The Forbidden Arsenals of the First Legion

Complementing this concentration of skill and hard-won knowledge was one of the most deadly arsenals in the entire Imperium. Much of the technology routinely deployed by the Dark Angels was of an order of complexity beyond that available to the younger Legions and on par with those of the Legio Custodes, produced in dedicated manufactoria on Terra and elsewhere to the specifications of the Dark Angels learned forge masters to designs dating back millennia. Exotic plasma weaponry, munitions of archaic and unstable design as well as variants of armoured vehicles and void craft based on unique technologies, all were the sole province of the First Legion. This proved a potent force multiplier on the battlefield, amplifying the superior skills of the Dark Angels and allowing them to prevail against foes that lesser technology could not defeat. As well as those advanced weapons and designs they used openly, the Dark Angels also maintained large stocks of weapons of a darker renown.?

黑暗天使軍團（不斷）補充著對于技藝的收集匯總和來之不易的知識，他們擁有著整個帝國最為致命的武庫之一。黑暗天使軍團經(jīng)常使用的大部分技術對其他年輕軍團而言都是復雜到不能掌控的，其技術水平與禁衛(wèi)軍團相當。這些技術裝備都是生產(chǎn)自泰拉和其他世界上指定的鑄造廠，生產(chǎn)標準都是按照軍團中博學的鑄造大師們要求的規(guī)格進行制定，其設計形式可以追溯到數(shù)千年前（注：設定上黑皮書成書于HH結束后不久）。奇異的電漿武器、設計古舊且不穩(wěn)定的彈藥以及各種基于獨一無二技術的裝甲載具和虛空艦艇，所有這一切都僅供第一軍團使用。這些技術裝備在戰(zhàn)場上被證明是一種強大的力量增幅器，它們增強了暗黑天使的卓越技能，并使第一軍團能夠戰(zhàn)勝那些依靠（相對）較為低級的技術無法擊敗的敵人。除了他們公開使用的這些先進武器和設計，黑暗天使軍團還庫存了大量有著更為黑暗名聲的武器。

Within the sealed vaults of Caliban and Gramarye, as well as a number of secret caches scattered across the Imperium and guarded by dedicated Orders, were vast stores of weaponry long since proscribed to the other military arms of the Imperium. Gene-phages capable of annihilating all life upon a planetary body in mere hours, core-breaching magna munitions that could tear a planet apart from within, stockpiles of ancient silica-virae - the dreaded scourge of the nanite pronounced the ultimate heresy by the adepts of Mars 一 all could be found within the armouries of the Dark Angels. Such weapons could not be unleashed lightly, for they served only a single purpose - the utter destruction of life. They were of no use to conquerors, only to destroyers, and they served as the ultimate sanction for those enemies deserving of only annihilation.

在卡利班和Gramarye上的密閉倉庫內(nèi)，以及散落在帝國各處的眾多秘密儲存室內(nèi)，存放著被特定修會保衛(wèi)著的大量武器儲備，而帝國很久之前就（已經(jīng)）禁止其他軍隊使用這些武器了。能夠在僅僅數(shù)小時內(nèi)就滅絕整個星球上生命的基因噬菌體，能把行星從內(nèi)部一分為二的地核破壞重型炸彈，古老的硅基病毒——這種恐怖的納米災厄被火星的專家們宣布為終極異端，所有這些都能在黑暗天使軍團的武庫內(nèi)找到。這些武器不會被輕易釋放，因為它們只會被用于一個目的——徹底毀滅生命。它們被用于毀滅而非征服，它們是被施加于那些只應被殲滅的敵人的最終制裁。