hh2节译：“黑暗恶魔”

Idiosyncrasies in gene-seed are not merely common within the Legiones Astartes, they are part of the Emperor's grand design. It is divergence between in-programming and influence of the Primarch genotype in the transformation of human to trans-human Legiones Astartes that, beyond any other factor, sets the Space Marine Legions apart from each other. In the case of the Salamanders, this factor showed clearly both in temperament and overtly in physiology. Of particular note is the strength of constitution displayed by fully developed Salamanders Legiones Astartes, which has measurable superiority to the already superhuman Space Marine norms in relation to extreme temperature tolerance, radiological resistance and cellular repair. As a result of this latter factor particularly, only the Death Guard Legion are on record as having a capacity to process and resist toxins that exceed the Salamanders' gene-type.

军团阿斯塔特的基因种子通常都存在某些特质，他们也是帝皇伟大计划的一部分。在将普通人类转化为超人类的阿斯塔特军团战士的过程中，植入改造和原体基因型影响之间存在着差异，也正是这种差异而非其他任何因素将星际战士军团区分开来。在火蜥蜴军团中，这种因素清晰得表现在精神层面上，也同样清晰地明显表现在生理层面上。其中最值得注意的就是完全改造后的火蜥蜴星际战士们所表现出来的体质强度——在涉及极端温度忍耐性、放射耐受性和细胞修复的方面，他们相比于已经是超人类的星际战士的标准也有着显著的优势。而作为尤其是后一项因素的影响，只有死亡守卫军团被记录拥有能够处理和抵抗连火蜥蜴军团基因类型都无法承受的毒素的能力。

This variant gene-seed, however, also has some unusual outward effects, the first of which, noticeable even in the first Terran members of the XVIIIth’s intake, was a much- remarked ’ember-like' bioluminescence to their eyes and a tendency for skin pigmentation to permanently darken in response to prolonged exposure to high levels of potentially harmful radiation as part of the biological defence mechanism, often adopting an unnatural granite-like or obsidian quality with sufficient exposure.

不过，各种各样的基因种子也有着某些不同寻常的外在影响，而在第十八军团中，哪怕在最早的泰拉裔战士里也最为引人注目的便是他们那被频繁提及的眼中放出的“余烬般”的生物光，以及为了应对长时间暴露在高水平潜在有害辐射环境中而形成的皮肤色素沉着的趋势——这是他们生理防御机制的一部分，在经受充分暴露时会呈现一种不自然的花岗岩般或黑曜石特性。

This combination of effects, coupled with their Legiones Astartes might, makes for a particularly frightening appearance for the Legion's rank and file. This alone has earned them fear and an almost superstitious apprehension on first contact by other humans, as “devils from the dark'' for example, as they were named by the Proximal Scaver-tribes whose rebellion they were called on to quell early in the Great Crusade. It is worthy of note, in fact, that Nocturne, being a world where extremes of temperate and highly unusual radiological phenomena were present, served to further bring out this physiological reaction in Terran Legionaries stationed there and freshly in-taken native initiates alike, transforming them. This, if nothing else, helped create a sense of shared nature and identity, both within the Legion and directly in kinship with Vulkan 

这些影响的组合、搭配上军团阿斯塔特的力量，使得火蜥蜴军团战士拥有了一种极其骇人的外表。在其他人类首次接触他们时，会因这种外表而对他们产生畏惧和近乎迷信般的恐惧。例如，在大远征早期，当火蜥蜴军团被召唤去平息Proximal屠戮者部落的叛乱时，凡人叛军称他们为“来自黑暗的恶魔”。值得注意的是：夜曲星就是一个存在极端气候和非常规辐射现象的世界，星球的环境使驻守此地的泰拉裔军团战士和新征召的当地新兵进一步产生这些生理反应。正是这些而非其他因素帮助建立起了共享的特质和身份感——既是建立在军团内部之间，也是直接建立在与原体伏尔甘的亲情之间。