IA9节译：诅咒建军与圣血缺陷

The Cursed Founding and the Blood Angels Flaw 

Named as one of the largest Foundings since the initial division of the Space Marine Legions in many sources, extant Inquisitorial reports tell that the Magos Biologis charged with overseeing the 21st Founding were either ordered or encouraged to attempt to refine, augment or otherwise enhance the gene-seed used to create the new Space Marine Chapters to be founded (although sources differ as to the extent of this practice). The wisdom in tampering with the Space Marine's genesis in this way appears to have been questioned, even at the time, and it is entirely possible that the full extent of the modifications performed were kept concealed even from the High Lords and Chapter Masters of the day——a theory easily given weight by the political turmoil and division that was widespread throughout the Imperium at the time. In the case of the Lamenters Chapter, the only Chapter known to have been created from the Blood Angels gene-seed in the 21st Founding, the efforts of the Magos Biologis seemed to have been geared in some way to removing or at least mollifying the so-called "Sanguinius Flaw.' This flaw, whose true nature is known to very few outside the Blood Angels and their successors, taints this once most highly praised of the Emperor's Legions with a legacy of madness and slow descent into mindless fury. This degeneration, as much psychic as physical is a risk all Space Marines created with the Blood Angels gene-seed run; driving some into a terrible death-seeking madness that causes them to hurl themselves fearlessly at the foe, and be wracked it is said by a savage blood-hunger known as the Red Thirst. It is against this terrible affliction that the scions of Sanguinius must nobly strive to retain their sanity and their selfhood, so as to fulfil their oaths as the protectors of Mankind and the warriors in the Emperor's service. That use of the Blood Angels gene-seed was still pursued is both a testament to the glorious history of the Blood Angels themselves, and also to their geneseed's other inherent strengths, which are not limited to its low rate of implant rejection and the aberrant factor that it produces by far the longest potential observed life spans of any Space Marine lineage.

在许多资料来源中，第21次建军都被称为星际战士军团进行过最初拆分后规模最大的一次建军，现存的审判庭报告声称：负责监督这次建军的生物贤者们被命令或鼓励去改善、强化或以其他方式增强那些用于创造新组建星际战士战团的基因种子（不过各种材料对于该行为的程度有不同说法）。哪怕在当时，以这种方式篡改星际战士（基因）的智慧似乎也受到了质疑；而且当事人完全有可能隐瞒了他们所进行修改的全部范围，甚至对当时的高领主们和战团长们也是如此——整个人类帝国在当时所普遍存在的政治动荡和分裂现象轻易地为该理论提供了有力的论据。恸哭者战团是第21次建军中已知的唯一一个用圣血天使基因种子创建的战团，生物贤者对该战团基因种子所做出的改进似乎在某种程度上消除或至少是缓和了所谓的“圣血缺陷”。在圣血天使战团及其子团之外，几乎没有人知道这种缺陷的真实性质，这个污点玷污了圣血天使这个帝皇麾下曾经最受赞誉的军团，让他们堕入疯狂，并慢慢陷入无意识的怒火当中。对于所有用圣血天使基因种子创造而出的星际战士们而言，这种退化对于生理和心理有着同样严重的风险；某些星际战士会被驱使着进入一种恐怖的寻死狂乱，这会令他们无所畏惧地扑向敌人，并被一种称为“红渴”的对于鲜血的野蛮饥渴所摧毁。为了对抗这种可怕的痛苦，圣吉列斯的子嗣们必须高尚地努力保持理智和自我，以履行他们作为人类保护者和效忠于皇帝的战士的誓言。但圣血天使的基因种子仍在被继续使用，这即是对圣血天使本身光辉历史的证明，也是以为他们基因有其他内在优势，包括但不限于较低的植入排异率，以及某种反常因素——其效果是让圣血天使及其子团拥有了迄今为止在所有星际战士谱系中最长的潜在寿命。

The Blood Angels themselves have long sought an answer to their affliction, and it is likely that the experimental procedures performed on the Lamenters gene-seed during their creation were done with at least their progenitor's tacit approval. An inference perhaps born out by the fact that the Lamenters have always been recognisable in terms of organisation, ritual and special equipment as bearing the unique hallmarks of a Blood Angels Successor Chapter. The goal of reducing the effects of the flaw it seems at least initially was partly successful, with such records remaining showing that the number of the Chapter's brethren succumbing to the Red Thirst were very few.

圣血天使们也在长期寻找解决他们痛苦的方式。很可能在恸哭者战团的创建过程中，生物贤者们至少是在该战团的先祖——圣血天使战团的默许下完成了对于基因种子的实验程序。该推论也能得到（某些）事实的证明：在组织结构、仪式和装备方面，恸哭者一直被认为具有（属于）圣血天使子团的独特特征。至少从最初来看，减少缺陷影响的目标取得了部分成功——现存的记录表明：屈服于红渴的战团修士的人数极为稀少。

The counter to this success however, was that almost immediately certain idiosyncrasies of mind and temperament were noted within the Lamenters, factors that only grew more pronounced as the years passed: A dark melancholia seemed to take hold of the Chapter's soul and it was said of them by their fellow Blood Angels successors that they bore the grief of the loss of Sanguinius more keenly than any other, and in their hearts they heard the screams and sorrow of all the martyrs who cried out for vengeance across the cold stars. Whatever the truth of this, ill-fortune had already begun to follow the Lamenters like an unwanted shadow, and by the end of M36 it was already apparent that many of what had already become known as the Cursed Founding's children were succumbing to maladies and malevolencies as shocking as they were diverse.

但与这一成功相反的是，恸哭者们几乎立刻被注意到某些意识和性格上的特征，而且随着时间推移，这些（影响）因素只会变得更加明显:某种黑暗的忧郁病症掌握住了该战团的灵魂，而且据他们同为圣血天使子团的兄弟们所说，恸哭者从圣吉列斯之死中感受到的悲痛比其他任何人都更为强烈，他们能在自己心中听到寒冷群星各处那些殉道者们的哭嚎和悲伤——后者是在为复仇而高呼。无论真相如何，不幸已经开始如同一片多余的阴影那般跟随着恸哭者，等到M36末期，很明显许多已经被称为“诅咒建军之子”的战团们都在屈服于疾病和恶行，此类问题多样得令人震惊。

Given this and the fall from grace of many of the 21st Founding's issue, the experimental procedures that created the Lamenters from the Blood Angel's gene-stock were not repeated, and the Chapter itself remains in its way unique in the Imperium's forces. As time has progressed since then, there has been a continued and observable increase both in the strange tendency for the macabre and melancholia that pervades the Chapter's psyche, and the Red Thirst which again has awakened in their ranks, slowly worsening, as by some reports it has, to varying degrees in all the Blood Angel's successors over time. Given the Chapter's most recent losses and the worsening maladies to which they are prey, it remains to be seen whether the Lamenters' long-term survival itself is now under question. 

考虑到这些情况，以及许多诞生于第21次建军的战团受到的冷遇，利用圣血天使基因种子库存创建恸哭者的实验过程未被重复过，恸哭者战团也仍然以自己独特的方式存在于帝国的军队中。但随着时间的推移，弥漫在战团心灵中的可怕且忧郁的奇怪趋势持续而明显地增加着，另外他们的部队中再次觉醒了红渴，并且在缓慢恶化——就像一些报告中所称的那样，随着时间推移，此类问题在所有圣血天使子团中都会出现不同程度的恶化。考虑到该战团最近的损失以及他们所遭受的不断恶化的疾病，恸哭者还能否长期幸存下去仍有待观察，而目前这件事本身也要受到质疑。