HH8节译：密米尔宝库

The Vaults of Mimir

The Iron Hands are of note when considering the use of arcana among the Legiones Astartes. Though they were broken on Isstvan V and the Gorgon was slain, the majority of the Legion was yet preparing to deploy from orbit as the massacre was set in motion, a significant proportion of which managed to escape the pursuit of Traitor forces in ships swollen with Legionaries. Making up the larger part of the forces known as the Shattered Legions, the Iron Hands became a thorn in the Warmaster's side, harrying his supply lines. Though much of this force would eventually fall under the command of the patrician Captain Meduson, who waged his concerted campaign by conventional means, many of the Iron Hands' splintered forces resorted to less than noble methods; including the use of forbidden relics stolen from the Vaults of Mimir.

在讨论阿斯塔特军团对于秘宝的使用时，钢铁之手是值得记录的。虽然他们在伊斯特万五号上变得支离破碎，戈尔贡本人也惨遭杀害，但当大屠杀发生时，军团主力仍在轨道上准备进行部署，其中相当大比例的军团部队都乘坐着载满军团战士的星舰逃过了叛军部队的追捕。钢铁之手部队在破碎军团中占了很大部分，他们成为了刺入战帅叛军的尖刺，袭扰着叛军的补给线。虽然这些铁手部队中大部分最终都将会在氏族连长美杜莎的指挥下牺牲，但他们还是在用常规手段协同作战，而许多钢铁之手的分散部队则是采用了不那么高尚的手段，其中就包括使用盗取自密米尔宝库的禁忌圣物。

Ferrus Manus was known to have been thorough in containing knowledge and relics of the arcane as he encountered them in his far-ranging conquests during the Great Crusade. Of most interest to him were the technoarcana of far-flung civilisations: unnaturally efficient energy generators; advanced cogitation systems verging on sentience; remarkable terraforming devices and weapons both mundane, such as lethal chemical agents, and of the esoteric that dealt death by unknowable means. He impounded these finds in sealed stasis constructs known only as the Mimir Vaults, which were armed with complex and ingenious defences and counter-measures, so that none but he could access them. The first Mimir Vault was founded on Medusa, though as it filled and the Great Crusade drew the Gorgon ever farther afield, he created more such vaults on worlds and moons so far flung as Glendann, Jericho and Iquonqir.. These would continue to act as repositories of recovered technology, inexplicable relics, and even some inventions of his own making.

众所周知，费鲁斯 马努斯在收藏保存知识和神秘圣物方面做的很彻底，这是藏品是他在大远征时期的大范围征服中偶遇到的。原体最感兴趣的是（来自）遥远文明的技术秘宝：功率高到不符合常理的能量发电机；近似于（生物）感知系统的先进思考系统；非凡的泰拉形制设备和武器，这些藏品要么普通——比如致命的生化特工，要么极不寻常——能用未知手段进行杀戮的器械。他将这些发现封存在静置结构体中，而我们只知道这些封存地被称为密米尔宝库，并且这些宝库装备了精妙复杂的防御设施和反击手段，这样一来就没人能够得到藏品。第一座密米尔宝库建立于美杜莎世界，不过随着第一座宝库被填满，戈尔贡本人也大远征中前往了更为遥远的战场，他也在诸如Glendann, Jericho和Iquonqir等极其遥远的世界和卫星上也建立了此类封存库。这些封存库会持续作为回收到的科技、令人费解的遗物、甚至还有费鲁斯自己发明的创造物的储存设施。

With Ferrus death, his Legion suffered a crisis of ideology. Many of the remaining Iron Fathers would see the loss of their Primarch as a mark of his own failing and reject his teachings, markedly his prohibition of the use of certain technologies. Raids were made on the hidden Mimir Vaults by Ferrus' own wilful sons, for the Iron Fathers alone knew where they resided. Mostly these raids met with overwhelming disaster; the countermeasures in place to deter invasion proving too extreme to withstand. The vaults could incinerate whole detachments of Legionaries in moments or else claw starships from orbit through aetheric means, dragging them into an embrace of mutual doom, destroying both the raiders and the vault itself. A paltry few raids met with success, and what could be plundered of the Gorgon's treasures were, with many more evils and boons to be rediscovered and used over the full course of the Horus Heresy.

但随着费鲁斯战死沙场，铁手军团也遭受了思想危机。大多数幸存的钢铁圣父将原体的死亡视为戈尔贡自身的失败并拒绝了他的教导，尤其是他对于某些技术的使用禁令。费鲁斯固执的子嗣们掠夺了隐藏的密米尔宝库，因为只有钢铁圣父们知道这些宝库位于何处。此类掠夺行动大多数都遭受了灭顶之灾，费鲁斯设定的反击手段被证明过于强悍以至于入侵者无法承受。这些储存库利用神秘诡异的技术能够在瞬间焚灭一整只军团战士分遣队或将星舰从轨道上拽下来，它们会将双方拖入共同的末日，把掠夺者和仓库本身一并毁灭。只有极少数的掠夺行动取得了成功，窃贼们所夺取的戈尔贡珍宝是远为邪恶的恩惠，在荷鲁斯叛乱的整个过程中，这些宝物都被重新发现和使用过。

The use of rites of ressurective cybermancy, sometimes referred to as 'turning the Keys of Hel' was observed in combat on Gamma- Incunabular against the Emperor's Children, the power of an engine of animachina being abused to bring about the unnatural resurrection and animation of the dead; the hatred of the Iron Hands warriors keeping them from falling still, even when horribly dismembered. With each death, the power of the dreaded reanimus device increased until its energies began to spread inexplicably and undirected, dragging up the decomposing dead of previous battles on the planet. It even raised from the dirt the tattered, scavenged remains of a Basemekanic Beest killed there a century and a half previous; until that tormented creature destroyed the device and the Iron Father manipulating it with the flailing of one mighty fist.

对于苏生神兆仪礼——有些时候也被称为“地狱之匙转化技术”的使用在Gamma- Incunabular世界上对抗帝皇之子的战斗中被观察到；钢铁之手们滥用了这台机器引擎的力量以造成非自然的复活，令死者苏生；即便是遭到了残忍的肢解，怨恨也让钢铁之手战士们拒绝倒地。每有一个人死亡都这台复苏亡者的可怕仪器的力量，直到它的能量开始莫名其妙且漫无目标地扩散，将这颗星球上之前战斗中的腐烂亡骸都拖了出来。甚至那些被杀死于一个半世纪之前的巴斯梅马尼克异形野兽的残破朽烂遗骸都从尘土中爬了出来。最后，这只倍受折磨的生物摧毁这台设备，而钢铁圣父是用某种强大拳套的活动来操纵它。

When wielded in combat, such proscribed technologies appeared to friend and foe alike to be the work of the Outsider or the Daemonic Other, and indeed some were of etheric provenance. One such technology, thought to be an arsenal of triboelectric blades, was in fact a set of divining rods for the facilitation of Daemonic possession known as the Swarga Loke. When drawn from their sheathes in unison against the advancing ranks of the Sons of Horus on Defence Platform XCVX-VII, the unknowing Iron Hands each beckoned into unreality and their bodies were quickly overcome by new ravenous hosts, which then laid waste to the nearby Sons of Horus and all other life upon the Defence Platform, as was observed by the station's pict-captors. On another occasion, the ritual of neuromantic celerity was invoked when engaged against the Death Guard on Jahmun VI, stripping the metal from the hulls of nearby tanks to reclad battlefield corpses in steel, reforming with their molecular matter into ghoulish automatons of war. The Iron Hands' Space Wolves allies turned upon them immediately upon witnessing this act with savage howls of "Maleficarum" cutting down both the automatons and the Iron Hands before loping away from the battlefield, leaving the Death Guard to watch on in grim appreciation.

当在战斗中被使用时，无论对友军还是对敌人，这些禁忌技术似乎都是外界者会恶魔的杰作，而其中某些确实也有亚空间的起源。其中之一就是某套（原本）被认为是静电利刃的科技制品，但它其实是一套便于某只名为斯瓦格 洛克的恶魔进行夺舍的占卜棒。在钢铁之手于防御平台XCVX-VII上抵抗荷鲁斯之子前进部队的战斗中，这套占卜棒被同时从护套中拔出。根据空间站的图像捕捉记录来看，这支未知的铁手部队闯入了非现实空间，贪婪的宿主很快就夺取了他们的躯体，之后他们身旁的荷鲁斯之子们和防御平台上的其他生命也被施以毁灭。在另一个情况中，铁手在Jahmun VI世界上与死亡守卫的战斗中进行了神经加速仪式，从旁边坦克的车体上剥下金属用以给战场上的尸体包裹上钢铁，用他们的分子物质重组出食尸鬼般的战争机兵。一经看到钢铁之手的这种行径，他们的太空野狼盟友就马上对他们转为敌对。野狼们狂嚎着“剿灭巫师”砍倒了机兵和钢铁之手们，之后从战场上大步逃离，并对死亡守卫们冷眼旁观。

The use of the Relics of Mimir became wide-spread. Some were seized by the Iron Hands enemies as the spoils of war and more yet lay buried in the scattered strongholds and outposts that the Iron Hands frequented for resupply. Others still were traded to the Mechanicum for assistance when in dire need. Each vault contained hundreds of sealed chambers, brimming with techno-arcana, of which only the most immediately accessible were opened and their technologies taken for the arsenals of the Iron Fathers; doubtless many more vaults lie undisturbed and forgotten still. The bounty of the Vaults of Mimir would continue to see use throughout the Horus Heresy, and became rightly regarded as potent psyarkana, for the knowledge required in their use was esoteric, and the results produced by them recondite indeed.

对于密米尔圣物的使用是个广为传播的现象。这些圣物某些是被钢铁之手的敌人们所夺取，更多的则是埋藏在钢铁之手们频繁前去进行补给的分散据点和哨站中。其他的则是在有紧急需要时被拿去向机械神教换取援助。每座仓库中都有数百个装满了技术秘宝的被封存的密室，人们打开的仅仅是那些最能够直接进入的，而其中的技术也被运用到了钢铁圣父们的军火库当中。无疑还有更多的仓库未被开启，仍被人们所遗忘。我们在整场荷鲁斯叛乱中会持续看到对于密米尔宝藏的使用，它们的效果被正确地视为强大的灵能现象，因为使用它们所需的知识是玄奥的，而它们产生的结果的确也是深奥晦涩的。