HH8节译:狂热军团

The Zealous Legions

The Imperial Fists Legion is thought to have also been subtly employed by the Emperor to combat Daemonology. The nature of the Imperial Fists is one of stoic adherence to duty, a zealous loyalty engineered into the core of their genetic code, steeling them against corruption. Though they are known to be His consummate defenders, their purpose may have been to defend more than His walls, but also the soul of the Imperium. For much of the Great Crusade, the Emperor kept the VIIth Legion and their Primarch, Rogal Dorn, close to His side. Unlike his brother Magnus, Dorn could not be easily swayed to seek knowledge for its own sake, instead he was trusted to exercise restraint and caution in his studies. For this reason, it is rumoured that the Emperor, over a period of decades, shared secrets with Rogal Dorn which but a few individuals were privy to; allowing the Praetorian to better understand the need for the Imperial Truth and the urgency with which the true enemy must be combatted.

人们认为帝皇也会巧妙地部署帝国之拳军团来对抗恶魔。帝国之拳的天性就是坚韧不拔得坚守职责，这种狂热忠诚被设定在他们基因编码的核心中，让它们在对抗腐化时如同钢铁般坚毅。尽管帝国之拳是作为帝国完美的防御者而著称，但他们的目标可能不仅仅是保卫帝国外在的城墙，更是要保卫帝国内在的灵魂。在大远征的大多数时期，帝皇都能第七军团和他们的原体罗格 多恩紧靠在自己身边。不同于自己的兄弟马格努斯，多恩不会纯粹为了收集知识本身而去访求学识，恰恰相反，人们想象他在学习中保持了克制和谨慎。因此有传言称：帝皇在数十年的时间里与多恩分享了某些（只有）极少数人才有权知晓的秘密，这让多恩——帝国的禁卫总管明白了帝国真理的必要性和帝国必须与真正的大敌进行作战的紧迫性

During the Great Crusade, the Imperial Fists came to uphold the Imperial Truth with a passionate zeal. As they encountered sorcerers and preachers of the profane, they understood and were able to identify their enemy's weaknesses, pioneering the use of an arsenal of psyarkana devices capable of combatting the influence of the Warp. Throughout the course of the Great Crusade, Rogal Dorn accumulated one of the Imperium's greatest repositories of the arcane within the vast vaults of Phalanx, a valuable resource kept hidden from his brothers which, though he was reticent to employ it, was of great use during the Siege of Terra.

在大远征时期，帝国之拳狂热地坚持帝国真理。当他们遭遇到巫师和堕落教义的传播者时，他们明白敌人的弱点是什么，并且能够将其分辨出；他们开拓性地使用能够对抗亚空间影响的灵能装置秘宝来对付此类敌人。在整场大远征当中，罗格 多恩在山阵号巨大的仓库中积累起了帝国最强大的奥术（设备）库存之一。多恩将这批宝贵的资源对兄弟们隐藏起来，尽管他并不愿意使用这些设备，但这些资源在泰拉围城时期仍然非常有用。

The Death Guard too played a role in enforcing the Imperial Truth. Mortarion, in his hatred of the Outsider and its sorcery, actively sought out worlds tainted by what he perceived to be the foul influence of the Warp. On these worlds he acted not as the Liberator of Barbarus, but as a Reaper, the Death Lord come at the head of a host of the XIVth Legion's Destroyers to harvest the souls of those he saw as diseased. Mortarion's warriors were among the first to make widespread use of the bale flamer and so called psyk-out or psi-reactive munitions. The taint of warp magick was to Mortarion the most terminal and incurable of contagions, and was a sickening blight, relentlessly in need of eradication.

死亡守卫军团也承担了强制推行帝国真理的职责。莫塔里安痛恨着异类者和他们的巫术，他积极地寻找着那些被他视为遭到了亚空间腐化影响污染的世界。在这些世界上，他所充当的不再是巴巴鲁斯的解放者，而是收割者——死亡领主本人一马当先，率领第十四军团的毁灭者部队收割着他眼中那些病态者们的灵魂。第一批广泛使用灾厄火焰喷射器和所谓驱灵或灵能反应弹药的星际战士中，就有莫塔里安麾下的战士们。对莫塔里安而言，亚空间妖术的污染是病入膏肓且无法治愈的传染病，而且这是一种令人作呕的枯萎病，需要无情地加以根除。