星际指南：异火星系

Flavian · 发表于 2014-5-9 15:10:13

星系指南：异火

“Yo ho ho, there’s aplace I know,
The slam’s all clean and the wenches glow,
Yo ho ho, a-Ruin I’ll go,
Mark my jump off to Pyro.” – Traditional Space Shanty

呀~呼呼~，我知道有这样一个地方。

在那里谩骂都显得清白的，妓女（不知道会不会禁）都能闪耀如光

哟~吼吼~，那正是我所去往的废墟。

将我跳跃所至的地方记为，异火。——在宇宙间流传的一首古老的号子

If Spider is the face of piracy in the galaxy, Pyro isunquestionably the beating heart. An otherwise desolate, lifeless star systemcrippled by a prolonged nova phase, Pyro is most notably the home of the sharedpirate outpost of RuinStation. Like Spider, Pyro is a case of pirates filling(and expanding upon) a void left when the system was abandoned by civilizeddevelopers; unlike Spider, Pyro’s station has not settled into an orderlysystem of black market commerce equivalent to that founded for proper traderson standard worlds. Here, opposing packs constantly struggle to own the stationand all of the nearby action.

如果说毒蛛（Spider 星系的名字）代表着海盗在银河中的面容，那异火毫无疑问就是这海盗行径的心脏。漫长的新星阶段几乎废掉了这个星系让它变得荒无人烟，异火明显成为了海盗们在废墟站前哨的家。同毒蛛一样，异火也是海盗们在那些文明的开发者遗弃星系后才开始进驻的。但和毒蛛不同的是，异火并没有让黑市交易陷入与外面那些文明世界里一样老套的体系，在这里规则可不会眷顾老实的商人。在这里，各个势力都互相对抗以期控制整个哨站已经周边的一切活动和交易。

Any prospect ofdeveloped life in the Pyro system vanished several million years ago, when thesystem’s star began to go nova. Astrobiologists who have examined the remainsof its theoretical green-band planets have found little evidence that higherlife forms would have been likely in the first place; nothing but algae-likefossils have ever been discovered. The system consists of six ruined worldscircling a bright, but ultimately dying, star. Were it not for the fact thatjump points from two inhabitable systems have been discovered linking to Pyro,the system would likely never have been settled at all.

在异火星系，任何可能发育生命的迹象在几百万年前就消失了，那时候，恒心进入了新星期。天体生物学家调查理论中可能残留的绿化行星时几乎没有发现任何证据可以去证明一些高级生命形式的存在，除了藻类这样的生命其他的都不曾发现过。这个星系里面有六个破败的行星，它们环绕着那个耀眼的恒星，但那恒星也终将熄灭。若不是因为在异火发现了两处跃迁点可以通往其他可居住的星系，估计这里永远也不会有人驻足。

The system wasostensibly discovered in 2401 by the Roustabout, an Earth-flagged tanker shipmoving through the Taranis System on the safe-route alternative to Kellar’sRun. The ship’s watch officer noted a gravitic anomaly thirty thousandkilometres off the transport’s port bow and left it at that. It was not foranother forty-four years that the ship’s corporate owners, seeking new miningterritories, dispatched an explorer to the region and formally charted Pyro andits environs. This survey simply noted the overall disarray of the planetarysystem, the difficulty of finding transportable resources and the unlikelihoodof terraforming anything there successfully.

本星系在2401年由地球联盟国的运油船Roustabout 号在一条安全航道上行经Taranis星系时发现。当时，飞船上的观测员标记了在运输港口三万千米外一处不正常的引力曲点并将标记留在了星图上。四十四年后，船队的老板为了寻找新的矿区派遣船员去探索该区域，并正式在星图上标记了异火星系。这次调查简单的说明了异火星系的混乱不堪，极难找到可运输资源以及将任何行星地球化的不可能性。

In addition to itsdevelopment as a center of organized piracy, Pyro is also a household name inthe UEE today becauseit served as the backdrop for one of Original Systems’ Arena Commander’s firstlevels. The icy blue nova and the frozen hellscape of planets slowly movingtowards their destruction seemed an ideal location for Arena Commander’sdesigners to show off how interesting 3D space combat can be!

异火除了是海盗组织的活动中心之外，在UEE也成为了一个很响亮的名字，因为它正是狗斗第一阶段的背景世界（讲了一堆废话终于有点正经的了）。湛蓝的新星，还有如何冰霜地狱般慢慢走向灭亡的行星，狗斗的设计师们想用异火来展现出一个绝妙的3D空间战斗体验。

Pyro I is a charredblack rock that is slowly discorporating into Pyro proper. There is little ofinterest here; the space around Pyro I is difficult to navigate with anythingbut the highest quality shields and no significant mineral deposits have beenlocated on the planet’s surface to make ever landing here worthwhile.

异火一是一个烧得发黑的大石头，正在慢慢的变得像异火本身一样。不过这里倒是有一些有趣的事情，在异火一周围的空间里很难驾驶飞船除非有着最高级别的护盾。星球表面也没有发现任何明显的矿藏，着陆应该不是一个明智的选择。

Pyro II is a corelessplanet that will, in time, also fall into the star. During the system’s initialdiscovery, Pyro II was a major focus: the planet held seemingly significantdeposits of cadmium, titanium and gravity-forged gemstones. A minor “metalrush” saw human tradeships quickly deplete these deposits; within five years,for all practical purposes the world had become an empty husk.

异火二是一个没有内核的行星，它最后可能陷入恒星中，这不过是时间的问题。在整个行星探索的初期，异火二曾是主要的观察点，这星球看上去有着丰富的Cd，Ti 和重力锻造的晶石（前面两个是稀有元素，别问我）。一个小型的金属潮吸引了很多商船，五年间，这里被采集一空了。

The third planet inthe system is the only one believed to have once existed in the green band,pre-nova; this is where tiny algae-like fossils have been discovered. For thisreason, it was the initial focus of non-profit research efforts during Pyro’sinitial exploration. Making life more difficult for researchers, the novaprocess has rendered PyroIII alargely magna world. With little left to discover, the scientific communityquickly grew tired of Pyro III andthe system in general. Pyro III istechnically listed as a potential terraforming candidate by the UEE, although taming a magma worldwould be extremely difficult and no interest in this project has everdeveloped.

异火三，是整个星系中唯一一个曾在新星期之前存在过绿色的星球。这也是藻类化石被发现的地方。因此，这个星球是非盈利研究工作的第一个焦点。让研究变得困难的是，新星将异火三烧的到处是岩浆。因为只有极少的部分可以探索，科研组织很快对这个星球厌倦了，对这个星系也是。尽管驯服这样一个岩浆星球会十分困难也并没有人对开发项目提起一点兴趣，异火三还是被UEE列入了潜在可地球化星球的名单中。

Flavian · 发表于 2014-5-9 15:10:29

The combination of Pyro IV, a rocky Mercury-like protoplanet, and Pyro V, a massive yellow and green gas giant, is one of the more striking stellar landscapes yet discovered in known space. Arguably a single entity now, Pyro IV and V are the result of a massive meteor strike which altered the orbit of the former into the latter. Pyro V now appears to be subsuming Pyro IV in slow motion, a visual difficult to top anywhere else in the galaxy. Pyro V is considered a low-quality refuelling point because of the poor hydrogen mix present in the upper atmosphere.ro &

异火四是一个有着岩石地貌同水星相似的原行星，异火五则是一个巨大的黄绿色气团，它们的结合大概是已知空间中极为令人震撼的星球地貌了。现在可以论证的一点是，它们结合的产生是因为一次大型的流星撞击使异火四偏离了原有轨道并进入了异火五的轨道。异火五正慢慢的将异火四包裹，并银河中的任意一处都更加难以用肉眼观察的速度。异火五同时被时为一处燃料填充点，因为在其上层大气中有着少量氢气混合。

The outermost planet in the Pyro system, this subdwarf would be unremarkable if it were not the home of Ruin Station, populated by Pyro’s only permanent inhabitants. Though the station’s lineage was originally unclear (and is today often referred to as being secretive or conspiratorial), it is now known that it began life as a Gold Horizon terraforming base but was abandoned when it became clear that there was no reasonable terraformation to be had in Pyro or at nearby star systems.

在异火系中，若不是因为那里是废墟站的所在（异火星系里永久居民们的唯一聚集地），异火六这颗亚矮星几乎不会被人所注意到。尽管废墟站的起源并不清楚，但是现在人们一般认为它是因为黄金水平线地球化基地计划夭折之后产生的。

Once the original settlers abandoned the prefab station, Pyro quickly fell into use as a meeting place for black market dealmaking. From there, it was only a matter of time until it followed the same path as Spider, with active pirate construction and the development of a unique subculture. However, where Spider’s culture centers around honor among thieves, Pyro is based more around the men with the most guns winning.

当原本的殖民者放弃了这所基地后，异火作为黑市交易所迎来了大量海盗。从此，积极的海盗开始将其建造完善并产生了各种独特的亚文化，它成为和毒蛛一样的地方只是个时间问题了。然而，毒蛛的文化围绕着小偷们的荣誉（啥？小偷有荣誉了？），异火的文化则在于谁能先拔枪打爆对方的头。

Make no mistake: Ruin Station is the home of unrepentant pirates and no one else. It is not suitable for tourism, regular trade or even experienced bounty hunters seeking the thrill of combat. The pirates that do crew the station are the best of the best, constantly ready to stab each other in the back for a bigger piece of the action. Xeno Threat is the current pack in control of the station, although this can change at a moment’s notice.

别搞错了，废墟站只是那些冥顽不灵的海盗居住地，只有他们。这里可不是搞旅游开发或者合法贸易的地方，甚至就连那些经验老道在战斗中寻求刺激的赏金猎人也不行。在废墟站中的船员都是海盗精英中的精英，他们随时准备着为了更大的利益互相捅对方一刀（老乡见老乡~背后打一枪~）异种是目前控制着废墟站的海盗团，虽然这老大的位置可能转眼即逝。

Gun combat on Ruin Station is so common that shop owners have actually installed a series of armored doors; when infighting erupts, local shops and facilities automatically seal themselves off. A highlight of Pyro’s dimly lit halls is Corner Four, a sequence of former research labs converted into drug factories and no-questions-asked medical treatment facilities. Neutrality, the station’s requisite dive bar, is the only arguably safe place on the station: armoured toughs called the Cousins keep the peace here, at least in so much as they are needed to protect the bar’s staff and facilities.

因为枪战在废墟站里面实在太过于平凡，店主们都加装了一系列的装甲门。当枪战发生时商店和设施都会自动封死。值得强调的是一所昏暗的大厅，拐角四号，一些从前的实验室都被改成了毒品工厂和一些你最好别多过问的医疗设施。中立场所是废墟站里面的一处小酒吧，这里算的上是唯一安全的地方了，全副武装的恶棍们负责守护着这里的安全，至少，他们要保证酒保和酒是安全的。

PS：嘛~懒得修改润色了其实很多都是废话不过还是可以在狗斗开启之际先感受一下战场！