引力井投射器（gravity well projector）

南方战士

翻译：南方战士、darthmaverick

gravity well projector 引力井投射器

衍生宇宙



In order for hyperdrives to function, a starship must be free of a planet's gravity well. Safety cut-offs restrict the hyperdrive from activating, and the gravitic presence also interferes with a nav computer's ability to calculate accurate coordinates.
星际飞船必须脱离行星引力井，其超空间驱动器才能运作。安全断路器限制了超空间驱动器的启动。引力场的存在也会干扰导航计算机计算精确坐标的能力。

The Empire took advantage of this weakness of the hyperdrive and developed artificial gravity well generators. These devices send out powerful waves that disrupt the mass lines in space, thereby simulating the presence of a large stellar body such as an asteroid or a planet. The presence of such simulated mass prevents ships in the area from engaging their hyperdrives, and also drops ships already in hyperspace back to realspace.
帝国利用超空间驱动器的这个弱点，研发出人造引力井发生器。这些设备能发出强大的引力波，破坏太空中的引力线，从而模拟小行星或行星等大型天体的存在。这种模拟质量的存在不但能阻止区域内的飞船使用超空间驱动器，还能把已在超空间内的飞船拉回实空间。

The G-7x generators developed by Sienar Fleet Systems are the main weapon of the Immobilizer 418, the first of the Empire's Interdictor-class heavy cruisers. The Empire continued research into refining this technology, making it more powerful and more compact. The last generation of Super-class Star Destroyers, including the Eclipse and the Sovereign featured gravity well generators.
西纳舰队系统公司开发的G-7x发生器是帝国第一艘“阻绝者级”重型巡洋舰“固定者418号”的主要武器。随后帝国继续研究这项技术的改进手段，使之越来越强，越来越小。包括“日蚀级”和“主权级”在内的最后一代超级歼星舰都配备了引力井发生器。

While under optimal circumstances, gravity well generators are effective weapons, they do have their limitations. Powering up a gravity well generator takes 30 seconds. While it can be shut off with no delay, it takes the capacitors 40 seconds to shunt the power and completely recycle. Once a gravity well is placed, it is difficult to move, as it is subject to similar laws of inertia as actual gravitic bodies. The great energy output of a gravity well projector also affects the movement and handling of the interdicting cruiser.
引力井发生器在最理想的环境下是一种有效的武器，但它们也有局限性。开启一个引力井发生器要30秒。虽然它可以实时关闭，但电容器需要40秒分流电力和完成循环。引力井一旦被部署，就很难移动，因为它遵守与实际引力体相似的惯性定律。引力井投射器的巨大能量输出也影响到阻绝巡洋舰的移动和操控。

Aboard the first Death Star, a working prototype of an incredibly powerful gravity well projector was nearing the final stages of development. The device, small enough to be carried by two men, required a power source 10 times more powerful than that of a Star Destroyer's main tractor beam. The resultant gravity well, however, was immense -- much larger than those generated by the G-7x.
在第一颗死星上，一台异常强大的引力井投射器工作原型已接近开发的最后阶段。这台设备小到只要两个人就能搬运，但其需要的动力源比歼星舰主牵引波束的动力源还要强大10倍。由此产生的引力井十分巨大——比G-7x产生的要大得多。

This prototype projector survived the destruction of the Death Star, and floated for a time within a large chunk of debris. This debris became the center-point of the floating Ugor junkyard in the Paradise system. The gravity well projector was somehow reactivated, and became the center of a vast junk asteroid field. The Ugors, who worship trash, referred to the Death Star fragment -- the new center of their system -- as the Holiest of Holies. The projector itself was known as the Prime Mover. The gravity well projector was removed by a Rebel strike force assisting a Squib mission to disrupt the Ugor trash-hauling racket. With the removal of the projector, the Paradise system fell apart.
这台原型投射器没有与死星同归于尽，而是在一大块残骸内飘浮了一段时间。这块残骸成为天堂星系内乌戈飘浮废品堆的中心。这台引力井投射器不知何故被激活后，成为一大片废品小行星带的中心。崇拜垃圾的乌戈人把这块死星碎片——他们行星系的新中心——称作至圣所。这台投射器本身被称为原动神。为了协助斯奎布人破坏乌戈人的垃圾捕获勾当，一支义军突击队去除了这台引力井投射器。随着这台投射器的消失，天堂星系分崩离析。

Reports of a naturally occurring gravity well generator led the Empire to the Sedri system. There, the bizarre lifeform known as Golden Sun created a gravity well effect that made it appear as if Sedri was a star, not a planet. Research into this naturally occurring effect ceased when the Golden Sun was freed by a Rebel strike team averting a civil war among the native Sedrians.
在塞德里星系，一个自然产生的引力井发生器引起了帝国的注意。在那里，一个被称为“金色太阳”的奇异生物产生了引力井效应，使塞德里看起来像一颗恒星，而非行星。为了避免当地的塞德里人之间爆发内战，一支义军突击队解救了“金色太阳”，对这种自然产生的引力井效应的研究也随之终止。

A vast array of gravity well generators aided in regulating traffic into and out of the Imperial Deep Core during the resurrected Emperor's campaign against the New Republic. These generators formed the backbone of the Imperial Hyperspace Security Net.
复活的皇帝与新共和国交战期间，庞大的引力井发生器阵列被用于协助管制出入帝国深核的交通。这些发生器形成帝国超空间安全网的支柱。

Fourteen years after the Battle of Endor, a group of would-be conquerors identified as the Sacorran Triad used the ancient Centerpoint Station to create a vast interdiction field covering the entire Corellian system. As such, Centerpoint Station is the largest gravity well projector on record.
恩多战役十四年后，一个被称为“萨科里亚三巨头”的未遂征服者组织利用古老的中端站在整个科雷利亚星系周围制造了一个庞大的阻绝场。于是，中端站成为有史以来最大的引力井投射器。

During the Corellian Crisis, New Republic allies on Bakura perfected the hyperwave inertial momentum sustainer (HIMS) system -- the first effective method of countering an interdiction field. The hyperwave sustainer used a gravitic sensor that provides a fast cut-off for a ship's normal hyperdrive, saving it from damage caused by entering a gravity well. It simultaneously generates a static hyperspace bubble. The bubble provides no thrust for the ship, but sustains the ship's presence in hyperspace while its forward momentum carries it along.
科雷利亚危机期间，新共和国在巴库拉的盟友完善了超波惯性动量维持器（HIMS）系统——第一种有效反制阻绝场的方法。这种超波维持器使用引力传感器为普通超空间驱动器提供快速断路功能，以防其因进入引力井而损坏。同时，它产生一个静止的超空间泡。这个泡不能为飞船提供推力，但能把飞船维持在超空间内，让它以前冲力继续运行。

幕后



Gravity well generators first appeared as a weapon in 1989's Imperial Sourcebook, though the idea that ships cannot engage their hyperdrives in a gravity well was suggested in the novelization of the original Star Wars. The Imperial Interdictor cruiser worked its way into a number of Expanded Universe stories, such as Heir to the Empire and the flight simulator games of LucasArts.
引力井发生器最早作为一种武器出现在1989年的《帝国资料集》里，但飞船不能在引力井内使用超空间驱动器的概念在最初的《星球大战》小说里就提出了。帝国阻绝者巡洋舰出现在了许多衍生宇宙故事中，比如《帝国传承》和卢卡斯艺界的飞行模拟游戏。