The Navis Nobilite is an ancient organization predating even the Imperium by several thousand years, and is comprised of a unique form of mutant called Navigators who have the unique ability to navigate spacecraft through the warp. The Navis Nobilite are part of the Adeptus Terra and Imperial Fleet.
导航者宗族是一个古老的组织，甚至比帝国早了几千年，由一种名为导航者的独特变种人组成，他们具有在亚空间中导航宇宙飞船的独特能力。导航者宗族是中央政务部和帝国舰队的一部分。
Navis Nobilite symbol 导航者宗族标志
Parent Agency:Imperial Fleet
隶属机构：帝国舰队
Headquarters:Palace of the Navigators, Terra
总部：导航者宫殿，泰拉
Leader:Paternova (represented by the Paternoval Envoy)
领袖：星父（由星父特使代表）
Armed Forces:Various Security Forces
武装部队：各种安全部队
Established:M30
成立时间：M30
History 历史
The Navigator Gene was first developed by Humanity in roughly M22. The development of the Gene was instrumental in allowing for humans to colonize the Galaxy via Warp Travel. As such, the new Navigator class grew into a powerful organization independent of any government or cartel. The Navigators eventually coalesced into Great Families which in turn formed a broad union known as the Navis Nobilite. The Navis Nobilite was able to weather the Age of Strife and eventually merged into the Emperor's Imperium. During the Age of Exploration, the Navigator Houses began to survey the systems that would later form the Imperium.
导航者基因最早是由人类在大约M22开发的。基因的发展有助于人类通过亚空间航行在银河系定居。因此，新的导航者阶层成长为一个独立于任何政府或企业联盟的强大组织。导航者最终结成了大家族，大家族又形成了一个被称为导航者宗族的广泛联盟。导航者宗族最终能够度过纷争时代，并入了帝皇的帝国。在探索时代，导航者家族开始调查后来形成帝国的星系。
Status 状态
The Navigator Houses hold a unique position within the Imperium; they are not answerable to Imperial authority, but tend to toe the line because of the mutual benefits each side receives. Furthermore, members of the Navis Nobilite are compelled by ancient and binding oaths to serve with the Adeptus Mechanicus for a set duration in return for the Techpriests' services, serving the Imperial Navy and Merchant Fleets. A Navigator can also be rewarded with a Free Charter, which allows them to lease their services to whom ever they choose to.
导航者宗族在帝国中占有独特的地位；他们不对帝国当局负责，但由于双方互惠互利，他们倾向于遵守规则。此外，导航者宗族的成员必须遵守古老而有约束力的誓言，在规定的期限内与机械神教一起服役，以换取技术神甫的服务，为帝国海军和商船队服务。导航者还可以获得自由宪章的奖励，这允许他们将服务租给他们选择的任何人。
This autonomy does not however, protect the Navigators from the agents of the Inquisition. The Ordo Malleus has been assigned jurisdiction over the Navigators, to ensure the taint of Chaos is not able to take hold. Given the slightest reason, the Inquisition will ruthlessly purge any offending parties; goods and assets are seized, midnight raids on Navigator palaces are followed by arrests and a purging of those seen as tainted; their fate to be burnt as heretics or locked away in Inquisition torture chambers. As such, the Navis Nobilite are all too willing to tackle this problem internally.
然而，这种自治权并不能保护导航者免受审判庭特工的侵害。圣锤修会已被赋予对导航者的管辖权，以确保混沌的污染无法控制。只要有一点理由，审判庭就会无情地清洗任何违规方；货物和资产被没收，午夜突袭导航者宫殿后，逮捕并净化那些被视为被污染的人；他们的命运是被当作异端烧死或被关进审判庭的酷刑室。因此，导航者宗族非常愿意在内部解决这个问题。
The Navis Nobilite has been known to act violently when its status is threatened. During the Horus Heresy, the Paternova dispatched agents to destroy the Dark Glass artifact due to the threat it represented to the Navigators' monopoly on Warp Travel.
众所周知，当其地位受到威胁时，导航者宗族会采取暴力行动。在荷鲁斯叛乱期间，星父派遣特工摧毁了神器黑暗琉璃，因为它对导航者垄断亚空间航行构成了威胁。
The Navigator Houses 导航者家族
The Navis Nobilite consists of several Houses or Great Families, each consisting of a large group of related Navigators who reside in a literal House. This house is generally a large fortress-mansion presided over by the Great Family's leader, or Novator. There the Novator lives with his immediate family and retainers.
导航者宗族由几个家族或大家族组成，都由一大群居住在同一个家族中的相关导航者组成。家族通常是一座由大家族领袖或星长主持的大型堡垒公馆。星长和他的直系亲属和随从住在那里。
Each family is very close and often very large, and different families are often allied by marriage, while others are rivals. The families are organised into Houses and have their own unique traditions and positions dependent upon their own histories. For instance, House Belisarius is led by an individual referred to as the Celestarch and has its own standing military trained by the Space Wolves.
每个家庭都很亲密，而且往往很大，不同的家庭往往通过婚姻结盟，而其他家庭则是竞争对手。这些家庭被组织成家族，有自己独特的传统和地位，这取决于他们自己的历史。例如，贝利萨留斯家族由一位被称为天君的人领导，并拥有由太空野狼训练的常备军。
It has been stated that it would be impossible to catalogue and critique each of the Navigator families, but many can be grouped into broad categories, representing their unique strain of the gene as well as their area of influence and way of life. For example, Navigator Houses in the Calixis Sector and the Koronus Expanse are categorised into four prevalent groups:
有人说，不可能对每个导航者家庭进行记载和评论，但许多可以分为大类，代表他们独特的基因品系以及他们的影响领域和生活方式。例如，卡利西斯星区和科罗努斯扩区的导航者家族分为四类：
Nostromo Navigator House emblem 诺斯特罗莫导航者家族徽章
Magisterial Houses are those most closely related to the original Navigator families. They are the wealthiest and most traditional and will have holdings in the Navigator's Quarter on Terra. Due to the maintenance of their bloodlines, they are less susceptible to the symptomatic mutations of being a Navigator.
权威家族是与原初导航者家庭关系最密切的。他们是最富有、最传统的人，持有泰拉上的导航者群体。由于他们的血统得以维持，他们不太容易受到导航者的突变症候的影响。
Nomadic Houses have relinquished their properties and have taken entirely to spaceborne lifestyles; they are perhaps the most skilled of Navigators but have difficulty relating to planetary cultures.
游牧家族已经放弃了他们的财产，完全过上了星载生活方式；他们可能是最熟练的导航者，但很难与行星文化建立联系。
Shrouded Houses have somehow lost their status in relation to other houses and exist in a state of decline; sometimes referred to as Beggar Houses by other Navigators. Individual Navigators have little support from their own families, making them quite resourceful, while their Warp Eye often becomes more perceptive.
寿衣家族在某种程度上失去了与其他家族的联系，处于衰落状态；有时被其他导航者称为乞丐家族。个别导航者几乎没有家庭的支援，这使他们非常足智多谋，而他们的亚空间之眼往往变得更加敏锐。
Renegade Houses are those families that have been rejected by the Paternova either by turning from their ancient traditions or have been exiled due to conflicts with other houses. They are unable to maintain their genetic purity and often suffer the most mutation but can also benefit from new strains that might occur.
叛逆家族是指那些被星父拒绝的家庭，要么是因为偏离了古老的传统，要么是由于与其他家族的冲突而被流放。它们无法保持基因纯洁，经常遭受最多的突变，但也可以从可能出现的新品系中受益。
Notable Houses 著名家族
House Achelieux 阿舍利厄斯家族
House Belisarius 贝利萨留斯家族
House Brobantis 布罗班蒂斯家族
House Castana 卡斯塔纳家族
Great Navigator Houses 大导航者家族
The largest and most powerful and wealthy Houses of the Navis Nobilite are known as the Great Navigator Houses. They are all supported by complex networks of fealties, oaths, tithes and contracts, which has allowed the Great Houses to have almost total control over the movement of goods across the Imperium.
导航者宗族中最大、最强、最富有的家族被称为大导航者家族。它们都得到了复杂的效忠宣誓、誓言、什一税和契约网络的支持，这使得大家族几乎完全控制了整个帝国的货物运输。
Known Great Houses 已知大家族
House Davor-Jarni 达沃·雅尼家族
House Hals-Viati 哈尔斯·维亚蒂家族
House Locarno 洛迦诺家族
House M'edici 美'第奇家族
House Sixtus 西克斯图斯家族
The Paternova 星父
The Paternova is the great leader of the Navis Nobilite, who is chosen from the most powerful Navigators of the Great Families. The Paternova rules from the Palace of the Navigators. His position is far more than just one of leadership, he is able to somehow control, or amplify, the warp sight of the other Navigators. Without him, Navigators would suffer a considerable reduction in their ability to navigate the warp, with some losing the power altogether. When this happens warp travel becomes far more unstable. As the Paternova never leaves his Palace he, and the Navis Nobilite as a whole, are represented in the Senatorum Imperialis by the Paternoval Envoy. The current Paternova is Francisco M'edici 14th of the Great Navigator House M'edici.
星父是导航者宗族的伟大领袖，他是从大家族中最强大的导航者中选出的。星父在导航者宫殿统治。他的职位远不止是领导，他能够以某种方式控制或放大其他导航者的亚空间视觉。没有他，导航者在亚空间中的导航能力将大大降低，有些人甚至会完全失去力量。当这种情况发生时，亚空间航行会变得更加不稳定。由于星父从未离开过他的宫殿，他和整个导航者宗族在帝国参议院由星父特使代表。目前的星父是大导航者家族美第奇的弗朗西斯科·美'第奇十四世。
Another important position within the Navis Nobilite is the Consul Pre-Eminus.
导航者宗族中的另一个重要职位是前杰领事。
Security Forces 安全部队
The Navigators maintain their own heavily armed security forces, mostly designed to protect the Navigator Houses and guard the Navigator's Quarter on Terra. In times of war the great wealth of the Navigator's allows them to gather mercenary armies that can rival a Planetary Defense Force or System Defense Fleet.
导航者拥有自己的全副武装的安全部队，主要是为了保护导航者家族和守卫泰拉上的导航者群体。在战争时期，导航者的巨大财富使他们能够召集雇佣军，与行星防御部队或星系防御舰队相媲美。
Trade Wars 贸易战争
Conflicts between adversarial Navis Nobilite Houses can result in what is referred to as a trade war. These are controlled conflicts with set contracts for the rules of engagement during the quarrel, such as disallowing assassination attempts, open-warfare, destruction of assets, or other rules to mitigate damage. Open warfare is uncommon between Navigator Houses.
敌对的导航者宗族之间的冲突可能会导致所谓的贸易战争。这些是与争吵期间交战规则的设定协议的受控冲突，例如禁止暗杀企图、公开战争、破坏资产或其他减轻损害的规则。导航者家族之间的公开战争并不常见。
Though assassinations are often used between feuding Navigator Houses, open warfare is not uncommon as well. While this can occur without warning, a Navigator House can also formally declare a Trade War against a rival House. The Imperium's Administratum allows this to occur, as the Navigator Conventions ensure a Trade War is waged in a controlled fashion, that limits the amount of damage that can be done and prevents a Navigator House from destroying their rival. This is done by restricting their attacks to targets that both Houses agree to and using only forces that are under their direct command. Shipping lanes, mercantile operations and equipment are usually attacked in a Trade War, along with the Houses' employees and individual Navigators that have been declared as targets as well. All attacks must be limited to only the warring Houses themselves as well, which means that subsidiaries and allied lesser Navigator Houses are off limits. However, this last rule is often broken. Besides the number of lives lost in the conflict, Trade Wars can also result in a Navigator House losing control of commercial contracts, markets or shipping routes to their rivals.
尽管在世仇的导航者家族之间经常使用暗杀，但公开战争也并不罕见。虽然这可能会在没有警告的情况下发生，但导航者家族也可以正式宣布对敌对家族的贸易战争。帝国政府允许这种情况发生，因为导航者协议确保贸易战争以受控的方式进行，限制了可以造成的损害程度，并防止导航者家族摧毁对手。这是通过将他们的攻击限制在两个家族同意的目标上，并只使用他们直接指挥的部队来实现的。在贸易战争中，航线、商业运营和设备通常会受到攻击，同时被宣布为目标的家族雇员和个别导航者也会受到攻击。所有攻击也必须仅限于交战家族本身，这意味着附属公司和盟军较小的导航者家族是被禁止的。然而，这最后一条规则经常被打破。除了在冲突中丧生的人数外，贸易战争还可能导致导航者家族失去对商业合同、市场或航运路线的控制权。
Because they are paranoid that a Tradewar could always be declared against them, Navigator Houses go to great lengths to not appear militarily weak and pay well to maintain private armies. Mercenaries and Assassins are used as well, but if a House can not or will not pay to hire or maintain an army, they will instead train their slaves or penitents to become their soldiers. But because of how expensive a Tradewar often is, they normally do not last long. Regardless of what their reasons were for waging them, the warring Houses will not often see it worth justifying the cost it would take to win a Tradewar or the potential loss in profits they can occur. Due to this premature ending, Tradewars tend to produce bitter enmities between the warring Houses and leave many scores unsettled. The Great Navigator Houses though, do not see Tradewars as open conflicts. Instead, they are merely viewed as an extension of the Great Houses' customary means of conducting a competition between rivals.
因为他们偏执地认为贸易战争总是会对他们宣战，导航者家族竭尽全力不让自己在军事上显得软弱，并支付高昂的费用来维持私人军队。雇佣兵和刺客也被使用，但如果一个家族不能或不愿支付雇佣或维持军队的费用，他们就会训练奴隶或忏悔者成为士兵。但由于贸易战争的成本通常很高，它们通常不会持续很长时间。无论发动这些战争的原因是什么，交战双方都不会经常认为值得为赢得贸易战争所需的成本或可能发生的利润损失辩护。由于这种过早的结束，贸易战争往往会在交战双方之间产生强烈的敌意，并留下许多悬而未决的问题。然而，大导航者家族并不认为贸易战争是公开的冲突。相反，它们只是被视为大家族在竞争对手之间进行竞争的惯常手段的延伸。
