. And your Legion's name will be struck from the Imperial records for all time"
“如果你接触亚空间，马格努斯，我将毁灭你。你的军团之名将永远从帝国的记录中清除”
- The Emperor, at Nikaea
- 帝皇，在尼凯亚
It is said that Magnus' face appeared as if made from brittle stone at hearing this proclamation, stone upon the edge of cracking. Nevertheless, he bowed his knee to his father and pledged to obey. It was a pledge he would not keep.
据说，马格努斯听到这个宣告后，脸就好像是用易碎的石头做的，石头在开裂的边缘。尽管如此，他还是向父亲鞠了一躬，发誓服从。这是他不会遵守的承诺。
Attendees 与会者
A listing of notable attendees other than the Emperor of Mankind. It should be noted that there were several individuals in attendance whose identity remains hidden. This is due to the use of "falsehoods" that hid the identities of the person, or persons concealed behind them. The Emperor ordered that falsehoods be used so that no individuals' testimony would "be corrupted by fear of those who's eyes are upon him." It is implied by Ahzek Ahriman of the Thousand Sons that the individuals behind the falsehoods were in fact Primarchs from other Legions.
除人类帝皇之外的著名与会者名单。应该指出的是，有几个人出席了会议，但他们的身份仍然不为人知。这是由于使用了“谎言”来掩盖个人或隐藏在他们背后的人的身份。帝皇下令使用谎言，这样任何人的证词都不会“被那些盯着他的人的恐惧所破坏”。千子的阿扎克·阿里曼暗示，谎言背后的人实际上是其他军团的原体。
Ahzek Ahriman-Chief Librarian, First Captain-Thousand Sons-Pro
阿扎克·阿里曼-首席智库，第一连长-千子-赞成
Amon-Captain, Equerry-Thousand Sons-Pro-Impersonated by a daemon
阿蒙-连长，侍从官-千子-赞成-由恶魔冒充
Amon Tauromachian-Custodian-Adeptus Custodes-Unknown
阿蒙·塔罗马奇-禁军-禁军修会-未知
Nassir Amit-Captain-Blood Angels-Pro
纳西尔·阿密特-连长-圣血天使-赞成
Aun Helwintr-Rune Priest-Space Wolves-Anti
奥恩·冥冬-符文牧师-太空野狼-反对
Bjorn-Astartes-Space Wolves-Anti
比约恩-阿斯塔特-星际战士-反对
Calas Typhon-First Captain-Death Guard-Unknown
卡拉斯·泰丰斯-第一连长-死亡守卫-未知
Constantin Valdor-Chief Custodian-Adeptus Custodes-Neutral
康斯坦丁·瓦尔多-首席禁军-禁军修会-中立
Corvus Corax-Primarch-Raven Guard-Anti
科沃斯·科拉克斯-原体-暗鸦守卫-反对
Eidolon-Lord Commander-Emperor's Children-Unknown
艾多隆-领主指挥官-帝皇之子-未知
Elikas-Chief Librarian-Dark Angels-Pro-Legion allegiance implied, not stated
埃利卡斯-首席智控-黑暗天使-赞成-暗示效忠军团，未明确说明
Emperor of Mankind-Master of the Imperium-Imperium of Man-To be decided-Final arbitrator
人类帝皇-帝国之主-人类帝国-待定-最终仲裁者
Fulgrim-Primarch-Emperor's Children-Pro
福格瑞姆-原体-帝皇之子-赞成
Kasper Hawser-Skjald-Space Wolves-Unknown-Presumed to be a Hidden One
卡斯帕·豪瑟尔-吟游诗人-太空野狼-未知-被认为是一个隐藏者
Kelbor-Hal-Fabricator General-Martian Mechanicum-Strongly Against
凯尔博·哈尔-铸造将军-火星机械教-强烈反对
Leman Russ-Primarch-Space Wolves-Strongly Against
黎曼·鲁斯-原体-太空野狼-强烈反对
Magnus the Red-Primarch-Thousand Sons-Strongly Pro
赤红之马格努斯-原体-千子-强烈赞成
Mahavastu Kallimakus-Remembrancer-Thousand Sons-Pro-Personal scribe to Magnus
马哈瓦斯图·卡里马库斯-记述者-千子-赞成-马格努斯的私人抄写员
Malcador the Sigilite-Lord of Terra-Adeptus Terra-Unknown-Chief counsellor to the Emperor，Convener of the Council
掌印者马卡多-泰拉领主-中央政务部-未知-帝皇首席顾问，会议召集人
Mortarion-Primarch-Death Guard-Strongly against
莫塔里安-原体-死亡守卫-强烈反对
Othere Wyrdmake-Rune Priest-Space Wolves-Anti
奥瑟瑞·命造-符文牧师-太空野狼-反对
Promus-Chief Librarian-Ultramarines-Pro-Legion association implied, not stated
普罗莫斯-首席智库-极限战士-赞成-军团关联暗示，未说明
Raldoron-Chapter Master-Blood Angels-Pro
拉多隆-战团长-圣血天使-赞成
Rogal Dorn-Primarch-Imperial Fists-Anti
罗格·多恩-原体-帝国之拳-反对
Sanguinius-Primarch-Blood Angels-Pro
圣吉列斯-原体-圣血天使-赞成
Targutai Yesugei-Stormseer-White Scars-Pro-possibly an Epistolary
塔里忽台·也速该-风暴先知-白色伤疤-赞成-可能是书信
Thoros-Captain-Blood Angels-Unknown
索罗斯-连长-圣血天使-未知
Umojen-Chief Librarian-Salamanders-Pro-Legion association implied, not stated
尤莫金-首席智库-火蜥蜴-赞成-军团关联暗示，未说明
Unknown Representative-Unknown-Iron Warriors-Anti
未知代表-未知-钢铁勇士-反对
Unknown Representative-Unknown-World Eaters-Strongly against
未知代表-未知-吞世者-强烈反对
Unknown Representative-Unknown-Sons of Horus-Neutral
未知代表-未知-荷鲁斯之子-中立
Unknown Representative-Unknown-Iron Hands-Anti
未知代表-未知-钢铁之手-反对
Unknown Representative-Unknown-Word Bearers-Pro
未知代表-未知-怀言者-赞成
Unknown Representative-Unknown-Alpha Legion-Pro
未知代表-未知-阿尔法军团-赞成
Vespasian-Lord Commander-Emperor's Children-Unknown
维斯帕西安-领主指挥官-帝皇之子-未知
Zharost-Chief Librarian-Night Lords-Pro-Legion association implied, not stated
扎罗斯特-首席智库-午夜领主-赞成-军团关联暗示，未说明
Jalisco de Jerichos Huerta-Occulex-Magister-Adeptus Astra Telepathica-Neutral
哈利斯科·德·杰里科·韦尔塔-灵视总管-星语庭-中立
Tabor Ludovicia and Haldane Ma'lon-Lord Militants-Imperial Army-Neutral
塔博尔·卢多维希亚和霍尔登·马’龙-军务领主-帝国陆军-中立
Constansa Suati Falkan-Grand Admiral-Imperial Armada-Strongly Against
康斯坦萨·苏阿提·法尔坎-海军元帅-帝国舰队-强烈反对
Master of Navigators-Navis Nobilite-Unknown
导航者大师-导航者宗族-未知
Aftermath and Effects 后果和影响
The Emperor's Decree would prove to be a severe handicap to the Loyalist legions that fought for him during the Horus Heresy. Not all Legions abided by the Decree and continued to use Librarians in secret, most notably the Alpha Legion.
事实证明，帝皇的法令对荷鲁斯叛乱时期为他而战的忠诚派军团来说是一个严重的障碍。并非所有军团都遵守法令，继续秘密使用智库，最著名的是阿尔法军团。
During the Battle of Calth, when the Word Bearers summoned hordes of daemons, Roboute Guilliman ruefully considered that Nikaea had deprived the Ultramarines of their best weapon against denizens of the Warp, the Librarius. Guilliman also resolved that, if they survived the battle, their first order of business would be to see the Decree abolished. Guilliman noted that the timing was so convenient that it almost seemed like someone had planned it. During the Battle, Nathaniel Garro, a loyalist Captain of the Death Guard, recruited Tylos Rubio, a former Codicier of the Ultramarines, on the orders of Malcador the Sigillite. Malcador later gave Rubio free rein to use his psychic abilities, but did not indicate whether this permission was a step towards abolishing the Decree altogether. Khorarinn, one of the Adeptus Custodes, warned Garro that he considered the Decree to be fully in effect, and threatened that he would execute Rubio instantly if the Ultramarine used his abilities in Khorarinn's presence. Later, the Dark Angels violated the Council's edicts when Lion El'Jonson used Librarians to battle Daemons.
在考斯之战中，当怀言者召集了成群的恶魔时，罗伯特·基里曼悲伤地认为，尼凯亚剥夺了极限战士对抗亚空间居民的最佳武器智库。基里曼还决定，如果他们在战斗中幸存下来，他们的首要任务将是废除该法令。基里曼指出，时机非常方便，似乎有人已经计划好了。在战斗中，效忠他的死亡守卫连长纳撒尼尔·伽罗根据掌印者马卡多的命令，招募了前极限战士典记员泰洛斯·鲁比奥。马卡多后来允许卢比奥自由使用他的灵能能力，但没有表明这一许可是否是朝着完全废除该法令迈出的一步。克若拉林，其中一个禁军，警告伽罗，他认为该法令完全有效，并威胁说，如果极限战士在克若拉林面前使用他的能力，他将立即处决卢比奥。后来，当莱昂·艾尔庄森利用智库与恶魔作战时，黑暗天使违反了会议的法令。
Despite the Emperor's decision, in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy enforcement of Nikea ceased. By M41, the choice of whether to have Librarians was left to individual chapters. The Salamanders explained to the Marines Malevolent that they felt Nikea was outdated, while the Marines Malevolent retained a healthy distrust of psykers and Warp-seers. Within the archives of the Blood Ravens, the title to this event is known as the Hearing of the Thousands. Furthermore, the Apocrypha of Haidyes was used during the Hearing which later became the maxim of the Blood Ravens Chapter.
尽管帝皇做出了决定，但在荷鲁斯叛乱之后，尼凯亚的强制执行停止了。到了M41，是否有智库的选择留给了各个战团。火蜥蜴向恶意战士解释说，他们觉得尼凯亚已经过时了，而恶意战士对灵能者和亚空间先知保持着健康的不信任。在血鸦的档案中，这一事件的标题被称为“千子审讯”。此外，在审讯使用了海戴斯伪经，这后来成为血鸦战团的准则。
Trivia 琐事
The name, subject, and consequences of the Council of Nikaea have strong resemblance to the Roman Council of Nicea in 325 AD, which helped shape Catholic dogma.
尼凯亚会议的名称、主题和后果与公元325年的罗马尼凯亚会议非常相似，后者帮助塑造了天主教教条。
