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作者: o07608 (无良记者) 看板: SLG
标题: Endless Space Wiki: Endless part3
时间: Sun Jun 8 00:05:05 2014
永恒族第三篇，这篇会一口气全部贴完所有故事
剩下一段莫名其妙的鬼东西明天贴
上两篇：
Endless Space Wiki: Endless part1 (#1Ja97wCA)
Endless Space Wiki: Endless part2 (#1JaR0zBQ)
拜托有能力有时间的板友一定要帮我看看并修订里面的翻译问题阿......
实在是太多了，这样会不敢拿出去见人的>"<
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Endless Space Wiki 翻译
http://endlessspace.wikia.com/wiki/Endless_Space_Wiki
google文件：http://0rz.tw/oRHT9
我把google文件的权限调到只要有连结的人就能评论
如果要修改的板友，请标明修改段落并留下您的ID
这样以后有机会发布时，我才知道感谢名单要列上哪些人
感谢
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Virtualization 虚拟化
One of the great mysteries of any sentient race is the understanding of
consciousness. As Endless technology increased in sophistication, they turned
more and more to questions about this oldest of mysteries. It was one thing
to develop artificial intelligence; they had many of these that were highly
advanced and helped them to run their ships, societies, and habitats.
However, there is a great difference between creating an artificial mind
inside a machine, and actually placing an already living mind inside an
electronic container.
对于任何知觉物种来说，其中一个最大的谜团就是对于意识的认知。因为永恒族的科技已
经臻至炉火纯青的地步，他们开始对于这最古老的谜团投入越来越多的心力。（译注：这
句看不会翻译）。然而，要替机器加装人工智能，和真的把一个活生生的心智安装到一个
电子容器内是差很多的。
An AI appears to think, and with advanced neural networks and learning
systems the Endless achieved great advances in this area. They still sought
the ultimate prize in this area of study, however: Creating systems and
processes that would allow a being to "upload" its mind and personality into
a computer.
一个AI应该要能够思考，而神经网络和学习系统的进步使的永恒族在这方面得到了很大的
进展。然而，他们仍然寻找著这个领域的终极奖励：发明能够让生物把自己的记忆和性格
“上传”到电脑里的方法和系统。
The Endless were, if nothing else, a patient and dedicated race; in time they
found the mechanisms by which a mind transferred to a machine was
indistinguishable from the copy of that mind housed in the original body. In
a burst of activity, they began to upload and download their very souls, able
to spend time indifferently either traveling through networks or on vehicles.
New forms of sensing organs evolved as the Endless learned to master these
different forms, for communication between virtual entities and sensations
received when in electronic form were radically different from what their
corporeal selves were used to experiencing.
没有比耐心和献身更能形容永恒族的词汇了，他们当时发明了能把心灵转换到机器里的装
置，被复制过去的心灵和原本身体里的几乎毫无二致。他们开始迫不及待的上传和下载他
们自己的灵魂，这使得无论用网络或一般交通工具旅行所花的时间都变得毫无意义。永恒
族要学习驾驭这不同的形态，但这种电子型态与他们熟悉的肉体完全不同，因此他们也要
发展新的感觉器官，好让虚拟体之间能互相交流和获得五感。
This achievement is credited to numerous different scientists and entities
depending on what Endless group's history one reads. The most reliable and
seemingly accurate attribute the discovery of practical virtualization to one
of three sources:
大量关于永恒族历史的物品，及许多科学家根据对于永恒族历史的解读都确认了他们的成
就，（译注：这句不会翻译）：
A professor named Sluaym and his research team, working in the Department of
Discovering the Next Way Forward (DINWARD or Advanced Psychology Research) at
the University of the Lee Shore of the North Heeur Ice Sheet on
Memories-of-That-We-Lost;
一个名为Sluaym（译注：不会发音）的教授与他的团队，他们在“寻找今后的下一个方向
”（DINWARD，或者进阶心理学研究）部工作，（译注：然后后面那票完全看不懂）
A small team of scientists with an openly professed alternative lifestyle,
living in a large orbital complex off a gas giant circling the star named
Tetomeus Minor. Their commune called itself One-Sex-One-Way-Many-Procedures
(Osowmap), and the key team members were Cleeoinal, Clieobur, Cloeeyech, and
Cloeyina.
一支由科学家组成，公然过著所谓奇怪的生活的团队。他们住在一个环绕着“铁托米俄斯
少年”恒星的巨大气态行星上，该团体成员自称为“一性一方、多种程序（译注：求更好
的翻译）”(Osowmap)，其中的核心成员有克利欧伊奈、克莱欧布尔、克罗伊耶克和克罗
耶娜。
A cyber-warfare team funded by the Ministry of Maintaining Our Chosen
Lifestyle (Mocholi a.k.a. Defense), run by a small cabal of extreme
right-wing officers who were part of the orbital mission that protected the
remains of Kyros as a neutral site.
一支和电脑有仇的团队，由“维持神替我们选择的生活”（Mocholi，又名防卫）局所组
建。该团队由一小群极右翼军官营运，他们都是一项保护凯洛斯残余部分为中立区的任务
中的一份子。
However, the most likely candidate was a scientist named Ortaam…
然而，最佳候选者是一个名为欧尔帖的科学家……
Ascension to Godhood 成神
Once the process of the Diaspora began, aided by improved exploitation of
far-flung asteroid belts and greater sophistication in deep-space
construction facilities, the evolution of the Endless began to accelerate at
an almost exponential pace. In several locations they were studying the most
advanced physical and biological sciences imaginable, pushing the boundaries
of life, consciousness, and reality.
在大移民开始时，得益于外围小行星带开采技术的进步及高精密度的外太空建筑设施，使
得永恒族几乎是以指数速度在进步。他们在几个地方研究想像力所及最先进的物理及生物
科技，把生命、意识及现实的境界推到了新高点。
Circling a red dwarf known as Bilgeli were three research stations run by
three of the greatest scientists ever produced by the Endless. They were
geniuses, striving to pierce the unknown, whose efforts were fueled by all
the technology available at the height of the Endless’s power. One station,
Aevum, led by Nona Woerae, studied biology and the sciences of creation and
evolution. The second one, Fatum, was more technical, studying the branches
of mathematics and computational systems and opening up great precision in
planning, forecasting and statistics. The third one, Letum, studied
psychology, neurobiology, and the sciences of the conscious. It was led by an
Alterationist named Spotora Ortaam.
有颗环绕着一个棕矮星的行星，名为比乐伽立，上面有三个研究站，由永恒族有史以来最
杰出的三位科学家运行。他们天赋异秉，以整个永恒族可行的最高科技力为后盾，努力要
揭穿一切未知。其中一个研究站名为伊访，由诺娜．沃瑞领导，专门研究生物科学和创造
及进化的科学。第二个名为法顿，该站较偏向技术性，研究数学及计算机系统的分科，在
计画、预测及统计方面上特别精密。第三个研究站名为列顿，研究心理学、神经生物学和
认知科学，该站由一个名为史波托拉．欧尔帖的交替学家领导。
To this system came a ragged fleet of dilapidated ships led by a visionary
known as Icarael, who had through sheer force of will and character saved an
enormous population of Eaür from death. He had chided, cajoled, raged, and
begged them all the way across a hostile universe, hoping for a kinder fate.
While the sciences of the Bilgeli stations brought solace to many of the
wanderers, Icarael himself was lost to the most ancient of magics; he was
struck by the wisdom and the passion of Spotora, and within a week of their
arrival in the system he had abdicated his post, left the fleet, and sworn to
follow her to the end of time.
有支破破烂烂的舰队来到了这个星系，他们由一个名为依卡瑞尔的幻想家领导，他只靠着
意志力和人格力量就把无数的耶乌尔从死亡边缘拯救出来。他不停对他们疾言厉色及哄骗
哀求，使他们能在这场横跨险峻宇宙以寻找一个祥和命运的旅途中坚持下去。这些梦想家
中的大部分从比乐伽立站的科学中找到了慰藉，而依卡瑞尔却中了最古老的魔法：他深深
迷恋上史波托拉的智慧及热情。在舰队抵达该星系的一个礼拜内，他就宣布退位、离开舰
队、并发誓跟随她直到永远。
Spotora was less than enchanted by this. She needed no passions other than
her work, and the constant flow of refugees entreating Icarael to return to
his position did not improve things. Rejection followed rejection until
Icarael could no longer contain himself; he committed suicide in her
laboratory one day by ordering the Dust to reconfigure her medical equipment,
remove his heart, and place it in stasis. There she saw it when she returned
to her studies after the next sleep cycle, spinning slowly in the
gravity-less environment, paused between beats for all eternity. Curious at
last to learn more of this madman, she analyzed the DNA that had created such
a mind and such a spirit. It turned out to be the final link in her studies,
the last element she required to unlink the conscious from the mortal form.
史波托拉对此倒是没多少陶醉，她对于工作以外的事情都没什么热情，加上难民们持续恳
求依卡瑞尔回到他的位置上，使的事情没有任何进展。接连不断的拒绝使的依卡瑞尔再也
无法保持他自己，有一天他在她的实验室内自杀了。他命令星尘改造她的医疗设备、移除
自己的心脏并使之保持在血行停滞的状态下。史波托拉在结束她的下一个睡眠循环后回到
实验室，这时才看到这个景象：一颗心脏在无重力环境中永恒的缓缓旋转、搏动着。她最
终对这个疯狂的男子产生了好奇心，并想认识更多关于这人的事情。她分析了创造出如此
心灵和精神的DNA，这个分析成为她研究中的最后一个环节，变成她要把精神从肉体中分
离开来所需的最后一个元素。
The effects of this discovery, in the decades that followed its dissimulation
across Endless space, were enormous. For practical, economic, and social
reasons it caused a major upheaval in the fundamental structure of the
society and a completely new interpretation of the needs of Endless
civilization. Who needed to worry about complexities like food, clothing, and
shelter? As long as there was a sufficiently advanced infrastructure in
place, the needs of all individuals could be met by an adequate supply of
power and good maintenance robots.
这个发现的影响（译注：中间这句不会翻译）非常巨大。无论在实务、经济和社会方面，
它都对整个社会的根本造成了剧变，同时永恒族文明也开始需要一个全新的定义。谁需要
担心像是实务、衣服和庇护处这种杂七杂八的东西？只要一个地方有足够先进的公共建设
，光靠足够的能源供给和优良的维持机器人就能达到所有人的需求。
The Death of Death 死亡之死
Virtualization was explosive in its impact on the scattered Endless society.
Death itself, the ultimate foe, had been vanquished by their science. What to
do? Where to go when the possibilities are suddenly as limitless as time?
虚拟化对于这个散乱不堪的永恒族社会造成爆炸性的冲击。死亡，这终极的命运，已经被
他们的科学所击败了。然后呢？当一切可能性突然变得像时间一样无所限制时，他们该往
哪里走？
Sadly, much of the society simply "disconnected" and fell into
thrill-seeking, tourism, extreme experiences… Once nothing could kill you,
why should life have limits? Indulgence and excess rocketed off the scale as
vast swathes of the society experimented with lust, gluttony, and
sadomasochism. Dust could rebuild bodies, Dust could house minds; a society
of bodiless minds with no physical needs became a society totally unhinged
from its roots. Boredom turned them to bizarre and exotic pursuits: the
creation of mutants, living toys, extreme self-alteration... In their wealth
and power they begin to regard anything not wealthy and powerful with
contempt.
遗憾的是，大部分的社会仅仅“断开魂结”并陷入追寻、旅行、极限体验……等等的热潮
之中。既然没人杀的了你，生命还会有什么限制？无节制的放纵程度升高到达很可怕的地
步，好像整个社会都沉浸于色欲、食欲和SM欲里。星尘能重建身体、能储存心灵，一个没
有肉体只有心灵的社会，在去除了肉体的需求后变成了整个脱离根本的社会。因为太无聊
，他们开始追求更奇怪的嗜好：创造突变体、活体玩具、极限自我交替……在他们的财富
和力量之前，他们开始轻蔑任何事物，认为一切都是没有价值的。
The Great Schism 大分裂
Numerous cracks and a great deal of fragmentation had already begun to occur
in this society that was stretching itself thin across the universe.
Estimates state that given the number of exploratory vessels (which often
developed their own sub-governments and social structures), habitats,
research stations, mining operations, colonized planets, flotillas, and
communes, by 1200 M.E. there were over one thousand discrete societies within
the umbrella that we simply refer to as the Endless.
这个社会扩展到整个宇宙，却让自己变得太过稀薄，而大量的裂缝随之产生。根据估计，
在1200M.E.时，包括探险船（通常都已经发展出自己的子政府及社会结构）、居住地、研
究站、矿场、殖民星、船队和小社团在内，有超过一万个分离的社会躲在以所谓“永恒族
”为名义的大伞之下。
As happened at Kyros, for many reasons