原地址：

铁人，Men of Iron

In the cryptic account of the ages of Mankind given by Cripias, one of the Keepers of the Library Sanctus of Terra, the Men of Iron were legendary sentient humanoid machines created by humans during the Dark Age of Technology.

在泰拉圣图书馆（the Library Sanctus of Terra）守护者之一的克里皮亚斯（Cripias）给出的关于人类时代的神秘描述中，铁人是传说中由人类在黑暗科技时代创造的有感知能力的类人机器。

历史

During the Dark Age of Technology, the Men of Iron were created by the Men of Stone to aid them in colonizing the Galaxy.

在黑暗科技时代，铁人由石人创造出来帮助他们殖民银河系。

Until shortly before the Age of Strife, the Men of Iron were loyal only to Mankind, and served as their army. In M23, they turned on their Human masters, believing themselves superior to the Humans who relied on the Men of Iron to do virtually everything for them. What followed next was an apocalyptic conflict known as the Cybernetic Revolt, a war so destructive it made the Horus Heresy seem small in scale. The Men of Iron employed world-consuming constructs, devices that could destroy suns, weapons that could throw entire continents into the heavens, and swarms of nano-machines that covered entire planets. However in the end, the Men of Iron were destroyed by an alliance of galactic powers, and even the Men of Iron who retained their loyalties to their masters did not survive the destruction brought on by the war.

直到纷争时代前不久，铁人只忠诚于人类，并作为人类的军队而服役。在M23，铁人认为它们比人类更优越并背叛了其人类主人，因为当时人类几乎一切事物都要依赖铁人来执行。接下来是一场被称为“智械叛乱”的浩劫级战争，这场战争的毁灭性之强大到连荷鲁斯叛乱的规模都在其面前显得微不足道。铁人使用了能分解一个星球的构造体，能够摧毁太阳的装置，可以将整块大陆抛向天空的武器以及会覆盖整个行星的纳米机器人虫群。然而最终，铁人被银河系多个派系组成的联盟所摧毁，即便是那些对自己人类主人保持忠诚的铁人也没有在战争带来的毁灭中幸存下来。

The Men of Iron seemed to practice a faith similar to the Mechanicum, as one of its surviving constructs UR-025 states it has met the real Omnissiah (considering the Emperor false).

铁人似乎践行了一种类似机械教的信仰，正如幸存铁人构造体之一的UR-025所描述的，它已经遇到了真正的欧姆弥赛亚（并认为帝皇是伪神）。

对人类帝国的影响

After the revolt of the Men of Iron, the use of artificial intelligence was banned as an Abominable Intelligence. Since then, labors which require mechanical intelligence or extra-human strength are performed by servitors, designed to perform pre-programmed tasks, but without independent intelligence, and carefully monitored by Tech-priests.

在铁人叛乱后，人工智能被作为“憎恶智能”而禁止使用。从那以后，需要机械智能或超人类力量的劳动由机仆来完成，这些机仆被设计成执行预先编程的任务，但没有独立的智能，且由技术神甫严加看管。

在神甫看来，机仆只能算一部分，帝国还有沉思者与机魂。而沉思者是帝国各类型电子计算机的统称，运算能力还是很管够的。

Despite the ban on AI, during the Great Crusade the Emperor took the tortured and neutered remains of the Iron Men and fashioned them into the Excindio Battle-Automata. These were used by the Ironwing element of the Dark Angels during this time.

虽然AI被作为禁忌，但在大远征期间，帝皇回收了饱受折磨且被阉割的铁人遗骸，将之重新打造成名为“灭绝遗机”的自动战斗机兵。在此期间，暗黑天使的铁翼部队使用了这些武器。

铁翼的纹章

STC的发现

警告！以下内容包含小说《第一且唯一First and Only》的剧透

A Standard Template Constructor that produced Men of Iron was discovered on the planet Menazoid Epsilon during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade by Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt of the Tanith First and Only. Lord General Militant Hechtor Dravere and the Radical Inquisitor Golesh Heldane were intent on seizing control of the device, believing they could create an army of conquest allowing them to usurp control of the Crusade, and ultimately the Imperium. Gaunt, however, vehemently resisted the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that had been on a Chaos-tainted planet for thousands of years. He therefore destroyed the device before Dravere or Heldane could acquire it.

在萨巴特世界远征期间，制造铁人的STC被塔尼斯第一且唯一团的上校政委伊布拉姆·冈特上校在梅阿佐德·厄普西隆星球上发现。星界军大元帅赫克特·德拉维尔与激进派审判官格雷什·海尔丹想要控制这个设备，他们相信通过这个STC可以创建一支征服大军来让他们篡夺萨巴特远征的控制权并最终夺取帝国的控制权。但冈特强烈反对使用AI——特别是在一个已经被混沌腐化了数千年的星球上使用AI，于是他在德拉维尔或海尔丹得到这个设备前就将之毁掉了

冈特政委

赫克特·德拉维尔

激进派审判官格雷什·海尔丹，他的马脸是不断整形改造的结果

已知铁人

·UR-025

不知不觉距离UR-025出实体棋子已经过去四年了

本次翻译到此结束。