The Merchant Fleets are one of the three components of the Imperial Fleet, along with the civil fleets and warfleets.

商船舰队是帝国舰队的三个组成部分之一，与民用舰队和战斗舰队并列。

• Parent Agency:Imperial Fleet

• 隶属机构：帝国舰队

• Headquarters:Nexus Axiomatic, Terra

• 总部：公理枢纽，泰拉

• Leader:Speaker for the Chartist Captains Kania Dhanda

• 领袖：宪章船长发言人卡尼亚·丹达

• Armed Forces:Praeses Mercatura

• 武装部队：贸易守护者

• Established:M30

• 成立时间：M30

Overview 概述

The Merchant Fleet is one of the oldest organizations in the Imperium, predating the Emperor's domain and dating back to the Dark Age of Technology itself when the original Merchant Charters were issued as part of Humanity's expansion into the Galaxy. Unlike most Imperial organizations which constantly attempt to police and control humanity's domain, the Merchant Fleet deals only in trade and as a result is supremely wealthy. The combined merchant fleets compose almost 90% of all the interstellar spacecraft in the Imperium. Each fleet is based in one of the five Segmentae Majoris, and its administrative staff operate from the Segmentum Fortress. Although these fleet bases are huge ports equipped with docks, shipyards and repair facilities, their main function is to administer the fleets operating within their area. Only a small proportion of ships ever travel to the Segmentum Fortress where they are theoretically based. The overall headquarters of the Merchant Fleet is located at the Nexus Axiomatic on Terra. Within the Nexus work the Magister Calculo Horarium which coordinate shipping travel across the Imperium.

商船舰队是帝国中最古老的组织之一，早于帝皇的领土，可以追溯到黑暗技术时代，当时最初的宪章商船队是人类向银河系扩张的一部分。与大多数不断试图监管和控制人类领土的帝国组织不同，商船队只从事贸易，因此非常富有。合并后的商船队几乎占帝国所有星际飞船的90%。每个舰队都驻扎在五个主要星域中的一个，其行政人员在星域堡垒进行运作。尽管这些舰队基地是配备码头、造船厂和维修设施的大型港口，但它们的主要职能是管理在其区域内运营的舰队。理论上，只有一小部分船只会前往星域堡垒。商船舰队的总部设在泰拉上的公理枢纽。在枢纽内部，计时大师负责协调穿越帝国的航运航行。

Each merchant ship serves its fleet under an arrangement called a Merchant Charter. Not all charters are the same — some confer more power and responsibility to the ship's captain than others — but all types take the form of a feudal oath sworn to the fleet authorities on behalf of the Emperor. A captain may not register his vessel with the fleet authorities until this oath has been sworn and a record of it entered at the Segmentum Fortress for that zone and on the Segmentum Fortress on Mars.

每艘商船都根据一种称为商船宪章的安排为其船队提供服务。并非所有的宪章都是一样的 — 有些宪章赋予船长比其他宪章更多的权力和责任 — 但所有类型的宪章都采取为了帝皇向舰队当局宣誓的封建誓言的形式。船长不得在舰队当局登记其战舰，直至宣誓并在该区域的星域堡垒和火星上的星域堡垒上输入宣誓记录。

Most merchant ships lack Navigators or Astropaths. Consequently, many take generations to fully complete their preset circuits, and often become home to communities of void born who never set foot on conventional worlds. These long circuits are often the only contact that the Imperium has with some of its more isolated worlds, and the Captains' reports can be the only method by which their existence is remembered. To the worlds that they visit, the arrival of the trading ships can become prophesied events of great spiritual significance.

大多数商船都没有导航者或星语者。因此，许多需要几代人才能完全完成他们预设的环线，并经常成为从未涉足传统世界的虚空裔社会的家园。这些漫长的环路通常是帝国与其一些更孤立的世界的唯一联系，船长的报告可能是记住他们存在的唯一方法。对于他们所访问的世界来说，商船的到来可以成为具有重大精神意义的预告事件。

One of the positions in the Senatorum Imperialis is sometimes held by the Speaker for the Chartist Captains. Though an unassuming position, the Speaker is both tremendously wealthy and powerful, for it is they who can devastate entire Sector's simply by halting merchant trade. The Speaker commands the armed wing of the Merchant Fleet, the Praeses Mercatura.

帝国参议院的一个职位有时由宪章船长发言人担任。尽管这是一个谦逊的职位，但发言人既富有又强大，因为正是他们可以通过停止商业贸易来摧毁整个星区。发言人指挥着商船舰队的武装部队贸易守护者。

Rogue Traders do not fall under the purview of the Merchant Fleet, making them one of the few shipping entities not under its grip.

行商浪人不属于商船舰队的管辖范围，使其成为少数不受其控制的航运实体之一。

Ship Registration 船舶登记

Every ship has some form of ship ident (identification). One form of ident all ships have is a universal registration code, which is provided by the Chartists. These universal registration codes can be any length, some are a string of numbers while others are simply names. Regardless, all ships in the Imperium have to have them for the records of the Adeptus Terra. The mercantile guilds also maintain a strict registry of related information.

每艘船都有某种形式的船只识别码。所有船只的一种身份识别方式是由宪章提供的通用登记码。这些通用登记码可以是任何长度，有些是一串数字，而另一些只是名称。不管怎样，帝国中的所有船只都必须拥有它们，以记录在中央政务部。贸易行会也对相关信息进行了严格的登记。

When a ship docks in port they provide a ship ident to Imperial port authorities, sometimes being their universal registration code or a local planetary registration number (as some planets legally require). However, some ship use their keel-laying dates or launch memoranda instead. Shipping is complicated, and even more-so in the Imperium. Commercial merchant exports often also need to provide detailed schedules departure weeks in advance, alongside their ship idents, to port authorities.

当一艘船停靠在港口时，他们会向帝国港务局提供一个船只识别码，有时是他们的通用登记码或当地行星登记号（如某些行星法律所要求的）。然而，一些船只会使用龙骨铺设日期或下水报告代替。航运很复杂，在帝国更是如此。贸易商船出港通常还需要提前几周向港务局提供详细的出发时间表，以及他们的船只识别码。

Merchant Fleet Ships 商船舰队船只

• Armed Freighter 武装货船

• Vagabond Class Merchant Trader 流浪者级贸易商船

Vagabond Merchant Trader 流浪者贸易商船

• Universe Class Mass Conveyor 宇宙级大型运输舰

• Carrack Hauler 运输武装商船

• Fast Clipper 快船

• Merchant Brig 双桅商船

• Orion Class Star Clipper 猎户座级星际快船

• Galaxy Class Armed Freighter 银河级武装货船

• Tarask Class Merchantman 塔拉斯克级商船

• Goliath Class Forge Tender 歌利亚级铸造补给船

• Golthma-Ryzan Warp-Carrier 戈尔斯玛-瑞赞亚空间运输舰

• Greathold 大堡垒

• Heavy Transport 重型运输舰

Known Merchant Houses 已知商船家族

• Ios — Destroyed and expunged from all records.

• 伊奥斯 — 被毁灭并从所有记录中删除。

• Sansom — millennia old Trading House

• 桑瑟姆 — 千年的贸易家族

• Sorensen family — Captains of the Amaranthus for over nine thousand years.

• 索伦森家庭 — 超过九千年的阿玛兰瑟斯船长。

Known Members 已知成员

• Juskina Tull - Speaker for the Chartist Captains

• 朱斯金娜·图尔 - 宪章船长发言人

• Kania Dhanda - Speaker for the Chartist Captains

• 卡尼亚·丹达 - 宪章船长发言人

• Quynn Torl — Fleet Master

• 奎恩·托尔 — 舰队司令