HH8节译：阿斯塔特军团的秘宝

Arcana of the Legiones Astartes

At the height of the Horus Heresy, the Legiones Astartes were exposed almost without exception to the esoteric, whether they chose to pursue it or not. Dozens of battles turned on the ability of the Legions to draw upon or combat the ethereal. Many battles revolved around the acquisition or destruction of artefacts and relics which would previously have been rejected as too dangerous or too costly to use by any Legion. Other battles were incited or decided by the walls of realspace being torn asunder to admit Daemons into a war zone.

在荷鲁斯叛乱的高潮时期，阿斯塔特军团们几乎无一例外地面对过亚空间的玄奥现象，无论他们是否选择对其进行追求。数十场（相关的）战斗展现了军团们利用或对抗亚空间的能力。很多战斗都是围绕着争夺或摧毁某些造物或遗物展开的，而任何军团们之前都会由于太过危险或者（使用）代价过大而拒绝使用这些物品。而现实宇宙的屏障被撕裂，恶魔被放入战区的情况则煽动或决定了其他的战斗。

Conflicts such as the Battle of Perditus in 009. M31 began when the 98th Clan Company of the Iron Hands intercepted a taskforce of the Death Guard's 1st Company pillaging an interdicted Mechanicum research facility. As recorded by the Iron Father leading the Xth Legion force, the Death Guard sought an object held by the Mechanicum of Perditus, which was supposed to have been able to becalm the tides of the Ruinstorm that had burst into the skies of the Ultima Segmentum fewer than two years previously. The Iron Hands and Death Guard fought each other to a standstill, denying one another the prize of Perditus' technoarcana, until after over a month of conflict, the battle was eventually broken by the intervention of the Lion. Ordered to leave or be destroyed by the Primarch of the 1st Legion, the Iron Hands and Death Guard both retreated. It is believed by the 98th Clan Company's leadership that the Lion took possession of the artefact on Perditus, an item of great value to the Dark Angels in navigating the tumult of the Warp for the waxing duration of the Ruinstorm.

开始于009. M31 的Perditus之战就属于此类冲突：钢铁之手的第98氏族连队截击了正在洗劫机械神教某座禁忌研究设施的死亡守卫第一连特遣队。根据率领第十军团部队的钢铁圣父的记录，死亡守卫们在搜寻Perditus上被机械神教藏起来的某件物品，这件物品应该能平息不到两年前爆发在极限星域中的毁灭风暴的波潮。铁手和死亡守卫之间的战斗陷入了僵持，双方都无法得到Perditus上的技术秘宝，直到冲突爆发一个月之后，僵局才被莱昂的介入所打破。第一军团的原体命令交战双方撤离，否则就接受毁灭，铁手和死亡守卫都选择了撤退。第98氏族连队的领导层相信是莱昂占有了Perditus上的制品，这件物品对于黑暗天使们价值非凡，让他们在毁灭风暴持续肆虐的期间在混乱的亚空间中导航。

First Captain Ahriman of the Thousand Sons Legion breached the defences of the psykana gaol of Kamiti Sona in 010.M31, intent on finding within the deep space void station an inmate of worth known only to his Corvidae Occult. The ensuing deaths of several prominent Sisters of Silence gaolers broke the null-aura which enshrouded the void station. The substance of reality, already punctured by the machinations of the Thousand Sons, burst under the pressure wave of hundreds of deafened psykers regaining their etheric senses, allowing unbound entities of the Warp to spill into the facility drawn by the prisoners' anguish. Only the intervention of a contingent of Space Wolves - a force known to react with overwhelming brutality to the incursions of Daemons - and a Librarian of the Knights Errant, both apparently hunting Ahriman himself could contain the threat. Regardless of these efforts, with their revelation to the galaxy, the fates of Kamiti Sona and its inmates were sealed.

千子军团第一连长阿里曼在010.M31突破了Kamiti Sona的灵能监牢的防御，他打算在这座深空空间站内找到一名只有他的黑鸦学派才知道的其价值的囚犯。之后千子杀死了多名重要的寂静修女狱卒，由此打破了包裹空间站的虚无光环。千子们的阴谋已经刺穿了物质现实宇宙，数百名被失聪的灵能者重新获得了他们的超凡感官，在他们产生的压力波动下，现实宇宙被冲破，无拘束的亚空间实体被囚犯们溢出的痛苦吸引到了设施中。由于某支太空野狼分队（他们因为用压倒性的残酷（战术）回应恶魔的入侵而著称）和游侠骑士智库的介入，威胁才得以被遏制，而两者明显都是在追捕阿里曼。不管这些努力如何，Kamiti Sona及其囚犯的命运以及他们对银河系的启示都被封存了。

Whatever the outcome of such battles, it has become clear that each and every encounter of the arcane during the Age of Darkness served to lend strength to the Warmaster's campaign. Repeated Daemonic incursions and the use of technoarcana which activated simultaneously in both realspace and the Warp weakened the gates at the threshold of hell. Increasingly as these ancient borders creaked, new portals appeared; gratuitously dispersed amongst the width and breadth of the galaxy; This served to allow the Ruinstorm Daemon to manifest of its own volition, strengthening its hold over our material realm.

无论这些战斗的结果如何，很明显星际战士们在黑暗年代中与亚空间奥秘的每次遭遇都为战帅的战役提供了力量。重复的恶魔入侵和对于能在现实宇宙和亚空间中同时激活运作的科技奥术的使用削弱了地狱的大门。随着古代的边框被越来越多地撼动破坏，新的门也出现了，它们随机地分散在银河各处。这也允许毁灭风暴恶魔表现出自己的意志，加强了它对于物质宇宙的控制。