Arcana of the Legiones Astartes

At the height of the Horus Heresy, the Legiones Astartes were exposed almost without exception to the esoteric, whether they chose to pursue it or not. Dozens of battles turned on the ability of?the Legions to draw upon or combat the ethereal. Many battles revolved around the acquisition or destruction of artefacts and relics which would previously have been rejected as too dangerous or too costly to use by any Legion. Other battles were incited or decided by the walls of?realspace being torn asunder to admit Daemons into a war zone.

在荷魯斯叛亂的高潮時期，阿斯塔特軍團們幾乎無一例外地面對過亞空間的玄奧現(xiàn)象，無論他們是否選擇對其進行追求。數(shù)十場（相關(guān)的）戰(zhàn)斗展現(xiàn)了軍團們利用或?qū)箒喛臻g的能力。很多戰(zhàn)斗都是圍繞著爭奪或摧毀某些造物或遺物展開的，而任何軍團們之前都會由于太過危險或者（使用）代價過大而拒絕使用這些物品。而現(xiàn)實宇宙的屏障被撕裂，惡魔被放入戰(zhàn)區(qū)的情況則煽動或決定了其他的戰(zhàn)斗。

Conflicts such as the Battle of Perditus in 009. M31 began when the 98th Clan Company of the Iron Hands intercepted a taskforce of the Death Guard's 1st Company pillaging an interdicted Mechanicum research facility. As recorded by the Iron Father leading the Xth Legion force, the Death Guard sought an object held by the Mechanicum of?Perditus, which was supposed to have been able to becalm the tides of the Ruinstorm that had burst into the skies of the Ultima Segmentum fewer than two years previously. The Iron Hands and Death Guard fought each other to a standstill, denying one another the prize of Perditus' technoarcana, until after over a month of?conflict, the battle was eventually broken by the intervention of?the Lion. Ordered to leave or be destroyed by the Primarch of the 1st Legion, the Iron Hands and Death Guard both retreated. It is believed by the 98th Clan Company's leadership that the Lion took possession of the artefact on Perditus, an item of great value to the Dark Angels in navigating the tumult of?the Warp for the waxing duration of the Ruinstorm.

開始于009. M31 的Perditus之戰(zhàn)就屬于此類沖突：鋼鐵之手的第98氏族連隊截擊了正在洗劫機械神教某座禁忌研究設(shè)施的死亡守衛(wèi)第一連特遣隊。根據(jù)率領(lǐng)第十軍團部隊的鋼鐵圣父的記錄，死亡守衛(wèi)們在搜尋Perditus上被機械神教藏起來的某件物品，這件物品應(yīng)該能平息不到兩年前爆發(fā)在極限星域中的毀滅風暴的波潮。鐵手和死亡守衛(wèi)之間的戰(zhàn)斗陷入了僵持，雙方都無法得到Perditus上的技術(shù)秘寶，直到?jīng)_突爆發(fā)一個月之后，僵局才被萊昂的介入所打破。第一軍團的原體命令交戰(zhàn)雙方撤離，否則就接受毀滅，鐵手和死亡守衛(wèi)都選擇了撤退。第98氏族連隊的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層相信是萊昂占有了Perditus上的制品，這件物品對于黑暗天使們價值非凡，讓他們在毀滅風暴持續(xù)肆虐的期間在混亂的亞空間中導(dǎo)航。

First Captain Ahriman of the Thousand Sons Legion breached the defences of the psykana gaol of?Kamiti Sona in 010.M31, intent on finding within the deep space void station an inmate of worth known only to his Corvidae Occult. The ensuing deaths of several prominent Sisters of?Silence gaolers broke the null-aura which enshrouded the void station. The substance of reality, already punctured by the machinations of the Thousand Sons, burst under the pressure wave of?hundreds of?deafened psykers regaining their etheric senses, allowing unbound entities of?the Warp to spill into the facility drawn by the prisoners' anguish. Only the intervention of a contingent of Space Wolves - a force known to react with overwhelming brutality to the incursions of?Daemons - and a Librarian of?the Knights Errant, both apparently hunting Ahriman himself could contain the threat. Regardless of these efforts, with their revelation to the galaxy, the fates of Kamiti Sona and its inmates were sealed.

千子軍團第一連長阿里曼在010.M31突破了Kamiti Sona的靈能監(jiān)牢的防御，他打算在這座深空空間站內(nèi)找到一名只有他的黑鴉學(xué)派才知道的其價值的囚犯。之后千子殺死了多名重要的寂靜修女獄卒，由此打破了包裹空間站的虛無光環(huán)。千子們的陰謀已經(jīng)刺穿了物質(zhì)現(xiàn)實宇宙，數(shù)百名被失聰?shù)撵`能者重新獲得了他們的超凡感官，在他們產(chǎn)生的壓力波動下，現(xiàn)實宇宙被沖破，無拘束的亞空間實體被囚犯們溢出的痛苦吸引到了設(shè)施中。由于某支太空野狼分隊（他們因為用壓倒性的殘酷（戰(zhàn)術(shù)）回應(yīng)惡魔的入侵而著稱）和游俠騎士智庫的介入，威脅才得以被遏制，而兩者明顯都是在追捕阿里曼。不管這些努力如何，Kamiti Sona及其囚犯的命運以及他們對銀河系的啟示都被封存了。

Whatever the outcome of?such battles, it has become clear that each and every encounter of the arcane during the Age of?Darkness served to lend strength to the Warmaster's campaign. Repeated Daemonic incursions and the use of technoarcana which activated simultaneously in both realspace and the Warp weakened the gates at the threshold of?hell. Increasingly as these ancient borders creaked, new portals appeared; gratuitously dispersed amongst the width and breadth of the galaxy; This served to allow the Ruinstorm Daemon to manifest of?its own volition, strengthening its hold over our material realm.

無論這些戰(zhàn)斗的結(jié)果如何，很明顯星際戰(zhàn)士們在黑暗年代中與亞空間奧秘的每次遭遇都為戰(zhàn)帥的戰(zhàn)役提供了力量。重復(fù)的惡魔入侵和對于能在現(xiàn)實宇宙和亞空間中同時激活運作的科技奧術(shù)的使用削弱了地獄的大門。隨著古代的邊框被越來越多地撼動破壞，新的門也出現(xiàn)了，它們隨機地分散在銀河各處。這也允許毀滅風暴惡魔表現(xiàn)出自己的意志，加強了它對于物質(zhì)宇宙的控制。