The Iron Hands Legion's obsession with strength and the elimination of weakness led them to revere the machine and distrust the failings inherent in flesh. While other Legions were bound in metal and laboured to create great machines of war, for the Iron Hands, inculcated in their own idiosyncratic beliefs inherited from the Machine Cult's influence on Medusa, the machine was not merely an appendage to flesh but its inheritor. To them their Emperor-augmented bodies were neither more nor less than a living machine of blood and gristle made for war, a machine which could be repaired and improved upon as opportunity allowed and need commanded.

鋼鐵之手軍團(tuán)有癡迷力量和根除脆弱的傾向，者導(dǎo)致他們敬畏機(jī)器而且不信任帶有固有缺陷的肉體。雖然其他軍團(tuán)也會(huì)依靠機(jī)械，并努力制造強(qiáng)大的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)機(jī)器，但鋼鐵之手軍團(tuán)則對(duì)機(jī)器灌輸了他們自己的特質(zhì)信念，這些信念源于美杜莎上機(jī)械崇拜的影響，他們認(rèn)為機(jī)器不僅僅是肉體的附屬品，更是它的繼承者。在他們看來(lái)，帝皇為他們?cè)鰪?qiáng)過(guò)的軀體恰巧就是用血肉和骨骼為戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)而打造的活體機(jī)械，這臺(tái)機(jī)器需要指揮，而且在機(jī)會(huì)允許的情況下，可以被維修和改良。

To be as strong as iron was the fire that drove them, and to speed recovery times cybernetic replacements, swifter by far to employ than the gene-regen and vat-grown transplant techniques commonly used by the Legiones Astartes were favoured, getting a fallen or severely injured Legionary back in the fight with frightening speed. As a result no Iron Hands Legionary who had served in battle for any length of?time was wholly without augmentation, and such implants were marks of honour, and often improved and augmented away from the battle's pressing need. Some of?the most veteran among the Iron Hands went so far that they were little more than machines cradling shreds of their former humanity. So it was with them that to be interred within a Dreadnought body and therefore be allowed to fight for their Primarch and the great cause of unifying humanity forever if?needed was the highest honour any could aspire to.

“變得如鋼鐵般強(qiáng)勁”是鐵手軍團(tuán)的信念，而且加快恢復(fù)速度方面，智控機(jī)械替代品遠(yuǎn)快于阿斯塔特軍團(tuán)常用的基因再生和罐體培養(yǎng)移植器官技術(shù)，這得到了鐵手軍團(tuán)的青睞，他們能以驚人的速度讓一名倒下或者身受重傷的軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士恢復(fù)戰(zhàn)斗力。結(jié)果就是一名鐵手軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士無(wú)論服役參戰(zhàn)了多久，都不會(huì)完全未接受過(guò)（機(jī)械化）增強(qiáng)。這些植入物是一種榮譽(yù)標(biāo)志，而且通常是根據(jù)戰(zhàn)斗的迫切需要而進(jìn)行改進(jìn)增強(qiáng)。軍團(tuán)中某些資歷最久的老兵在這條路上走得過(guò)于遙遠(yuǎn)，他們幾乎變?yōu)榱耸⒎抛约和羧诵缘臋C(jī)械搖籃。因此對(duì)他們而言，在有需要的情況下，被葬入無(wú)畏機(jī)甲的鐵軀并以此來(lái)為自己的原體和統(tǒng)一人類的偉大事業(yè)而奮戰(zhàn)，這是任何人所能渴望的最高榮譽(yù)。

But there were limits to what even Ferrus Manus would countenance and, while he lived, certain mysteries of cybermancy such as the true rites of cybernetic resurrection remained proscribed as nightmare sciences of the Dark Age of Technology. Where such elements of them were encountered by the Iron Hands Legion during the Great Crusade (and indeed alone among the Legions they could readily recognise them for what they were), they were seized and suppressed by the Primarch's express order and withheld, it was rumoured, even from the Mechanicum. Whispers remained of such horrors as the Agesine Protocols, the Eight Sleepers, and the damned Sarcosan Formulae; all remained locked under the covenants of the so called Keys of Hel, named for a mythic goddess of the Medusan pantheon. Kept deep within the vaults of Medusa and sunk in chambers on airless rocks orbiting lifeless star systems where none save a select few of the Iron-Fathers of the Legion knew of their location, they were put beyond reach but not destroyed.

但軍團(tuán)中也存在某些哪怕費(fèi)魯斯 馬努斯本人也贊同的限制令，在他還活著時(shí)，諸如真正的智控蘇生儀式之類關(guān)于智控（改造）技術(shù)的謎密仍被作為黑暗科技時(shí)代的夢(mèng)魘科技加以禁止。在大遠(yuǎn)征期間，鐵手軍團(tuán)在遭遇到這些物品后（事實(shí)上在各個(gè)軍團(tuán)中只有他們能夠輕易識(shí)別出這些物品的本質(zhì)）會(huì)根據(jù)原體的命令將其控制并封禁起來(lái)，進(jìn)行收繳扣押，有傳言稱哪怕是機(jī)械神教也接觸不到這些技術(shù)制品。（關(guān)于鐵手軍團(tuán)的）暗中低語(yǔ)也會(huì)談到諸如阿格辛協(xié)議、八位眠者、薩爾科松公式等可怖之物，這些提及之物都被鐵手軍團(tuán)按照被稱為“”赫爾之匙”的協(xié)議書(shū)的要求封禁保管起來(lái)——這份協(xié)議的名稱來(lái)源于美杜莎世界神話故事里諸神中的某位女神。這些物件被深埋在美杜莎世界的地下保險(xiǎn)庫(kù)中，深藏在小行星上的儲(chǔ)藏密室中——這些沒(méi)有大氣層的石塊環(huán)繞著毫無(wú)生氣的恒星系，而且只有軍團(tuán)中極少數(shù)被選定的鐵父才知道它們的所在地，它們未被摧毀，但也無(wú)法被他人觸及。

After the death of Ferrus Manus, however, some saw his resistance to a wider supplanting of flesh with steel as one of the flaws that had allowed him to be destroyed by the Traitors; that the impetuous rage that led him to his death was born of flesh and that flesh had failed him. Thereafter, in the dark times that followed, some among the Iron Hands saw virtue in what had once been forbidden and, it is said, turned the Keys of Hel.

但在費(fèi)魯斯 馬努斯?fàn)奚?，某些人認(rèn)為：原體反動(dòng)在更大程度上用鋼鐵取代肉體的做法就是導(dǎo)致他被叛徒所毀滅的缺陷，導(dǎo)致他死亡的沖動(dòng)怒火源自血肉，血肉已經(jīng)辜負(fù)了他。在隨之而來(lái)的黑暗時(shí)期中，鐵手軍團(tuán)中的某些人看到了這些曾經(jīng)的禁忌之物所能帶來(lái)的優(yōu)勢(shì)，據(jù)說(shuō)，他們違背了“赫爾之匙”協(xié)議書(shū)，動(dòng)用了這些夢(mèng)魘科技。