HH9节译：第一军团的禁忌武库

The Forbidden Arsenals of the First Legion

Complementing this concentration of skill and hard-won knowledge was one of the most deadly arsenals in the entire Imperium. Much of the technology routinely deployed by the Dark Angels was of an order of complexity beyond that available to the younger Legions and on par with those of the Legio Custodes, produced in dedicated manufactoria on Terra and elsewhere to the specifications of the Dark Angels learned forge masters to designs dating back millennia. Exotic plasma weaponry, munitions of archaic and unstable design as well as variants of armoured vehicles and void craft based on unique technologies, all were the sole province of the First Legion. This proved a potent force multiplier on the battlefield, amplifying the superior skills of the Dark Angels and allowing them to prevail against foes that lesser technology could not defeat. As well as those advanced weapons and designs they used openly, the Dark Angels also maintained large stocks of weapons of a darker renown. 

黑暗天使军团（不断）补充着对于技艺的收集汇总和来之不易的知识，他们拥有着整个帝国最为致命的武库之一。黑暗天使军团经常使用的大部分技术对其他年轻军团而言都是复杂到不能掌控的，其技术水平与禁卫军团相当。这些技术装备都是生产自泰拉和其他世界上指定的铸造厂，生产标准都是按照军团中博学的铸造大师们要求的规格进行制定，其设计形式可以追溯到数千年前（注：设定上黑皮书成书于HH结束后不久）。奇异的电浆武器、设计古旧且不稳定的弹药以及各种基于独一无二技术的装甲载具和虚空舰艇，所有这一切都仅供第一军团使用。这些技术装备在战场上被证明是一种强大的力量增幅器，它们增强了暗黑天使的卓越技能，并使第一军团能够战胜那些依靠（相对）较为低级的技术无法击败的敌人。除了他们公开使用的这些先进武器和设计，黑暗天使军团还库存了大量有着更为黑暗名声的武器。

Within the sealed vaults of Caliban and Gramarye, as well as a number of secret caches scattered across the Imperium and guarded by dedicated Orders, were vast stores of weaponry long since proscribed to the other military arms of the Imperium. Gene-phages capable of annihilating all life upon a planetary body in mere hours, core-breaching magna munitions that could tear a planet apart from within, stockpiles of ancient silica-virae - the dreaded scourge of the nanite pronounced the ultimate heresy by the adepts of Mars 一 all could be found within the armouries of the Dark Angels. Such weapons could not be unleashed lightly, for they served only a single purpose - the utter destruction of life. They were of no use to conquerors, only to destroyers, and they served as the ultimate sanction for those enemies deserving of only annihilation.

在卡利班和Gramarye上的密闭仓库内，以及散落在帝国各处的众多秘密储存室内，存放着被特定修会保卫着的大量武器储备，而帝国很久之前就（已经）禁止其他军队使用这些武器了。能够在仅仅数小时内就灭绝整个星球上生命的基因噬菌体，能把行星从内部一分为二的地核破坏重型炸弹，古老的硅基病毒——这种恐怖的纳米灾厄被火星的专家们宣布为终极异端，所有这些都能在黑暗天使军团的武库内找到。这些武器不会被轻易释放，因为它们只会被用于一个目的——彻底毁灭生命。它们被用于毁灭而非征服，它们是被施加于那些只应被歼灭的敌人的最终制裁。