The histories of the Age of?Darkness present far more mysteries and enigmas than reliable or complete accounts, and so entire armies of historator-scribes labour to piece together something of the truth from uncounted fragments of hearsay. In the examination, many such fragments reveal still more perplexing or troubling elements. At the twinned gas giants of Euros, for example, ashen-skinned, black-eyed warriors bearing the eye of the Warmaster upon otherwise featureless Mark VI battle plate, who could only have been renegade sons of Corax, sent the vast macro-bastions plunging through the crust, in so doing causing the fiery deaths of over twenty million colonists.

黑暗年代的歷史呈現(xiàn)給我們的神秘和謎題遠(yuǎn)多于可靠或完整的報(bào)告，所以大量的歷史學(xué)家們只好從無數(shù)的傳聞碎片中拼湊出一些真相。在調(diào)查研究中，許多這樣的碎片揭示了更多令人困惑或質(zhì)疑的事情。例如，Euros的雙子巨型氣田中出現(xiàn)了膚色灰白且雙眼漆黑的戰(zhàn)士們，他們身穿馬克6型動(dòng)力甲，身上唯一的特色標(biāo)志就是屬于戰(zhàn)帥本人的荷魯斯之眼——他們只可能是變節(jié)的暗鴉守衛(wèi)，這些戰(zhàn)士們的行動(dòng)導(dǎo)致巨大的宏觀堡壘從地殼中墜落(機(jī)仆：從上下文來看，我估計(jì)這群人應(yīng)該是把建在氣田上的巨型氣體加工綜合體的支撐柱給炸了，然后整座建筑都掉進(jìn)采氣留下的巨坑里了)，這一事件導(dǎo)致2000多萬殖民者被可燃?xì)怏w活活燒死。（機(jī)仆：各位可以想象一下把整座城市的人全部丟進(jìn)哈薩克斯坦那個(gè)永不熄滅的天然氣大坑里的場面）

At Gamma-Dvalin, a force of warriors, each one wearing armour of discordantly mismatched heraldry and patterns torn?from numerous dead foes, breached the Vaults of Ytterbia and plundered the forbidden stasis arsenals quantum-locked within. A month later, the stolen n-dimensional weapons were unleashed upon the 38th Company of the Sons of?Horus Legion at lantana Minor, consuming both armies and tearing an entire continent apart in the process. Fragmented pict-thief captures show several Blackshields bereft of their helms, each of them bearing an identical Cthonian gang rune tattooed across their scalp.

一群戰(zhàn)士出現(xiàn)在Gamma-Dvalin，他們每個(gè)人都穿著帶有不協(xié)調(diào)的錯(cuò)配紋章的動(dòng)力甲，而且動(dòng)力甲的部件們都是從很多死去的敵人身上扒下來的。這群黑盾打破了伊特比亞的墓穴，并掠奪了被量子鎖定在墓穴中的禁忌靜滯倉庫。一個(gè)月之后，在lantana Minor世界上，他們將盜取來的N維度空間武器釋放在了荷魯斯之子軍團(tuán)第38連隊(duì)的頭上，武器將交戰(zhàn)雙方一并吞噬，并在過程中撕碎了整塊大陸。碎片化的暗中拍攝的戰(zhàn)場影像記錄現(xiàn)實(shí)顯示很多黑盾戰(zhàn)士沒有配戴頭盔，他們每個(gè)人的頭皮上都紋著一個(gè)完全相同的克蘇尼亞幫派符文標(biāo)記。

?Blackshield force is known to have launched attacks against Sons of Horus and Death Guard Legionaries at Taracanis, culminating in the boarding action against the Death Guard heavy cruiser Morbid Revelation and the spiking of its mighty nova cannon. The extent of the damage was not discovered until the weapon was next fired in anger, ten days later, against the Mechanicum Explorator Barque Radiant Precept, resulting in the Revelation being crippled in the ensuing back-blast and its forced withdrawal from the war。

在Taracanis世界，黑盾部隊(duì)因?yàn)榘l(fā)動(dòng)針對(duì)荷魯斯之子和死亡守衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士的進(jìn)攻而為人們所知。在戰(zhàn)斗的高潮部分，黑盾們對(duì)死亡守衛(wèi)的重型巡洋艦“病態(tài)啟示”號(hào)進(jìn)行了跳幫，并且破壞了戰(zhàn)艦上強(qiáng)大的新星炮。直到十天之后死亡守衛(wèi)們才發(fā)現(xiàn)了新星炮的損傷程度之嚴(yán)重：在他們?cè)谂c機(jī)械神教探索艦“輻射訓(xùn)令”號(hào)的交戰(zhàn)中，新星炮再次暴怒地開火了，結(jié)果導(dǎo)致“病態(tài)啟示號(hào)”在隨后的爆炸中變成了殘廢并被迫撤出戰(zhàn)斗。

At the Battle of the Ultinian Rings, Sons of Horus hunter-slayers under Tybalt Marr, tracking down survivors fleeing Isstvan V were ambushed by a Blackshields force led by an individual later identified as the Raven Guard Strike-Centurion Morkan Sayle. In the ensuring battle, a sky-hive housing 100,000 colonists was destabilised and brought plummeting into the lyotropic crystal seas of Ultinia 7. Centurion Morkan was presumed dead in that operation, along with over half of his force, but contrary claims continue to emerge even decades later.

在Ultinian環(huán)帶戰(zhàn)役中，泰巴爾特 馬爾率領(lǐng)的獵殺部隊(duì)在追捕那些逃離伊斯塔萬五號(hào)的幸存者的過程中遭到了一支獨(dú)立黑盾部隊(duì)的埋伏，他們辨別出這群黑盾的領(lǐng)袖是暗鴉守衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)的突擊百夫長莫爾坎 賽勒。在決定性的戰(zhàn)斗中，一座居住了10萬名殖民者的蒼穹巢都遭到了破壞，失去了平衡性，墜入了Ultinia 7號(hào)世界的易溶晶體海洋中。人們認(rèn)為莫爾坎百夫長死在了這場戰(zhàn)斗中，同時(shí)他的部隊(duì)有超過半數(shù)的黑盾戰(zhàn)士為他陪葬，但哪怕在數(shù)十年后，相反的主張仍在不斷出現(xiàn)。

Each of these battles served in their own way to influence the course of the war not just at the local level, but at the strategic one. Even though the specifics of cause and effect were hidden at the time and are only barely perceivable to us now, many of our Order now believe that when considered as a whole, they amount to a significant contribution towards the ultimate ending of the war.?

這些戰(zhàn)斗中的每一場都在用自己的方式影響戰(zhàn)爭的進(jìn)程，而且影響范圍不僅是在局部層面，也是在戰(zhàn)略層面（機(jī)仆:比如xana給荷魯斯準(zhǔn)備的軍火足夠讓戰(zhàn)帥左右戰(zhàn)局，結(jié)果被一群黑盾和第一軍團(tuán)給炸了個(gè)精光，不過間接后果是讓xana在后來成為了最強(qiáng)焦油觸手怪），雖然許多因果的細(xì)節(jié)在當(dāng)時(shí)被隱藏了，很多細(xì)節(jié)現(xiàn)在也幾乎察覺不到了，但現(xiàn)在我們中的許多人認(rèn)為：從整體上看，黑盾們?yōu)閼?zhàn)爭的最終結(jié)束做出了重要貢獻(xiàn)。