hh7节译:遗弃者基因

The exact biological source ——as it is believed to be——which creates in a human being the state of Psychic Null, the so-called 'Pariah gene' has proven an elusive and ephemeral subject of study, and in testing no single 'gene' at all. Such attempts to exploit or isolate it when pursued by both the Imperial Archotechnologist Corps and the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade’s early years courted disaster, and as a result the Emperor decreed a general moratorium upon the study of the biological basis of the Psyker Null phenomena, affecting all but His own direct experimentation should He wish it. What remains of those extant studies indicates that most attempts to synthesise, propagate or even weaponise the Psychic Null were tragic failures or worse. Despite all this evidence, shadowed accounts of certain Clades of the Officio Assassinorum and the dread and obscure Ordo Sinister also contain evidence of the Emperors own “engineered” use of the Psychic Null in warfare. To others however, the mystery of the Pariah gene, if it truly exists, remains out of reach.

拒信，让人类中产生出灵能空白者的生物学基础是所谓的“遗弃者基因”，然而，所谓的“遗弃者基因”已被证明是一项难以捉摸且短暂的研究主题，并且在测试中根本没有发现单个的“基因”。在大远征早期，帝国考古学家团队和机械神教都进行过利用或者分离出“遗弃者基因”的尝试，结果招致了灾难。于是，帝皇下令全面暂停所有对于灵能空白现象生物学基础的研究，如果他希望的话，除了他自己的直接实验以外，其他人的实验都会受到影响（机仆：灯下黑…）。这些尚存的研究成果表明大多数合成、拓展甚至武器化灵能空白现象的尝试都导致了悲惨的失败，甚至还产生了更为严重的后果。即使不考虑这些证据，刺客庭某些分支机构与可畏且隐晦的寂静修女会的暗中报告也包含着帝皇自己在战争中对灵能空白现象进行“设计性”使用的证据。但对其他人而言，遗弃者基因的奥秘仍然遥不可及——倘若这种事物真的存在的话。

So many unanswered questions revolve around this most arcane and dangerous of topics. Foremost are those which centre around theories of how the Pariah gene came about: was it perhaps the result of xenos tampering of the human genome or some strange and terrible experiment of the Dark Age of Technology? Or, as the wildest theories state, is it some perverse evolutionary development against the Warp-riven cosmos itself? There is also the observation that no Space Marine, or Custodian Guard for that matter, has ever been recorded as being a Psychic Null. This factor weighs the evidence of some scholars that within the Space Marine gene-seed itself is perhaps a shadow of the Emperors own genetic material and a sliver of His own psychic power crucial to its process and success. If this is the case, it would be wholly an anathema to the Pariah gene and likely simply kill its implanted subject. It can only be speculated that if even a single Legion of Psychic Null Legiones Astartes had been possible, how very different history may have been—just as without the involvement of the Sisters of Silence in the war and the Emperors great work, Horus’ treachery may well have ended in his triumph upon the broken throne of Terra.

围绕这个最为神秘和危险的话题（而产生）的无解问题是如此之多，其中最为重要的是那些关于遗弃者基因如何产生这一问题的理论：也许它是异形篡改人类基因组的结果（机仆：印象里这是排骨的五版codex里面的说法：遗弃者基因是古圣在人类远祖——某种树栖的小型动物体内植入的，人类本身也是古圣的造物，不过这些事后来基本上也就不提），或者黑暗科技时代某些古怪而骇人的实验的产物？或者，就如最疯狂的理论所说的那样，它是人类为了应对这个被亚空间所撕裂的宇宙本身而产生的反常进化发展现象？另外我们还观察到：不存在被记录为灵能空白者的星际战士或禁军卫士们。这个因素考虑权衡了一些学者的证据：星际战士的基因种子内部成分可能有帝皇本人基因物质的痕迹，以及一小部分对基因种子的发育成熟而言至关重要的帝皇本人的灵能力量。倘若是这样的话，那这完全是遗弃者基因的致命缺陷，它很可能会杀死接受基因种子植入的灵能空白者们。我们只能推测：倘若只存在哪怕一个灵能空白者阿斯塔特军团，历史就会变得多么的不同——这就好像倘若没有寂静姐妹们的参战与皇帝伟大献身的话，荷鲁斯叛变很可能会战帅击碎泰拉的王座并取得最终的胜利而告终。