The Cursed Founding and the Blood Angels Flaw?

Named as one of the largest Foundings since the initial division of the Space Marine Legions in many sources, extant Inquisitorial reports tell that the Magos Biologis charged with overseeing the 21st Founding were either ordered or encouraged to attempt to refine, augment or otherwise enhance the gene-seed used to create the new Space Marine Chapters to be founded (although sources differ as to the extent of this practice). The wisdom in tampering with the Space Marine's genesis in this way appears to have been questioned, even at the time, and it is entirely possible that the full extent of the modifications performed were kept concealed even from the High Lords and Chapter Masters of the day——a theory easily given weight by the political turmoil and division that was widespread throughout the Imperium at the time. In the case of the Lamenters Chapter, the only Chapter known to have been created from the Blood Angels gene-seed in the 21st Founding, the efforts of the Magos Biologis seemed to have been geared in some way to removing or at least mollifying the so-called "Sanguinius Flaw.' This flaw, whose true nature is known to very few outside the Blood Angels and their successors, taints this once most highly praised of the Emperor's Legions with a legacy of madness and slow descent into mindless fury. This degeneration, as much psychic as physical is a risk all Space Marines created with the Blood Angels gene-seed run; driving some into a terrible death-seeking madness that causes them to hurl themselves fearlessly at the foe, and be wracked it is said by a savage blood-hunger known as the Red Thirst. It is against this terrible affliction that the scions of Sanguinius must nobly strive to retain their sanity and their selfhood, so as to fulfil their oaths as the protectors of Mankind and the warriors in the Emperor's service. That use of the Blood Angels gene-seed was still pursued is both a testament to the glorious history of the Blood Angels themselves, and also to their geneseed's other inherent strengths, which are not limited to its low rate of implant rejection and the aberrant factor that it produces by far the longest potential observed life spans of any Space Marine lineage.

在許多資料來源中，第21次建軍都被稱為星際戰(zhàn)士軍團進行過最初拆分后規(guī)模最大的一次建軍，現(xiàn)存的審判庭報告聲稱：負責監(jiān)督這次建軍的生物賢者們被命令或鼓勵去改善、強化或以其他方式增強那些用于創(chuàng)造新組建星際戰(zhàn)士戰(zhàn)團的基因種子（不過各種材料對于該行為的程度有不同說法）。哪怕在當時，以這種方式篡改星際戰(zhàn)士（基因）的智慧似乎也受到了質疑；而且當事人完全有可能隱瞞了他們所進行修改的全部范圍，甚至對當時的高領主們和戰(zhàn)團長們也是如此——整個人類帝國在當時所普遍存在的政治動蕩和分裂現(xiàn)象輕易地為該理論提供了有力的論據(jù)。慟哭者戰(zhàn)團是第21次建軍中已知的唯一一個用圣血天使基因種子創(chuàng)建的戰(zhàn)團，生物賢者對該戰(zhàn)團基因種子所做出的改進似乎在某種程度上消除或至少是緩和了所謂的“圣血缺陷”。在圣血天使戰(zhàn)團及其子團之外，幾乎沒有人知道這種缺陷的真實性質，這個污點玷污了圣血天使這個帝皇麾下曾經最受贊譽的軍團，讓他們墮入瘋狂，并慢慢陷入無意識的怒火當中。對于所有用圣血天使基因種子創(chuàng)造而出的星際戰(zhàn)士們而言，這種退化對于生理和心理有著同樣嚴重的風險；某些星際戰(zhàn)士會被驅使著進入一種恐怖的尋死狂亂，這會令他們無所畏懼地撲向敵人，并被一種稱為“紅渴”的對于鮮血的野蠻饑渴所摧毀。為了對抗這種可怕的痛苦，圣吉列斯的子嗣們必須高尚地努力保持理智和自我，以履行他們作為人類保護者和效忠于皇帝的戰(zhàn)士的誓言。但圣血天使的基因種子仍在被繼續(xù)使用，這即是對圣血天使本身光輝歷史的證明，也是以為他們基因有其他內在優(yōu)勢，包括但不限于較低的植入排異率，以及某種反常因素——其效果是讓圣血天使及其子團擁有了迄今為止在所有星際戰(zhàn)士譜系中最長的潛在壽命。

The Blood Angels themselves have long sought an answer to their affliction, and it is likely that the experimental procedures performed on the Lamenters gene-seed during their creation were done with at least their progenitor's tacit approval. An inference perhaps born out by the fact that the Lamenters have always been recognisable in terms of organisation, ritual and special equipment as bearing the unique hallmarks of a Blood Angels Successor Chapter. The goal of reducing the effects of the flaw it seems at least initially was partly successful, with such records remaining showing that the number of the Chapter's brethren succumbing to the Red Thirst were very few.

圣血天使們也在長期尋找解決他們痛苦的方式。很可能在慟哭者戰(zhàn)團的創(chuàng)建過程中，生物賢者們至少是在該戰(zhàn)團的先祖——圣血天使戰(zhàn)團的默許下完成了對于基因種子的實驗程序。該推論也能得到（某些）事實的證明：在組織結構、儀式和裝備方面，慟哭者一直被認為具有（屬于）圣血天使子團的獨特特征。至少從最初來看，減少缺陷影響的目標取得了部分成功——現(xiàn)存的記錄表明：屈服于紅渴的戰(zhàn)團修士的人數(shù)極為稀少。

The counter to this success however, was that almost immediately certain idiosyncrasies of mind and temperament were noted within the Lamenters, factors that only grew more pronounced as the years passed: A dark melancholia seemed to take hold of the Chapter's soul and it was said of them by their fellow Blood Angels successors that they bore the grief of the loss of Sanguinius more keenly than any other, and in their hearts they heard the screams and sorrow of all the martyrs who cried out for vengeance across the cold stars. Whatever the truth of this, ill-fortune had already begun to follow the Lamenters like an unwanted shadow, and by the end of M36 it was already apparent that many of what had already become known as the Cursed Founding's children were succumbing to maladies and malevolencies as shocking as they were diverse.

但與這一成功相反的是，慟哭者們幾乎立刻被注意到某些意識和性格上的特征，而且隨著時間推移，這些（影響）因素只會變得更加明顯:某種黑暗的憂郁病癥掌握住了該戰(zhàn)團的靈魂，而且據(jù)他們同為圣血天使子團的兄弟們所說，慟哭者從圣吉列斯之死中感受到的悲痛比其他任何人都更為強烈，他們能在自己心中聽到寒冷群星各處那些殉道者們的哭嚎和悲傷——后者是在為復仇而高呼。無論真相如何，不幸已經開始如同一片多余的陰影那般跟隨著慟哭者，等到M36末期，很明顯許多已經被稱為“詛咒建軍之子”的戰(zhàn)團們都在屈服于疾病和惡行，此類問題多樣得令人震驚。

Given this and the fall from grace of many of the 21st?Founding's issue, the experimental procedures that created the Lamenters from the Blood Angel's gene-stock were not repeated, and the Chapter itself remains in its way unique in the Imperium's forces. As time has progressed since then, there has been a continued and observable increase both in the strange tendency for the macabre and melancholia that pervades the Chapter's psyche, and the Red Thirst which again has awakened in their ranks, slowly worsening, as by some reports it has, to varying degrees in all the Blood Angel's successors over time. Given the Chapter's most recent losses and the worsening maladies to which they are prey, it remains to be seen whether the Lamenters' long-term survival itself is now under question.?

考慮到這些情況，以及許多誕生于第21次建軍的戰(zhàn)團受到的冷遇，利用圣血天使基因種子庫存創(chuàng)建慟哭者的實驗過程未被重復過，慟哭者戰(zhàn)團也仍然以自己獨特的方式存在于帝國的軍隊中。但隨著時間的推移，彌漫在戰(zhàn)團心靈中的可怕且憂郁的奇怪趨勢持續(xù)而明顯地增加著，另外他們的部隊中再次覺醒了紅渴，并且在緩慢惡化——就像一些報告中所稱的那樣，隨著時間推移，此類問題在所有圣血天使子團中都會出現(xiàn)不同程度的惡化?？紤]到該戰(zhàn)團最近的損失以及他們所遭受的不斷惡化的疾病，慟哭者還能否長期幸存下去仍有待觀察，而目前這件事本身也要受到質疑。