The Great Rift, known to the Imperium as the Cicatrix Maledictum, is a new chain of catastrophic Warp Rifts that has divided much of the Galaxy.

帝国称之为诅咒伤痕的大裂隙是一条新的灾难性亚空间裂隙链，将银河系的大部分地区分开。

The Cicatrix Maledictum consuming a planet 诅咒伤痕吞噬了一颗行星

Overview 概述

This new tear in reality was created at the end of the 41st Millennium during the Thirteenth Black Crusade following the destruction of Cadia. The origins of the Great Rift remain a mystery, with theories ranging from it forming due to the destruction of the Cadian Pylons at the end of the 13th Black Crusade, to sorcery used by Magnus the Red during the Siege of the Fenris System, to the awakening of Ynnead, mass bloodshed in the Damocles Gulf, and the reaction of the Ruinous Powers to the resurrection of Roboute Guilliman. Guilliman speculates that the Rift formed after Abaddon strategically destroyed worlds rich in Blackstone over ten thousand years, with the destruction of Cadia as its trigger. All that is truly known is that its emergence was a figuratively galaxy-shattering event that divided the Imperium in half and ushered in new wars across nearly every world in the Emperor's Empire. In a catastrophic event known as The Blackness, many worlds of the Imperium were cut off and overwhelmed by the Forces of Chaos as Warp Travel and Astropathic communication were rendered nigh-impossible.

事实上，这一新的撕裂是在第41个千年结束时，在第十三次黑色远征期间卡迪亚被摧毁后造成的。大裂隙的起源仍然是一个谜，有各种理论，从它是由于第13次黑色远征结束时卡迪安方尖碑的破坏而形成的，到赤红之马格努斯在芬里斯星系围城期间使用的巫术，到伊纳德的觉醒，达摩克利斯湾的大规模流血事件，以及毁灭力量对罗伯特·基里曼复活的反应。基里曼推测，在阿巴顿在一万多年的时间里战略性地摧毁了富含黑石的世界之后，以卡迪亚的毁灭为导火索，形成了裂隙。真正知道的是，它的出现是一个象征性的银河系的毁灭事件，将帝国一分为二，并在帝皇的帝国的几乎每个世界引发了新的战争。在一场名为“黑暗”的灾难性事件中，帝国的许多世界被混沌力量切断并淹没，因为亚空间航行和星语通信几乎不可能实现。

So powerful and far reaching was this Warp Storm, that the very laws of physics have begun to fray and the inconsistencies of time fluctuations, once largely localised to larger storms such as the Eye of Terror, have spread across the entire known galaxy. Since the Great Rift's creation, some worlds have felt centuries go by in an instant, while others have been all but frozen in time and still others have suffered constant temporal shifts.

这场亚空间风暴如此强大和深远，以至于物理定律已经开始磨损，时间波动的不一致性，曾经主要局限于更大的风暴，如恐惧之眼，已经蔓延到整个已知的星系。自大裂隙形成以来，一些世界感觉几个世纪转瞬即逝，而另一些世界的时间则几乎被冻结，还有一些世界则经历了不断的时间变化。

The Great Rift is variously known by the cultures of the galaxy as the Crimson Path, the Mouth of Ruin, the Warpscar, the Dathedian, Gork's Grin and a thousand other names besides. Space Wolves and folks of Fenris named the Great Rift Everdusk. To the Tau, the Great Rift is known as the Mont’yhe’va or "Devourer of Hope", for its stellar storms killed millions of Tau and left many colonies devastated. To the Imperium though, it is the Cicatrix Maledictum, and it appears to those on the western side of Segmentum Solar as a tainted scar across the sky. To those unfortunates on the eastern side of the Segmentum, however, now known as the Dark Imperium, it is far worse.

大裂隙在银河系的文化中被称为深红之路、毁灭之口、亚空间之痕、达瑟迪安、搞哥狞笑以及其他一千个名字。太空野狼和芬里斯人将大裂隙命名为“黄昏”。对于钛来说，大裂隙被称为“希望吞噬者”，因为它的群星风暴杀死了数百万钛，并使许多殖民地遭到破坏。然而，对于帝国来说，这是诅咒伤痕，在太阳星域西侧的人看来，它就像天空中一道被污染的疤痕。然而，对于现在被称为黑暗帝国的东部星域的不幸者来说，情况要糟糕得多。

In response to this new catastrophe, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman, now Lord Commander of the Imperium's armies, has launched the Indomitus Crusade. Its aim is to liberate those Imperial worlds that now find themselves embattled by the forces of Chaos, following the Great Rift's creation. The Indomitus Crusade was able to exploit at least one passage through the Great Rift, located near the Eye of Terror in the Nachmund Gauntlet. Some years later, a second route dubbed the Attilan Gate was discovered.

为了应对这场新的灾难，现任帝国军队领主指挥官的原体罗伯特·基里曼发动了不屈远征。它的目的是解放那些帝国世界，这些世界在大裂隙形成后，现在发现自己被混沌势力所包围。不屈远征能够利用至少一条穿过大裂隙的通道，该通道位于恐惧之眼附近的纳克蒙德走廊。几年后，第二条被称为阿提兰之门的路线被发现。

Inside the Rift itself, the Gods of Chaos have embarked in an extension of the Great Game, battling one another for supremacy in what has become known as the War in the Rift. According to Mathieu, the Forces of Chaos made a grave mistake by opening the Great Rift, for it is also empowering the Emperor and allowing for his eventual return.

在大裂隙内部，混沌诸神已经开始了伟大游戏的延伸，在所谓的大裂隙战争中相互争夺霸权。根据马蒂厄的说法，混沌势力打开大裂隙是一个严重的错误，因为它也赋予了帝皇力量，并允许他最终回归。

map of the Imperium following the creation of the Cicatrix Maledictum, more commonly known as the Great Rift 诅咒伤痕（更常见的名字是大裂隙）形成后的帝国地图