Arik Taranis was a Thunder Warrior commander known to history as Victor of Gaduare, the Last Rider, the Butcher of Scandia, and the Throne Slayer.
阿里克·塔拉尼斯是一位雷霆战士指挥官，历史上被称为加杜阿雷的胜利者、最后的骑手、斯堪的亚的屠夫和王座杀手。
According to legend, he was taller than the Hollow Mountain and had carved the Pass of Mohan with his fists. He was a legendary figure, thought to have died of his wounds after raising the Banner of Lightning at the Declaration of Unity, after the Battle of Mount Ararat in the Kingdom of Uratu. However, Arik survived into the start of the 31st millennium on Terra by studying gene manipulation from the Emperor prior to His conquest of Old Earth. According to Taranis, the Emperor may have in fact massacred the Thunder Warriors and spread the tale of their annihilation at the Battle of Mount Ararat as a cover-up.
据传说，他比空心山脉还高，用拳头雕刻了莫汉关口。他是一位传奇人物，被认为是在乌拉图王国阿拉拉特山之战后，在统一宣言中举起闪电旗帜后因伤去世的。然而，阿里克在征服旧地球之前，通过研究帝皇的基因操纵，在泰拉上存活到了第31个千年初。据塔拉尼斯称，帝皇实际上可能屠杀了雷霆战士，并传播了他们在阿拉拉特山之战中被歼灭的故事作为掩盖。
Biography 传记
Thunder Warrior 雷霆战士
His mortal name is not recorded within the Imperial historical archives, but when he was reborn into the new form of one of the first proto-Astartes, he was named Arik Taranis. Taranis and his Battle-Brothers were created as tools of deadly efficiency, intended to spread terror amongst the Emperor's enemies and serve as the perfect killing machines. Their goal was to drag Terra back from the anarchy into which it had fallen for over five millennia, and into a new age of enlightenment and peace -- though they themselves would never know anything but war.
他的名字没有记录在帝国历史档案中，但当他重生为第一个原型阿斯塔特之一的新形态时，他被命名为阿里克·塔拉尼斯。塔拉尼斯和他的战斗兄弟是作为致命效率的工具而创建的，旨在在帝皇之敌中传播恐怖，并作为完美的杀戮机器。他们的目标是将太辣从五千年来陷入的无秩状态中拉回来，进入一个启蒙与和平的新时代 — 尽管他们自己除了战争什么都不知道。
It was against this backdrop of oppression, violence and casual brutality that Arik Taranis and his fellow Thunder Warriors carved a reputation as the undisputed soldiers of their age. Arik Taranis would forge a legend that would still resonate with the modern Space Marines created as the replacements for the Thunder Warriors before the start of the Great Crusade. He would become history wrought in living form: the Victor of Gaduaré, the Last Rider, the Butcher of Scandia, the Throne-slayer -- these and a hundred other battle-honors earned by this incomparable warrior are scattered throughout the texts written about the foundation of the Imperium. All these tales culminated in the end of Taranis's life atop a once-flooded mountain during the final great clash of the Unification Wars, the Battle of Mount Ararat fought in the Kingdom of Urartu.
正是在这种压迫、暴力和随意暴行的背景下，阿里克·塔拉尼斯和他的雷霆战士同胞们树立了他们这个时代无可争议的士兵的声誉。阿里克·塔拉尼斯将创造一个传奇，这个传奇仍然会与现代星际战士产生共鸣，这些战士是在大远征开始前作为雷霆战士的替代品而创建的。他将以活生生的形式成为历史：加杜阿雷的胜利者、最后的骑士、斯堪的亚的屠夫、王座杀手 — 这些以及这位无与伦比的战士所获得的其他一百项战斗荣誉分散在关于帝国建立的文本中。在统一战争的最后一场大冲突中，塔拉尼斯在一座曾经被洪水淹没的山上度过了生命的最后阶段，所有这些故事都达到了高潮。
Taranis was posthumously awarded the title of "Lightning Bearer" in the aftermath of Mount Ararat. The Imperial chronicles record that Taranis and his Battle-Brothers amongst the remaining Thunder Warriors were all slain to a man in this final battle of the great conflict, sacrificing themselves to win the last and most important victory for the Emperor and establish His government over Terra, which would become the Imperium of Man. The Imperial chronicles record that Taranis died, succumbing to numerous mortal wounds once he fulfilled the honour of raising the Emperor's Lightning Banner at the final declaration of Unity for humanity's birthworld.
塔拉尼斯在阿拉拉特山事件后被追授“携电者”的称号。帝国编年史记载，在这场伟大冲突的最后一场战斗中，塔拉尼斯和他的战斗兄弟在剩下的雷霆战士中都被杀直到最后一人，他们牺牲了自己，为帝皇赢得了最后也是最重要的胜利，并建立了他在泰拉的政府，这将成为人类帝国。帝国编年史记录了塔拉尼斯在人类诞生的世界的最终统一宣言中举起帝皇的闪电旗帜的荣誉后，死于无数致命的伤口。
The truth, however, was very different and far darker, for Arik Taranis had actually survived the Battle of Mount Ararat and also knew that at the very moment the Emperor had founded his Imperium, He had also arranged for the elimination of every last surviving Thunder Warrior because they were no longer necessary and would serve as an impediment to the rest of the Emperor's plan. Taranis bore no ill-will towards his creator for this monstrous and secret betrayal, for he understood better than anyone that the Thunder Warriors had always been merely a means to an end. He and all his kind had been cast aside by the Emperor in favour of the more advanced Space Marine gene-template. Arik Taranis was one of only a small number of Thunder Warriors who managed to escape the final cull of his kind after Mount Ararat.
然而，事实却大不相同，也更加黑暗，因为阿里克·塔拉尼斯实际上在阿拉拉特山之战中幸存下来，也知道在帝皇建立帝国的那一刻，他还安排了消灭每一个幸存的雷霆战士，因为他们不再被需要，并将阻碍帝皇计划的其余部分。塔拉尼斯对他的创造者没有恶意，因为他比任何人都清楚雷霆战士一直只是达到目的的手段。他和他的同类都被帝皇抛弃了，转而使用更先进的星际战士基因模板。阿里克·塔拉尼斯是阿拉拉特山之战后为数不多的成功逃脱对同类最终屠杀的雷霆战士之一。
Gang Lord 帮派领主
Taranis managed to hide himself amongst the teeming masses of Mankind on Terra for over a century after the end of the Unification Wars, shunning his former name and assuming a new identity. He became the criminal warlord Babu Dhakal, clan master of the Dhakal gang, the master of most of the Petitioner's City criminal enterprises, including prostitution, gambling, and the illegal sale of food, drugs and weapons. His first name, "Babu", meant "father" in the ancient language of Barat. His last name, "Dhakal", was the name of a region of the mountains near the Imperial Palace. Nothing moved within the city without the Babu's approval.
在统一战争结束后的一个多世纪里，塔拉尼斯设法将自己隐藏在泰拉上拥挤的人类群体中，避开了以前的名字，并采用了新的身份。他成为了罪犯军阀巴布·达卡尔，达卡尔帮派的氏族首领，祈愿者之城大多数犯罪企业的主人，包括卖淫、赌博以及非法销售食品、毒品和武器。他的名字“巴布”在古代巴拉特语中意为“父亲”。他的姓氏“达卡尔”是皇宫附近山区的名字。没有巴布的批准，城里什么也不能动。
During the century spent on the run from Imperial authorities, Taranis discovered the inherent flaw that lay within every Thunder Warrior's genetic makeup, for their lifespans had been engineered to be extremely limited, unlike the true Astartes who came after them and would live for hundreds of Terran years. Unbeknownst to anyone outside of the Petitioner's City, Taranis maintained a well-equipped genetic laboratory at the heart of the city. Fortunately for Taranis, he had learned what he could from his creator in the years of the Unity Wars, and had come to master much of the Emperor's knowledge of the ancient science of genetics. Unfortunately, Taranis did not possess enough knowledge to halt his own cellular deterioration, only enough to desperately cling to life long enough for his fortunes to finally change during the opening days of the Horus Heresy.
在逃离帝国当局的一个世纪里，塔拉尼斯发现了每个雷霆战士基因组成中固有的缺陷，因为他们的寿命被设计得极其有限，这与他们之后的真正的阿斯塔特不同，后者将能生活数百泰拉年。在祈愿者之城以外的任何人都不知道的情况下，塔拉尼斯在市中心拥有一个设备齐全的基因实验室。幸运的是，塔拉尼斯在统一战争的几年里从他的创造者那里学到了他所能学到的东西，并掌握了帝皇对古代遗传学的大部分知识。不幸的是，塔拉尼斯没有足够的知识来阻止自己的细胞退化，只有足够的知识去拼命地维持生命，直到他的命运在荷鲁斯叛乱的最初几天发生了变化。
A new opportunity arose in 005.M31 in the form of the Outcast Dead, renegade Astartes who had escaped the prison of Khangba Marwu and who carried the Emperor-wrought Gene-seed. After a first failed attempt at intimidating them, Taranis met with them in person at the Temple of Woe and offer a deal for him to acquire a progenoid gland, in the hope of using it to correct his own genetic flaws. However, the Outcast Dead were cornered by an Imperial hunter team that had been tracking them since their escape. During the ensuing battle the majority of the Astartes of the Outcast Dead were killed during the confrontation with the Imperial forces. However, Taranis and his lieutenant within the Dhakal gang, Ghota, another Thunder Warrior who had survived the Emperor's cull, took advantage of this distraction and managed to escape.
005.M31，一个新的机会出现了，那就是从康巴·玛乌监狱逃脱的叛徒阿斯塔特放逐死者，携带了帝皇制造的基因种子。在第一次企图威胁他们失败后，塔拉尼斯在痛苦圣殿亲自会见了他们，并为他们提供了一笔交易，让他获得一个基因收存腺，希望用它来修正自己的遗传缺陷。然而，放逐死者被一支帝国狩猎小队逼到了角落，这支狩猎小队自他们逃跑以来一直在追踪他们。在随后的战斗中，大多数放逐死者的阿斯塔特在与帝国军队的对抗中丧生。然而，塔拉尼斯和他在达卡尔帮派中的副手戈塔，另一位在帝皇的屠杀中幸存下来的雷霆战士，利用了这种分心，设法逃脱了。
Somehow, Taranis managed to obtain the Progenoid Glands of one of the fallen Astartes. Deep in the heart of the Petitioner's City, Taranis experimented with his samples within his secret laboratory. Using gene-samplers, he managed to extract the necessary information encoded within the glands' stored zygotes of Astartes organs and the impossibly complex amino acid chains were decoded. Taranis unraveled the complexities of this biological miracle and managed to replicate the process of its creation and clone a new set of progenoid glands from the original sample.
不知如何，塔拉尼斯设法获得了一个堕落的阿斯塔特的基因收存腺。在请愿者之城的深处，塔拉尼斯在他的秘密实验室里对他的样本进行了实验。利用基因采样器，他设法提取了阿斯塔特器官腺体储存的合子中编码的必要信息，并解码了不可能复杂的氨基酸链。塔拉尼斯揭示了这一生物奇迹的复杂性，并设法复制了它的创造过程，并从原始样本中克隆了一组新的基因收存腺。
