元帅（Grand Admiral)

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"A knack for doing the impossible was one of the things Grand Admirals were selected for."
―Talon Karrde

“元帅们被选中的原因之一就是擅长处理不可能的事情。”
―塔隆·卡尔德

Grand Admiral was one of the highest ranks in the Galactic Empire (besides Emperor, Supreme Commander, Executor, and Grand Vizier), outranking all other political and military personnel, including Moffs.

元帅是银河帝国最高的职位之一（仅次于皇帝、最高指挥官、执行者和总理大臣），高于其他一切政治及军事成员，包括星区总督们。

In the reconstituted Sith Empire, the rank was known to have been given to at least one officer in the Imperial Armada. Its importance in the Armada was unknown.

在重组的西斯帝国中，已知被授予这一职位的帝国海军军官至少有一个人。它在海军中的重要性还是未知的。

Overview
概述

The rank was used by the Imperial Armada of the resurgent Sith Empire, with Harridax Kirill being the only known Grand Admiral in it.
这一职位被重组的西斯帝国海军首先使用，Harridax Kirill是唯一一个已知的元帅。

Grand Admirals were appointed by Emperor Palpatine and answered directly to the Emperor, or his authorized executors, in all matters. The creation of the rank of Grand Admiral two years before the Battle of Yavin was widely recognized as a means to increase the Emperor's direct control of the Imperial Military. However, although all exceptionally gifted officers, the Grand Admirals were not just front-line commanders; rather, they included several technical specialists and theoreticians, enabling them to serve as a leadership cadre for the whole military—and indeed the whole Empire.
元帅们由帕尔帕廷皇帝任命并直接向他，或是他授权的执行者们报告一切事务。雅文战役前两年创立的元帅职位被广泛认为是皇帝加强对帝国军方控制的一种手段。然而，尽管元帅们都是资深的优秀官员，但并不都是前线指挥官；相反，他们中包括一些技术专家和理论家（译者注：Mario Batch和Demetrius Zaarin主管军事研究，Ishin-II-Raz与Danetta Pitta善于官场斗争），使他们能够充当整个军方甚至整个帝国的领导人。

At least one Grand Admiral was given the position of warlord upon achieving the rank; the same was possibly true for the rest of the Grand Admirals as well.
至少有一个元帅（译者注：这名元帅就是索龙）成功拥有了军阀的权力；其他的元帅们也同样有可能。

During the height of the reign of the Empire, there were twelve Grand Admirals in service, called the Circle of Twelve by Palpatine. At the time of the Battle of Endor, marked by many as the beginning of the fall of the Galactic Empire, the group included Martio Batch, Nial Declann, Octavian Grant, Josef Grunger, Ishin-Il-Raz, Afsheen Makati, Danetta Pitta, Peccati Syn, Miltin Takel, Osvald Teshik, Rufaan Tigellinus, and the Chiss Mitth'raw'nuruodo (better known by his core name, Thrawn). Thrawn had been officially promoted a few months before the battle as a replacement for Demetrius Zaarin, who had attempted a coup against the Emperor, although it appears that the Chiss had, in fact, been promoted in secret at an earlier stage.
在帝国统治的极盛时期，有12个元帅在他们的职位上，被称为帕尔帕廷的“十二人圈子（待修正）”。在银河帝国衰落的标志恩多战役时，这部分人包括马铁奥·巴奇、尼亚尔·德克兰恩、屋大维·格兰特、约瑟夫·格伦杰、伊欣-伊尔-拉兹、阿夫申·马卡蒂、丹内塔·皮塔、佩卡蒂·西恩、米尔汀·塔克尔、奥斯瓦尔德·泰希克、茹法安·蒂格利努斯、（译者注：所有元帅译名取自论坛）和奇斯人密特'索龙'努罗多（更为人所知的是他的核心名，索龙）。索龙在与发动针对皇帝的政变的德米特琉斯·扎林战斗前几个月被正式提拔以代替他，看来这位奇斯人其实在较早的时候就被秘密提拔了。

The Grand Admirals were visually distinguished from other officers in the Imperial armed forces by their gleaming white uniform, sometimes worn with bullion epaulets and rank insignia, sometimes without any badge of rank. It is unclear whether the Imperial Army or stormtrooper rank of Grand General was equivalent with the rank of Grand Admiral, but Ysanne Isard, as Director of Imperial Intelligence, wore a red version of the Grand Admiral's uniform, and her power and position in the Imperial hierarchy could be considered analogous.
元帅们因为他们闪闪发光的白色制服而与其他帝国军官们区分开来，他们有时候佩戴黄金色的肩章和军衔，有时候没有。现在还不清楚帝国陆军或冲锋队元帅的职位与海军元帅相比孰高孰低，但作为帝国情报总监的伊莎恩·艾萨德却穿着一件红色的元帅制服，且她在帝国体制内的权力和地位能考虑与元帅们相比。

The Rebel Alliance accounted for all of the Grand Admirals, save Thrawn, in the first years after Endor. Ten were killed or executed, and only Grand Admiral Grant was allowed to go quietly into retirement following his defection. Palpatine's Dark Empire appeared to have revived the rank before Thrawn's assassination, with meetings between the new circle of Grand Admirals taking place aboard the uncompleted Eclipse in drydock over Byss. Palpatine's own death seemed to have marked the extinction of the college.
在恩多战役一年后，反抗军联盟就拥有了所有元帅的记录，除了索龙。他们中的十个人均被消灭或处决，只有一个元帅格兰特在叛变后被允许悄然退休。帕尔帕廷的黑暗帝国似乎恢复了索龙被暗杀前的职位，他与这一新“圈子”在比斯上空的干船坞中未完工的日蚀号超级歼星舰上会面。帕尔帕廷真正的死亡标志了集团的覆灭。

However, the prestige of the rank meant that a number of warlords like Zsinj and Admiral Larm, adopted some of the trappings of Grand Admiral's rank. After the signing of the Bastion Accords, the Council of Moffs revived this esteemed rank for Gilad Pellaeon, already Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet and head-of-state of the Imperial Remnant. As of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, Pellaeon and the long-retired Grant were the only living Grand Admirals, although rumors persist that Pellaeon's mentor, Thrawn, somehow cheated death and remained active in the Unknown Regions.
不过，这一职位的声望意味着诸如Zsinj和Larm上将这样的的军阀会打着元帅的旗号。巴斯廷条约签署后，总督委员会恢复了这一职位，它被授予给帝国舰队最高指挥官兼帝国残余的领袖，尊敬的吉拉德·佩雷恩。直到遇战疯战争时期，佩雷恩和长时间退休的格兰特是唯一活着的元帅，虽然有传闻说佩雷恩的老师，索龙，以某种方式逃脱了死亡并仍然在未知星域游荡。

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The rank appeared to have become synonymous with Supreme Commander as commander-in-chief of the Imperial military possibly as early as 28 ABY. Evidence exists of Pellaeon referring to himself by a longer form of the rank: "Grand Admiral of the Imperial Navy".Coupled with Moff Kurlen Flennic's threat to "appoint another Grand Admiral" in Pellaeon's place rather than appoint another Supreme Commander seems to indicate that the rank of Grand Admiral was increasingly becoming something of an honorific title of posting than a rank of military promotion. Indeed, by the Sith–Imperial War, the Fel Empire's form of the rank, held by Grand Moff Morlish Veed and also by Rulf Yage following the Massacre at Ossus, seems to have followed this trend. In Krayt's Empire the Grand Admiral was Joint-Supreme Commander alongside the Fist of the One Sith.
可能在雅文战役后28年，这一职位似乎就已经成为了帝国军队最高指挥官的代名词。存在证据说，佩雷恩以军衔全称“帝国海军元帅”来称呼自己（此句待校正）。再加上星区总督Kurlen Flennic威胁在佩雷恩的辖区内“再任命一个元帅”而不是任命一个最高指挥官，这一切似乎表明元帅这一军衔正日益成为一种可宣传的尊贵的头衔而不是军队中的职位（意思也许是元帅的权力转移到了政治方面？）。事实上，在西斯–帝国联合战争时，高级星区总督Morlish Veed和Rulf Yage在奥苏斯大屠杀之后的行为似乎表现了费尔帝国对这一趋势的追随（待较）。在克雷特的帝国，元帅与最高指挥官都只是“一人西斯”的打手。

Most references showed the insignia for a Grand Admiral as six blue squares with three yellow and three red; an alternate version of the rank badge seen in some images displayed seven blue and red squares, with two code cylinders.
大多数文献表明，帝国元帅的徽章以六个蓝色方块和三个黄色方块和三个红色方块构成；另外的版本显示的是七个蓝色方块和红色方块，以及两个代码柱（？）。

Behind the scenes
幕后

Heir to the Empire author Timothy Zahn introduced the rank of "Grand Admiral" for the villain of that novel, Grand Admiral Thrawn. Zahn wanted Thrawn to be a military leader rather than a political title-holder or darksider, but felt a normal Admiral would be too mundane. He therefore decided to use the title "Grand Admiral," which he had encountered while reading William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in the context of its use in the German Navy.
《帝国传承》的作者蒂莫西·扎恩提出“元帅”这一军衔赋予这一小说的反派，索龙元帅。扎恩想让索龙成为一个军事领袖而不是一个政治冠军保持者或黑暗面使用者，但又觉得一个普通的海军上将过于平凡。于是他决定使用“元帅”头衔，它在他阅读过的William L.Shirer有关于第三帝国崛起与衰落的文章中被用于德国海军。

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新人首翻，望各位前辈指正

南方战士

Grand Vizier，总理大臣

获得军阀头衔的元帅应该是索龙。

论坛的元帅译名早就不是你列举的了：http://www.starwarschina.com/for ... hread&tid=17995

Grand General，（陆军）元帅

college，集团

a longer form of the rank，军衔全称

Sith–Imperial War，西斯-帝国联合战争

Timothy Zahn，蒂莫西·扎恩

其实还有不少值得商榷的地方，回头再看。

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南方战士 发表于 2014-8-29 20:04
Grand Vizier，总理大臣

获得军阀头衔的元帅应该是索龙。

南大出现了。。请多指教，不足之处一定修改

索龙元帅

已经很不错了！