hh6节译：黑盾部队

The term 'Blackshield' refers not to a single military body or even a class of warriors as such, but to a phenomenon that came into being in the early to middle years of the Age of Darkness and which very much had its roots in the most ancient of martial codes. According to those codes, a warrior might, for any one of a myriad reasons, choose or be forced to cast off or conceal his allegiance. In ancient times, when a warrior bore the icon of his house, master or nation upon his shield, he might have cause to cover it with cloth or to paint over it entirely. He might very literally paint his shield black, deliberately making it impossible for strangers to know where his true loyalties —— if any remained at all— might lie.

“黑盾”指的不是一个单一的军事团体，它指的甚至并非一类战士，而是一种出现在黑暗年代中早期的现象，它在很大程度上源于最古老的军事法规。根据这种法规，一名战士可能由于各种各样的原因而选择或被迫来抛弃或隐藏他的忠诚。在古代，如果这类战士在自己的盾牌上佩戴了他的家族、主人或者国家的标志，他可能有理由用布盖住它或者把它整个涂掉。他可能会在字面意义上把盾牌完全涂成黑色，故意让陌生人无法得知他真正忠诚于哪一派——倘若他还有忠诚心的话。

While such a practice might have obvious utility amongst the warring clans and states of Ancient Terra or on any number of worlds cast down to barbarism throughout the long Age of Strife, it had no place at all in the Imperium of Mankind which through Unity and the Imperial Truth the Emperor had brought to the scattered and benighted worlds of humanity. The hosts of Mankind that swept out from Terra during the Great Crusade were bonded by seemingly unbreakable chains of fealty, blood and honour, and so to break oath with a line officer was in effect to break oath with the Emperor and those He had saved from Old Night.  With the outbreak of the Horus Heresy however, it was proven beyond doubt that the chain was only as strong as its weakest links. 

虽然在漫长的纷争纪元时期，这种行为可能在战争氏族、旧泰拉诸国或许多退化到了蛮荒时代的世界上有明显的效果，但是，随着帝皇将统一和帝国真理带到各个分散而愚昧的人类世界，这一行为也就完全失去了在人类帝国中的立足之地。在大远征时期，从泰拉席卷而来的人类军队被由忠诚、鲜血和荣誉组成的看似牢不可破的链条绑定在一起，打破对上司军官立下的誓言，事实上就是打破了对帝皇和对那些帝皇从古老旧夜中拯救而出的人类立下的誓言。然而荷鲁斯叛乱的爆发证明：毫无疑问，链条的强度取决于它最薄弱的一环。

It cannot be known when the first Blackshields appeared upon the battlefields of the Age of Darkness, and in Truth the definition is so broad that some may not have been noted as such at the time. Certainly, a small force of Legiones Astartes warriors clad in black and bearing the Terran Aquila in the stead of any Legion icon was sighted at the climax of the Liberation of Numinal during the war for the Coronid Deeps in early 008.M31. As the veil of Dark Compliance fell across the northern Imperium and beleaguered Loyalist armies fell back en masse before the traitors inexorable advance towards distant Terra, Blackshields similarly clad were counted amongst the defenders who mustered upon the walls of Fort Stranivar, giving their lives for the Loyalist cause alongside so many other dutiful and stoic servants of the Emperor.

我们无从得知第一批黑盾部队在何时出现在了黑暗年代的战场上，事实上，这个定义太宽泛了，以至于有些黑盾部队当时可能没有被人们注意到。在008.M31的克罗尼深渊会战期间，人们就在Numinal世界解放战役中看到了一群身穿黑色动力甲并且用泰拉天鹰代替任何军团图案的阿斯塔特军团战士。随着叛军们逐渐占领了帝国北部，四面楚歌的忠诚派军队集体撤退，随后叛军们无情地向遥远的泰拉进行推进，而在Stranivar堡垒中，聚集在城墙上的防御部队中同样存在黑盾战士，他们和许多其他尽职尽责且坚毅顽强的帝皇忠仆一起为忠诚的事业而献出了自己的生命。

These incidents were but the first of many that would be reported across the entire Imperium as the Age of Darkness progressed,although in most instances such reports would only be collated into a meaningful whole much later on, long after the fate of most such warriors was either settled or irrelevant. Warbands of Blackshields appeared in war zones the length and breadth of the sundered Imperium, evidence not of one overarching will or cause, but of the resurrection of that ancient code that called for a warrior to obscure his colours upon the renunciation of his oaths of allegiance to his master.

这些事件只是此类事件当中的第一批——随着黑暗年代的推进，整个人类帝国中有很多黑盾战帮活动的情况被汇报，虽然多数情况下，此类报告只会在很久之后才会被整理成有意义的完整资料，但这些资料要么是在大多数黑盾战士们的命运被决定很久之后的形成的，要么就是与他们不相关。黑盾战帮出现在被切分开的人类帝国的各个战区，没有证据表明他们有一个总体的意愿或参战原因，他们的参战是一种古老法则的复活——这种法则要求战士们在放弃自己向主人发下的忠诚誓言时，也要一并遮掩起自己纹章标志的颜色。

While many groups of Blackshields were identified, no two were exactly the same in origin or constitution. While the term invariably describes a warrior of the Legiones Astartes, even this is not universal as the origins and nature of some Blackshields simply cannot be ascertained, while others were accompanied by mortal auxiliaries in a manner similar to the Legions employment of bonded auxiliary units. Likewise, the true allegiance of many Blackshield bands was often far from clear. Even when their deeds spoke clearly of their cause, they rarely fought alongside the conventional forces of either side in Mankind's civil war or when they did, they refused to integrate themselves into established chains of command. Many Blackshield bands simply fought for their own cause—often that of simple survival in a galaxy consumed by insanity and chaos. Some however had clearly abandoned themselves to the very madness that had birthed them. Gripped by insanity that knew no distinction between Traitor or Loyalist, they ravaged across the stars throughout the Age of Darkness and in many cases well into the current age.

虽然我们识别出了很多黑盾部队，但并不存在两个在起源或结构上完全相同的黑盾部队。虽然“黑盾”这个称呼总是在描述阿斯塔特军团的战士，但甚至这也不是通用的，因为某些黑盾部队的起源和性质无法确定，其他的黑盾部队则有凡人辅助军配合作战——两者的配合方式类似于阿斯塔特军团与绑定的辅助军的配合。同样，许多黑盾战帮的忠诚状况是非常不明朗的。哪怕他们的行为已经清楚地说明了他们的参战原因，他们也很少与人类内战中任何一方的常规部队并肩作战；即便他们与某一方并肩作战了，他们也拒绝将自己融入既定的指挥链条中。很多黑盾战帮仅仅是为自己的理由而战——通常只是为了在这个被疯狂和混乱吞噬的银河系中存活下来。但是，有些人明显已经抛弃了自己，陷入了造就他们的极度疯狂之中。他们受困于疯狂，看不出忠诚派与叛军之间的区别。在整个黑暗年代当中，他们在群星间肆虐，在很多情况中他们甚至持续到了现在（机仆：黑皮书设定上是帝国学者写作的历史上，写作时间是hh结束不久）

Some have compared the Blackshields to the Shattered Legions, thus putting Truth to the observation that the two occupied different points in a spectrum of irregular or non-conventional Legiones Astartes forces. The disparate elements of the Shattered Legions, however, maintained a definite sense of Legion identity and inheritance, while the Blackshields invariably went to great lengths to reject, denounce or obscure their origins, or in some cases may even have been ignorant of them. Indeed, while the Shattered Legions were constituted of units from several different parent Legions, they ever sought to uphold and maintain their own traditions even as they acknowledged those of their compatriots. This was not the case in most Blackshield bands, and it is likely that even individual squads were made up of warriors born of different Legions, the identity of which might remain unknown even to his brothers.

有些人将黑盾部队与破碎军团作比较，他们也确实观察到了一些事实：两者都在在不规则或非常规的阿斯塔特部队中占据了不同的位置。然而，破碎军团中各支不同的部队仍然保持着明确的军团认同感和传承感，而黑盾们总是不遗余力地拒绝、谴责或掩盖他们的出身，在某些情况下甚至可能对它们一无所知。而且，虽然破碎军团是由来自多个母军团的战士们组成的，即使他们承认同袍兄弟的传统，他们也一直试图维护和保有自己军团的传统。大多数黑盾战帮不存在这种情况，很可能一支独立的黑盾小队是由来自不同军团的阿斯塔特组成的，但即便是小队里的兄弟之间也不知道彼此的身份。

While the term 'Blackshield' is fitting, it was not always a literal description of the warriors in question. Some groups were observed clad in highly idiosyncratic, personalised heraldry, no two Legionaries bearing the same colours. Some applied camouflage patterns to their armour, a practice only rarely observed amongst the Legions. At least one group was observed to wear composite battle plate, each part scavenged from other Legions and mixed together with no rhyme or reason, a sea green vambrace taken from a slain Legionary of the Sons of Horus worn alongside a bone white gorget torn from the corpse of a defeated World Eaters for example.

虽然“黑盾”这个称呼很合适，但这并不总是对被提及的战士的字面意义上的描述。人们观察到某些黑盾部队佩戴着极其独特的个性化纹章，而且没有哪两个两个军团战士的纹章颜色是相同的。一些黑盾在动力甲上涂了伪装图案，这种行为在阿斯塔特军团中很罕见。人们观察到至少有一支黑盾部队穿着混搭的动力甲——每个部件都是从其他军团的战场遗物中捡拾回来，并且被莫名其妙地混杂在一起，例如：从被杀荷鲁斯之子军团战士身上拔下来海绿色前臂铠甲搭配着从战败的吞世者军团战士尸体卸下来骨白色护喉甲。

The Steadfast, the Turncoat and the Renegade

忠诚者、叛徒与变节者

The most difficult class of Blackshield to define or identify with any certainty were those who were constituted en masse from the ranks of a parent Legion having refused to align themselves with the declared allegiance of their Primarch. Though their true numbers remain unknown, they cannot have been great for most of the Traitor Primarchs proved horrifyingly willing and able to purge their Legions of those sons they suspected would not stand alongside them against the Emperor. It is well known to us now that the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, World Eaters and Emperor's Children were all purged by the hands of their own fathers at Isstvan III, while it appears that Lorgar rid his Legion of such elements at a much earlier point. Of the other Traitor Legions, it can only be assumed that similar fratricides were enacted, although none appear to have been carried out with complete effectiveness for there were ever detached units serving far afield or beyond communications range. What trauma such warriors experienced upon learning of their masters' treachery can only be imagined and the bloodshed that ensued between brother Legionaries must have been every bit as terrible as the slaughter at Isstvan III.

由那些从母军团中集体脱离的阿斯塔特组成的黑盾部队是最难定义或确定的，他们已经拒绝向自己的原体宣誓效忠了。虽然他们的真实数量仍然未知，但他们的人数不会太多，因为多数叛徒原体们非常愿意并且有能力清除军团中那些他们怀疑不会与自己同流合污背叛皇帝的子嗣们。现在众所周知的是，荷鲁斯之子、帝皇之子、死亡守卫和吞世者四个军团都在伊斯特万三号遭到了自己父亲的清洗，而珞珈看起来在很早之前就清洗掉了怀言者军团中疑似忠诚派的战士们。至于其他叛徒军团，我们只能假设他们也发生过类似的自相残杀，不过这种内部清洗似乎没有哪一场是能够完全有效地进行，因为曾经有一些分遣部队是在遥远的战场上或通讯范围之外的地方作战（机仆：比如丹提欧克这种半流放性质的，长期驻守某些极其遥远的边境哨站）。我们只能想象这些战士在得知他们的原体叛变后经历了什么样的心理创伤，那些随后发生在军团兄弟之间的流血事件也一定像伊斯特万三号上的屠杀一样可怕。

Many of those warriors who escaped the betrayal of their kins fled into the darkness and never seen again，while others embarked upon short-lived campaign of bleedy vengeance，determining to sell their lives dearly and consumed by hatred for a galaxy in which they no longer bad a place. 

很多从自己同胞兄弟们的背叛中逃过一劫的阿斯塔特们逃入了黑暗中，再也没有被别人见到过，而其他人则开始了短暂而血腥的复仇战役，他们决心付出自己的生命（来复仇），他们对这片已无他们立足之地的银河充满仇恨，而这份情感也吞噬了他们的身心。

The Disavowed

被否定之人

It is a Truth that sits ill with many who are  to such knowledge that not all blackshields were the son of the Traitor Primarchs. The warrior lodges had spread their pernicious philosophies far and wide in the years prior to Isstvan，and few indeed were the legions entirely unaffected by their hidden workings. Indeed，it is notable that in some bands of blackshields，adherence to the tenets of the various warrior lodges remained strong and some were even accompanied small covens of Davinite lodge priests. How many blackshield bands were in fact renegade elements of otherwise loyal legions，or how many individual blackshield warriors in the ranks of a Marauder squad were secretly turncoat sons of Guilliman，Dorn，Russ or any other loyal son of the Emperor is a matter that even now has to be fully accounted. 

对于很多了解黑盾部队的人来说，有一个事实令他们感到不快：并非所有黑盾都来自那些背叛帝皇的阿斯塔特军团。在伊斯塔万事件爆发的很多年之前，战士结社就已经在广泛传播他们那险恶有害的哲学了，事实上，也很少有军团能完全不受他们背地里的活动的影响。在实际情况中，很明显某些黑盾战帮坚持遵守着各种战士结社的信条原则，有些甚至还伴随着小规模的达文结社牧师式的集会。那么，有多少黑盾战帮其实是其他忠诚军团中的变节者？有多少掠袭者小队中独立的黑盾战士其实是秘密背叛了基里曼、多恩、鲁斯以及其他忠诚派原体的不肖子弟？哪怕到了现在，这些问题也仍需要我们加以充分考虑。

The Damned

诅咒之人

Despite their rejection of visible Legion heritage, most Blackshields remained nonetheless recognisable as Space Marines. A small number however stretched such a definition to a point where onlookers may not have taken them for the product of the Emperor's vision at all. Throughout the Age of Darkness and beyond, accounts of Legionaries fallen to physical mutation persisted, hinting at a creeping instability in gene-seed purity, corruption of the implantation process, exposure to certain influences or even deliberate tampering with the Legiones Astartes genetic template. At first sight these warriors might appear blessed of superior strength, speed or resilience, but invariably they proved unstable in other ways. Some were prone to physical or mental collapse in the heat of battle, while others experienced spontaneous and uncontrolled mutation under stress, their limbs distending into horrific forms as bones re-knit and muscles distorted, battle plate splitting apart in the process. Some were indistinguishable in appearance from any other Legionary, yet possessed of such an unnatural mien or aura that others could not stand their presence, and with prolonged exposure would be driven by an inexplicable urge to strike them down.

尽管他们拒绝了可见的军团传承之物（和标记来隐藏自己的身份），多数黑盾仍然被视为星际战士。不过，一小部分人这个定义扩展到这样一个程度，以至于旁观者可能根本没有将他们视为帝皇愿景的产物。在整个黑暗年代及其之外的时间段中，关于阿斯塔特军团战士堕入灵能变异的报告不断出现，这些报告暗示了基因种子纯度的逐渐不稳定性，植入过程中的污染，也暗示这军团阿斯塔特的基因模板暴露在了某些因素的影响中，甚至可能已经遭到了篡改（机仆：千子，怀言者，帝子…）乍看之下，这些战士似乎被赋予了更为强大的力量、速度或恢复力，但是他们总是在其他方面出现不稳定。有些阿斯塔特在激烈的战斗中容易出现生理或精神崩溃，其他的则在压力下经历自发的和不受控制的突变，他们的四肢膨胀成可怕的形状，骨骼重新编织，肌肉扭曲，动力甲都在这个过程中被撑到破裂；有些阿斯塔特在外表上与其他军团兄弟没有区别，却拥有如此不自然的风度或气质，以至于其他人无法忍受他们在场（机仆：不是，长得帅也算变异？那ba的变异确实挺严重的…），如果他们长时间暴露在人前的话，会导致其他人莫名其妙地产生将其击倒的冲动。（机仆：长得帅也有错？！）

It has been suggested by some of our Order that not every band of such genetic aberrations classified as Blackshields were truly outcasts from the other Legions. Some may actually have been deliberately created in secret within one of the Legions and then released into the war-torn galaxy as living weapons of mass destruction. Created ignorant of their heritage, such forces would have reaved across the stars in pursuit of some implanted imperative, burning fiercely albeit briefly in the depths of the Age of Darkness.

我们的修会当中的某些成员认为其他军团并没有真正抛弃所有那些被归类为黑盾的基因畸变者。实际上，其中某些人可能就是在某个阿斯塔特军团中被秘密制造出来的（机仆：第三军团…），之后他们就作为某种活生生的大规模破坏性武器被投放到了这个战火纷飞的银河。这些部队将会根据某种事先植入的命令在群星间大肆劫掠，在黑暗年代中造成短暂却剧烈的破坏。

Command Hierarchy

指挥等级体系

If the Shattered Legions were irregular in their command structure, the myriad bands of Blackshields were downright idiosyncratic. Many appear to have been ruled by sheer brute strength or force of will with no apparent reference to any formal rank their leaders may once have held. What qualified a leader to rule a Blackshield warband can only be guessed at, but it has been observed that the fate of many such bands was intrinsically linked to their master's own goals.

如果说破碎军团的指挥结构还只是无规律的话，那么无数黑盾战帮的指挥结构就是彻头彻尾的另类。许多黑盾战帮似乎是被拥有纯粹的蛮力或者意志力的领袖统治着（机仆：比如恩德瑞德 哈尔老哥就曾经徒手打死过胆敢反对自己意见的下属），而没有明显提及这些领袖们曾经担任的正式职务。我们只能猜测什么样的领袖有资格统领黑盾战帮，但根据我们的观察，很多黑盾战帮的命运与战帮领袖的个人目标有着内在的联系。

Aside from the reaver lords, most Blackshield bands exhibited a comparatively flat Organisational hierarchy. The reaver lords invariably led their warriors from the front and because overall strengths were rarely more than a single Legiones Astartes company equivalent, the line officers, specialised sub-ranks, command cadres and equerries utilised across the Legions were largely superfluous and therefore rarely seen among Blackshields.

除了掠夺者领主们，大多数黑盾战帮展现出了一种相对扁平化的组织等级制度。掠夺者领主们总是带领着他的战士在前线作战，而且因为黑盾战帮的整体兵力很少超过一个同等的军团阿斯塔特连队，所以阿斯塔特军团中普遍配置的前线军官、专业化的次级部队、指挥核心以及侍从武官对黑盾战帮而言在很大程度上是多余的，因此在黑盾战帮中这些职务几乎不会被看到。

Materiel Strength

军备力量

Observed strengths among Blackshield warbands varied from as few as two dozen to as many as 2,000, with around 500 being the most commonly encountered level. No recognisable orders of battle dominated and each force was constituted according to the demeanour of its lord, its warriors and the logistical limitations imposed upon them by fate. While recognisable Legiones Astartes squad types were encountered, it was common for the core squads of Blackshield groups to carry a wide range of equipment, often with no two warriors being armed in the same manner. This phenomenon set the warriors of the Blackshields far apart from their Legiones Astartes roots and such squads came to be known as “Marauder”as the Age of Darkness progressed.

我们观察到的黑盾战帮兵力少则24人，多则2000人，最常见的兵力水平是500人左右。没有可辨认的战斗命令支配他们，每支部队都是根据其领主的行为举止、部队中的战士和命运强加给他们的后勤限制等因素组建而成的。虽然黑盾战帮中也偶尔出现过可识别的阿斯塔特军团小队类型，但黑盾战帮的核心小队通常会携带种类繁多的装备，而且通常来说，不存在两个用同样方式武装自己的黑盾战士。这一现象让黑盾战士们远远地脱离开了他们阿斯塔特军团的根源。而随着黑暗年代的推进，这类小队开始作为“掠袭者小队”为人们所知。

The strength of most Blackshield warbands was very much concentrated in its core infantry elements, for, divorced from conventional Legion logistical chains, stocks of heavy equipment very quickly dwindled. It was rare indeed for such groups to utilise disposable equipment such as drop pods, for recovering such items for re-use generally called for support assets the Blackshields did not have ready access to. Instead of drop pods, most Blackshield warbands relied upon the lighter classes of gunships to transport forces to a planet's surfece and to provide them with fire support. Storm Eagles and Fire Raptors being commonly encountered, and it is likely that many Blackshield bands prioritised their capture from enemy forces.

多数黑盾战帮的兵力非常集中于其核心步兵部队。因为黑盾部队脱离了其传统的军团后勤链，他们的重型设备库存迅速减少，事实上黑盾战帮几乎不会使用空降舱这种一次性装备，因为要回收这些装备以再次使用的话，通常要呼叫支援设备——但黑盾战帮没有现成的此类装备。多数黑盾战帮依赖轻型炮艇而非空降舱来将部队运送到星球表面并为他们提供火力支援。他们通常使用风暴鹰和火焰猛禽炮艇，而且许多黑盾战帮很可能把从敌军手中俘获夺取这类炮艇列为优先任务。

Given the circumstances of their creation and the manner in which they operated, it has proved impossible to assay the total number of Legiones Astartes warriors turned Blackshield who fought throughout the Age of Darkness. Given that some may have come into being as a result of accelerated implantation regimes or unsanctioned replication protocols and therefore never entered on the official rolls of the later Great Crusade, the numbers may be far higher than any could imagine, albeit spread across the unimaginably vast reaches of the galaxy over which Mankind sought dominion.

考虑到他们的诞生环境和运作方式，确定在整个黑暗年代中转变为黑盾战士的阿斯塔特军团战士的总数被证明是不可能的。鉴于某些黑盾战士可能是利用器官加速植入机制或禁忌的复制规程制造出来的，所以他们也就从未加入过大远征晚期的官方统计名单，虽然他们分布在人类寻求统治的难以想象的银河系广阔地带，但他们的数量可能仍然远远超出任何人的想象。

Blackshield Specific Equipment

黑盾特殊武器

The nature of the Blackshield forces and their often erratic and unorthodox lines of supply forced many into the adoption of ragged and modified equipment and weapons in order to maintain an effective fighting force.

由于黑盾部队的特性与他们通常不稳定且非正统的供应线，很多黑盾战帮被迫使用破旧不规则且改良过的设备和武器来保持有效的战斗力。

'Pariah' Wargear

“遗弃者”战争装备

Various Blackshield groups were observed throughout the Age of Darkness to wield arms and armour obviously field-modified in a variety of ways, sometimes simply to keep it functioning in the isolated conditions under which such forces operated, but often to improve its performance in some manner. Such modifications were not authorised by Legiones Astartes battle doctrine and often in flagrant contradiction of the laws of the Cult of the Machine. Such weaponry came to be known as "pariah" wargear, a term indicative of the outcast status of those who implemented such modifications.

在整个黑暗年代中，不同的黑盾部队都被观察到使用各种以各种方式进行过明显的战地改造的武器和动力甲，有些时候这么做仅仅是为了让武器在黑盾部队那孤立的作战环境下运作，但这种做法经常是为了以某种方式提高武器性能。阿斯塔特军团的战斗信条禁止此类改造，这种行为也经常公然违反机械神教的律法。这类武器开始被称为“遗弃者武器”——这个术语表示了实施此类修改的人员的流亡状态。

Pariah wargear may be chosen as a direct replacement of the base type, by any unit with access to it, for the same cost. For example, a unit that is taken equipped with power armour may replace this with Pariah power armour at no additional cost, while a squad with access to flamers may, having purchased the weapons, exchange them for Pariah flamers for no additional cost. When taking Pariah wargear options, all eligible weapons in the unit must be upgraded in the same way

任何能够得到遗弃者战争装备的单位都可以将其作为基本型号装备的直接替代品，而且资源消耗相同。例如，黑盾战士们可以把自己的动力甲替换为遗弃者动力甲，这不需要消耗额外的资源；小队中已经配备了的火焰喷射器也可以用遗弃者火焰喷射器加以替换，而且没有额外的资源耗费。当选择遗弃者战争装备时（机仆：这部分是棋子规则和背景介绍混合在一起了…），单位中所有合格的武器必须以同样的方式升级。

Pariah Power Armour

遗弃者动力甲

Some Blackshield forces were observed to modify their power armour in a manner not prescribed by any doctrine of the Legiones Astartes. By stripping back reactor casings , re-routing power couplings and foregoing components such as gauntlets, motive stabilisers, vambraces, pauldrons or helm, the wearer is afforded a combination of power and dexterity not provided by standard patterns, albeit at the expense of some protection against lieavy weapons fire.

某些黑盾被观察到使用某种未被任何阿斯塔特军团战争信条所规定的方法改进了他们的动力甲。通过剥离背后反应堆的外壳、重新布线电源耦合与前述组件——比如排气管、动力稳定器、鞋面支架、护肩甲或头盔，穿戴者被赋予了力量和灵活性的结合——标志型号的动力甲无法提供这样的性能。不过这牺牲了一些对于轻武器火力的防御性能。

Pariah Bolter

遗弃者爆弹枪

Though it grieves those inducted into the mysteries of the machine, some Blackshields have learned to strip the iconic bolter of its casing and any extraneous fittings in order to make it easier to handle during the fury of a charge or the tumult of a Zone Mortalis engagement.

尽管这让那些被机器的神秘性所吸引的人感到悲伤，但某些黑盾已经学会了剥去爆弹枪那标志性的外壳与任何无关的配件，这是为了让爆弹枪更为易于在愤怒的冲锋或混乱的区域交战中使用。

Pariah Flamer

遗弃者火焰喷射器

These weapons, produced from battle-damaged and field-repaired units, have been modified by their bearers to remove safety cut-off, allowing a greater volume of fuel to be fired, albeit at risk and with less regularity of pressure than standard issue Imperial flamers. Such protocols are not approved by the battle doctrines of the Legiones Astartes and are in contravention of the laws of the Cult Mechanicus.

这种武器是战损和战地改造的产物。使用者们改良了这些武器——拆除安全切断装置，这一做法允许火焰喷射器燃烧更为大量的燃料，不过相比于标志分配的帝国火焰喷射器，这类武器处于危险之中而且压力不太稳定。而且这种做法并不被阿斯塔特军团的作战理论所认可，也违反了机械神教的律法。

Xenos Deathlock

异形死亡之锁

There exist many terrifyingly powerful xenos technology weapons encountered during the Great Crusade, which, though incredibly effective, have been declared prohibited by Mechanicum and Emperor alike for their detrimental effects on the body and mind of a human wielder. The desperation of certain Blackshield forces, however, has overcome such concerns. Those weapons sought out by certain groups of Blackshields are prized for the trauma they inflict upon the foe—enemies not torn apart by their horrifying effect are assailed by a storm of soul-wrenching alien horror. Such weapons have been encountered in a range of classes, such as the extinction carbines of the Khrave or the psycho-mobius claw-guns of the Kala Sistrum being the most commonly sought after amongst Blackshield force。

在大远征当中，帝国遇到了很多威力恐怖的异形科技武器，虽然这些武器非常有效，但帝皇和机械神教明令禁止使用这些武器——因为他们会对人类使用者造成身心伤害。但是，某些黑盾部队的绝望感克服了这种担忧。这些武器被某些黑盾部队所寻获，而且因其能对敌人造成的创伤而受到重视。敌人们要么被异形武器的恐怖效果撕碎，要么就是遭受了一场折磨灵魂的异形恐怖风暴的袭击。黑盾战帮会使用种类繁多的异形武器，例如，黑盾战帮中中最受追捧的是异形武器卡拉沃异形种族的灭绝卡宾枪或卡拉-西斯特鲁姆异形种族的心理莫比乌斯利爪枪。