hh9节译：禁忌之战

The Forbidden Battle

Almost nothing is known of the Lion's expedition to the system referred to only as Perditus, “Forbidden” 一 30,000 Dark Angels left alongside their Primarch, but far fewer would return. Who it was that the Lion fought is not known, though rumours would have us believe that his was not the only Legion present in that remote system, and what his objective might have been is a secret still held close by the Dark Angels long after the end of the Horus Heresy. The only thing that is known for certain is that the Lion brought something back with him from that forbidden place.

对于莱昂前往仅仅被称为Perditus的世界的探索，我们几乎一无所知，这是一个“禁忌”——30000名黑暗天使阿斯塔特跟随原体前往，但返回的人远远要少得多。我们不知道莱昂在那里是与谁交战，但谣言诱使我们相信他的黑暗天使军团并非唯一出现在那个远僻的星系的阿斯塔特军团，而在荷鲁斯叛乱结束很久之后，他此行的可能目的仍然是黑暗天使们紧紧保守着的秘密。我唯一能确知的就是：第一军团从那个那个禁忌之地一并带回了某样事物。

Referred to within the First Legion simply as the 'Gatekeeper” or the 'Key"，the prize that Lion El'Jonson brought back from Perditus allowed him to circumvent the great storms that had swept across much of the galaxy. It was the key to winning the Thramas Crusade once and for all, and none questioned such a tool nor the secrecy that surrounded it. The great and the mighty that oversaw the war agreed that such a prize was worth the sacrifice of Thramas and any number of other worlds, for it allowed them to punish the Traitors and strike at their fleets with impunity. The Lion, when he spoke of such things at all, named it a necessary evil, a tool that was to be wielded as was required and then put aside. One single record, hidden deep within the vaults of Terra, in the warded racks that maintain those tomes dedicated to the study of the psyarkane, gives this tool a name, one that bears a grim aspect. It calls it 'Tuchulcha, the servant of the Deadly Seas”. It names it 'Daemon'.

第一军团内部将其称为“护门者”或者“要匙”，莱昂 艾尔庄森从Perditus带回的奖品允许他绕过已经席卷了银河系众多地区的大风暴。它是黑暗天使军团一劳永逸地赢得萨拉马斯远征的关键，而且（也）没有人质疑这样一件工具以及围绕着它的秘闻。监督着这场战争的那位强大尊主（机仆：狮王？）也认同这样一份奖励值得萨拉马斯与任何数量的其他世界的牺牲——因为这件工具允许他们惩罚叛徒们，他们能攻击叛军舰队而不受到反击报复。当莱昂谈及这些事情时，他称之为必要之恶——某种在需要时便要拿起来使用、但之后就要放到一边的工具。在泰拉地下室的深处，某份独立记录被隐藏在那些存放着专门用来研究灵能造物的著作的有护栏架子上，这份记录给了这件工具一个带有令人担忧成分的名字——“图丘尔查，致命瀚海的奴仆”，这份记录将图丘尔查命名为“恶魔”。(机仆：这里算是gw玩梗，tuchulcha是古伊特鲁里亚文明传说中的恶魔)