hh6节译：圣血天使军团装甲战斗群

Blood Angels Legion is possessed of the full panoply of war laid down by the architects of the wars of the Great Crusade, and masters in the use of them all. The Legion's forge is noted above all others for the care and attention it lavishes upon its equipment and war machines, from the most ubiquitous boltgun to the mightiest of battle barges. This phenomenon is witnessed most often in the exacting maintenance protocols carried out on its armoured vehicles and, most strikingly, in the adornment applied to their flanks.

圣血天使军团拥有大远征战争设计师们设计出的完整的全套战争装备，而且他们擅长使用所有装备。圣血天使军团铸造厂最为著名的特点便是他们慷慨给予装备和战争机器们的看护保养和关注，从最为普遍的爆弹枪到最为巨大的战斗母舰（都能得到同样细致的维护保养）。人们通常会在圣血天使们对其装甲载具执行严格的维护协议目击到这一现象，而最为为引人注目的是圣血天使们在战车侧面进行的装饰。

The IXth Legion maintains a uniquely skilled cadre of bonded artisan-serfs, its ranks filled with individuals whose names may never be known to the greater Imperium, but who must surely rank among the greatest artists of the age. Their sole task is to render glory to the Blood Angels Primarch, the Angel Sanguinius, and through him the Emperor Himself. This is not done through vanity, as so many have claimed of the IIIrd Legion for example, but in pursuit of the higher purpose for which the Blood Angels were created一to engender hope and strike awe into the hearts of those long lost in the darkness of Old Night, and to inspire stark terror in those who would reject the gift that is the Imperial Truth or threaten the glorious future the Emperor intends for Mankind.

第九军团还拥有一群技艺超群的艺术仆从，这支队伍里挤满了名字可能永远不会被伟大的帝国所知的人们，但他们肯定名列于当时最伟大的艺术家们。他们唯一的任务就是将荣耀贡献给圣血天使的原体——大天使圣吉列斯，并且通过原体将荣耀献给帝皇本人。这不是出于虚荣心（例如，很多人声称第三军团装饰自己的载具是为了满足虚荣心），而是为了追求帝皇创造出圣血天使们去实现的宏伟目标——让那些长久迷失于旧夜黑暗的人心中产生希望并充满敬畏，并且在那些拒绝帝国真理或威胁帝皇为人类设计的壮观未来的人心中激起赤裸裸的恐惧。

While the bulk of the IXth Legion's armoured might was mustered at the Nartaba System for deployment to the Signus Cluster, hundreds, perhaps thousands of war machines of all classes remained in reserve at the Legion's fortress at Baal. Throughout the long years that the Blood Angels were lost, their fate unknown to the Imperium, the artisan-serfs continued to produce the most noble and wondrous of engines of war, ready to be wielded in righteous anger against the Traitors when at last their masters returned.

虽然大部分第九军团装甲部队都集结到了Nartaba星系，为前往西格纳斯星丛做准备，但仍有数百辆——也可能是数千辆所有型号的战争机器依然被保存在巴尔的军团要塞中。在圣血天使军团迷失于银河当中的漫长岁月里（机仆：西格纳斯会战之后毁灭风暴形成，ba与帝国失联，后来他们抵达了马库拉格，并在第二次达文会战后突破风暴，驰援泰拉），艺术仆从们继续制造着最为高贵和令人惊异的战争引擎，他们准备在主人们最终归来时将正义的怒火发泄在叛徒们的头上。