遇战疯人（Yuuzhan Vong）

luketime · 发表于 2009-2-20 18:16

校对：南方战士

Yuuzhan Vong 遇战疯人

Size:
1.8 meters
身高：
1.8米

Weapon:
amphistaff
武器：
变形杖

Vehicle:
coralskipper
座驾：
珊瑚跳船

衍生宇宙

Fearsome invaders from another galaxy, the Yuuzhan Vong are the greatest threat faced by the New Republic since the collapse of the Empire. The Yuuzhan Vong are singular in their goal of conquering this galaxy filled with infidels, and transforming it into the new Yuuzhan Vong home, as dictated by their gods. They will sacrifice anything for their religious beliefs, and many worlds have been sundered in their crusade.
遇战疯人是来自另一个星系的可怕入侵者，是帝国崩溃后新共和国的最大威胁。遇战疯人唯一的目标就是征服这个充满异教徒的银河系，把它变成遇战疯人的新家，交由他们的神灵统治。为宗教信仰，他们会牺牲任何东西，众多星球在他们的圣战中被撕成碎片。

The Yuuzhan Vong have a physical appearance quite similar to baseline humanity. They have thicker builds, and less hair atop their heads, and their custom of ritual mutilation helps obscure all but the most superficial resemblances to humans.
遇战疯人的外表很像人类。但他们体格更强，头发稀少，他们仪式性的自残行为更使之与人类除了最表面的相似外，再无半点类同。

The Yuuzhan Vong glorify pain not only as a motive for action, but as a state of living. In much the same way as the Yuuzhan Vong gods resculpted themselves to create their galaxy, the Yuuzhan Vong too alter their bodies for greater purpose. The higher a social rank a Yuuzhan Vong achieves, the more his body is modified. Yuuzhan Vong skin is a mottling of scarring and sweeping tattoos, and those of lofty elevation even graft creature or bioengineered body parts onto themselves.
遇战疯人崇拜痛苦，不仅把它当作行动的激励，更当作是普通的生活状态。正如遇战疯人的神灵重塑自身以创造他们的星系，遇战疯人也是为了更大的目的而改变自己的身体。遇战疯人的社会地位越高，身体改造越甚。遇战疯人的皮肤布满了伤痕和蜿蜒的纹身，而地位显赫者甚至把其他生物或由生物工程改造的肢体嫁接到自己身上。

Yuuzhan Vong organize themselves into castes, strictly defined segments of society complete with distinct religious and social mandates. One of the most populous castes is that of the warrior. The brutal aliens greatly revere combat and pain, thus the warrior caste is believed by many to be the most favored of the gods. The vast military forces of the Yuuzhan Vong consist of frontline warriors led by subalterns, who ultimately are commanded by the warmaster.
遇战疯人分属不同种姓，各种姓按明确的宗教和社会训令严格划分。人数最多的种姓之一是战士种姓。这个野蛮的外星种族极度崇拜战斗和痛苦，因此许多人相信战士种姓是最受神青睐的。遇战疯人庞大的军事力量包括前线的战士和统领他们的低级军官，由“战帅”作为最高统帅。

The intendant caste works to keep Yuuzhan Vong society functioning. It handles matters of commerce, bureaucracy, trade and the management of the sizable slave work force employed by the Yuuzhan Vong. Intendent ranks include executor, consul, prefect and high prefect.
管理者种姓的职能是维持遇战疯人社会的运转。他们负责商业、行政、贸易和管理遇战疯人庞大的奴隶队伍。管理者种姓包括执行者、执政官、总督和高级总督。

The priest caste wields considerable power in this rigidly theocratic society. The members of the priest caste are said to have direct communication with the pantheon of gods that rule the Yuuzhan Vong. There exists several sects, each for the worship of a Yuuzhan Vong deity. Ranks within the priest caste include savants, seers, and high priests and priestesses.
祭司种姓在这个顽固的神权社会中掌握着相当大的权力。祭司种姓据说可以与统治遇战疯人的众神直接交流。祭司分为几派，每派祀奉一位遇战疯人的神灵。祭司种姓内部按级分为学者、先知、高级祭司和高级女祭司。

The shaper castes are the keepers of the intricate biotechnology employed by the Yuuzhan Vong. Together with the priests, the shapers observe arcane rituals in the development and implementation of organic technology. The shapers rank very highly in Yuuzhan Vong society, and their ranks include adepts and master shapers.
塑造者种姓掌管着遇战疯人使用的精巧生物科技。在有机科技的研发和运用中，塑造者要与祭司一起，遵循神奥的仪式。塑造者种姓在遇战疯人社会中地位极高，他们的等级包括塑造家和大师塑造者。

The largest yet lowliest of the Yuuzhan Vong castes are the workers. They consists of three types: those who have have failed to succeed in another caste; those born into the worker caste; those who have been conquered. Slaves and the so-called Shamed Ones (fallen members of society) are technically part of the worker castes, but even they are looked upon disdainfully by their fellow workers. It is the worker caste who performs the menial yet essential tasks of Yuuzhan Vong society, from garbage collectors to personal attendants.
最庞大却最低贱的遇战疯人种姓是劳动者。他们由三类人构成：其他种姓中的失败者，生来就是劳动者的人，被征服者。奴隶和所谓的“耻人”（堕落的社会成员）准确地说也属于劳动者种姓，但甚至被其他劳动者所鄙视。从拾荒者一直到个人侍从，劳动者种姓从事着遇战疯人社会中地位卑下却至关重要的工作。

The most exclusive of Yuuzhan Vong castes has only a membership of one: the Supreme Overlord. This is the ruler of the Yuuzhan Vong, and he has supreme religious and secular authority over the invading people. Though the priests may commune with the various Yuuzhan Vong deities, only the Supreme Overlord has a direct connection to the Creator, Yun-Yuuzhan. The current rank-holder is Supreme Overlord Shimrra.
遇战疯人最独一无二的种姓只有一个成员：最高霸主。他是遇战疯人的统治者，对到处侵略的子民拥有至高无上的宗教权力和世俗权力。祭司们可以与遇战疯人的众神交流，但只有最高霸主与“造物主云-遇战”有直接联系。现任统治者是最高霸主希姆拉。

Yuuzhan Vong technology is bizarre and perverse, though it is nonetheless effective. The aliens grow their technology organically. All their devices are bioengineered lifeforms, grown and shaped to fit their needs. The Yuuzhan Vong view inorganic technology -- machinery, devices and especially droids -- as an abomination and affront to their gods.
遇战疯人的科技怪异而反常，却同样行之有效。这些外星人发展有机科技。他们所有的设备都是生物工程改造过的生命形式，经过生长和塑形以适其所需。遇战疯人认为无机科技——机器、设备，尤其是机器人——都是可憎的东西，是对神灵的亵渎。

Among the devices used by the Yuuzhan Vong are amphistaffs, serpentine whips which can harden into rock-hard staves, or flatten to razor-sharp edges. Also used in combat are thudbugs, small thrown insects that detonate on impact. The Yuuzhan Vong wear vonduun crab armor, a living carapace that protects a warrior in combat that can even temporarily withstand blaster strikes and lightsaber blows. As the war against the Republic and the Jedi escalated, the Yuuzhan Vong began engineering new weaponry specific to their hated foes: such as the vicious voxyn creature that can relentlessly hunt down Jedi Knights.
遇战疯人使用的设备之一是“变形杖”，一种蛇形鞭。它既能硬化为坚如磐石的棍棒，也能平展为快如剃刀的利刃。他们在战斗中还使用“重击虫”，这是一种用于投掷的小昆虫，一触即炸。遇战疯人穿着冯杜恩蟹甲，这种活体动物甲壳能在战斗中保护战士。它甚至可以短暂抵挡爆能枪的射击和光剑的劈砍。随着与共和国和绝地的战事升级，遇战疯人开始针对仇敌研发新式兵器：凶恶的沃克辛兽，专门无情地猎杀绝地武士。

Yuuzhan Vong starships are also living entities. Built of strong yorik coral, these vessels employ creatures called dovin basals for propulsion and defense. The dovin basals can manipulate gravity, and can project miniature black holes that deflect or absorb incoming enemy fire.
遇战疯人的星际飞船同样是活体生物。这些舰船由坚固的约里克珊瑚建成，由被称为“多文基座”的生物提供推力和防御。多文基座能控制引力，抛射迷你黑洞以偏转或吸收来袭的敌方火力。

The Yuuzhan Vong invasion began insidiously, with secret agents sent to gather information about the galaxy. Sheathed in ooglith masquers, a body-wide outer skin that disguises the Yuuzhan Vong's true identity, these spies infiltrated key New Republic installations and political hotspots. The Yuuzhan Vong executor, Nom Anor, was a political firebrand, stirring up trouble in the Outer Rim and sowing discord in the New Republic. His inflammatory actions precipitated a full-scale invasion that began on the distant world of Belkaden and in the Helska system. From these points, their path of destruction has spread, even targeting the very heart of the galaxy.
遇战疯人的入侵在阴谋中开始。他们派出密探搜集银河系的情报。这些间谍藏在乌格利思变身衣下，用这种包裹全身的外皮掩盖自己的真实身份，渗透到新共和国的核心设施和政治热点地区。遇战疯人执行者农·阿诺在政治问题上煽风点火。他在外环挑起动乱，给新共和国埋下动荡的隐患。他煽动性的行为加速了遇战疯人对偏远星球贝尔卡登和赫尔斯卡星系的全面入侵。以此为突破点，他们铺展着毁灭之路，甚至对银河系的心脏虎视眈眈。

Luke Skywalker's order of Jedi Knights have clashed with the Yuuzhan Vong time and again. Inexplicably, the Yuuzhan Vong are not part of the Force. Their presences do not register in the ubiquitous energy field, and they are immune to Force attacks. Furthermore, the Yuuzhan Vong refuse to acknowledge its existence, attributing Jedi feats to some perverse mechanism embraced by the Jedi infidels.
卢克·天行者率领的绝地武士团屡次与遇战疯人交战。不可思议的是，遇战疯人并不是原力的一部分。他们的存在并不统一于无所不在的能量场。他们对原力攻击免疫。不仅如此，遇战疯人还否认原力的存在，认为绝地的神功是绝地异教徒信奉的某种反常机能。

The course of action to take with the Yuuzhan Vong has split the Jedi ranks. Some, like the hotheaded Kyp Durron, believe it is the Jedi mandate to vanquish the would-be conquerors. Luke Skywalker and others feel that such aggressive actions are against Jedi principles. Nonetheless, several key Jedi -- including Corran Horn and Jacen Solo -- have scored important wins against the Yuuzhan Vong. In retaliation, the aliens have asked the battle-weary Republic to capture and deliver as many Jedi as possible, in return for a cease of hostility.
在对遇战疯人应采取何种对策的问题上，绝地阵营分化了。有些像基普·达伦这样性急血热的人，相信绝地有权替天行道，击溃这些潜在的征服者。但卢克·天行者等人感到如此侵略性的行动有悖绝地准则。尽管如此，一些绝地主力——包括科兰·霍恩和杰森·索洛在内——还是多次对遇战疯人取得重大胜利。作为报复，这些外星人以停止敌对行为为条件，责令疲于战事的共和国抓捕并遣送尽可能多的绝地。

Despite heavy losses, the Yuuzhan Vong managed to conquer Coruscant, striking a deathblow to the New Republic. Now, Supreme Overlord Shimrra counts Coruscant, renamed Yuuzhan'tar, as his throne world and plots to continue his conquest of the galaxy.
尽管损失惨重，遇战疯人还是成功征服科洛桑，对新共和国来说这是致命一击。现在最高霸主希姆拉已把科洛桑更名为“遇战塔”，作为他的国都，同时继续他的银河系征服计划。

The outcome of this terrible conflict is still unknown, and many valiant Republic heroes have fallen to the Yuuzhan Vong violence. A key to victory has yet to appear, but the Jedi and the remnants of New Republic -- now the Galactic Alliance -- are working tirelessly to find a way to defeat this foe.
这场恐怖争斗仍胜负未分，许多英勇的共和国英雄倒在了遇战疯人的淫威之下。胜利的转机尚未出现，但绝地和新共和国的幸存力量——现在的银河同盟——正不屈不挠地寻找着克敌制胜的良方。

幕后

The Yuuzhan Vong were developed as the centerpiece threat for The New Jedi Order publishing program. Editors from LucasBooks and Del Rey, together with several authors helped design an alien menace worthy of the New Republic heroes. Time and again Luke, Han, Leia and the others had saved the galaxy, escaping unscathed. This time, though, would be different.
遇战疯人是作为《新绝地武士团》出版项目中的核心威胁出现的。卢卡斯图书和德雷的编辑们，同众多作家一起设计了一个足以匹敌新共和国英雄们的外星威胁。卢克、汉、莱娅等人曾经一次又一次地拯救银河系，毫发无损地化险为夷。但这一次，情况将截然不同。

In a bold and controversial move, the first novel of the series, Vector Prime by R.A. Salvatore, clearly showed that this new enemy meant business. By tale's end, one of the classic heroes, Chewbacca the Wookiee, was a casualty of this new war.
在此系列的第一本小说《主向量》中，R·A·萨尔瓦托雷的大膽作风招致众多争议，他明确表现了这个新敌人绝非等闲。在故事结尾，经典英雄之一的伍基人丘巴卡在这场新战争中英勇献身。