黑日（Black Sun）

南方战士

翻译：Darth Maul
校对：南方战士

Black Sun 黑日



Homeworld:
Coruscant
母星：
科洛桑

衍生宇宙



The Empire's control of the galaxy and the efforts of a ragtag Rebellion marked key moments in galactic history. Underneath these events, though, lurking in the shadows of the Empire, was Black Sun, a vast criminal organization possessed of incredible power and influence.
帝国对银河系的控制以及下层社会的起义运动是银河历史的重要篇章。然而，在这些事件的背后，隐藏在帝国阴影下的，是一个实力雄厚、影响力巨大的犯罪组织——黑日。

The syndicate's tentacles reach everywhere -- from the polished spires of Imperial Center to the seamiest Outer Rim tavern. Many of the organization's tens of thousands of operatives had no idea that they were benefiting Black Sun, so layered and intricate were the fronts that the syndicate hid behind. Black Sun had involvement in every known type of illegal activity, and its information network rivaled the accuracy and scope of even Imperial Intelligence.
这个犯罪集团的触角无处不在——从帝国中心闪耀的高楼到最丑恶的外环星域酒馆。在该组织的数万名密探里，有许多人根本不知道自己在为黑日服务。在层层叠叠、错综复杂的表象后面，才是这个集团的真实面目。黑日涉足各种已知的犯罪活动，其情报网络的准确性和活动范围不亚于帝国情报部。

Existing in one form or another for centuries, the modern era of Black Sun was sculpted by Prince Xizor, the elegant Falleen head of Xizor Transport Systems. Serving beneath him were a cadre of nine "Vigos" -- Old Tionese for "nephew" -- who monitored and managed activities in specific territories.
黑日以这样或那样的形式存在了数个世纪，现代黑日由西佐王子打造。这个风度翩翩的法林人是西佐运输系统的掌门人。他手下的骨干是九个“维戈”——古蒂翁语“侄子”的意思——他们在各自的领域内监控和管理。

Xizor's personal vendetta against Lord Darth Vader nearly scuttled the entire organization. So fixated on exacting vengeance against Vader, Xizor's allowed his fortress to become infiltrated by Rebel Alliance agents. The devastation of his fortress by Rebel explosives was just the start of a downward spiral that culminated in Xizor's death in the destruction of his private skyhook.
西佐与达斯·维德尊主间的世仇几乎断送整个组织。复仇心切的西佐允许义军同盟侦察员潜入自己的城堡。他的城堡被义军炸毁仅仅是恶性循环的开始，最后，西佐与他的私人天钩同归于尽。

In the resulting power vacuum, the Vigos desperately sought to carve up the criminal empire. Xizor's long-lost niece, Savan, secretly instigated a war between the Vigos as she attempted to take control of Black Sun herself. She failed in her bid to capture the human replica droid Guri, whose mechanical mind contained many vital Black Sun secrets. When Guri's memory was wiped, many of the most secret and lucrative Black Sun ventures were forever erased.
在随之而来的权力真空期，维戈们处心积虑地瓜分这个犯罪帝国。西佐失散多年的侄女莎文秘密地离间维戈，企图自己控制黑日。她没能抓住全仿真机器人古丽。古里的机器大脑中有很多黑日的重要秘密。随着古丽的记忆被清除，许多最隐秘、最值钱的黑日投资项目也永远消失了。

This was not the first time Black Sun had been decapitated. Decades earlier, Darth Maul infiltrated Black Sun and killed its then-leader Alexi Garyn. The remnants of Xizor's Black Sun did not rebound nearly as well as Garyn's organization, as no obvious heir as powerful or driven as Xizor appeared. A string of imitators emerged in the following years, and with each one Black Sun was further diminished. The corrupt Moff Flirry Voru controlled a sizable fragment, while other remains were reformed into Black Nebula by Lord Dequc. After years of directionless rule, Y'ull Acib attempted control, and finally Czethros was the last known ruler of the organization before it was finally crushed.
这不是黑日第一次群龙无首。数十年前，达斯·摩尔潜入黑日内部，杀死了当时的首领亚历克西·加林。西佐留下的黑日几乎没有像加林留下的黑日那样东山再起，因为之后再没出现像西佐那样强大或坚毅的继承人。接下来的几年中出现了许多模仿者，但每一位都使黑日江河日下。堕落的星区总督弗利里·沃鲁曾控制黑日很大一部分，同时，剩下的残余势力被改组成德库克大人的黑云。在多年混乱的统治之后，伊乌尔·阿奇布试图掌控大局，最后泽思罗斯成为黑日组织覆灭前已知的最后一位统治者。

幕后



Black Sun was developed as a shadowy criminal syndicate that permeates the entire galactic underworld, and the principal enemy of the Shadows of the Empire multi-media project. Because Shadows debuted in 1996, Black Sun is strangely absent in stories involving the underworld previous that date. Subsequent books would stress that the nebulous existence of the organization was entirely by design.
黑日被描述为遍及整个银河系黑社会的神秘犯罪集团，是《帝国阴影》多媒体项目中的主要反派。由于《帝国阴影》是在1996年登场的，所以黑日奇怪地在之前关于黑社会的故事中消失了。后来的书强调这个组织的时有时无完全是有意为之。

Fragments of Black Sun have been detailed in such stories as Shadows of the Empire: Evolution, the X-Wing novel series, Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand, Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood and the Young Jedi Knights novel series.
描述黑日残余派别的故事有《帝国阴影：重生》、《X翼》系列小说、《玛拉·杰德：皇帝之手》、《血红帝国Ⅱ：血之委员会》和《少年绝地武士》系列小说等。