刺客庭数据板节译：英雄之影

The Adeptus Astartes and the agents of the Officio Assassinorum have never seen eye to eye, despite the fact that their ultimate goal is essentially the same.

尽管他们的最终目标在本质上相同，但阿斯塔特修会和刺客庭特工们从未达成过共识。

Because of the long-standing warrior traditions and codes of honour by which the Space Marines operate, the vast majority of Chapters see the Assassin’s trade as distasteful at best. Some have even gone so far as to brand the Officio Assassinorum a despicable blight on the Imperium’s honour, little realising that in doing so, they are courting the crosshairs themselves.

由于星际战士们奉行悠久的战士传统和荣誉准则，所以绝大部分战团认为刺客们的行为充其量也是令人反感的。有些战团的表现甚至更为激进，他们将刺客庭贬斥为对于帝国荣誉的卑鄙损坏。但几乎没有人知道，在他们这样做时，自己也正在成为刺客庭武器准星的瞄准对象。

Though the Officio’s operatives have fought alongside the Space Marines on countless battlefields across the Imperium, there are several incidences in the history of the Adeptus Astartes where Assassins have been implicated as enemies rather than allies. There is evidence to suggest their presence in shipyard reports prior to the abortive Warp translation that led to the disappearance of the Fire Hawks Chapter. A strangely empty set of early-model power armour was discovered near the site of the ambush at Alantor X, where the Angels of Retribution fell to a man. It is widely rumoured amongst the Adeptus Astartes present on Armageddon that the snipers that picked off the Celestial Lions’Apothecaries – and therefore doomed the Chapter to a slow death without geneseed – were in the employ of the Vindicare temple. Some amongst the Crimson Fists blame the Officio Assassinorum for the disaster at Rynn’s World, where a faulty missile ignited the very arsenal from which it was launched, killing over half of the Chapter and ruining its fortress monastery in a single apocalyptic explosion.

尽管刺客庭的特工们已经在全帝国的无数战场上与星际战士们并肩作战过，但在阿斯塔特修会历史上的多起事件中，刺客们也是作为敌人而非盟友牵涉其中。有证据表明，在那次导致火鹰战团失踪的失败亚空间折跃事故发生之前，刺客们出现在了船坞中。人们在Alantor X世界上的伏击区旁边发现了一套奇怪的无人使用的早期型号动力装甲，而就是在这里，报应天使战团陨落到仅剩一人。参与了阿玛吉顿会战的阿斯塔特修会间也广泛存在着一个谣言：是文迪卡神庙部署的狙击手逐个射杀了天狮战团的药剂师们——这样一来战团就会因为没有基因种子而缓慢死亡。绯红之拳战团中的某些成员也声称刺客庭要为发生在瑞恩世界上的灾难负责——在这次事件中，一枚有缺陷的导弹点燃了发射它的武器库，之后一次极其灾难性的爆炸杀死了战团中超过一半的成员，并且摧毁了他们的要塞修道院。

The truth, as is usually the case when the Officio Assassinorum is involved, will remain shrouded in mystery. Suspicion thrives nonetheless. It is a rare day indeed when the Imperial Assassins and the Adeptus Astartes will work together in harmony, for each institution is convinced that the other is a wayward perversion of the Emperor’s Will。

但就如同刺客庭通常所参与过的其他事件那样，这些事件的真相仍是一个迷。这些事件疑点重重。事实上，帝国刺客与阿斯塔特修会和谐共事是很罕见的，因为两者都认为对方是对帝皇意志难以控制的颠倒扭曲。