本文節(jié)選自 Darius Hinks 所著英文背景書《Liber Xenologis》，該譯文作為練習(xí)僅為個(gè)人與交流使用，不用作商業(yè)用途。

盡管黑石要塞的拱頂大到不可理喻，然而當(dāng)充滿威脅的黑暗逼近時(shí)，人們常常會(huì)被幽閉恐懼癥壓垮。

Despite the vast, ineffable nature of the Blackstone's Vaults, one often crushed by claustrophobia as the darkness presses in, laden with threat.

我是一個(gè)講究邏輯和理性的人，超自然的故事很難對(duì)我產(chǎn)生影響，對(duì)此我深感自豪。然而，通過經(jīng)年累月的研究，我已經(jīng)接受了這么一個(gè)事實(shí)，即跨維度性質(zhì)的生物是存在的，它們?cè)谏砗托睦砩鲜侨绱说莫?dú)特，簡(jiǎn)直與我們大相徑庭，關(guān)于它們是異形還是幽靈的界分之辨已經(jīng)近乎學(xué)術(shù)化了。被稱為奴役者的異形生物并不怎么出名，即使對(duì)于異形學(xué)家來說也是如此，在某種程度上，這是因?yàn)樗鼈兊膫髡f經(jīng)常會(huì)被當(dāng)成鬼狐志怪而得不到理會(huì)。和誕生于物理界的人類不同，奴役者是至高天的產(chǎn)物——這種生物由精神能量構(gòu)成，以粗心大意的靈能者的意志為食。一旦在某些人的腦海中站穩(wěn)了腳跟，它們就會(huì) “占據(jù)” 對(duì)方，最終，他們會(huì)變成一扇門戶，一扇位于我們現(xiàn)實(shí)世界與奴役者虛幻閾域之間的門戶。

I pride myself on being a man of logic and reason, not easily swayed by tales of the supernatural. Through years of research, however, I have come to accept that there are beings of a transdimensional nature that are so peculiar and remote from us, physically and psychologically, that the distinction between xenos and spectre becomes almost academic. The alien life forms known as enslavers are not well known, even to students of xenology, and in part this is because tales of them have often been dismissed as ghost stories. Enslavers are not born of the same physics as humans, but are a product of the empyrean - creatures of psychic energy that feed on the minds of unguarded psykers. Once they have a foothold in someone's mind they 'possess' them, eventually turning them into a gateway between our reality and the enslavers' unreality.

在這一過程中，被附身的受害者是無法幸存下來的，他們的意志和血肉會(huì)被撕成一道通往非物質(zhì)界的大門，但這還不是最糟的。一旦淪為門戶，無數(shù)的奴役者就有可能通過受害者的垂死之軀自由地涌入到現(xiàn)實(shí)世界之中。我認(rèn)為，這些生物會(huì)用這種方式突然降臨到整片的社區(qū)，（甚至）整片的世界上。

The possessed victim does not survive the process, their mind and flesh torn into a portal to the immaterium, but this is not the worst of the matter. Once the victim has become a gateway, countless more enslavers are free to pour into reality through the victim's dying body. ln this way, whole communities and, I believe, whole worlds have been overtaken by the creatures.

從我收集到的點(diǎn)滴信息來看，不管在哪個(gè)方面，奴役者似乎都與我們截然迥異，想要與它們進(jìn)行交流完全是不可能的。因此，我們無法得知對(duì)方為何要在我們的銀河中尋找落腳點(diǎn)。無論是什么理由，我的研究表明奴役者附身事件的在案記錄明顯有所增加。

From the scraps of information I have gleaned, it seems that the enslavers are so different from us in every way, that communicating with them would be utterly impossible. As a result, we have no idea why they are seeking a foothold in our galaxy.? Whatever the reason, my studies indicate that there has been a marked rise in recorded incidents of enslaver possession.

在抵達(dá)黑石要塞之前，我尚未得到第一手的資料來證明自己的理論，即奴役者是真實(shí)存在的，然而在早先的一次探險(xiǎn)期間，我聽說了一則故事，無論從哪個(gè)方面來看，這則故事都與我從前讀過書籍非常吻合。

Prior to my arrival at the Blackstone Fortress,? I had no first-hand testimonies to support my theory that the enslavers are real, but during one of my earliest expeditions l heard a tale that chimed closely with everything I had already read on the subject.

埃索拉、格雷克和我發(fā)現(xiàn)我們被困在了一道寬闊的懸崖上，大家背朝深淵，前面的房間里有幾十個(gè)全副武裝的邪教徒，他們正在向我們開火射擊。我們被壓制了將近一個(gè)小時(shí)，就在這個(gè)時(shí)候，一個(gè)女人慢悠悠地走進(jìn)了房間，然后她開始槍殺異端，態(tài)度相當(dāng)?shù)睦淠瑢?duì)方完全被打了個(gè)措手不及。趁異端被那女人打得暈頭轉(zhuǎn)向之際，埃索拉、格雷克和我抓住機(jī)會(huì)沖回了房間，然后加入了對(duì)方的戰(zhàn)斗。幾秒鐘之內(nèi)，他們就被殺得一干二凈，然后那個(gè)女人就離開了房間，她甚至都沒有跟我們搭話。我設(shè)法阻止了她，她的舉止令我大吃一驚。她看上去異常冷淡，仿佛就像服用了鎮(zhèn)定劑一般，而且根本就不擔(dān)心自己的安危。我好說歹說總算讓對(duì)方答應(yīng)由我們陪她走一段路，而且還發(fā)現(xiàn)了她舉止古怪的原因。

Isola, Grekh and I had found ourselves trapped on a broad ledge, with our backs to a bottomless drop and dozens of heavily armed cultists firing on us from the previous chamber. We had been pinned down for nearly an hour when a woman sauntered into the chamber and began gunning down the heretics with such a nonchalant air that they were quite thrown off guard. Isola, Grekh and I took the chance to charge back into the room and join the woman as she attacked the dazed heretics. Within a few seconds they were all dead, and the woman made to leave the chamber without even speaking to us. I managed to halt her and was quite taken aback by her demeanour. She seemed oddly cold, as though she had been sedated, and she showed absolutely no regard for her own safety. I managed to convince her to let us accompany her a little way and found out the reason for her odd behaviour.

那個(gè)名叫德拉曼的女人顯然有點(diǎn)精神失常，但她很想跟我談?wù)勛约旱倪^去，就在她這么做的時(shí)候，我立馬想起了奴役者。德拉曼不知道自己經(jīng)歷了什么，但我對(duì)此確信無疑。她曾經(jīng)是一個(gè)軍火走私犯，（負(fù)責(zé)）將違禁武器空運(yùn)到沃爾圖諾六號(hào)*的梅普索拉巢都下層。以巢都居民的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來看，她是一個(gè)富有的成功者。然后她看到了一樁令她跼蹐不安的事件，于是她逃離了巢都：

The woman's name was Drumyn and she was obviously quite deranged, but she was eager enough to tell me of her past, and as she did so I was immediately reminded of the enslavers. Drumyn had no idea that was what she had experienced, but I was sure of it. She had once been an arms smuggler, flying proscribed weaponry into the lower levels of Mepthora Hive on Volturno VI.* By the standards of a hive-dweller she was wealthy and successful. Then she saw something that disturbed her so much she fled the hive:

*她毫無愧疚地宣布了這件事情。她對(duì)隱瞞自己過去的犯罪經(jīng)歷毫無興趣。

She announced this with no compunction whatsoever. She showed no interest in hiding her criminal past.

這幾天，其他人一直都表現(xiàn)得很奇怪。我覺得事情有點(diǎn)不對(duì)勁。他們要?dú)Я宋?。我心知肚明。我無法找到他們中的任何一個(gè)，但我聽說他們?nèi)家驗(yàn)槟臣露鴨适Я死碇?。他們把我排除在交易之外，這讓我很是生氣。但當(dāng)我設(shè)法找到了其中一個(gè)叫拉戈的家伙時(shí)，我沒有把他打得腦袋開花，而是躲了起來，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)地跟著他，想要知道他要去哪里。他看上去就像喝醉了一樣，一邊跌跌撞撞地走著，一邊還在嘴里咕噥著什么，他穿過了古老的卡布林卡煉油廠，然后經(jīng)由居住區(qū)來到了那個(gè)……好吧，那個(gè)沒人會(huì)去的地方。就在巢都的邊緣。（那里的）空氣是如此之糟，都快要接近周邊的地界了。我從未去往東走這么遠(yuǎn)過。我都能聽見那該死的灰燼風(fēng)暴了。

The others had been acting weird for days. I could smell something was wrong. They were screwing me over. I knew it. I couldn't track any of them down, but I heard they were all out of their minds on something. They were cutting me out of of the deal and I was furious.? But when I managed to find one of? them, Largo, I held off from blowing his brains out, hid and followed him at a distance, trying to understand where he was going. He looked drunk, stumbling and muttering as he went through the old Kablinka refinery and out past the hab-zones to where..Well,to where no one goes. Right at the edge of the hive. The air is so bad that close to perimeter.? l had never been so far east. I could hear the damned ash storm.

我開始變得焦躁不安，我有點(diǎn)想回去了，但我確信他們?nèi)枷霘Я宋遥乙纯此麄儠?huì)怎么做。我們打小就在一起了。他們是我僅有的家人。

I started to get edgy and I half wanted to head back, but I was sure they were all screwing me over and I wanted to see how. We'd been together since we were kids. They were my only family.

拉戈沿著那座被毀教堂的臺(tái)階拾級(jí)而上，然后走了進(jìn)去。我不敢使用流明燈，那里也沒有光亮，所以拉戈一走進(jìn)教堂，我就得從摸黑從滿是碎石的地上爬過去了。當(dāng)光線從窗戶中傾瀉而出時(shí)，我正好爬到階梯的底部。

Largo went up the steps of a ruined chapel and went inside. I dare not use a lumen and there were no light, so once Largo went in the chapel I had to creep through the rubble in the dark. I was just at the bottom of the steps when light started to pour out the windows.

這不是……這可不是普通的光芒。它集黯淡與奪目于一身。那蒼白而又病態(tài)的光芒在廢墟里閃爍了很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間。于是我悄悄地靠了上去，他們都在那里——整個(gè)幫派，他們圍成了一圈。但我一見到他們就知道事情并不像我原先所想的那樣。他們沒有背叛我。他們出事了。一些不好的事情。他們彎腰駝背傴僂而立，仿佛就像筋疲力盡了一樣。

It wasn't ... it wasn't normal light. Weak and bright at the same time. Pale, sickly and shinning from the ruins in long times. I crept closer and they were all in there -the whole gang, gathered in a circle. But as soon as I saw them I kenw it wasn't what I thought. They weren't betrayed me. Something had happened to them. Something bad. They were slumped and hunched, like they were dead on their feet.

然后我看到了光芒的來源。那是…我發(fā)現(xiàn)很難盯著它看。我曾經(jīng)見過一些糟糕的玩意，但這些東西以一種錯(cuò)誤的方式弄傷了我的腦袋。它們就像熠熠生輝的口袋一樣懸在人群的上方，一如波光粼粼的池水，就那么漂浮在那里。它們的外形呈梨狀，有點(diǎn)像巨型蜱蟲，也許可能是胚胎，但它們有下顎，或是觸手，或是從它們面孔上垂下的與之類似的東西。好吧，其實(shí)它們并沒有面孔。想要分清它們是很困難的。我可以看穿對(duì)方。也許它們有一只眼睛？也許是一張嘴吧。它們的腦袋上懸著觸須。這些生物，它們像是由光芒制成，但真的非?？刹溃@些東西讓我感到惡心，因?yàn)樗鼈冋阅撤N方式在幫派成員的身上進(jìn)食。隨著閃光口袋的漂移與抽搐，下方的身影也跟著它們一起動(dòng)了起來，就好像他們被連在了一起似的。

Then I saw the source of the light. It was… I found it hard to look at it. I've seen some bad stuff, but these things were wrong in a way that hurt my head. Like pools of light, hanging over the gang like glowing sack, just drifting in the air. They were kind of pear-shaped,a bite like massive ticks, or may be embryos, but they had mandibles, or tentacles,? or something like that dangling from their faces. Well, they didn't really have faces. It was hard to make them out. I could see through them. Maybe they had an eye? It might have been a mouth. The tentacles were dangling from their heads. They were like creatures made of light, but the really awful thing, the thing that made me feel sick, was that they were feeding somehow on the gang. As the light sacks drifted and twitched, the figures below moved in time with them, like they were tied to them.

那就是死神。我看到了死神。我立馬就知道了。我從來沒有如此確信過。這些東西是惡魔一般的存在，它們?cè)诤诎抵泻蛑覀?。?dāng)我們行將就木之際，這幫家伙就會(huì)來找我們，然后把我們帶到遙遠(yuǎn)的彼端之所。我想拔腿就跑，但卻無法將目光從那一幕上移開。這就象是一場(chǎng)緩慢而又怪誕的舞蹈，只見拉戈與其他人隨著靈體的節(jié)奏一同蹣跚而舞。

It was death. I was seeing death. I knew it straight away. I have never been more sure of anything. Those things were the daemons that wait for us in the dark. The things that come for us when it is our tum to die and cany us on to whatever lies beyond. I wanted to run away but I couldn't take my eyes off the scene. It was like a slow, grotesque dance with Largo and the others stumbling and jerking in time to the spirits.

然后，就在我進(jìn)行觀察的時(shí)候，事情變得愈發(fā)駭人了。只見拉戈與其他人紛紛開始解體。他們就像融化了一樣。而且并非只有他們?？諝馑坪醣凰毫蚜恕Ｍ高^淚水，我看到了更多的蒼白之光。那些東西變得越來越多了，它們一擁而上。有成百上千之多。

Then, as I watched, it became even more awful. Largo and the others started to break apart. Like they were melting. But it wasn't just them. The air seemed to be ripping. And through the tear I could see more of the pale light. And more of those things, rushing forwards. Hundreds more.

我花了幾秒鐘才意識(shí)到，那可怕的聲音是我自己發(fā)出的尖叫。（那些）靈體朝我轉(zhuǎn)了過來，其中一只（更是）沖過教堂向我直撲而來。

It took me a few seconds to realise that the awful sound l could hear was me, screaming. The spirits turned in my direction and one of them rushed across the chapel towards me.

我轉(zhuǎn)身沖進(jìn)了黑暗之中，但就在我奔跑之際，我感到光線照進(jìn)了我的腦海之中。它就像火焰一樣，塞得我滿腦子都是。我感覺到它正在接管我的四肢，放慢我的速度，讓我就此停下。

I turned and sprinted into the darkness, but as l ran, I felt the light enter my head. It was like fire, filling my skull. I could feel it taking over my limbs, slowing me down, commanding me to halt.

然后，在狗屎運(yùn)的作用下，我摔倒了。在黑暗中，我從一處臺(tái)架上掉了下去，它有三十英尺，或許有四十英尺高。我本應(yīng)該摔死的，但我掉在了灰燼之中。

And then, by dumb luck, l fell. I fell from a gantry in the dark and dropped thirty, maybe forty feet. I should have died, but I landed in ash.

我可以看到那個(gè)靈體，對(duì)方就在高處遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)地觀望著我，但我的腦海中已經(jīng)沒有它的蹤影了。但我必須移動(dòng)到它的控制范圍之外。所以我又跑了起來。而且再也沒有回頭看上一眼。我花錢找了條路子離開了那個(gè)世界，然后朝西走了。

I could see the spirit, far above, watching me, but it was no longer in my mind. l must have passed beyond its reach. So I ran again. And never looked back. I bought passage off-world and headed west.

一說完自己的故事，德拉曼就直勾勾地盯著我，仿佛希望我去駁斥她，但我只是向她發(fā)問，問她來黑石要塞是想得到什么。對(duì)方告訴我她從死神的手里逃過一劫，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)沒有什么好怕的了。她打算在黑石要塞上獲取大量的財(cái)富，然后再前往泰拉，在那里，她會(huì)過上女王一般的生活。我正要向她提出更多的問題，但她并沒有理會(huì)我讓她停一下的呼喊，而是大步流星地邁入了黑暗之中。

Once Drumyn had told her story she stared at me, as though willing me to contradict her, but I simply asked her what she hoped to achieve by being on the Blackstone. She told me she had escaped death and now nothing could touch her. She meant to make a vast fortune on the Blackstone and then head to Terra, where she would live like a queen. I was about to ask her more, when she strode off into the darkness, ignoring my calls for her to halt.

這些生物的起源完全就是一個(gè)謎，人類只知道它們叫奴役者。其穿越正?？臻g的能力使得它們能夠在整個(gè)銀河系——甚至更遠(yuǎn)的地方——輕松地移動(dòng)。他們擁有物理性的肉身，不過與其它已知的生命形態(tài)截然不同。奴役者基本上要么呈球形，要么呈桶狀，大約有兩米高，皮膚堅(jiān)韌似革。在它們身體的最頂端有一個(gè)巨大的感知器官，有時(shí)會(huì)被稱為只眼，盡管它的實(shí)際功能只能猜測(cè)。在該生物身體頂部的四周圍有一簇觸手，一般有8到12根，每根長(zhǎng)約1.5米，通常來說，其中兩根觸手的末端長(zhǎng)有吸盤，而且要比其它的長(zhǎng)一些。這些觸手既是感知器官，亦是操控器官。奴役者沒有腿腳，只能靠漂浮移動(dòng)，有時(shí)（它們）會(huì)借助觸手進(jìn)以行快速或者精確的移動(dòng)。它們可以通過這種辦法實(shí)現(xiàn)快速移動(dòng)，也可以用與人類以及其它傳統(tǒng)生物類似的方式改變方向和速度。奴役者最多可以在地面或者樓板上漂到3米的高度，但無法以這種高度飛行。它們可以用觸手進(jìn)行攀爬。奴役者可以隨心所欲地改變自己的體色，但通常都是皮革一般的棕色配上淺色——有時(shí)會(huì)是白色——的觸手。（它們的）眼部器官呈紅色、橙色或粉紅色。

The origin of these creatures, known to humanity only as Enslavers, is a complete mystery. Their ability to transcend normal space enables them to move easily throughout the galaxy and perhaps beyond. They have physical bodies, although unlike any other known life form. Enslavers are basicially spheroid or barrel shaped, approximately 2 metres tall, with tough leathery skin. At the very top of their bodies is a single large sensory organ sometimes called an eye, although its exact function can only be guessed at. Around the top of the creature's body is a cluster of tentacles, typically from 8 to 12, each about 1? metres long, often two of these tentacles are longer than the others and end in suckered pads. These tentacles function as both sensory and manipulative organs. Enslavers have no legs but move by floating, sometimes assisted by their tentacles for fast or precise movement. They can move quite rapidly by this means and can change direction and speed in a way comparable to humans and other more orthadox creatures. Enslavers will float at up to 3 metres above the ground or floor surface, but cannot fly as such. They can climb using their tentacles. Enslavers can change their colour at will, but the normal colouration is a leathery brown with paler, sometimes white, tentacles. The eye organ is red, orange or pinkish.

以人類的主張來看，很難確定奴役者是否擁有智能。當(dāng)然，它們會(huì)以理性的方式行事，而且似乎會(huì)對(duì)自己的行為作出合理的決斷。然而，如果它們能夠與其他種族交流的話，那么它們不會(huì)做出這樣的嘗試，也不會(huì)使用任何形式的工具或者設(shè)備。盡管理論上奴役者的身體是可以使用武器的，但它們從未（這么）做過。體力勞作是交由它們的奴隸進(jìn)行的，而它們的名字正是由奴役其他種族的能力賦予的。這些生物通過精神控制來奴役其他的種族，每個(gè)奴役者最多可以接管10個(gè)其他種族的思想并控其而制之。受害者保留了他們所有的知識(shí)、能力和生理特征，但全都處于奴役者的支配之下。這種心靈控制技能的作用范圍最多可達(dá)五十米。

ln human terms it is impossible to say whether Enslavers are intelligent. They certainly act in a rational manner, and seem able to make reasonable decisions about their actions. However, if they are able to communicate with other races they make no attempt to do so, and they use no tools or equipment of any kind. Even though they may theoretically be physically capable of using weapons. they never do. Manual work is conducted by their slaves, it being their ability to enslave other creatures that gives them their name. These creatures enslave other races by mental control, each Enslaver can take over and control the minds of up to 10 other creatures. Victims retain all of their knowledge, abilities and physical attributes, but are directed by the will of their Enslaver. This mind control ability has a range of up to 50 metres.

奴役者可以通過其他種族的靈能共鳴穿越亞空間。和以往一樣，最強(qiáng)烈、最容易受到追蹤的靈能放射來自未受保護(hù)的人類靈能者。奴役者可以在數(shù)十光年的距離上探測(cè)到這種共鳴，還能宿入靈能者的體內(nèi)將納為己用，其方式可怖至極。一旦發(fā)現(xiàn)了受害者，三個(gè)奴役者就會(huì)聯(lián)合起來，結(jié)成一個(gè)精神紐帶。受害者一開始可能并不會(huì)注意到這一點(diǎn)，但其體內(nèi)的化學(xué)物質(zhì)會(huì)逐漸發(fā)生變化，他們會(huì)變得疲倦、嗜睡，皮膚也會(huì)開始褪色。50-75個(gè)小時(shí)之后，受害者會(huì)開始膨脹，因?yàn)樗纳眢w組織會(huì)分崩離析，然后重新形成一道活生生的、由撕裂血肉構(gòu)成的脈動(dòng)之門。這就是所有受害者的實(shí)際結(jié)局，他已經(jīng)被轉(zhuǎn)化為一道特殊的亞空間之門，它可以通過亞空間將靈能者所與奴役者所在的世界以物理的形式連接到一起。由于大門是由三個(gè)特定的奴役者組成的，所以只有它們可以使用，不過它們不會(huì)受到限制，可以隨意進(jìn)出。

Enslavers travel through warp space by utilising the psychic vibrations of other creatures. As usual, the strongest and most easily tracked psychic emanations come from unprotected human psykers. Enslavers can detect such vibration from tens of light years distance, and can home in to and exploit unprotected psykers in a particularly gruesome way. Once they have traced a victim, three Enslavers band together to form a mental bond. The victim may be unaware of this at first, but gradual changes are forced upon his body chemistry, he becomes tired and lethargic and his skin begins to discolour. After a period of 50-75 hours the victim swells as his body tissues disintegrate and reform into the shape of a living, pulsing gate of ruptured flesh. This is the end of the victim to all intents and purposes, he has been transformed into a special form of warp gate, a physical link through warp space between the pysker's world and that of the Enslavers. Because the gate has been formed by three specific Enslavers, only they may use it, although they are unrestricted and may enter and exit as they wish.

一旦踏上一個(gè)世界，奴役者就可以從它們役使的任何靈能者身上創(chuàng)造出更多的亞空間之門——甚至是有防備的靈能者，比如星語者。在外觀上，這些新的亞空間之門與原先的一模一樣，并能允許另外三個(gè)奴役者通其而過之。和之前一樣，新的亞空間之門只允許三個(gè)特定的奴役者通過。那三個(gè)允許使用亞空間之門的奴役者可能包括了早已踏足星球表面的生物，例如它的創(chuàng)造者。很顯然，一旦開始，那么這些生物的滲透就很難被阻止了。

Once on a world Enslavers can create more warp gates from any psyker that they enslave - even protected psykers such as Astropaths.These new warp gates are identical in appearance to the orignal one, and will permit the passage of three more Enslavers. As before, the new portal will permit only the passage of a specific three Enslavers. The three Enslavers permitted to use a warp gate may include creatuires already on the planet's surface, such as its creator. Clearly, once it has begun, an infiltration of these creatures is very difficult to halt.

奴役者不會(huì)使用武器或工具，但是它們有一種與生俱來的武器，那就是靈能沖擊波。它的射程有50米。然而在正常的情況下，奴役者會(huì)躲起來，并讓自己的奴隸去替它們戰(zhàn)斗。

Enslavers are incapable of using weapons or tools, but they have a natural weapon in the form of a psychic shock. This has a range of 50 metres. Normally, however, Enslavers remain hidden and let their slaves do their fighting.

資料來源：

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · First Edition · Rick Priestley?

奴役者的小貼士

I.奴役者的學(xué)名叫：精神壓制者/Spiritus Subjugator.

II.奴役者是古圣造物釋放出來的恐怖之物，它們可以說是壓垮古圣的最后一根稻草。

天啟隱現(xiàn)

The Apocalypse Looms

亞空間的住民貪婪地聚集在維度的縫隙之間，它們?cè)趯ふ疫M(jìn)入物質(zhì)世界的道路。為了保護(hù)祂們最后的要塞，古圣推出了新的造物，像是吃苦耐勞、膚色發(fā)綠的柯羅克和擅于模仿技術(shù)的太空猿猴，但為時(shí)已晚。古圣的星系網(wǎng)絡(luò)被攻破了，然后就此易手，由其造物釋放而出的恐怖之物將祂們最偉大的作品連同權(quán)力之地一同淹沒了。

The denizens of the warp clustered voraciously at the cracks between dimensions, seeking ways into the material world. The Old Ones brought forth newer creations to defend their last strongholds, like the hardy, green-skinned Krork and the technology-mimicking Jokaero, but it was already too late. The Old Ones' intergalactic network was breached and lost to them, their greatest works and places of power overrun by the horrors their own creations had unleashed.

在這些恐怖之物中，最嫻熟的當(dāng)屬奴役者，它們擁有支配年輕種族的能力，并可以用轉(zhuǎn)化靈能者的方式創(chuàng)造屬于它們自己的門戶，以此讓它們的數(shù)量變得越來越多。對(duì)于古圣來說，這是祂們的終末之劫，因?yàn)榕壅呖刂屏说k們的下屬。年輕種族打開了潘多拉的魔盒，最后的古圣被殺得一敗涂地，祂們的力量被永遠(yuǎn)地摧毀了。

Most proficient of these horrors were the Enslavers, beings whose ability to dominate the Young Races and create their own portals with transmuted psykers brought them forth in ever greater numbers. For the Old Ones, this was the final disaster as the Enslavers took control of their minions. The Pandora's box unleashed by the Young Races finally scattered the last of the Old Ones and broke their power forever.

在古圣與星神的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中，生命一直都站在懸崖的邊緣上。如今，隨著奴役者像瘟疫一樣攻入了物質(zhì)界，幸存者看起來注定要滅亡了。

Life had stood at the edge of the precipice during the war between the Old Ones and the C'tan. Now as the Enslavers breached the Immaterium in epidemic proportions, the survivors looked doomed.

III.奴役者曾在杰里科灣區(qū)出沒過。

奴役者是一個(gè)骯臟的、起源于亞空間的異形種族，也是與黯色之圖有關(guān)的最佳人選。風(fēng)暴典獄官戰(zhàn)團(tuán)的星際戰(zhàn)士的出現(xiàn)與這些異形不無關(guān)系，歐米茄地下墓穴中的諸多發(fā)現(xiàn)可能與最終發(fā)生在杰里科河灣的的奴役者瘟疫有關(guān)。

A race of foul alien creatures native to the Warp, the Enslavers are also a prime candidate to be linked to the Dark Pattern. These xenos have a link to the presence of the Storm Wardens Chapter of Space Marines, and many of the discoveries in the Omega Vault can be linked to the eventual emergence of an Enslaver Plague into the Jericho Reach.

資料來源：

Codex: Necrons · 3rd Edition

Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault

Liber Xenologis ·?Darius Hinks