hh8节译：九头蛇证词

The Unbalanced Scales tells us of the compact made between the Alpha Legion and the Outsider, in the form of a cabal of psychic alien races supposedly serving the best interests of the galaxy, and by extension, Mankind. However, less was known of the Alpha Legion's relationship with the Other until, unbidden, an Alpha Legionnaire turned himself over to the VIIth Legion weeks after the Siege of Terra. He would offer no information when interrogated, other than his name, which he gave as Alpharius, and his purpose; to relate a number of anecdotes to the Imperium, some of which alluded to the Alpha Legion's relationship with the occult. Offering no further value, the Space Marine, given the designation of prisoner “LXX”, was executed for the crime of treason; a testament to this new vengeful and unforgiving era. There is no way to substantiate this warrior's tales. It is suspected that everything he spoke of was a lie.

失衡天秤号星舰（的记录）告诉了我们阿尔法军团与外部者们之间定下的协议，后者是一个由灵能外星人种族构成的隐秘团体（机仆：我估计这群异形就是密教），据推测，他们服务于银河系的最高利益，而且可以拓展至人类。不过，很少有人知道阿尔法军团与这个团体的关系，直到泰拉围城战结束几周之后，一名阿尔法军团战士擅自向第七军团自首时，我们才得知这些信息。在接受审问时，除了他的名字（他给出的名字是阿尔法瑞斯）和目的之外，他没有提供任何信息。当他不能再提供更多价值后，这名身份为囚犯“LXX”的星际战士因叛国罪遭到处决；此事是这个复仇且毫无饶恕的新时代的证明。我们无法证实这名战士的故事，他所说的一切也被怀疑是个谎言。

LXX said of his Legion that even at the very moment the Judgement of Nikaea was spoken they had contradicted it, and continued to do so without remorse, their intention never having been to acquiesce to it. The Alpha Legion saw themselves as being above such directives, believing that they possessed the commensurate knowledge and mastery to preclude themselves from any restriction placed upon them. They had used psykers throughout the Great Crusade and would continue to do so, both of their Librarius, and in the form of their agents, among which were self-proclaimed wizards, warlocks and sorcerers. By sharing to a limited degree the Legion's knowledge and resources with such individuals, the Legion had co-opted them into divulging their secrets of the arcane. Thus, the relevant cells of the Alpha Legion were well enough informed that they could usually mitigate the risk of being overwhelmed through accidental contact with the beings in the Warp.

LXX声称：哪怕是帝皇刚刚下达尼凯亚决议时，阿尔法军团也没有遵守它，而且他们毫无悔恨地持续如故，他们的意图从来就不是顺服于决议。阿尔法军团自视凌驾于这些命令之上，他们相信自己拥有相称的知识和控制力来防止自己受到任何限制。他们在整场大远征中都使用着灵能者，而且他们仍然会这样做，无论这些灵能者是他们的智库，还是他们那些自称为巫师、术士和法师的凡人特工。通过和这些人分享程度有限的军团知识与资源，军团促使他们泄露了奥术的秘密。所以，阿尔法军团相关的秘密团体足够完善，以至于能告诉我们：阿尔法军团通常可以减轻因意外接触亚空间存在而陷入不知所措状况的风险。

That paradigm held true even when Lorgar Aurelian made his Pilgrimage into the Warp. Interspersed among the Word Bearers through undisclosed means were a number of Alpha Legionnaires within the Chapter of the Serrated Sun, close to the Golden Primarch's side. When these Space Marines entered the Warp unshielded, they died, but beyond the explanations of Imperial science, two Alpha Legionnaires lived on beyond their own deaths by attaining a form of Daemonic symbiosis. According to LXX, through unknown augury they were detected and hunted by unnatural entities which were only loosely to be considered Word Bearers Legionaries. Only one Alpha Legionnaire escaped, returning to his Legion to share the knowledge of his new power, submitting himself to interrogation and vivisection.

哪怕在珞珈 奥雷利安前往亚空间朝圣时，这套范式便真实存在了。通过某些机密手段，许多阿尔法军团战士混入了锯齿烈阳战团，分散到了怀言者军团中，而且接近到了金色原体的身边。当这些星际战士们无防护地进入亚空间时，他们死掉了，但帝国的科学无法解释的是：两名阿尔法军团战士通过获得恶魔共生体而超越了死亡，重新复生。根据LXX的说法，那些只能被勉强称为怀言者军团战士的超自然实体们通过某种未知的占卜手段发现并猎杀了他们。只有一名阿尔法军团战士逃出生天，返回阿尔法军团与兄弟们分享了关于他的新力量的知识，并接受讯问和活检。

Another anecdote shared by the prisoner recounts the tale of a number of warriors of the XXth Legion who had independently witnessed and recorded early forms of summoning, binding and possession rituals of a Daemonic nature within the warrior lodges of the Legiones Astartes. Though the Alpha Legion had no need for lodges of their own, they infiltrated several of those amongst other Traitor Legions. Under the tutelage of the so-called Diabolists of the Word Bearers Legion and the lodge masters of the Sons of Horus, they learned the uses of human sacrifice, the necessity of summoning circles, the carving of runes, blood magicks and the drawing out of a soul from the body of a Legionary to allow a new spirit to fill its vessel. These infiltrators would continue to gather knowledge and practice the rites they had learned until, with the completion of their mission or upon some other signal of command, they would return to reunite with the larger Alpha Legion and share their findings with their Primarch.

这名囚犯还分享的另一个故事：许多阿尔法军团战士独立地目睹并记录了阿斯塔特军团战士结社当中召唤、绑定亚空间恶魔，并创造附魔战士的早期仪式。虽然阿尔法军团不需要自己的结社，但他们渗透进入了其他很多叛徒军团的结社。在怀言者军团中所谓的恶魔大师与荷鲁斯之子军团的结社之主的指导下，他们学会的使用人祭，了解到了召唤圆阵的必要性，学会了雕刻符文、鲜血巫术、以及将一名军团战士的灵魂抽出身体并允许一个新的意识来填充他们的躯壳。这些渗透者们继续收集知识并实践他们所学到的仪式，直到他们的任务完成或收到了其他命令信号，这时他们便会返回到阿尔法军团并与原体分享自己的发现。

For the Alpha Legion, the use of psykers remained but a means to an end, the Warp looked upon in rational terms as a source of energy for which the toll for its use was equal and opposite. The practices of witchcraft and Daemonology were simply tools within their arsenal of the Empyrean. Even after learning of the deeper enigmas of the Warp, and of the malignant gods, the majority of the Alpha Legion continued to wield its arcane secrets with rationality and not reverence, accepting the risks as part of the grim equation of sacrifice and enervation. Many Legionaries were volunteered to become possessed as part of experiments to improve the Legion's knowledge and, indeed, for combat deployment, but vitally LXX impressed upon his interrogators that these Legionaries were never given the status of Other, rather simply becoming a new functional link of the Legion's unbroken chain.

阿尔法军团仍然使用灵能者，但这只是他们达成目标的一种手段。从理性的角度来看，亚空间可被视为一种能量来源，使用它的代价也是平等且相对的。巫术制品和恶魔技术只是是阿尔法军团至高天武库中的简单工具。哪怕是在了解到亚空间和恶意诸神的深层秘密后，大部分阿尔法军团成员还是继续理性且毫无敬意地使用着他们玄奥的秘密（武器），并将这种风险作为某个牺牲和衰弱的残酷等式的一部分加以接受。很多军团战士自愿接受附魔仪式，让自己成为提升军团知识的实验的一部分，事实上，这也是为了军团的战斗部署。不过，LXX给审讯官们留下了至关重要的深刻印象：这些军团战士们从未被赋予“其他的”身份，而只是成为了军团未曾断裂的链条上一个新的运转纽带。