hh8节译：折翼天使与陨落苍狼

The Horus Heresy spawned many dark legends and tales of ill-omen which some among the Legions to survive that cataclysmic conflict would like to forget. The Battle for Signus Prime numbers foremost amongst these, and the Blood Angels rarely speak of what transpired, of the events that would leave such a dark stain on both their honour and souls for centuries to come. Some would blame the events on the influence of dark powers, or the manipulation of the Word Bearers, and yet the tales that are known speak of the dark past of the Legion which Sanguinius had long sought to bury.

荷鲁斯叛乱引出了许多黑暗的传说与关于恶兆的故事，而那些挺过这场灾难性冲突的军团很愿意忘记其中的某些。西格纳斯主星之战是其中最为重要的，圣血天使们也几乎不会透露（当时）发生了什么，因为当时发生的事情将会在之后的数个世纪中在他们的荣誉和灵魂上留下一个极其黑暗的污点。有些人声称要为这些事件要归咎于黑暗力量的影响或怀言者军团的暗中操作。已知这个故事讲述了圣吉列斯试图掩埋的第九军团的黑暗过去。

What is certain is that, with the fall of the Angel on Signus Prime, almost every last Blood Angel within a thousand metres lost all sense and reason. There are verified reports of warriors abandoning their positions and heavy weapons to engage in close quarters combat with the nearest foe, disregarding both discipline and prearranged strategies. There are many tales of lone Blood Angels warriors plunging into mobs of grasping horrors, their bolters reduced to mere clubs in frenzied melee, and dying alone in a futile effort to avenge the fall of their lord. Some entire units gave into the despair that swept through the Blood Angels host and threw themselves at the enemy, giving little heed to the peril they placed supporting units in as they abandoned the ordered lines of the initial attack.

可以确定的是，当大天使在西格纳斯主星陨落时，方圆一千米之内几乎所有幸存的圣血天使都失去了所有的感觉和理智。存在被证实的记录证明第九军团的战士们抛弃了他们的战术姿态和重武器，与距离自己最近的敌人进行近战，无视了纪律和预定的战略。存在许多关于孤独的圣血天使战士们冲入成群的贪婪可怖的敌人中的故事，他们在疯狂的混战中仅仅将爆弹枪当作棍棒使用，他们努力为陨落的主父复仇，却终究在徒劳无功中孤独死去。某些完整的单位则是全部屈服于席卷圣血天使战群的绝望中，他们放弃了开始进攻时的有序路线，他们几乎没有注意到自己让支援单位身处险境。

In the more extreme cases, there are some tales of Blood Angels attacking each other or even allies and unarmed civilian personnel. There is some evidence that links the 5'th and 11'th Companies, under Amit and Maulgrehn, with the disappearance of the Space Wolves contingent attached to the army. The Redknife and his men are listed on no casualty report from the battle, and their last known position was between the 11'th and 5`th Companies. Had they fallen in honest combat then the Blood Angels would speak of their valour, and yet there are no tales told of the Space Wolves who marched forth with Sanguinius that day. 

在更为极端的情况中，圣血天使们互相攻击，甚至杀戮了友军和没有武装的平民。有证据显示阿密特的第五连队和马尔格雷与被配属到第九军团的太空野狼部队分队的失踪之间存在联系。狼主红刃和他的部下并未被列在战斗伤亡报告中，他们最后的已知位置是处于第五连队和第十一连队之间。倘若他们是光荣战死的，圣血天使们将会歌颂他们的价值，然而讲述那些陪同圣吉列斯前往西格纳斯的太空野狼们的故事并不存在。

Those closest to the Primarch when he fell, and the darkness unleashed by the Daemon general in the wake of that tragedy, suffered the worst of the madness. Few among those would survive the fighting that day, having given themselves fully to the suicidal fury, yet the toll they reaped upon the foe in exchange for their lives was great indeed. Those at a further distance seemed to have suffered only to a lesser degree, and many more among those at the fringes of the battlefield were able to retain their sanity and fight as warriors rather than mindless killers. However, even those who managed to resist the dark call that was unleashed upon the battlefields of Signus were still marked by its stain and would be haunted by it until the final days of the Horus Heresy and beyond.

那些在原体陨落时距离父亲最近的圣血天使们，也受恶魔将领在这次背叛后释放的黑暗影响最深，他们遭受到了最为严重的疯狂的折磨。极少数从那天的战斗中幸存下来的战士们也完全屈服于自杀性的狂怒，不过，他们的确也靠着自我牺牲重创了敌人。那些距离较远的战士们似乎只受了轻度影响，大多数位于战场边缘的圣血天使们都能保持理智，作为一名战士而非一名疯狂的杀手与敌人交战。然而，即便是那些成功抵制了恶魔在西格纳斯战场上释放的黑暗召唤的军团战士们，他们也会被这次污浊的战争打上标记（机仆：怎么一股子剑风传奇的感觉…懂了，BA都是烙印战士！），这份影响将会困扰这他们，直到荷鲁斯身死，甚至大叛乱已然结束后的日子中。