The Slaugth are a xenos race, vaguely humanoid in shape, covered in hundreds of half-melded maggot-like worms. Covered in viscous mucus, they are impervious to all but the most extreme injury.
史洛斯是一个异型种族，形状有点像人，身上覆盖着数百条半融合的蛆状蠕虫。它们身上覆盖着粘稠的粘液，除了最严重的伤害外，对其他一切都不受影响。
A Slaugth consuming a human victim 史洛斯吞吃人类受害者
History 历史
The Slaugth are believed to be impossibly ancient, likely native to the Calixis Sector long before the arrival of Mankind. Much of their known activity takes place around the region of the Hazeroth Abyss that consists of cursed space and dead stars. Their true homeworld is, however, unknown and may not be located within the Abyss. Their origins are largely unknown to the Imperium though Rogue Traders and xeno-savants believe that any empire that they hold lies far out the Trailing Halo Stars. The circumstances of the first contact between mankind and the Slaugth is unknown, though some sources claim that they have been encountered on the edge of Imperial space as far back as the Age of Strife. The abundance of humans in the galaxy has led to them becoming the favoured prey of the Slaugth. Despite this, they seem content to use infiltration and human agents to bring about their incomprehensible plans.
史洛斯被认为古老的不可思议，可能早在人类到来之前就已经是卡利西斯星区的原住民。他们的大部分已知活动都发生在哈冼录深渊周围，该地区由被诅咒的空域和死星组成。然而，他们真正的家园世界是未知的，可能不在深渊内。他们的起源在很大程度上是帝国所不知道的，尽管行商浪人和异型学者认为，他们所拥有的任何帝国都远在光环群星尾部之外。人类与史洛斯第一次接触的情况尚不清楚，尽管一些消息来源声称，早在纷争时代，他们就在帝国空域的边缘遇到过。银河系中大量的人类使他们成为史洛斯最喜欢的猎物。尽管如此，他们似乎满足于使用渗透和人类代理来实现他们难以理解的计划。
Intendant Recusant, a former Slaugth leader in charge of portions of the Amaranthine Syndicate for decades 异见监督者，前史洛斯领袖，几十年来负责不凋花企业联合的部分业务
Many of the encounters with these xenos follow the same pattern, with black, tenebrous vessels entering into Imperial space, where they wreak havoc on isolated outposts or shipping lines. The Slaugth's victims are either left behind as mutilated bodies or disappear altogether. In other encounters, the Slaugth give their vile technologies to renegade humans in exchange for slaves. Those Imperial worlds that border the Hazeroth Abyss often tell the stories describing the Slaugth as the "worms that walk", a nightmare that emerges from the depths of the Abyss to kill the living and feast on the dead. Ultimately, however, the upper echelons of the Imperium dismiss them as little more than a myth.
许多与这些异型的遭遇都遵循同样的模式，黑色，晦涩的战舰进入帝国空域，在那里它们对孤立的前哨或航运线造成严重破坏。史洛斯的受害者要么留下残缺不全的尸体，要么完全消失。在其他遭遇中，史洛斯将他们肮脏的技术交给变节人类，以换取奴隶。那些与哈冼录深渊接壤的帝国世界经常讲述这样的故事，将史洛斯描述为“行走的蠕虫”，这是一场从深渊深处出现的噩梦，目的是杀死活着的人，吃掉死去的人。然而，最终，帝国高层认为它们只不过是一个虚构的东西。
However, the Inquisition knows that the Slaugth exist. Sealed Inquisitorial archives claim that several frontier worlds in the Segmentum Obscurus have, over millennia, been intentionally thrown into civil war in order to allow the Slaugth to invade and feed on the inhabitants. But even to those that are aware of the Slaugth, the ultimate goal of these inscrutable schemes remains a complete mystery. All that is known is that all the Slaugth seem to abide by this method.
然而，审判庭知道史洛斯的存在。密封的审判庭档案声称，数千年来，朦胧星域的几个边境世界被故意投入内战，以便允许史洛斯入侵并以居民为食。但即使对于那些知道史洛斯的人来说，这些难以捉摸的计划的最终目标仍然是一个完全的谜。众所周知，所有的史洛斯似乎都遵循这种方法。
In truth, the real reason the Slaugth avoid direct confrontation with the Imperium is that Mankind greatly outnumbers them. Whilst individual Humans are no match for a Slaugth, their greater numbers would mean that their kind would suffer a rapid defeat if the Imperium was provoked into open warfare. Despite this being the case, they are known to be preparing for the day when they will attack the Calixis Sector more openly.
事实上，史洛斯避免与帝国直接对抗的真正原因是人类的数量远远超过了他们。虽然个体人类不是史洛斯的对手，但如果帝国被挑起公开战争，他们的数量越多意味着他们的同类将迅速失败。尽管如此，众所周知，他们正在为更公开地攻击卡利西斯星区的那一天做准备。
The Storm Wardens Space Marine Chapter is known to have engaged Slaugth and their warrior constructs on Vigil during the events known as the Cleansing of Vigil. This conflict consisted of a series of bloody, close-range firefights, where conditions were so confined that it was impossible to deploy heavy armour. Whilst the Storm Wardens advanced cautiously and methodically, the Slaugth proved to be adept at provoking the Astartes out of such careful tactics. Casualties grew high as the battle raged on and the Storm Wardens morale was sorely tested but, ultimately, they succeeded in cleansing Vigil of the Slaugth threat, though at great cost to themselves.
众所周知，风暴守望者星际战士战团在被称为守夜星清洗的事件中，与史洛斯及其战士构造体在守夜星上交战。这场冲突包括一系列血腥的近距离交火，条件非常有限，无法部署重型装甲。虽然风暴守望者谨慎而有条不紊地前进，但事实证明，史洛斯擅长挑起阿斯塔特放弃这种谨慎的战术。随着战斗的持续，伤亡人数越来越多，风暴守望者的士气也受到了严峻的考验，但最终，他们成功地清除了守夜星的史洛斯威胁，尽管为此付出了巨大的代价。
In order to feed their constant hunger, the Slaugth have begun to turn their attention to the Calixis Sector and have begun to destabilize the region by fomenting civil war and anarchy. They began by infiltrating the Amaranthine Syndicate when it was a fledgling trade cartel and slowly moved in to control it completely. This patient approach may take several human generations to come to fruition, but it is a plan brilliant in its simplicity, relying on basic human greed. The Slaugth provide humans with technology, wealth, and trinkets, encouraging mankind to tear itself apart over these items. When their plans have sufficiently advanced, they intend to further infiltrate the major criminal, political, and economic organizations of the Imperium, with the Ecclesiarchy and Adeptus Administratum being likely targets. When the appointed time approaches, the Slaugth intend to see the sector collapse in on itself whereupon they will sweep through the region and have their way.
为了满足他们持续的饥饿，史洛斯开始将注意力转向卡利西斯星区，并开始通过煽动内战和无政府状态来破坏该地区的稳定。当不凋花企业联合还是一个初出茅庐的贸易企业联盟时，他们开始渗透进来，慢慢地完全控制了它。这种耐心的方法可能需要几代人才能实现，但它是一个简单而巧妙的计划，依赖于人类的基本贪婪。史洛斯为人类提供技术、财富和小饰品，鼓励人类为这些物品而撕裂自己。当他们的计划充分推进时，他们打算进一步渗透帝国的主要犯罪、政治和经济组织，国教和内务部可能是目标。当指定时间临近时，史洛斯打算看着该星区自行崩溃，然后他们将席卷该地区并为所欲为。
Many regard these xenos as a nightmarish myth, born as a void-born tale by mad Rogue Traders. The Inquisition knows them to be a real threat, though it has suppressed all knowledge of them for millennia. However, the Holy Ordos remain unaware of the fact that the Amarantine Syndicate is now under the command of the Slaugth. Slaugth activity within the Calixis Sector has also dramatically increased, spreading a network of their agents throughout the region. There is, however, some dissension amongst their ranks with a splinter faction formed by a Slaugth known as Intendant Recusant who has become consumed by his addictive hunger. This entity is known to have broken free from his dark masters, and now leads Slaugth infiltrators, a cadre of constructs and a faction of Humans from the Amaranthine Syndicate, in pursuit of his own goals.
许多人认为这些异型是一个梦魇般的神话，是由疯狂的行商浪人编造的一个虚空诞生的故事。审判庭知道他们是一个真正的威胁，尽管几千年来一直压制着对他们的所有了解。然而，神圣修会仍然不知道不凋花企业联合现在由史洛斯指挥。卡利西斯星区内的史洛斯活动也大幅增加，其代理网络遍布整个地区。然而，他们的队伍中存在一些分歧，由一个被称为异见监督者的史洛斯组成的分裂派系已经被他令人上瘾的饥饿所吞噬。众所周知，这个实体已经摆脱了他的黑暗主人，现在领导着来自不凋花企业联合的史洛斯渗透者、一队构造体和一个人类派系，追求自己的目标。
Overview 概述
The Slaugth are known as "maggot men", "dream eaters" and the "carrion lords" whose bodies and minds are completely alien to humanity. Their roughly humanoid form stands roughly as large as three meters in height. This body has hundreds of writhing maggot-like worms covered in a viscous, necrotic mucus. These traits allow them to stretch and reform their bodies at will whilst allowing them to move with on obscene boneless fluidity along with the capacity to regenerate at startling speed. Slaugth are impervious to age, disease, poison and are vulnerable to only the most extreme of injuries. Their alien minds are coldly savage and are psychic voids filled with a monstrous hunger for the dead. They are able to produce necrotic fluids from their body tissues, consisting of flesh-eating bacteria and molecular acids able to liquefy flesh or even burn through metal. The strange technology of the Slaugth combined with their unusual appearance has led many to mistakenly believe them to be daemonic beings. They are one of the xenos that conceal their true selves and walk amongst Mankind as if they were Humans themselves.
史洛斯被称为“蛆虫人”、“食梦者”和“腐尸领主”，他们的身体和思维与人类完全不相容。它们大致呈人形，身高约三米。这个身体有数百条扭动的蛆状蠕虫，上面覆盖着粘稠的腐败粘液。这些特征使他们能够随意伸展和改造自己的身体，同时使他们能够以惊人的速度以惊人的无骨流动性和再生能力移动。史洛斯不受年龄、疾病、毒药的影响，只容易受到最极端的伤害。他们的异型思维冷酷而野蛮，是充满对死者的巨大饥饿的精神空虚。它们能够从身体组织中产生腐败液体，由食肉细菌和能够液化血肉甚至烧穿金属的分子酸组成。史洛斯的奇怪技术与他们不同寻常的外表相结合，导致许多人错误地认为他们是恶魔。他们是隐藏真实自我并在人类中行走的异型之一，就像他们自己就是人类一样。
They are known to be an ageless and patient race with a psyche that is incomprehensible to the human mind though they do share one characteristic that others can understand - namely an addictive hunger. Above all other kinds, the Slaugth crave the dead flesh of other sentient beings, with a particular fetish for consuming cranial matter, which gives them a narcotic experience. Some say that this allows them to consume the memories and knowledge of their victims, and this theory is based in truth. Thus, while the Slaugth gain a more pleasurable narcotic experience from consuming rotting brain matter, they prefer to consume fresher brains for the purpose of gathering information. The memories gained from this process fade within weeks unless reinforced, repeatedly used or externally recorded.
众所周知，他们是一个永恒和有耐心的种族，他们的心理是人类无法理解的，尽管他们确实有一个其他人可以理解的特征，即令人上瘾的饥饿。最重要的是，史洛斯渴望其他有情众生的死者血肉，特别迷恋吃颅骨，这给了他们一种麻醉品的体验。有人说，这使他们能够吃受害者的记忆和知识，这一理论是基于事实的。因此，虽然史洛斯从食用腐烂的大脑物质中获得了更愉快的麻醉品体验，但他们更喜欢食用新鲜的大脑来收集信息。从这个过程中获得的记忆会在几周内消失，除非得到加固、反复使用或外部记录。
Restraint is not considered a virtue within the racial hubris of the Slaugth, and so they do not see their obsessive hunger as interfering with their intellect. They are known to be extremely intelligent, highly resilient and - by human standards - completely evil.
在史洛斯的种族傲慢中，克制不被认为是一种美德，因此他们不认为自己的痴迷饥饿会干扰他们的智力。众所周知，他们非常聪明，适应力强，而且按照人类的标准，他们是完全邪恶的。
Among the known Slaugth are the Principals who serve as Overseers of the Amarantine Syndicate though whether they are a leadership caste or particular cabal is unknown. Destructors are capable of taking a human guise and have dedicated themselves to the art of destruction above all other pursuits. Destructors are able to revert to their true forms, a nightmarish mass of writing white forms. Another known rank is the Intendents who also serve as leaders in Slaugth field operations.
在已知的史洛斯中，有担任不凋花企业联合监督者的首席，尽管他们是领导阶层还是特定的阴谋团尚不清楚。破坏者能够伪装成人类，并致力于破坏艺术，而不是其他所有追求。破坏者能够恢复到他们的真实形态，一堆噩梦般的白色形态。另一个已知的等级是监督者，他们也是史洛斯现场行动的领导者。
The Slaugth have some sort of connection to the vicious Rangdan of the Great Crusade. During the Rangdan Xenocides, they were observed following in the wake of the Rangdan, harvesting the dead and any survivors for their own obscene purposes. The Rangdan have also been described as "Slaugth Murder-Minds".
史洛斯与大远征的恶毒的冉丹有某种联系。在冉丹大屠杀期间，人们看到他们紧随冉丹大屠杀之后，为自己的骇人听闻的目的收割死者和幸存者。冉丹也被描述为“史洛斯谋杀思维”。
Technology 技术
The Slaugth possess a mastery of biomechanical technology and elemental physics which exceeds that of mankind and perhaps even the Eldar. Among their more mysterious capabilities is the capacity to travel interstellar distances without making use of the Warp. Many of their devices are actually grown or augmented pseudo-living machines which blend both flesh and metal in a functional symbiosis. Their weapons and artefacts appear as products of warp craft to the uninitiated. This keen and terrible grasp of the biosciences allows them to grow entire armies instead of training them. Their array of constructs can be adapted to serve as guards, spies and even as labourers.
史洛斯对生物力学技术和元素物理学的掌握超过了人类，甚至可能超过了灵族。它们更神秘的能力之一是能够在不使用亚空间的情况下穿越星际距离。他们的许多设备实际上是生长或增强的伪活机器，将血肉和金属融合在一起，形成功能共生。他们的武器和造物对不熟悉的人来说是亚空间技艺的产物。这种对生物科学的敏锐而可怕的掌握使他们能够培养整个军队，而不是训练他们。他们的一系列构造体可以用来充当守卫、间谍，甚至是劳工。
Slaugth warrior vassal construct 史洛斯战士奴仆构造体
When they desire to pass unseen and conceal their terrifying form, the Slaugth make use of multi-layered robes and mantles known as Shroud Cloaks which absorb as well as refract light. These cloaks seem to writhe and move as if alive, yet they allow their wearers to pass, at a distance, as misshapen humans.
当它们想要隐匿行踪，遮掩其骇人形态时，史洛斯会使用多层长袍和被称为寿衣斗篷的斗篷，它们吸收和折射光线。这些斗篷似乎像活着一样扭动和移动，但它们允许穿着者在远处作为畸形人类通过。
Shroud Armour is another form of ragged cloak that allows its wearer to disappear from sight by projecting a strange effect that clouds the perceptions of outsiders thus making them practically invisible.
寿衣盔甲是另一种形式的破旧斗篷，它通过投射一种奇怪的效果来掩盖外人的感知，从而使他们几乎看不见，从而让穿着者从视线中消失。
Their known weapons include a Necrotic Sceptre, a corroded-looking device that pulses with sickly light and unleashes arcs of eerie moaning energy when fired. Though a potent long-ranged device, it is equally capable of being used as a melee weapon. Other weapons include the little understood Necrotic Beams used on shock-constructs that can turn their targets into dust. A weapon of rank is the Necrotic Lance used by Intendents, a long-bladed spear made of swirling strands of bilious energy. With a simple command, these lances project devastating bolts of energy that can destroy battle tanks.
他们已知的武器包括一种坏死权杖，这是一种看起来被腐蚀的装置，发射时会发出病态的光，并释放出可怕的呼啸能量。虽然它是一种强大的远程装备，但同样可以用作近战武器。其他武器包括鲜为人知的坏死光束，用于震荡结构，可以将目标变成灰尘。一种等级武器是监督者使用的坏死长枪，这是一种由旋转的刺眼能量线制成的长刃矛。只需一个简单的命令，这些长枪就会投射出毁灭性的能量，摧毁战斗坦克。
The Slaught's biomechanical constructs induce revulsion in humans, though they differ widely in appearance; in general, most "Vassals" are asymmetrical floating columns of mottled, fungal-looking flesh, covered with pulsing veins, lattices of metal threadwork, and crystalline studs. Their heads are clusters of waving, frond-like sensory growths with skeletal pincer-limbs forming from the body mass when needed.
史洛斯的生物力学构造体引起了人类的反感，尽管它们在外观上差异很大；一般来说，大多数“奴仆”是不对称的漂浮柱，由斑驳的、看起来像真菌的血肉组成，覆盖着脉动的脉络、金属线格和晶体钉。它们的首部是一簇簇挥舞的、叶状的感知器官，在需要时，主体会形成骨骼状的钳肢。
A "Harvest" construct appears as a vehicle-sized, amorphous mass of rippling wet flesh that silently floats above the ground. Its mission is to search for sentient matter to consume for its masters, and it pursues this goal with near-mindless persistence, never tiring or relenting. Upon finding a target, a Harvester uses its metallic, pincer-tipped tendrils to pull its prey into its lamprey-like mouth. During this "feeding," the prey's head is separated and preserved in a semi-transparent sack located at the construct's back, storing the brain matter safely for future Slaugth feeding.
一个“收割”构造体看起来像一个载具大小的、无定形的、波纹状的湿润血肉，静静地漂浮在地面上。它的使命是寻找有情物质供其主人吃，它以近乎无意识的坚持追求这一目标，永不疲倦或松懈。在找到目标后，收割者会用其金属的、尖钳状的卷须将猎物拉进类似七鳃鳗的嘴里。在这种“进食”过程中，猎物的头部被分开并保存在位于构造体后部的半透明袋中，安全地储存大脑物质，以备将来史洛斯进食。
Warrior Vassal Constructs are a more militant version of these biomechnical creations. These pale, oval masses of fungal flesh are filled with purple veins and metal lattices. Movement is provided through three skeletal, spider-like legs with their upper torso consisting of thick, stumpy tubes filled with a mass of tendrils surrounding a radial, fang-filled maw. Each tendril is surprisingly strong and able to stretch into sharp bone blades. These warrior constructs are not limited to their tendrils alone but are also equipped with a beam weapon embedded within their body. This device fires a necrotising beam that is capable of disintegrating a man in seconds.
战士奴仆构造体是这些生物力学造物的更激进的版本。这些苍白的椭圆形真菌血肉充满了紫色的脉络和金属格子。运动是通过三条蜘蛛般的骨瘦如柴的腿提供的，它们的上半身由粗壮的短管组成，短管里充满了卷须，卷须围绕着一个充满尖牙的放射状胃。每个卷须都出奇地强壮，能够伸展成锋利的骨刃。这些战士构造体不仅限于它们的触须，还配备了嵌入体内的光束武器。该装置发射的坏死光束能够在几秒钟内解体一个人。
Slaugth warships are extremely potent, with their vessels weaponry capable of seriously damaging even a Gloriana Class Battleship in quick order.
史洛斯战舰非常强大，他们的战舰武器能够快速重伤荣光女王级战列舰。
Known Slaugth 已知史洛斯
Intendant Recusant 异见监督者
Miss Book 书籍女士
