The exact biological source ——as it is believed to be——which creates in a human being the state of Psychic Null, the so-called 'Pariah gene'?has proven an elusive and ephemeral subject of study, and in testing no single 'gene'?at all. Such attempts to exploit or isolate it when pursued by both the Imperial Archotechnologist Corps and the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade’s early years courted disaster, and as a result the Emperor decreed a general moratorium upon the study of the biological basis of the Psyker Null phenomena, affecting all but His own direct experimentation should He wish it. What remains of those extant studies indicates that most attempts to synthesise, propagate or even weaponise the Psychic Null were tragic failures or worse. Despite all this evidence, shadowed accounts of certain Clades of the Officio Assassinorum and the dread and obscure Ordo Sinister also contain evidence of the Emperors own “engineered”?use of the Psychic?Null in warfare. To others however, the mystery of the Pariah gene, if it truly exists, remains out of reach.

拒信，讓人類中產(chǎn)生出靈能空白者的生物學(xué)基礎(chǔ)是所謂的“遺棄者基因”，然而，所謂的“遺棄者基因”已被證明是一項(xiàng)難以捉摸且短暫的研究主題，并且在測(cè)試中根本沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)單個(gè)的“基因”。在大遠(yuǎn)征早期，帝國(guó)考古學(xué)家團(tuán)隊(duì)和機(jī)械神教都進(jìn)行過利用或者分離出“遺棄者基因”的嘗試，結(jié)果招致了災(zāi)難。于是，帝皇下令全面暫停所有對(duì)于靈能空白現(xiàn)象生物學(xué)基礎(chǔ)的研究，如果他希望的話，除了他自己的直接實(shí)驗(yàn)以外，其他人的實(shí)驗(yàn)都會(huì)受到影響（機(jī)仆：燈下黑…）。這些尚存的研究成果表明大多數(shù)合成、拓展甚至武器化靈能空白現(xiàn)象的嘗試都導(dǎo)致了悲慘的失敗，甚至還產(chǎn)生了更為嚴(yán)重的后果。即使不考慮這些證據(jù)，刺客庭某些分支機(jī)構(gòu)與可畏且隱晦的寂靜修女會(huì)的暗中報(bào)告也包含著帝皇自己在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中對(duì)靈能空白現(xiàn)象進(jìn)行“設(shè)計(jì)性”使用的證據(jù)。但對(duì)其他人而言，遺棄者基因的奧秘仍然遙不可及——倘若這種事物真的存在的話。

So many unanswered questions revolve around this most arcane and dangerous of topics. Foremost are those which centre around theories of how the Pariah gene came about: was it perhaps the result of xenos tampering of the human genome or some strange and terrible experiment of the Dark Age of Technology? Or, as the wildest theories state, is it some perverse evolutionary development against the Warp-riven cosmos itself??There is also the observation that no Space Marine, or Custodian Guard for that matter, has ever been recorded as being a Psychic Null. This factor weighs the evidence of some scholars that within the Space Marine gene-seed itself is perhaps a shadow of the Emperors own genetic material and a sliver of His own psychic power crucial to its process and success. If this is the case, it would be wholly an anathema to the Pariah gene and likely simply kill its implanted subject. It can only be speculated that if even a single Legion of Psychic Null Legiones Astartes had been possible, how very different history may have been—just as without the involvement of the Sisters of Silence in the war and the Emperors great work, Horus’?treachery may well have ended in his triumph upon the broken throne of Terra.

圍繞這個(gè)最為神秘和危險(xiǎn)的話題（而產(chǎn)生）的無解問題是如此之多，其中最為重要的是那些關(guān)于遺棄者基因如何產(chǎn)生這一問題的理論：也許它是異形篡改人類基因組的結(jié)果（機(jī)仆：印象里這是排骨的五版codex里面的說法：遺棄者基因是古圣在人類遠(yuǎn)祖——某種樹棲的小型動(dòng)物體內(nèi)植入的，人類本身也是古圣的造物，不過這些事后來基本上也就不提），或者黑暗科技時(shí)代某些古怪而駭人的實(shí)驗(yàn)的產(chǎn)物？或者，就如最瘋狂的理論所說的那樣，它是人類為了應(yīng)對(duì)這個(gè)被亞空間所撕裂的宇宙本身而產(chǎn)生的反常進(jìn)化發(fā)展現(xiàn)象？另外我們還觀察到：不存在被記錄為靈能空白者的星際戰(zhàn)士或禁軍衛(wèi)士們。這個(gè)因素考慮權(quán)衡了一些學(xué)者的證據(jù)：星際戰(zhàn)士的基因種子內(nèi)部成分可能有帝皇本人基因物質(zhì)的痕跡，以及一小部分對(duì)基因種子的發(fā)育成熟而言至關(guān)重要的帝皇本人的靈能力量。倘若是這樣的話，那這完全是遺棄者基因的致命缺陷，它很可能會(huì)殺死接受基因種子植入的靈能空白者們。我們只能推測(cè)：倘若只存在哪怕一個(gè)靈能空白者阿斯塔特軍團(tuán)，歷史就會(huì)變得多么的不同——這就好像倘若沒有寂靜姐妹們的參戰(zhàn)與皇帝偉大獻(xiàn)身的話，荷魯斯叛變很可能會(huì)戰(zhàn)帥擊碎泰拉的王座并取得最終的勝利而告終。