Blood Angels Legion is possessed of?the full panoply of?war laid down by the architects of the wars of the Great Crusade, and masters in the use of them all. The Legion's forge is noted above all others for the care and attention it lavishes upon its equipment and war machines, from the most ubiquitous boltgun to the mightiest of battle barges. This phenomenon is witnessed most often in the exacting maintenance protocols carried out on its armoured vehicles and, most strikingly, in the adornment applied to their flanks.

圣血天使軍團(tuán)擁有大遠(yuǎn)征戰(zhàn)爭設(shè)計(jì)師們設(shè)計(jì)出的完整的全套戰(zhàn)爭裝備，而且他們擅長使用所有裝備。圣血天使軍團(tuán)鑄造廠最為著名的特點(diǎn)便是他們慷慨給予裝備和戰(zhàn)爭機(jī)器們的看護(hù)保養(yǎng)和關(guān)注，從最為普遍的爆彈槍到最為巨大的戰(zhàn)斗母艦（都能得到同樣細(xì)致的維護(hù)保養(yǎng)）。人們通常會在圣血天使們對其裝甲載具執(zhí)行嚴(yán)格的維護(hù)協(xié)議目擊到這一現(xiàn)象，而最為為引人注目的是圣血天使們在戰(zhàn)車側(cè)面進(jìn)行的裝飾。

The IXth Legion maintains a uniquely skilled cadre of bonded artisan-serfs, its ranks filled with individuals whose names may never be known to the greater Imperium, but who must surely rank among the greatest artists of?the age. Their sole task is to render glory to the Blood Angels Primarch, the Angel Sanguinius, and through him the Emperor Himself. This is not done through vanity, as so many have claimed of?the IIIrd Legion for example, but in pursuit of?the higher purpose for which the Blood Angels were created一to engender hope and strike awe into the hearts of?those long lost in the darkness of Old Night, and to inspire stark terror in those who would reject the gift that is the Imperial Truth or threaten the glorious future the Emperor intends for Mankind.

第九軍團(tuán)還擁有一群技藝超群的藝術(shù)仆從，這支隊(duì)伍里擠滿了名字可能永遠(yuǎn)不會被偉大的帝國所知的人們，但他們肯定名列于當(dāng)時最偉大的藝術(shù)家們。他們唯一的任務(wù)就是將榮耀貢獻(xiàn)給圣血天使的原體——大天使圣吉列斯，并且通過原體將榮耀獻(xiàn)給帝皇本人。這不是出于虛榮心（例如，很多人聲稱第三軍團(tuán)裝飾自己的載具是為了滿足虛榮心），而是為了追求帝皇創(chuàng)造出圣血天使們?nèi)?shí)現(xiàn)的宏偉目標(biāo)——讓那些長久迷失于舊夜黑暗的人心中產(chǎn)生希望并充滿敬畏，并且在那些拒絕帝國真理或威脅帝皇為人類設(shè)計(jì)的壯觀未來的人心中激起赤裸裸的恐懼。

While the bulk of the IXth Legion's armoured might was mustered at the Nartaba System for deployment to the Signus Cluster, hundreds, perhaps thousands of war machines of?all classes remained in reserve at the Legion's fortress at Baal. Throughout the long years that the Blood Angels were lost, their fate unknown to the Imperium, the artisan-serfs continued to produce the most noble and wondrous of engines of war, ready to be wielded in righteous anger against the Traitors when at last their masters returned.

雖然大部分第九軍團(tuán)裝甲部隊(duì)都集結(jié)到了Nartaba星系，為前往西格納斯星叢做準(zhǔn)備，但仍有數(shù)百輛——也可能是數(shù)千輛所有型號的戰(zhàn)爭機(jī)器依然被保存在巴爾的軍團(tuán)要塞中。在圣血天使軍團(tuán)迷失于銀河當(dāng)中的漫長歲月里（機(jī)仆：西格納斯會戰(zhàn)之后毀滅風(fēng)暴形成，ba與帝國失聯(lián)，后來他們抵達(dá)了馬庫拉格，并在第二次達(dá)文會戰(zhàn)后突破風(fēng)暴，馳援泰拉），藝術(shù)仆從們繼續(xù)制造著最為高貴和令人驚異的戰(zhàn)爭引擎，他們準(zhǔn)備在主人們最終歸來時將正義的怒火發(fā)泄在叛徒們的頭上。