The Forbidden Battle

Almost nothing is known of the Lion's expedition to the system referred to only as Perditus, “Forbidden”?一 30,000 Dark Angels left alongside their Primarch, but far fewer would return. Who it was that the Lion fought is not known, though rumours would have us believe that his was not the only Legion present in that remote system, and what his objective might have been is a secret still held close by the Dark Angels long after the end of the Horus Heresy. The only thing that is known for certain is that the Lion brought something back with him from that forbidden place.

對于萊昂前往僅僅被稱為Perditus的世界的探索，我們幾乎一無所知，這是一個“禁忌”——30000名黑暗天使阿斯塔特跟隨原體前往，但返回的人遠遠要少得多。我們不知道萊昂在那里是與誰交戰(zhàn)，但謠言誘使我們相信他的黑暗天使軍團并非唯一出現(xiàn)在那個遠僻的星系的阿斯塔特軍團，而在荷魯斯叛亂結束很久之后，他此行的可能目的仍然是黑暗天使們緊緊保守著的秘密。我唯一能確知的就是：第一軍團從那個那個禁忌之地一并帶回了某樣事物。

Referred to within the First Legion simply as the 'Gatekeeper” or the 'Key"，the prize that Lion El'Jonson brought back from Perditus allowed him to circumvent the great storms that had swept across much of the galaxy. It was the key to winning the Thramas Crusade once and for all, and none questioned such a tool nor the secrecy that surrounded it. The great and the mighty that oversaw the war agreed that such a prize was worth the sacrifice of Thramas and any number of other worlds, for it allowed them to punish the Traitors and strike at their fleets with impunity. The Lion, when he spoke of such things at all, named it a necessary evil, a tool that was to be wielded as was required and then put aside. One single record, hidden deep within the vaults of Terra, in the warded racks that maintain those tomes dedicated to the study of the psyarkane, gives this tool a name, one that bears a grim aspect. It calls it 'Tuchulcha, the servant of?the Deadly Seas”. It names it 'Daemon'.

第一軍團內(nèi)部將其稱為“護門者”或者“要匙”，萊昂 艾爾莊森從Perditus帶回的獎品允許他繞過已經(jīng)席卷了銀河系眾多地區(qū)的大風暴。它是黑暗天使軍團一勞永逸地贏得薩拉馬斯遠征的關鍵，而且（也）沒有人質(zhì)疑這樣一件工具以及圍繞著它的秘聞。監(jiān)督著這場戰(zhàn)爭的那位強大尊主（機仆：獅王？）也認同這樣一份獎勵值得薩拉馬斯與任何數(shù)量的其他世界的犧牲——因為這件工具允許他們懲罰叛徒們，他們能攻擊叛軍艦隊而不受到反擊報復。當萊昂談及這些事情時，他稱之為必要之惡——某種在需要時便要拿起來使用、但之后就要放到一邊的工具。在泰拉地下室的深處，某份獨立記錄被隱藏在那些存放著專門用來研究靈能造物的著作的有護欄架子上，這份記錄給了這件工具一個帶有令人擔憂成分的名字——“圖丘爾查，致命瀚海的奴仆”，這份記錄將圖丘爾查命名為“惡魔”。(機仆：這里算是gw玩梗，tuchulcha是古伊特魯里亞文明傳說中的惡魔)