hh2节译：赫尔之匙

The Iron Hands Legion's obsession with strength and the elimination of weakness led them to revere the machine and distrust the failings inherent in flesh. While other Legions were bound in metal and laboured to create great machines of war, for the Iron Hands, inculcated in their own idiosyncratic beliefs inherited from the Machine Cult's influence on Medusa, the machine was not merely an appendage to flesh but its inheritor. To them their Emperor-augmented bodies were neither more nor less than a living machine of blood and gristle made for war, a machine which could be repaired and improved upon as opportunity allowed and need commanded.

钢铁之手军团有痴迷力量和根除脆弱的倾向，者导致他们敬畏机器而且不信任带有固有缺陷的肉体。虽然其他军团也会依靠机械，并努力制造强大的战争机器，但钢铁之手军团则对机器灌输了他们自己的特质信念，这些信念源于美杜莎上机械崇拜的影响，他们认为机器不仅仅是肉体的附属品，更是它的继承者。在他们看来，帝皇为他们增强过的躯体恰巧就是用血肉和骨骼为战争而打造的活体机械，这台机器需要指挥，而且在机会允许的情况下，可以被维修和改良。

To be as strong as iron was the fire that drove them, and to speed recovery times cybernetic replacements, swifter by far to employ than the gene-regen and vat-grown transplant techniques commonly used by the Legiones Astartes were favoured, getting a fallen or severely injured Legionary back in the fight with frightening speed. As a result no Iron Hands Legionary who had served in battle for any length of time was wholly without augmentation, and such implants were marks of honour, and often improved and augmented away from the battle's pressing need. Some of the most veteran among the Iron Hands went so far that they were little more than machines cradling shreds of their former humanity. So it was with them that to be interred within a Dreadnought body and therefore be allowed to fight for their Primarch and the great cause of unifying humanity forever if needed was the highest honour any could aspire to.

“变得如钢铁般强劲”是铁手军团的信念，而且加快恢复速度方面，智控机械替代品远快于阿斯塔特军团常用的基因再生和罐体培养移植器官技术，这得到了铁手军团的青睐，他们能以惊人的速度让一名倒下或者身受重伤的军团战士恢复战斗力。结果就是一名铁手军团战士无论服役参战了多久，都不会完全未接受过（机械化）增强。这些植入物是一种荣誉标志，而且通常是根据战斗的迫切需要而进行改进增强。军团中某些资历最久的老兵在这条路上走得过于遥远，他们几乎变为了盛放自己往昔人性的机械摇篮。因此对他们而言，在有需要的情况下，被葬入无畏机甲的铁躯并以此来为自己的原体和统一人类的伟大事业而奋战，这是任何人所能渴望的最高荣誉。

But there were limits to what even Ferrus Manus would countenance and, while he lived, certain mysteries of cybermancy such as the true rites of cybernetic resurrection remained proscribed as nightmare sciences of the Dark Age of Technology. Where such elements of them were encountered by the Iron Hands Legion during the Great Crusade (and indeed alone among the Legions they could readily recognise them for what they were), they were seized and suppressed by the Primarch's express order and withheld, it was rumoured, even from the Mechanicum. Whispers remained of such horrors as the Agesine Protocols, the Eight Sleepers, and the damned Sarcosan Formulae; all remained locked under the covenants of the so called Keys of Hel, named for a mythic goddess of the Medusan pantheon. Kept deep within the vaults of Medusa and sunk in chambers on airless rocks orbiting lifeless star systems where none save a select few of the Iron-Fathers of the Legion knew of their location, they were put beyond reach but not destroyed.

但军团中也存在某些哪怕费鲁斯 马努斯本人也赞同的限制令，在他还活着时，诸如真正的智控苏生仪式之类关于智控（改造）技术的谜密仍被作为黑暗科技时代的梦魇科技加以禁止。在大远征期间，铁手军团在遭遇到这些物品后（事实上在各个军团中只有他们能够轻易识别出这些物品的本质）会根据原体的命令将其控制并封禁起来，进行收缴扣押，有传言称哪怕是机械神教也接触不到这些技术制品。（关于铁手军团的）暗中低语也会谈到诸如阿格辛协议、八位眠者、萨尔科松公式等可怖之物，这些提及之物都被铁手军团按照被称为“”赫尔之匙”的协议书的要求封禁保管起来——这份协议的名称来源于美杜莎世界神话故事里诸神中的某位女神。这些物件被深埋在美杜莎世界的地下保险库中，深藏在小行星上的储藏密室中——这些没有大气层的石块环绕着毫无生气的恒星系，而且只有军团中极少数被选定的铁父才知道它们的所在地，它们未被摧毁，但也无法被他人触及。

After the death of Ferrus Manus, however, some saw his resistance to a wider supplanting of flesh with steel as one of the flaws that had allowed him to be destroyed by the Traitors; that the impetuous rage that led him to his death was born of flesh and that flesh had failed him. Thereafter, in the dark times that followed, some among the Iron Hands saw virtue in what had once been forbidden and, it is said, turned the Keys of Hel.

但在费鲁斯 马努斯牺牲之后，某些人认为：原体反动在更大程度上用钢铁取代肉体的做法就是导致他被叛徒所毁灭的缺陷，导致他死亡的冲动怒火源自血肉，血肉已经辜负了他。在随之而来的黑暗时期中，铁手军团中的某些人看到了这些曾经的禁忌之物所能带来的优势，据说，他们违背了“赫尔之匙”协议书，动用了这些梦魇科技。