"Fools have asked 'Why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?', and other fools answer back 'Folly' or 'Pride' or 'The Worship of Progress', as if these things alone had any meaning. The answer, as the wise know, is simple. It is because finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all creation."

“愚者们曾发问‘为何黑暗科技时代会以人类的衰落而告终？’，而其他愚者则回应说‘是因为愚蠢’或者‘是因为傲慢’亦或是‘对进步的盲目崇拜’，仿佛单凭这些因素就有什么意义似的。而正如智者们所知，答案其实很简单。那是因为人类最终掌握了各种技艺，得以将自己的梦想变为现实，而人类的梦想向来都是世间万物中最为黑暗的东西。”

 - Introduction to the Emerald Testament, Suppressed work of the Technoarchaeologist Synecius Thorn, M29

- 翠玉录引言，技术考古学家西内修斯·索恩的被禁著作，M29

The Dark Age of Technology, also known as the Age of Technology, was the zenith of mankind's scientific knowledge and technological power. It was a golden age of exploration and innovation, where scientists, engineers, inventors, and innovators became new gods. It spanned from M15 to M25.

黑暗技术时代，也称为技术时代，是人类科学知识和技术力量的顶峰。这是一个探索和创新的黄金时代，科学家、工程师、发明家和创新者成为了新的神明。从M15到M25。

This age was long before the Age of the Imperium and knowledge of this time period is now incredibly sparse, and many "facts" about it are mere legend.

这个时代早在帝国时代之前，关于这个时期的知识现在非常稀少，许多关于它的“事实”都只是传说。

History 历史

The Golden Age of Expansion 黄金扩张时代

Also known as the Golden Age of Exploration Mankind travels throughout the galaxy and colonizes the stars. At some point after achieving interstellar travel, mining fleets set out for Terra for the Galactic Core. These fleets eventually settled in the core, aided by their Ancestor Cores. Eventually the Squat race was formed.

也被称为黄金探索时代，人类在整个银河系中航行并殖民群星。在实现星际航行后的某个时刻，从泰拉前往银河系核心的采矿舰队出发了。这些舰队最终在先祖核心的帮助下定居在核心。最终，矮人族诞生了。

Genetic Engineering 基因工程

During this age, humanity's mastery and belief in science allowed them to experiment widely with genetic engineering, modifying their species' genome to ever greater degrees and creating armies of tailored gene-troopers. At some point near the start of the Dark Age of Technology, the Navigator gene was fashioned leading to the creation of the Navigators, mutant humans who could see the currents of the Warp and navigate a course through them. This allowed spacecraft to make longer and more accurate Warp-jumps than previously possible and humanity proceeded to colonize the stars at a furious rate.

在这个时代，人类对科学的掌握和信仰使他们能够广泛地进行基因工程实验，在更大程度上修改他们物种的基因组，并打造量身定制的基因部队。在接近黑暗技术时代开始的某个时刻，导航者基因被塑造，导致了导航者的诞生，这是一种能够看到亚空间流并在其中导航的变异人。这使得飞船能够进行比以前更长、更精确的亚空间跳跃，人类以惊人的速度对群星进行殖民。

The Navigators formed Houses, and began to survey the systems that would later form the Imperium during the Age of Exploration.

导航者组成家族，并开始调查后来在探索时代形成帝国的星系。

Human Psychic Evolution 人类灵能进化

During this age, the psychic evolution of mankind accelerated. What little Imperial records remain show that the first mentions of psykers appear at the end of M22. Then by late M23 records indicate that psykers had became near ubiquitous across humanity’s worlds.

在这个时代，人类的灵能进化加速了。仅存的帝国记录显示，第一次提到灵能者出现在M22的末尾。然后，到M23后期，记录表明，灵能者在人类世界中几乎无处不在。

The End of the Dark Age of Technology 黑暗技术时代的终结

Humanity's collapse from the golden age of the Dark Age of Technology is said to have been sudden and apocalyptic, engulfing all of human space. The large numbers of psykers that were appearing across the galaxy were inadvertently heralding Daemonic possession and incursions, while others were claiming godhood over entire worlds or instigating full-blown reality collapses.

据说，人类从黑暗技术时代的黄金时代崩溃是突然的、启示录般的，吞噬了整个人类空间。银河系中出现的大量灵能者无意中预示着恶魔的占据和入侵，而其他人则声称自己是整个世界的神或煽动全面的现实崩溃。

Terrible wars saw entire star systems scoured of life. The Cybernetic Revolt was an apocalyptic conflict started in M23 when artificial intelligence beings known as the Men of Iron turned on their Human masters.

可怕的战争使整个星系失去了生命。智械叛乱是一场始于M23的启示录冲突，当时被称为铁人的人工智能背叛了他们的人类主人。

Then came the most ferocious warp storms in mankind's history. With the emergence of warp storms through most of the galaxy, travel through the Warp became more and more dangerous until all but impossible, isolating many planets. Trade between human worlds collapsed. Several worlds, particularly Terra, dependent on the export of other worlds to feed their enormous populations, suffered massive famine.

随后，人类历史上最猛烈的亚空间风暴袭来。随着亚空间风暴在银河系大部分地区的出现，穿越亚空间变得越来越危险，直到几乎不可能，隔离了许多行星。人类世界之间的贸易崩溃了。几个世界，特别是泰拉，依赖其他世界的出口来养活其庞大的人口，遭受了大规模的饥荒。

The following time period is aptly named the Age of Strife.

接下来的时期被恰当地命名为纷争时代。

Creations of the Dark Age 黑暗时代的创造

Technologies of the Dark Age were far more advanced than what the Imperium has today, and indeed essentially all Imperial technology is based on acquired STC's from the period. In the superstition and religious fervor that has taken hold in the Imperium since the Horus Heresy, Dark Age technology is viewed with a mixture of both awe and fear. Worshiped as divine, relics of the Dark Age are sought after fanatically by the Adeptus Mechanicus.

黑暗时代的技术比帝国今天的技术要先进得多，事实上，帝国的所有技术基本上都是基于那个时期获得的STC。自荷鲁斯叛乱以来，迷信和宗教狂热在帝国中占据了主导地位，黑暗时代的技术被视为敬畏和恐惧的混合体。黑暗时代的遗物被视为神圣，受到机械神教的狂热追捧。

Among the products of the Dark Age of Technology included phase-iron, a metallic substance that is harmful to psykers and used as chains that were not only resistant to their powers but also harmed them whenever they used it whilst wearing items made of this iron.

黑暗技术时代的产品包括相位铁，这是一种对灵能者有害的金属物质，用作锁链，不仅能抵抗他们的力量，而且在穿着这种铁制成的物品时使用它也会对他们造成伤害。

• Abominable Intelligence 憎恶智能

• Archaeotech Pistol 考古科技手枪

• Bloodtide 血潮

• Disintegration Weapons 分解武器

• Graviton Weapon 重力武器

• Golden Throne and Dark Glass 黄金王座和黑暗琉璃

• Kill-ships (cloaking technology only)

• 杀戮船（仅隐形技术）

• Men of Stone 石人

• Men of Iron 铁人

  • UR-025

• Paragon Blades 模范之刃

• Perdition Pistol 毁灭手枪

• Phase-iron 相位铁

• Slaughtersong 杀戮之歌

• Spirit of Eternity 永恒之魂

• Standard Template Construct 标准建造模板

• Teleportarium 传送仪

• Void Abacus 虚兆

• Vortex Weapons 涡旋武器

• Psyarkana Weaponry 灵奥武器

The Men of Stone 石人

The Men of Stone were created by the mysterious Men of Gold for the purpose of colonizing the Galaxy. The Men of Stone were great artificers who existed in a state of "half-life" that helped protect them from the perils of the Warp. In time, the Men of Stone would create the Men of Iron to act as their servants.

石人是由神秘的金人创造的，目的是殖民银河系。石人是伟大的工匠，他们处于一种“半衰期”的状态，这有助于保护他们免受亚空间的危险。随着时间的推移，石人会制造铁人作为他们的仆人。

The Warp Drive 亚空间航行

By M18, the Age of Technology brought the development of the Warp drive and the Gellar Field, allowing spacecraft to make short Warp-jumps, travelling vast distances in a relatively short amount of time. One can compare this to the way the Tau ships currently travel.In the early days of Warp travel, many means were tried to navigate the Warp with varying degrees of success, including drugs, psychic powers, and machines.

到M18，技术时代带来了亚空间驱动器和盖勒立场的发展，使飞船能够进行短程亚空间跳跃，在相对较短的时间内行进很远的距离。人们可以将其与钛飞船目前的航行方式进行比较。在亚空间航行的早期，人们尝试了许多方法来亚空间导航，并取得了不同程度的成功，包括药物、灵能能力和机器。

The Warp drive accelerated the colonisation of the Galaxy, with vast colonisation fleets travelling from Terra. It also allowed trade and communications between the colonies and Terra. Humanity began encountering other alien races, such as the Orks and Eldar, and clashed with both civilizations during this period.

亚空间驱动器加速了银河系的殖民化，庞大的殖民舰队从泰拉出发。它还允许殖民地和泰拉之间的贸易和通信。人类开始遇到其他外星种族，如欧克和灵族，并在此期间与这两个文明发生冲突。

The STC 标准建造模板

Amongst the creations in this scientific high point were the Standard Template Construct systems,  at the heart of which was an evolved computer program designed to provide construction details for colonists. The STC systems contained all human technological knowledge. As most colonists were simple and required only basic equipment, the more advanced technology was rarely utilised.

在这个科学高峰的创造中，有标准模板构造系统，其核心是一个进化的计算机程序，旨在为殖民者提供构造细节。STC系统包含了人类所有的技术知识。由于大多数殖民者都很头脑简单，只需要基本的设备，因此很少使用更先进的技术。

With Warp Drives and Navigators, mankind was finally able to colonize distant worlds and expanded with great speed. Terra-forming techniques and evolved astro-engineering capabilities were developed that allowed them to transform barren worlds into habitable planets. During this time, thousands of colonies were established by humans on distant worlds. The resulting exploration brought mankind new knowledge, wealth and arrogance. Science is said to have become God. Humanity had encountered several alien races. With their discovery began the first human-alien wars. With mankind at the height of its power the threat of aliens was trivial and eventually non-aggression pacts were signed with many of the alien races. At this time the human colonies were federated to Terra - allowing the human race to remain unified.

有了亚空间驱动器和导航者，人类终于能够殖民遥远的世界，并以极快的速度扩张。地球化改造技术以及不断发展的天体工程能力得以开发，使他们能够将贫瘠的世界变成宜居的行星。在此期间，人类在遥远的世界上建立了数千个殖民地。由此产生的探索为人类带来了新的知识、财富和傲慢。据说科学已经成为了神。人类遇到了几个外星种族。随着他们的发现，第一次人类与外星人的战争开始了。随着人类处于力量的巅峰，外星人的威胁微不足道，最终与许多外星种族签署了互不侵犯条约。此时，人类殖民地与泰拉联合起来，使人类保持统一。

Artificial Intelligence 人工智能

Mankind during this period was able to finally create true artificial intelligence in the form of the Men of Iron. Used as servants, these beings eventually rebelled and nearly brought humanity to ruin. After a devastating war, the Men of Iron were defeated and subsequent developments of artificial intelligence was outlawed. This edict remains in effect even to this day.

在此期间，人类终于能够以铁人的形式创造出真正的人工智能。这些生物被用作仆人，最终反叛并几乎毁灭了人类。在一场毁灭性的战争之后，铁人被击败，随后人工智能的发展被宣布为非法的。这项法令直到今天仍然有效。