HH6节译：黑盾部队的隐藏之手

The histories of the Age of Darkness present far more mysteries and enigmas than reliable or complete accounts, and so entire armies of historator-scribes labour to piece together something of the truth from uncounted fragments of hearsay. In the examination, many such fragments reveal still more perplexing or troubling elements. At the twinned gas giants of Euros, for example, ashen-skinned, black-eyed warriors bearing the eye of the Warmaster upon otherwise featureless Mark VI battle plate, who could only have been renegade sons of Corax, sent the vast macro-bastions plunging through the crust, in so doing causing the fiery deaths of over twenty million colonists.

黑暗年代的历史呈现给我们的神秘和谜题远多于可靠或完整的报告，所以大量的历史学家们只好从无数的传闻碎片中拼凑出一些真相。在调查研究中，许多这样的碎片揭示了更多令人困惑或质疑的事情。例如，Euros的双子巨型气田中出现了肤色灰白且双眼漆黑的战士们，他们身穿马克6型动力甲，身上唯一的特色标志就是属于战帅本人的荷鲁斯之眼——他们只可能是变节的暗鸦守卫，这些战士们的行动导致巨大的宏观堡垒从地壳中坠落(机仆：从上下文来看，我估计这群人应该是把建在气田上的巨型气体加工综合体的支撑柱给炸了，然后整座建筑都掉进采气留下的巨坑里了)，这一事件导致2000多万殖民者被可燃气体活活烧死。（机仆：各位可以想象一下把整座城市的人全部丢进哈萨克斯坦那个永不熄灭的天然气大坑里的场面）

At Gamma-Dvalin, a force of warriors, each one wearing armour of discordantly mismatched heraldry and patterns torn from numerous dead foes, breached the Vaults of Ytterbia and plundered the forbidden stasis arsenals quantum-locked within. A month later, the stolen n-dimensional weapons were unleashed upon the 38th Company of the Sons of Horus Legion at lantana Minor, consuming both armies and tearing an entire continent apart in the process. Fragmented pict-thief captures show several Blackshields bereft of their helms, each of them bearing an identical Cthonian gang rune tattooed across their scalp.

一群战士出现在Gamma-Dvalin，他们每个人都穿着带有不协调的错配纹章的动力甲，而且动力甲的部件们都是从很多死去的敌人身上扒下来的。这群黑盾打破了伊特比亚的墓穴，并掠夺了被量子锁定在墓穴中的禁忌静滞仓库。一个月之后，在lantana Minor世界上，他们将盗取来的N维度空间武器释放在了荷鲁斯之子军团第38连队的头上，武器将交战双方一并吞噬，并在过程中撕碎了整块大陆。碎片化的暗中拍摄的战场影像记录现实显示很多黑盾战士没有配戴头盔，他们每个人的头皮上都纹着一个完全相同的克苏尼亚帮派符文标记。

 Blackshield force is known to have launched attacks against Sons of Horus and Death Guard Legionaries at Taracanis, culminating in the boarding action against the Death Guard heavy cruiser Morbid Revelation and the spiking of its mighty nova cannon. The extent of the damage was not discovered until the weapon was next fired in anger, ten days later, against the Mechanicum Explorator Barque Radiant Precept, resulting in the Revelation being crippled in the ensuing back-blast and its forced withdrawal from the war。

在Taracanis世界，黑盾部队因为发动针对荷鲁斯之子和死亡守卫军团战士的进攻而为人们所知。在战斗的高潮部分，黑盾们对死亡守卫的重型巡洋舰“病态启示”号进行了跳帮，并且破坏了战舰上强大的新星炮。直到十天之后死亡守卫们才发现了新星炮的损伤程度之严重：在他们在与机械神教探索舰“辐射训令”号的交战中，新星炮再次暴怒地开火了，结果导致“病态启示号”在随后的爆炸中变成了残废并被迫撤出战斗。

At the Battle of the Ultinian Rings, Sons of Horus hunter-slayers under Tybalt Marr, tracking down survivors fleeing Isstvan V were ambushed by a Blackshields force led by an individual later identified as the Raven Guard Strike-Centurion Morkan Sayle. In the ensuring battle, a sky-hive housing 100,000 colonists was destabilised and brought plummeting into the lyotropic crystal seas of Ultinia 7. Centurion Morkan was presumed dead in that operation, along with over half of his force, but contrary claims continue to emerge even decades later.

在Ultinian环带战役中，泰巴尔特 马尔率领的猎杀部队在追捕那些逃离伊斯塔万五号的幸存者的过程中遭到了一支独立黑盾部队的埋伏，他们辨别出这群黑盾的领袖是暗鸦守卫军团的突击百夫长莫尔坎 赛勒。在决定性的战斗中，一座居住了10万名殖民者的苍穹巢都遭到了破坏，失去了平衡性，坠入了Ultinia 7号世界的易溶晶体海洋中。人们认为莫尔坎百夫长死在了这场战斗中，同时他的部队有超过半数的黑盾战士为他陪葬，但哪怕在数十年后，相反的主张仍在不断出现。

Each of these battles served in their own way to influence the course of the war not just at the local level, but at the strategic one. Even though the specifics of cause and effect were hidden at the time and are only barely perceivable to us now, many of our Order now believe that when considered as a whole, they amount to a significant contribution towards the ultimate ending of the war. 

这些战斗中的每一场都在用自己的方式影响战争的进程，而且影响范围不仅是在局部层面，也是在战略层面（机仆:比如xana给荷鲁斯准备的军火足够让战帅左右战局，结果被一群黑盾和第一军团给炸了个精光，不过间接后果是让xana在后来成为了最强焦油触手怪），虽然许多因果的细节在当时被隐藏了，很多细节现在也几乎察觉不到了，但现在我们中的许多人认为：从整体上看，黑盾们为战争的最终结束做出了重要贡献。