The Great Crusade (~798.M30 — 005.M31) was a brief age of rebuilding and reunification following the complete regression of mankind during the Age of Strife. It was a time when the Emperor still lived in the conventional sense and led his race in person. It followed the Emperor's conquest of Terra in the Unification Wars and lasted roughly from the conquest of Earth's moon to the Battle of Isstvan III and the beginning of the Horus Heresy.
大远征（~798.M30--005.M31）是人类在纷争时代完全倒退后重建和统一的短暂时期。这是一个帝皇仍然存活并在传统意义上亲自领导他的种族的时代。它发生在帝皇在统一战争中征服泰拉之后，大致从征服月球到伊斯塔万三号战役和荷鲁斯叛乱的开始。
The Emperor with his Space Marines 帝皇与他的星际战士
The Early Crusade 大远征早期
Part of the Emperor's vision of human unification was the Primarch Project, meant to be the creation of 20 superhumans to lead the Emperor's forces to reclaim the galaxy in his name. It also saw the creation of the Space Marine Legions from the gene-seed samples that survived the scattering of the Primarchs by the Chaos gods. These forces would play the major role in the upcoming Great Crusade alongside the Imperial Army, Titan Legions, Legio Cybernetica, Sisters of Silence, and Custodian Guard.
帝皇对人类统一的愿景之一是“原体计划”，旨在创造20名超人，带领帝皇的军队以他的名义夺回银河系。还看到了星际战士军团的创建，这些基因种子样本在混沌之神分散原体后幸存下来。这些部队将在即将到来的大远征中发挥重要作用，与帝国陆军、泰坦军团、智控军团、寂静修女和禁军并肩作战。
The subsiding of the warp storms plaguing much of the galaxy coincided with the end of the Age of Strife. With warp travel feasible again, the Emperor was able to begin the Great Crusade which would create the Imperium. Even before the warp storms and the Age of Strife had ended, the Emperor had begun to make plans for the Great Crusade. These plans included the creation of a far more advanced form of power armour required for the conditions of deep space and alien worlds.
困扰银河系大部分地区的亚空间风暴的消退恰逢纷争时代的结束。由于亚空间航行再次可行，帝皇得以开始伟大的大远征，从而建立了帝国。甚至在亚空间风暴和纷争时代结束之前，帝皇就已经开始为大远征制定计划。这些计划包括为宇宙深空和异星世界的条件创造一种更先进的动力盔甲。
After securing Luna and then Mars, he began a great building project, reconstructing the industries and production facilities he would need to construct and maintain a great space fleet, sufficient to carry his legions all the way to the edges of the galaxy. Mars, due to its advanced technology and manufacturing infrastructure, became the center of this development, producing, along with ships, the arms and armor his warriors would be equipped with. Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter fell to the Emperor next, its inhabitants liberated from cruel alien overlords. Finally, the Imperial War Fleet broke out of the Sol System system after completely annihilating the "false world" of Sedna.
在收复了月球和火星之后，他开始了一项巨大的建造工程，重建了他建造和维护一支庞大的太空舰队所需的工业和生产设施，足以将他的军团一直运送到银河系的边缘。由于其先进的技术和基础制造设施，火星成为了这一发展的中心，生产他的战士将配备的武器，盔甲以及战舰。土星、海王星和木星随后落入帝皇之手，将其居民从残酷的外星霸主手中解放出来。最后，帝国战争舰队在彻底消灭塞德娜的“虚假世界”后，离开了太阳系。
The Crusade begins 大远征开始
His fleet constructed, he forged out into the depths of space, seeking out his Primarchs and spreading the name of the Emperor. Throughout the following millennium, he gradually reclaimed his Primarchs, and slowly united humanity under the Pax Imperialis. World after world fell to the Emperor's forces, at first the Legio Astartes and Custodian Guard and later the Imperial Army, Sisters of Silence, Collegia Titanica, Legio Cybernetica, and others. Tyrants and false-rulers of thousands of worlds were overthrown by Imperial forces, who quickly outlawed religion and dogma by decree of the Emperor himself. Orks, Eldar, Hrud, Slaugth, hideous Warp entities, and many other lesser alien races were all defeated and driven back in a seemingly unstoppable tide of conquest. Worlds whose human population had become too corrupted or mutated were simply exterminated from orbit.
他建造了舰队，深入太空，寻找他的原体，并传播帝皇的名字。在接下来的千年里，他逐渐找回了自己的原体，并在帝国圣像下慢慢地将人类团结起来。一个又一个世界落入了帝皇的军队之手，起初是阿斯塔特军团和禁军，后来是帝国陆军、寂静修女、泰坦修会、智控军团等。数千个世界的暴君和假统治者被帝国军队推翻，帝国军队迅速通过帝皇本人的法令宣布宗教和教条为非法。欧克蛮人、艾达灵族、太空鼠人、史洛斯人、丑陋的亚空间实体和许多其他较小的外星种族都被击败，并在看起来就不可阻挡的征服浪潮中被击退。人口过于堕落或变异的世界被从轨道上彻底消灭了。
The Emperor and his Space Marines 帝皇和他的星际战士
In the early stages of the Crusade, the Imperial forces were divided into three main thrusts, one commanded by Horus, the other by Ferrus Manus, and the last by the Emperor himself. As each Primarch was discovered, he was given control of his own Legion of Space Marines. As more of the Empire was carved, the Emperor's forces were spread more and more thinly.
在大远征的早期阶段，帝国军队分为三个主要方向，一个由荷鲁斯指挥，另一个由费鲁斯·马努斯指挥，最后一个由帝皇本人指挥。当每一位原体被发现时，他都被赋予了自己的星际战士军团的控制权。随着帝国的扩张，帝皇的军队越来越分散。
The Crusade lasted for around two hundred years. At its peak, it had over 4,300 Expeditionary Fleets involved in galactic conquest. The Great Crusade reached its apex with the great victory by Horus against a massive Waaagh! of Orks in the Ullanor Crusade. After this victory the Emperor declared Horus Warmaster, or acting Supreme Commander in his stead. Having seen most of humanity reunited the Emperor returned to Terra, where he began his secret project.
大远征持续了大约两百年。在鼎盛时期，它有4300多支远征舰队参与了银河系的征服。伟大的大远征达到了顶峰是在荷鲁斯战胜了乌兰诺远征中欧克蛮人的大规模Waaagh！。在这场胜利之后，帝皇宣布荷鲁斯为战帅，并代替其担任最高统帅。在目睹了大部分人类的重聚后，帝皇回到了泰拉，在那里他开始了他的秘密计划。
Towards the Great Crusade's end came a period of political consolidation. The Legions were at this point dispersed across the galaxy, many acting as garrison forces rather than campaigning armies. The Legions had been battling constantly, especially the Iron Warriors, struggling under the monotony of siege warfare and garrison duties. A large bureaucracy overseen by Malcador and the Council of Terra formed to manage the newly conquered territories. This bureaucracy often clashed with the Astartes military established, and tensions began to run high when it became apparent that the Emperor intended to have Malcador's Terran Council rule over the nascent Imperium and not the Legiones Astartes.
大远征接近尾声时，出现了一段政治巩固时期。此时，军团分散在银河系各地，许多人充当驻军，而不是作战部队。军团一直在战斗，尤其是钢铁勇士，在千篇一律的攻城战和驻军任务下挣扎。一个由马卡多和泰拉议会监督的大型官僚机构成立，以管理新征服的领土。这个官僚机构经常与著名的阿斯塔特军队发生冲突，但帝皇显然打算让马卡多的泰拉议会统治新生的帝国，而不是阿斯塔特军团时，紧张局势开始加剧。
Also, without the Emperor's guidance the Primarchs that had previously friendly rivalries were beginning to develop into dangerous feuds. Some of the Primarchs had reached the point of intolerance with one another, others like Magnus the Red had simply become isolated in the confusion of the Great Crusade. Already the Word Bearers Primarch Lorgar had secretly turned against the Emperor decades before the Crusades end after the destruction of his "perfect city" of Monarchia by the Ultramarines. Meanwhile Leman Russ clashed with both Angron and Lion El'Jonson. Perturabo was shunned by most due to the nature of his hand in the Crusade and was in turn envious of Rogal Dorn. Konrad Curze also had a disagreement with Dorn that escalated into a brutal surprise attack that left Dorn badly injured and unconscious. This mistrust and hatred would form the linchpin of the Horus Heresy.
此外，在没有帝皇指导的情况下，之前友好竞争的原体们开始发展成危险的争斗。一些原体已经达到了彼此互不相容的地步，而其他人，如马格努斯，则只是在大远征的混乱中被孤立了。在大远征结束前的几十年里，怀言者原体珞珈就已经秘密地对抗帝皇，因为他在莫纳克亚的“完美之城”被极限战士摧毁了。与此同时，黎曼·鲁斯与安格隆和莱恩·艾尔庄森发生了冲突。由于他在大远征中的本性，佩图拉博被大多数人避开，反过来又嫉妒罗格·多恩。康拉德·科兹也与多恩发生了分歧，升级为一场残酷的袭击，导致多恩严重受伤并昏迷。这种不信任和仇恨将成为荷鲁斯叛乱的关键。
Noteworthy Battles & Campaigns of the Great Crusade 大远征中值得注意的战斗和战役
First Pacification of Luna — The first major battle of the Great Crusade
平定月球 — 大远征的第一场主要战役
Sedna Campaign - The whole of the Sol System is reclaimed.
塞德娜战役 - 整个太阳系被夺回
The Battle of Gorro — The Emperor and Horus battle together against Orks
戈罗之战 — 帝皇和荷鲁斯联手对抗欧克蛮人
The Battle of Keylek — The Luna Wolves exterminate the keylekid.
凯莱克之战 — 太空野狼消灭了凯莱克人
The Rangdan Xenocides — The Dark Angels lose 50,000 Battle-Brothers saving the northern Imperim from the Rangda.
冉丹灭绝之战 — 黑暗天使失去了50000名战斗兄弟，从冉丹手中拯救了帝国北方
Battle of Sixty-Three Nineteen — Horus brings the world of Sixty-Three-Nineteen into the Imperial fold.
63 -19之战 — 荷鲁斯将63 - 19世界纳入帝国版图
Fall of the Lords of Gardinaal — The 413rd Expeditionary Fleet and Ferrus Manus subdue the advanced human world of Gardinaal
加迪那尔领主之陨 — 第413远征舰队和费鲁斯·马努斯征服了加迪那尔的先进人类世界
Battle of Gyros-Thravian — The Emperor, Rogal Dorn, Mortarion, and Horus defeat one of the most powerful Ork Warbosses in recorded history, Gharkul Blackfang.
杰罗斯-萨洛维安之战 — 帝皇、罗格·多恩、莫塔里安和荷鲁斯击败了有史以来最强大的欧克战争首领之一的伽尔库·黑牙
Conquest of Galaspar — The Death Guard conquers the world of Galaspar.
征服加拉斯巴 — 死亡守卫征服了加拉斯巴世界
Cleansing of Laeran — The Emperor's Children annihilate the Laer.
净化拉尔兰 — 帝皇之子消灭了刺人
Golgothan Slaughter — The World Eaters battle the Brotherhood of Ruin and Orks on Sarum.
戈尔戈坦屠杀 — 吞世者在萨鲁姆与毁灭兄弟会和兽人作战
Battle of Gate Forty-Two — Horus leads four Legions in a major assault that sees heavy Raven Guard losses.
四十二号门之战 — 荷鲁斯率领四个军团进行了一次主要进攻，暗鸦守卫损失惨重
Ullanor Crusade — Horus defeats the empire of Ork Warboss Urlakk Urg.
乌兰诺远征 — 荷鲁斯击败了兽人战争首领乌尔拉克·乌尔格的帝国
Battle of 47-16 — The Word Bearers sack the world of 47-16.
47-16之战 — 怀言者洗劫了47-16世界
Diasporex Conflict — The Iron Hands and Emperor's Children battle the Human-Xenos confederation known as the Diasporex
流散者之战 — 钢铁之手和帝皇之子与被称为流散者的人类-异形联盟作战
War on Murder — Horus and Sanguinius battle the Megarachnids
谋杀之战 — 荷鲁斯和圣吉列斯与巨蛛怪作战
Interex Conflict — Horus invades the advanced human civilization Interex.
英特瑞克斯冲突 — 荷鲁斯入侵先进的人类文明英特瑞克斯
Battle of Davin's Moon — Horus unwittingly falls into a Word Bearers trap and falls to Chaos.
戴文之月战役 — 荷鲁斯无意中落入了怀言者的陷阱，堕入了混沌
Auretian Technocracy War — Secretly dedicated to overthrowing the Emperor, Horus wages war on the Auretian Technocracy.
奥瑞提亚科技联盟之战 — 荷鲁斯秘密致力于推翻帝皇，对奥瑞提亚科技联盟发动战争。
The End of the Crusade 大远征的结束
The age of the Great Crusade ended with the virus bombing of Isstvan III by Warmaster Horus, which announced the beginning of his Rebellion. The loyalist legions were recalled to Terra to defend against the traitor Warmaster, but not all of the Legions were able to return. The Ultramarines were mired in the Ultramar system fighting Kor Phaeron and his retinue of Word Bearers that had come to destroy them. The Space Wolves were finishing their battle at Prospero with the now openly traitorous Thousand Sons, the White Scars were mired in the Chondax Campaign, and the Dark Angels were in the midst of a civil war on Caliban and a slow campaign against the Gordian League.
大远征的时代随着战帅荷鲁斯对伊斯塔万三号的病毒轰炸而结束，这宣布了他的叛乱的开始。忠诚的军团被召回泰拉，以抵御叛乱的战帅，但并非所有军团都能返回。极限战士陷在了奥特拉玛星系中，与科尔·法伦和他的怀言者随从作战来摧毁他们。太空野狼在普罗斯佩罗结束了与现已公开叛变的千子的战斗，白色疤痕陷入了香德克斯战役，黑暗天使正在卡利班进行内战，并在对戈迪亚联盟进行着进程缓慢的战役。
In many ways the Emperor was now gone, The Imperium suddenly finding itself without the great leadership of the Guardian of Mankind. The brief age of recovery which the Great Crusade represented was over, and mankind began to decline into the state it is now, with fear and chaos rife, Inquisitors seeking out heresy at every corner and billions of people living in forced, and willing, slavery to their God-Emperor.
在皇帝已经离开的许多方面，帝国突然发现自己没有了人类守护者的伟大领导。大远征所代表的短暂复苏时代已经结束，人类开始衰落到现在的状态，恐惧和混乱盛行，审判官在每个角落寻找异端，数十亿人被迫并自愿成为他们的神皇的奴隶。
