The Vaults of?Mimir

The Iron Hands are of note when considering the use of arcana among the Legiones Astartes. Though they were broken on Isstvan V and the Gorgon was slain, the majority of the Legion was yet preparing to deploy from orbit as the massacre was set in motion, a significant proportion of which managed to escape the pursuit of Traitor forces in ships swollen with Legionaries. Making up the larger part of the forces known as the Shattered Legions, the Iron Hands became a thorn in the Warmaster's side, harrying his supply lines. Though much of this force would eventually fall under the command of the patrician Captain Meduson, who waged his concerted campaign by conventional means, many of the Iron Hands' splintered forces resorted to less than noble methods; including the use of forbidden relics stolen from the Vaults of Mimir.

在討論阿斯塔特軍團(tuán)對(duì)于秘寶的使用時(shí)，鋼鐵之手是值得記錄的。雖然他們?cè)谝了固厝f(wàn)五號(hào)上變得支離破碎，戈?duì)栘暠救艘矐K遭殺害，但當(dāng)大屠殺發(fā)生時(shí)，軍團(tuán)主力仍在軌道上準(zhǔn)備進(jìn)行部署，其中相當(dāng)大比例的軍團(tuán)部隊(duì)都乘坐著載滿軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士的星艦逃過(guò)了叛軍部隊(duì)的追捕。鋼鐵之手部隊(duì)在破碎軍團(tuán)中占了很大部分，他們成為了刺入戰(zhàn)帥叛軍的尖刺，襲擾著叛軍的補(bǔ)給線。雖然這些鐵手部隊(duì)中大部分最終都將會(huì)在氏族連長(zhǎng)美杜莎的指揮下犧牲，但他們還是在用常規(guī)手段協(xié)同作戰(zhàn)，而許多鋼鐵之手的分散部隊(duì)則是采用了不那么高尚的手段，其中就包括使用盜取自密米爾寶庫(kù)的禁忌圣物。

Ferrus Manus was known to have been thorough in containing knowledge and relics of the arcane as he encountered them in his far-ranging conquests during the Great Crusade. Of most interest to him were the technoarcana of far-flung civilisations: unnaturally efficient energy generators; advanced cogitation systems verging on sentience; remarkable terraforming devices and weapons both mundane, such as lethal chemical agents, and of the esoteric that dealt death by unknowable means. He impounded these finds in sealed stasis constructs known only as the Mimir Vaults, which were armed with complex and ingenious defences and counter-measures, so that none but he could access them. The first Mimir Vault was founded on Medusa, though as it filled and the Great Crusade drew the Gorgon ever farther afield, he created more such vaults on worlds and moons so far flung as Glendann, Jericho and Iquonqir.. These would continue to act as repositories of recovered technology, inexplicable relics, and even some inventions of his own making.

眾所周知，費(fèi)魯斯 馬努斯在收藏保存知識(shí)和神秘圣物方面做的很徹底，這是藏品是他在大遠(yuǎn)征時(shí)期的大范圍征服中偶遇到的。原體最感興趣的是（來(lái)自）遙遠(yuǎn)文明的技術(shù)秘寶：功率高到不符合常理的能量發(fā)電機(jī)；近似于（生物）感知系統(tǒng)的先進(jìn)思考系統(tǒng)；非凡的泰拉形制設(shè)備和武器，這些藏品要么普通——比如致命的生化特工，要么極不尋?！苡梦粗侄芜M(jìn)行殺戮的器械。他將這些發(fā)現(xiàn)封存在靜置結(jié)構(gòu)體中，而我們只知道這些封存地被稱為密米爾寶庫(kù)，并且這些寶庫(kù)裝備了精妙復(fù)雜的防御設(shè)施和反擊手段，這樣一來(lái)就沒人能夠得到藏品。第一座密米爾寶庫(kù)建立于美杜莎世界，不過(guò)隨著第一座寶庫(kù)被填滿，戈?duì)栘暠救艘泊筮h(yuǎn)征中前往了更為遙遠(yuǎn)的戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)，他也在諸如Glendann, Jericho和Iquonqir等極其遙遠(yuǎn)的世界和衛(wèi)星上也建立了此類封存庫(kù)。這些封存庫(kù)會(huì)持續(xù)作為回收到的科技、令人費(fèi)解的遺物、甚至還有費(fèi)魯斯自己發(fā)明的創(chuàng)造物的儲(chǔ)存設(shè)施。

With Ferrus?death, his Legion suffered a crisis of ideology. Many of the remaining Iron Fathers would see the loss of?their Primarch as a mark of his own failing and reject his teachings, markedly his prohibition of?the use of certain technologies. Raids were made on the hidden Mimir Vaults by Ferrus' own wilful sons, for the Iron Fathers alone knew where they resided. Mostly these raids met with overwhelming disaster; the countermeasures in place to deter invasion proving too extreme to withstand. The vaults could incinerate whole detachments of Legionaries in moments or else claw starships from orbit through aetheric means, dragging them into an embrace of mutual doom, destroying both the raiders and the vault itself. A paltry few raids met with success, and what could be plundered of the Gorgon's treasures were, with many more evils and boons to be rediscovered and used over the full course of the Horus Heresy.

但隨著費(fèi)魯斯戰(zhàn)死沙場(chǎng)，鐵手軍團(tuán)也遭受了思想危機(jī)。大多數(shù)幸存的鋼鐵圣父將原體的死亡視為戈?duì)栘曌陨淼氖〔⒕芙^了他的教導(dǎo)，尤其是他對(duì)于某些技術(shù)的使用禁令。費(fèi)魯斯固執(zhí)的子嗣們掠奪了隱藏的密米爾寶庫(kù)，因?yàn)橹挥袖撹F圣父?jìng)冎肋@些寶庫(kù)位于何處。此類掠奪行動(dòng)大多數(shù)都遭受了滅頂之災(zāi)，費(fèi)魯斯設(shè)定的反擊手段被證明過(guò)于強(qiáng)悍以至于入侵者無(wú)法承受。這些儲(chǔ)存庫(kù)利用神秘詭異的技術(shù)能夠在瞬間焚滅一整只軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士分遣隊(duì)或?qū)⑿桥瀼能壍郎献聛?lái)，它們會(huì)將雙方拖入共同的末日，把掠奪者和倉(cāng)庫(kù)本身一并毀滅。只有極少數(shù)的掠奪行動(dòng)取得了成功，竊賊們所奪取的戈?duì)栘曊鋵毷沁h(yuǎn)為邪惡的恩惠，在荷魯斯叛亂的整個(gè)過(guò)程中，這些寶物都被重新發(fā)現(xiàn)和使用過(guò)。

The use of rites of ressurective cybermancy, sometimes referred to as 'turning the Keys of Hel' was observed in combat on Gamma- Incunabular against the Emperor's Children, the power of an engine of animachina being abused to bring about the unnatural resurrection and animation of the dead; the hatred of the Iron Hands warriors keeping them from falling still, even when horribly dismembered. With each death, the power of the dreaded reanimus device increased until its energies began to spread inexplicably and undirected, dragging up the decomposing dead of previous battles on the planet. It even raised from the dirt the tattered, scavenged remains of a Basemekanic Beest killed there a century and a half previous; until that tormented creature destroyed the device and the Iron Father manipulating it with the flailing of one mighty fist.

對(duì)于蘇生神兆儀禮——有些時(shí)候也被稱為“地獄之匙轉(zhuǎn)化技術(shù)”的使用在Gamma- Incunabular世界上對(duì)抗帝皇之子的戰(zhàn)斗中被觀察到；鋼鐵之手們?yōu)E用了這臺(tái)機(jī)器引擎的力量以造成非自然的復(fù)活，令死者蘇生；即便是遭到了殘忍的肢解，怨恨也讓鋼鐵之手戰(zhàn)士們拒絕倒地。每有一個(gè)人死亡都這臺(tái)復(fù)蘇亡者的可怕儀器的力量，直到它的能量開始莫名其妙且漫無(wú)目標(biāo)地?cái)U(kuò)散，將這顆星球上之前戰(zhàn)斗中的腐爛亡骸都拖了出來(lái)。甚至那些被殺死于一個(gè)半世紀(jì)之前的巴斯梅馬尼克異形野獸的殘破朽爛遺骸都從塵土中爬了出來(lái)。最后，這只倍受折磨的生物摧毀這臺(tái)設(shè)備，而鋼鐵圣父是用某種強(qiáng)大拳套的活動(dòng)來(lái)操縱它。

When wielded in combat, such proscribed technologies appeared to friend and foe alike to be the work of the Outsider or the Daemonic Other, and indeed some were of etheric provenance. One such technology, thought to be an arsenal of triboelectric blades, was in fact a set of divining rods for the facilitation of Daemonic possession known as the Swarga Loke. When drawn from their sheathes in unison against the advancing ranks of the Sons of Horus on Defence Platform XCVX-VII, the unknowing Iron Hands each beckoned into unreality and their bodies were quickly overcome by new ravenous hosts, which then laid waste to the nearby Sons of Horus and all other life upon the Defence Platform, as was observed by the station's pict-captors. On another occasion, the ritual of neuromantic celerity was invoked when engaged against the Death Guard on Jahmun VI, stripping the metal from the hulls of nearby tanks to reclad battlefield corpses in steel, reforming with their molecular matter into ghoulish automatons of war. The Iron Hands' Space Wolves allies turned upon them immediately upon witnessing this act with savage howls of "Maleficarum" cutting down both the automatons and the Iron Hands before loping away from the battlefield, leaving the Death Guard to watch on in grim appreciation.

當(dāng)在戰(zhàn)斗中被使用時(shí)，無(wú)論對(duì)友軍還是對(duì)敵人，這些禁忌技術(shù)似乎都是外界者會(huì)惡魔的杰作，而其中某些確實(shí)也有亞空間的起源。其中之一就是某套（原本）被認(rèn)為是靜電利刃的科技制品，但它其實(shí)是一套便于某只名為斯瓦格 洛克的惡魔進(jìn)行奪舍的占卜棒。在鋼鐵之手于防御平臺(tái)XCVX-VII上抵抗荷魯斯之子前進(jìn)部隊(duì)的戰(zhàn)斗中，這套占卜棒被同時(shí)從護(hù)套中拔出。根據(jù)空間站的圖像捕捉記錄來(lái)看，這支未知的鐵手部隊(duì)闖入了非現(xiàn)實(shí)空間，貪婪的宿主很快就奪取了他們的軀體，之后他們身旁的荷魯斯之子們和防御平臺(tái)上的其他生命也被施以毀滅。在另一個(gè)情況中，鐵手在Jahmun VI世界上與死亡守衛(wèi)的戰(zhàn)斗中進(jìn)行了神經(jīng)加速儀式，從旁邊坦克的車體上剝下金屬用以給戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上的尸體包裹上鋼鐵，用他們的分子物質(zhì)重組出食尸鬼般的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)機(jī)兵。一經(jīng)看到鋼鐵之手的這種行徑，他們的太空野狼盟友就馬上對(duì)他們轉(zhuǎn)為敵對(duì)。野狼們狂嚎著“剿滅巫師”砍倒了機(jī)兵和鋼鐵之手們，之后從戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上大步逃離，并對(duì)死亡守衛(wèi)們冷眼旁觀。

The use of the Relics of Mimir became wide-spread. Some were seized by the Iron Hands enemies as the spoils of?war and more yet lay buried in the scattered strongholds and outposts that the Iron Hands frequented for resupply. Others still were traded to the Mechanicum for assistance when in dire need. Each vault contained hundreds of?sealed chambers, brimming with techno-arcana, of which only the most immediately accessible were opened and their technologies taken for the arsenals of the Iron Fathers; doubtless many more vaults lie undisturbed and forgotten still. The bounty of the Vaults of Mimir would continue to see use throughout the Horus Heresy, and became rightly regarded as potent psyarkana, for the knowledge required in their use was esoteric, and the results produced by them recondite indeed.

對(duì)于密米爾圣物的使用是個(gè)廣為傳播的現(xiàn)象。這些圣物某些是被鋼鐵之手的敵人們所奪取，更多的則是埋藏在鋼鐵之手們頻繁前去進(jìn)行補(bǔ)給的分散據(jù)點(diǎn)和哨站中。其他的則是在有緊急需要時(shí)被拿去向機(jī)械神教換取援助。每座倉(cāng)庫(kù)中都有數(shù)百個(gè)裝滿了技術(shù)秘寶的被封存的密室，人們打開的僅僅是那些最能夠直接進(jìn)入的，而其中的技術(shù)也被運(yùn)用到了鋼鐵圣父?jìng)兊能娀饚?kù)當(dāng)中。無(wú)疑還有更多的倉(cāng)庫(kù)未被開啟，仍被人們所遺忘。我們?cè)谡麍?chǎng)荷魯斯叛亂中會(huì)持續(xù)看到對(duì)于密米爾寶藏的使用，它們的效果被正確地視為強(qiáng)大的靈能現(xiàn)象，因?yàn)槭褂盟鼈兯璧闹R(shí)是玄奧的，而它們產(chǎn)生的結(jié)果的確也是深?yuàn)W晦澀的。