WarHammer 40k: 帝國之超人前傳

雷霆戰士在統一戰爭時所使用的標誌

　　雷霆勇士是帝皇在第三十個千年時為了統一泰拉(Homeworld of humanity)時創建的基因工程士兵。他們是第一批帝皇製造的基因強化戰士，是現今星際戰士的前身。被鑄造成生物武器，雷霆勇士被認為比後來的阿斯塔特更加強壯，在戰鬥中也更加野蠻和有效(Potent)，儘管他們並不長命。帝國編年史傳說雷霆戰士英勇的犧牲在統一戰爭(Unification Wars)的最後戰役，泰拉最終統一在帝皇旗下，並成為了人類帝國。然而事實的真相卻完全不同，雷霆戰士的命運是帝皇願意為了確保人類更美好的未來所付出的悲慟代價。

The Thunder Warriors were the genetically-engineered warriors of Terra created by the Emperor of Mankind to unite the homeworld of humanity beneath his rule in the 30th Millennium. They were the first gene-enhanced warriors created by the Emperor and served as the precursors to the present-day Space Marines. Wrought to be living weapons, the Thunder Warriors were known to be physically stronger, more savage and more potent in combat than the later Astartes, though they were not as long-lived. Imperial chronicles hold that the last of the legendary Thunder Warriors died heroically during the final battle of the Unification Wars in the late 30th Millennium that reunified Terra beneath the single rule of the Emperor and forged the government that would become the Imperium of Man. The truth of the matter was far different, for the Thunder Warriors' fate was bound up in the terrible price that the Emperor proved willing to pay to secure a better future for Mankind.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

歷史

在統一戰爭時穿戴早期型號動力盔甲的帝國雷霆勇士

　　早先太陽系和周遭其他恆星系在科技的黑暗時代(Dark Age of Technology)被人類所殖民，由於殞落(The Fall)前象徵埃爾達(Eldar, 靈族)帝國的衰敗和孕育千年的混沌神祇史蘭內許(Slaanesh)，大規模的亞空間風暴群(Warp Storms)席捲銀河系並有效的阻斷了星際旅行和通訊(Astropathic communication)，年輕的人類成為了受害者(Immaterium)，這段動盪時期被稱為紛爭亂世(Age of Strife)或舊夜(Old Night)。歷時五千年的無政府狀態，恐懼和暴力代表著這一時期，舊日地球上曾統一過的行星政府已全然崩裂，最後劃分成幾十個相互交戰的國家。開始於第二十七個千年晚期，不間斷的戰事肆虐橫掃了泰拉的地表長達兩個半千年。因為耗時千年的末世戰爭成就了無比巨大的戰場，舊日地球輝煌的過往所剩無幾的複雜文明就是不斷在星球上戰鬥的高科技野蠻人戰爭領主和他們的基因強化戰士部落(Techno-barbarian)。

During the turbulent era known as the Age of Strife or Old Night on Terra, the Sol System and the other nearby star systems that had been colonised by humanity during the Dark Age of Technology were effectively cut off from interstellar travel or Astropathic communication with each other due to the massive Warp Storms that swept the galaxy as the Immaterium was roiled by the millennia-long gestation of the Chaos God Slaanesh and the turbulence that marked the decay of the Eldar empire before The Fall. During the five millennia of anarchy, fear and violence that marked this period, Old Earth's once unified planetary government had completely broken down and been divided into dozens of inter-warring nations. Continuous warfare raged across the surface of Terra for two and a half thousand years, beginning in the late 27th Millennium. Little remained of the once sophisticated civilisation of Old Earth's glorious past as techno-barbarian warlords and their gene-enhanced warrior-hordes continuously fought over the planet, which had become little more than a massive battleground for their apocalyptic wars of attrition over the course of the millennia.

帝皇正是在這黑暗的時刻製造第一批基因工程戰士為他的軍隊服役－阿斯塔特的原型－

　那些孕育莢艙內擁有帝皇超人般遺傳的後代在他喜馬拉雅山脈的基因實驗室中被湮滅之勢力給盜走。