hh3节译：暗影杀手

Amongst the Raven Guard and the XIXth Legion that preceded them, there was a tendency amongst combat veterans placed in situations of extreme stress to forsake all pretence of self-preservation, fighting with a terrifying silent determination and the sole aim of causing as many casualties and as much destruction as possible before succumbing to their foe. This strange blood-soaked ennui, that drove many amongst the Raven Guard to sacrifice themselves in battle, was known among the Terran XIXth Legion as becoming 'Ash Blind', while the Raven Guard of Deliverance knew it as the 'Sable Brand", a condition heralded by the darkening of the entire eye to black. Those warriors who survived their suicidal furies sometimes recovered, their brethren never mentioning the incident in a typically Raven Guard display of reticence, but more often were evermore plagued in combat by the urge to slay until death took them, paying no heed to tactical plans. 

在第十九军团——后来的暗鸦守卫军团中，处于极端压力下的军团战斗老兵们存在着一种放弃一切自我保护行为的倾向，他们会带着一种令人恐怖的沉默决心来战斗，目标也只有一个：在屈服于敌人之前，要对他们造成尽可能多的损失和破坏。这种驱使很多暗鸦守卫在战斗中牺牲自己的浸透鲜血的奇怪厌倦感被第十九军团的泰拉裔战士们称为“尘盲”，而暗鸦守卫拯救者部队则称之为“漆黑烙印”——这种现象的预兆是患者的整个眼睛都会变为黑色。那些从自己自杀性的狂怒中幸存下来的战士们偶尔也会康复，他的兄弟通常会对此表现出一种典型的暗鸦守卫似的沉默——他们从不会去提及这些意外，但更多的暗鸦守卫则是在战斗中饱受这种对于杀戮的渴望的困扰，直到死亡将他们带走，（此时）他们也无法听从命令。

The XIXth Legion, in the days before Corax's return, made little attempt to organise the Ash Blind on the battlefield, relying on the flexible nature of their tactical doctrines to make the maximum use of their suicidal urges when they took hold. The Raven Lord turned this aberrant effect of his gene-seed into a valuable weapon in his tactical arsenal, forming those afflicted by the Sable Brand into units of Shadow Killers and employing them as shock assault troops and assassins. It was the employment of such troops that allowed Corax to best his brother Guilliman in several simulated battles, an unexpected tactic that the lord of the Ultramarines was quick to adopt into the Legiones Astartes order of battle, creating the Moritat as it is known today amongst the Legiones Astartes.

在克拉克斯回归之前，第十九军团几乎未曾尝试过在战场上组织尘盲患者，而是在这些患者还能控制自己时，靠着军团战术信条的灵活特性来最大化地利用他们的自杀冲动。暗鸦之主则将他基因种子内的这种异常转化为他战术武库中一项有价值的武器，将那些遭受漆黑烙印折磨的战士们组建为暗影杀手单位，并将他们作为突击部队和暗杀者进行部署。克拉克斯正是靠着这些部队在多次模拟战斗中胜过了自己的兄弟基里曼，极限战士之主马上将这种未曾意料到的战术应用到了阿斯塔特军团的战斗序列中，创造出了如今在阿斯塔特军团中被称为暗杀精英的单位。

（机仆：一代又一代的电兵最终都走上了野隐刀之路）