Valerian连长是一位时常能够随意弄出微秒级表现的角色。
原文1：Out of longhabit, virtually unconsciously, I reached a judgement on the fastest method ofkilling him. I found the optimal results – less than a microsecond of effortrequired – slightly amusing.
- Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion
原文2：We slammedtogether, and the impact rippled the stone around us. Our weapons crunched intoa brace-lock, showering plasma over both of us. I swung away, hilt-first, andsmashed him back a pace. He shoved back, aiming to ram the fizzing hammerheadinto my chest.
He nearly connected. I judged his weapon was within a fewmicroseconds of an impact that would have cracked my auramite breastplate. Thatinterval, however, was comfortably sufficient to spin my blade over in my grip,ram the spear tip into the Traitor’s gorget and fire at point-blank range.
- Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion
原文3：Do not thinkthat we ignored one another – far from it. We saved one another from death manytimes in those first few decisive moments. This still remains, though – Ifought in the way I had been bred to, driving my superlative physical form toits limit, gauging every threat with a microsecond’s precision, relying on the absoluteintegrity of my equipment.
- Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion

纳秒级表现
为了让读者们了解得更直观一些，一纳秒是十亿分之一秒，并且它也是光在真空中穿过0.3米距离所需的时间。这第一个列举的例子在严格意义上讲不算纳秒级表现，但是机械教贤者BelisariusCawl能够同时处理数以十亿计的任务和运算法则。
原文：Most noticeably, he’d feature anabsolute abundance of arms and legs, all of which would be poised in variousdifferent and dynamic aspects. This reinforces the notion that Cawl isceaselessly and simultaneously processing and cogitating billions of differenttasks and algorithms. Effectively he’s a vast research and developmentorganisation contained within one assiduous neo-human entity, and never needspause to plan, think, sleep or eat.
- The Gathering Storm Companion

星际战士连长能够在不到一纳秒的时间内完成整个思考过程以及冗长的分析。他先是考虑了自己的站位，再考虑自己要开几枪，以及自己把枪举起来开火所需的时间，自己与目标的距离以及随之而来的命中率。他先考虑了理论上如何，又考虑了实际上如何，等这一套过程下来之后，他才做出了决定，这个流程都没用到一纳秒。
原文：The Word Bearer is almostunrecognisable. For a nanosecond, the figure registers to Luciel as an unknown,a threat.
Transhuman responses are already there, unbidden. Adrenalinespikes to heighten an already formidable reaction time. Muscle remembers.Luciel wears his boltgun, an oiled black pit bull of a weapon, in his thighholster. He can draw, aim and fire in less than a second. The range is sixmetres, the target unobstructed. There is no chance of missing. Maximus plate,frontally augmented, might stop a mass-reactive shell, so Luciel will fire twoand aim for the visor slits. The airgate skin-sleeve is self-repairing, andwill survive las-fire damage, but a bolter shot will shred it open, so Lucielalso braces for the explosive decompression of a ricochet or a miss-hit. At asimple, subconscious neural urge, boot-sole electromagnets charge to clamp ontothe deck plates.
Luciel thinks theoretical, but of course there is notheoretical. There is no tactical precedent for a Space Marine to fight a SpaceMarine. The idea is nonsense. He thinks practical, and that directs him to thevisor slits. He can make a clean kill headshot in less than a second and ahalf, two rounds for kill insurance, and probably protect the atmosphericintegrity of the airgate.
All this, all this decided, unbidden, instinctive, in lessthan a nanosecond.
- Know no Fear

禁军的反应快到能够挥动他们的长矛反弹打来的爆弹甚至激光。这意味着他们也能够在动作的层面上达到纳秒级。
原文：Their preternatural reactions allowedthem to block bolts and lasfire alike, deflecting it from their spinningspears, but they could still be killed.
- The Master of Mankind
另一处的禁军也展现出了用刀剑挡开激光的表现。
原文：Sythran as he always fought: in theperfection of silence and solitude. Everything was in motion to an exactingstandard – each twist of the spear haft brought the blade up to blocklas-fire or down to cut flesh, while each weave and duck was performedwith the necessary vigour to keep him unwounded, but never left himoverbalanced or needing to reposition himself.
- The First Heretic

黑暗科技时代之下，人类并没有统一的帝国，人类的势力是分散的。当时不同的种族势力之间爆发了很多战争，但是没有一次战争威胁到了人类空间的稳定。当时人类就已经在和很多异形种族交战了，有些已经灭绝了很久，还有些至今仍然存在，比如艾达灵族和兽人。
原文：Perfection of the STC system permittedan explosion of colonisation that reached the furthest limits of the galaxy.
For the rest of the age, Mankind spread across the stars,becoming widely dispersed and divergent. There is evidence of many wars, butnone that threatened the stability of human space. The existing records listxenos enemies long since extinct, along with more familiar names such as Eldarand Orks.
- Warhammer 40k 7th Edition Rulebook

太空死灵有一种名为重力投石机的防御引擎，能够将小行星或其他体型差不多的东西（比如太空死灵的巡洋舰）加速到超光速。它能在数光年外消灭最坚实的堡垒要塞。
该武器的开火会顺带生成另一个数学与常态不同的现实，而被投射的物体就会自动进入这个现实，其质量会变为负值，直到抵达目标的一瞬间。这东西被做出来就是为了把天上的星星给直接打没，所以这是一个光年级别射程、恒星级别杀伤力的武器。
原文：'A gravitic trebuchet, my king,' saidTaikash, with another flourish. 'A great defensive engine, designed toaccelerate asteroids at superluminal speed. It could annihilate the mostfearsomely fortified targets from light years away!'
(…)
For it was a Mephrit weapon, and the Mephrit had ever longedfor destruction on a scale that removed stars from the sky.
(…)
'The trebuchet will move us to another reality. Generatedjust for this shot. Its mathematics are different. Alien. Impossible. Our masswill become negative. Then we'll come back here. We will be moved veryquickly.'
- The Twice Dead King: Ruin

太空死灵用一个巨大的构造物将一颗巨大而凶暴的恒星关在了里面，而形形色色的其他构造物围绕着这个硕大的牢笼，被闪烁的能量光束锚定着悬挂在周遭的太空中。层层叠叠的墓穴战舰和战机把守着这里，而再往外一层的网络则是一个个巨大的黑石能量塔。
这些能量塔的部署是顺着非欧几里得的分形加密逻辑所构成的模式而延展开来的，这种逻辑能够将最强大的凡人意识逼疯。从故事的时间线上看，对比不屈远征第一阶段的持续时长，现在这点刚起床的太空死灵中的一小部分用了远不到十二年的时间就弄出了这一套巨大的构造体。
原文：At the heart of Nexus lay the XenduSystem, where an immense noctilith cage had been constructed to trammel itsvast and ferocious star. Myriad Necron structures hung in the void about thiscyclopean cage, anchored to it by coruscating beams of energy. Flight uponflight of tomb ships and transatmospheric fighter craft flitted around throughthe searing light of the imprisoned star, watching over their vast charge.
Further out lay networks of vast blackstone pylons, theirdeployment extending through patterns of non-Euclidean fractal crypto-logicthat would have driven the greatest mortal minds mad.
- Psychic Awakening: Pariah
同时太空死灵给每个上面提到的能量塔配备了足以无伤地承受至少一发战列舰规格的新星炮外加一轮战列舰的光矛炮台齐射的量子护盾。当时火焰和烟雾整个覆盖了太空死灵的能量塔，但是当这些散去之后，人们看到这个能量塔的结构和根基都没有受到任何损伤。
原文：Meanwhile, the Apocalypse-classbattleship Triumph bullied its way through the hostile void to draw bombardmentsolutions upon the pylon itself. The heavens lit white as the Triumph's lancebatteries and nova cannon let fly, and cheers rose from the Imperial lines asthe pylon vanished admist a sea of fire and smoke. As the air cleared, however,the pylon could be seen rising undamaged from admist the burning jungle, thestructures at its base safe beneath flickering quantum shields.
- Psychic Awakening: Pariah
此外，这些太空死灵还将多个行星从原本的位置拽走（光是帝国的人拍到的就有三个），并且将它们摆放到新的位置，让它们环绕着悬挂在虚空中一个巨大的、夜一般黑的构造物周围。
原文：Yet they had brought with them a wealthof pict-captures, augury and helm-cam footage that revealed three worldsdragged from their alignment to hang around an immense, night-black artefact inthe void.
- Psychic Awakening: Pariah
这个构造物可能就是刚说的戴森球，也可能是整个一组构造中的其他东西。

在一个节区里作为首都的行星有着多个轨道港口，这些港口都是有着相似结构并闪闪发光的巨大构造物，它们的体积都堪比大陆，并且被一条松垮的缆绳链接在一起。
原文：The stained globe of Eustis Majorisrevolved slowly beneath us. The orbital harbours were superstructures of brassand steel, resembling in their structure and their glittering lights giantcircus calliopes the size of continents, linked together in a loose string.
- Ravenor: The Omnibus

一位灵族的路人术士（该个体甚至算不上先知）在获得一定的混沌方加持之后就能够树立起多层的防御，包含了多个防御符文，每一道防御符文在被攻破前都能够吸收掉足以摧毁多个城市乃至多片大陆的恐怖灵能输出。
原文：Each defensive rune absorbed unthinkableamounts of psychic power as it flared and failed, enough to destroy cities andcontinents, but the rage of Lileathanir was an unstoppable, insatiable thing.Layer by layer, rune by rune the defences were stripped away. At last thequailing, tainted soul of the warlock was laid bare and utterly destroyed witha triumphant, earth-shivering roar.
- Path of the Dark Eldar Omnibus

兽人的金刚能够被建造成足足百米高的体型，作为参照，这等规格已经超过了大部分版本的帝皇级泰坦。
原文：I climbed out of the hatch entirely to makeroom for Morena, riding on the turret and grasping the cupola with my powerclaw. We watched the progress of the Gargants. There were three of them, each ahundred metres high.
- Crusade and Other Stories

有着一种类似终禁军结者装甲的铠甲，能够做到被宏炮攻击之后依然无恙。既然是泛指，那么这几乎可以暗示他们能够在任何范围接下宏炮这一击，甚至是直击。
原文：Driven by magnatomic generator-shrines,articulated with leonus-class actuators, and fashioned from layered auramiteand adamantium, Allarus armour is a marvel of craftsmanship. It provides itswearer with an exceptional range of movement and near-unencumbered speed,augmented strength and resilience, and the survivability to stride unharmedfrom the blast of a macro-cannon shell.
- Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition), Pg 39
这种装甲也能做到让穿戴者无伤地从反泰坦级别武器的炮火洗礼中大步走过。
原文：Allarus Custodians have been known tostride unharmed from the blasts of anti-Titan weapons.
- Psychic Awakening: War of the Spider

一艘虫巢母舰被帝国的海军火力炸成了一片血肉滴子，而其中每滴血肉都有大陆般大小。
原文：Te Kahurangi scanned the displays beneath him, already knowing whatthey would read – the master of the swarm's vanguard had been reduced tocontinent-sized globules of flesh.
- Carcharadons: The Outer Dark
而在虫巢舰队的这单独一条触须的五亿生体战舰之中，有一些个体能让上段的那艘虫巢母舰显得像是条小鱼苗。
原文：'The recent xenos withdrawals from the Under-Sectors have resultedin them coalescing into a single tendril. It is vast. Our current estimatespoint to over five hundred million individual void-faring organisms. They areapproaching.'
(…)
Beyond the void battle, the bulk of the hive fleet continued to beardown on Piety. The long-range augurs were simply unable to compute the numbersstill approaching from the Outer Dark, continuously feeding into the battlewith the Carcharodons fleet. Even the great hive ship attempting to drag in theNicor, acting as the lynchpin of the swarm's vanguard, was a minnow compared tosome of the beasts ponderously approaching from beyond the reach of theCarcharodons' scopes.
- Carcharadons: The Outer Dark
每滴血肉都有大陆般大小，那这个虫巢母舰带有气态巨星的大小
那艘虫巢母舰显得像是条小鱼苗，也就是比那个虫巢母舰大很多，体型可能相当于小型恒星的大小

根据小说pandorax，即使是在大气层内，人类帝国的战机也能刚加速就产生音爆，加速到产生音爆所用的距离短得能让那音爆震碎起飞点附近的窗户，而那个窗户的第一片碎片落地之前，这战机就脱离大气层冲进外太空了（原文还说那个场面就仿佛是一枚爆单弹被打出去了）

一位普通星际战士在不穿动力甲时用力把自己的胳膊怼着摁进了实心的金属墙里，最终整条胳膊直到肩膀都被摁了进去。
原文：He growled with effort, pressing his fist into the metal of thewall.
Alloy stretched as he forced his arm into it. His muscles burnedwith the effort.
He snarled, using the pain. Real or unreal it was all fuel.
He drove shoulder deep into it, until he wore it as an armouredsleeve and gauntlet.
- Hunger