Vanduul战船分析

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Vanduul Warship Analysis

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From: UEEHICOM, Office of Naval Intelligence

来源: 地球联合王国(UEE)最高指挥部, 海军情报部

Classification: TOP SECRET

分类: 最高机密

Six months ago, a United Empire of Earth picket lucked into a true prize: a Vanduul carrier-ship, henceforth referred to as X12, dead in space off Garron. Later analysis suggests that the warship suffered a disastrous engine failure which flooded much of the crew quarters with deadly anti-matter radiation and left the survivors unable to follow the standard Vanduul protocol of self-destruct when threatened with capture. A detachment from the 8th UEE Marine Division boarded the ship and was able to subdue the remaining crew with relative ease. Although no Vanduul survived for interrogation, the ship has provided a wealth of potential information about their culture and habits. What follows is an initial report.

六个月前, 一支的UEE侦察队幸运地发现了一搜被遗弃的Vanduul航空母舰, 他们从此把他命名为X12. 深入的调查表明, 这艘战船遭受了毁灭性的引擎故障, 大量反物质涌出, 使得幸存的Vanduul船员不能执行自我毁灭的程序. UEE海军陆战队第8师的小分队成功登船并且轻而易举得歼灭了船上剩余的Vanduul船员. 尽管没有Vanduul幸存以供审讯, 这艘战船本身就能提供很多Vqnduul的信息, 包括他们的文化以及习性. 下面是初始的报告.

Social Organization

The ship in question seems to belong to the Goran horde. We now hesitate to use the term clan to refer to Vanduul warrior-hordes because an extensive mitochondrial DNA analysis of material recovered from X12 suggests a wide range of genetic diversity. This raises a host of interesting questions about the unseen center of Vanduul society. We have known almost since their initial discovery by Earth forces that Vanduul are as likely to engage in warfare between hordes as they are with other species, but it is now an open question by what method these hordes are formed. Military anthropologists suggest that there may be a convocation of sorts in which war parties vie to recruit the best and strongest members for their banners, though this is largely speculation at this time. It is also possible that Vanduul spread out of a homeworld and form their hordes naturally. Notably, all bodies studied from X12 are male, further suggesting that there must be some central convergence of Vanduul groups where mating and other co-operative activities take place.

社会组织:

被控制的航母应该是属于Gordan群的. 我们在犹豫是否用氏族这个词来划分Vanduul战士群, 因为大量从X12航母中取得的线粒体DNA分析显示出很大的基因差别. 这就提出了很多关于Vanduul社会的问题. 从人类一开始接触到Vanduul以来, 我们就知道他们跟其他生物一样, 不同的群落之间会有战争, 但是到现在我们也不知道, 他们是怎么划分为群落的. 军方人类学家认为他们不同的部落之间, 以各自的标准, 选拔最优秀的战士, 但现在还不能证实, 一切还只是猜测. 也有可能Vanduul族群是自然形成的. 值得注意的是, 在X12航母中的尸体全部都是雄性, 这意味着交配和其他活动可能在特定几点集中进行.

Language

Vanduul script seems to be both infrequent and crude. There is a unified system of quasi-pictographic writing located in brief segments throughout the ship, although the exolinguistic team at the University of Moscow tasked with its study has made absolutely no progress in discerning it. They have found no correspondence between it and spoken Vanduul language, and it resembles nothing so much as a cross between Egyptian heiroglypics and written braille. The ship does carry an excessive amount of video-based media, 95% of which is a single Vanduul speaking directly into a camera. Translation work is underway, although it is estimated to take several years with the available data; we have yet to unearth any kind of Rosetta stone for the Vanduul script.
Vanduul video technology is interestingly primitive: simple low-resolution 2D screens with video that appears ‘overly green.’ It is jarring compared to the
modern high resolution holography recordings used by all other known species. Since the general level of Vanduul technology is high and since they have raided more advanced species for generations, it is speculated that this is intentional and possibly a necessity coming from their uniquely structured eyes.

体形比较语言:

Vanduul的文字很原始, 并且不常见. 有一个同意的类似象形文字的系统, 简要得分布于在战舰中. 莫斯科大学的外星语言研究小队对这种语言的翻译目前还没有进展, 他们还没有发现Vanduul文字和口头语言的对应关系. 战舰上有大量的视频, 其中95%都是单个Vanduul直接对着镜头拍摄的. 翻译工作正在进行中, 但是就根据现有的资料, 可能还需要几年时间才能够完全翻译出来. 我们并没有发现Rosetta石碑(???不理解).

Vanduul的视频技术竟也很原始: 简单的低分辨率2维视频, 并且视频看起来"过绿". 这和现在已知的大多数生物所掌握的高清全息影像技术比起来实在很不和谐. 但是因为Vanduul的整体科技水平很高, 并且进犯过更高级生物, 他们这种图像技术应该是为他们的特殊结构的眼镜而故意设计的.

Artifacts

X12 carried a crew of approximately 1,400 Vanduul. The vast majority of these were housed in a series of tightly packed racks clustered around the ship’s engine, and little from this area of the ship is exploitable. There are six apparent staterooms located in the bow of the ship, from which a variety of interesting artifacts have been recovered. Exploration of these personal quarters, believed to belong to the captain, first officer and top pilots, has first and foremost confirmed the Vanduul interest in trophies. Prizes seemed to be grouped culturally: one pilot (?) had dozens of Banu vases, another a small collection of Xi’an rings. The captain, chillingly, displayed dozens of bleached human arm bones on his walls. The culture significance is unknown, but as any privateer can tell you, the Vanduul are not traders.
Onboard décor is unexpectedly varied. A major portion of the ship’s interior surface is exposed armor: Vanduul metals tend to have a tan hue, a result of iron impurities apparently present on their manufacturing worlds. Specific rooms, however, are painted with elaborate designs or artificial environments. One, colored with murals of pink-blossomed trees, appears to be a Vanduul recreational room, complete with gym equipment and a swimming area.

Analysis of personal effects does confirm the importance of the knife to Vanduul culture. A large portion of the crew died grasping their elaborate yet functional knives. Metallurgical study suggests that all knives have a common point of origin, but that they have widely disparate manufacturers. There is some suggestion that individual Vanduuls construct their own knives (handedness musculature in autopsies match irregularities in knife construction in every instance). Knife imagery also appears throughout their media, with printed images of knives being common on the walls of personal quarters. One compartment, termed the “chapel,” feature elaborate stained glass images of knives (imagery which seemed to match the specific knife found in the quarters of the captain or chieftain).

Vanduul的器物

X12上大约搭载了1400名Vanduul船员. 其中大多数都集中住在引擎周围的狭小的架子上. 舰上有6个明显的客舱, 其中发现并修复了很多Vanduul制造的器物. 继续探索船长, 大副, 和飞行员的个人船舱, 我们认为Vanduul很喜爱收藏掠夺来的赃物: 其中一名飞行员收集了几十个Banu瓶子, 另一个有好几个Xi'an戒指. 舰长在他的墙上挂了好几打漂白过的人类的手臂骨. 这些物品在他们的文化中有多重要这我们不得而知, 但是Vanduul并不是商人(这些都是他们的战利品).

舰上的装饰品有很大差别. 很大一部分内饰都是暴露的装甲: Vanduul金属一般都会有点发黑, 明显是他们的制造业的不完善. 特定的房间被喷涂成人工景观, 有一间墙壁上画有开粉花的树. 看起来像Vanduul的健身房, 里面有器械和游泳池.

分析表明, 刀在Vanduul文化中占有很重要的地位. 很大一部分船员死时握着有雕刻的匕首. 对匕首金属的研究认为这些金属都是来源于同意地点的, 但是制造加工的地点很分散. 有人以此猜测Vanduul战士自己铸造匕首. 刀的图片也在各种媒介出现过, 例如私人空间的墙上.

Spacecraft

The warship itself was towed to Centauri Roads Naval Testing Station for further study. Naval engineers report that the damage suffered in the reactor explosion is too great to ever consider returning it to service. Externally, X12 is roughly equivalent to the UEE’s Indefatigableclass in tonnage. She is heavily armored, with that armor likely amplifying the damage suffered: the same layered system capable of protecting against an estimated three to four torpedo strikes also forced the internal explosion inward to the ship’s lower decks. Internally, she carries an air wing more impressive than even a Bengal-class carrier: roughly three hundred of what have become known on the frontier as “Scythe” fighters (their UEE reporting name, Frank, has not caught on beyond the military services). Note that barely one hundred of these were combat ready; the rest were kept below decks as spares. During a full scramble, only a third of the total complement could be used. Per Senate request, the majority of these fighters have since been sold off to private enterprise to finance an important public works project, although Naval Intelligence continues to maintain a squadron for maneuver testing and potential covert operations.

飞船:

战舰被拖到Centauri Roads海军测试基地进行深入的研究. 海军工程师们说战舰引擎的事故太严重, 不能考虑维修兵从新服役. 外围, X12的吨位大约与UEE的Indefatigable级航母相似. 舰船有厚重的装甲, 装甲扩大了他受到的损伤: 分层装甲系统能够阻止3到4轮的鱼雷攻击,但同时也把引擎的爆炸限制在了船内, 迫使爆炸向船内发展. 内部, X12有比Bengal级航母更令人震惊的舰载机联队. 大约有300架Sythe战斗机. 其中只有将将100架战机是待命状态的, 其他的都在更低层甲板, 作为备用战机. 全体出动时也只能由1/3的战力投入战斗. 应参议员请求, 航母中的大部分战机被卖给私人企业, 从而资助公共项目, 但是海军还是保留了一个小队的飞机来进行测试, 以后有可能用于潜伏任务.

转自http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2320374003

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