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Galactic Codex Entries：
银河系典抄本

条目1：

The Advent of Humanity on the Galactic Stage
人类终登银河系舞台


In the year 2148, humanity discovered Prothean ruins on Mars. The remnants of Prothean technology scattered amongst these ruins allowed them to develop mass effect fields and faster-than-light travel. This led them to discover and reactivate the mass relay at the edges of Earth's solar system, giving them access to the mass relay network spanning the rest of the galaxy and bringing them into contact with the greater galactic community.

2148年，人类在火星上发现先贤遗址（构词法：Pro-有先驱之意，thean代表体现出神性的实体，故翻Prothean为先贤）。分散在遗址中的先贤科技的残余让人类开发出了质量效应场（注1）（注2）和超光速旅行。这直接导致了人类发现和重新启动了在太阳系边界上的质量中继装置，让人类可以使用到张成了整个银河系的质量中继网络，并且让人类接触到了周边更宽广范围的银河系生物文明

注1：”质量效应“为一个虚构的物理概念，Mass Effect的项目经理解释如下："Inside the game universe, mass effect is a newly-discovered (for humans anyway) physics phenomenon that has properties along the lines of other physics forces such as gravity and electromagnetism. It's what physicists in real life are currently calling "dark energy," as an explanation for the accelerating expansion of the universe -- which has only recently been discovered and flies in the face of the previous notion that the universe's expansion should be slowing down because of gravity." -译注
注2：场，物理概念，经典的场概念来源于强向量场，比如力场，电磁场，用较为通俗的语言解释就是：可以赋予两个物体在场中的作用为一个向量，那么这就是场 -译注


In the decades since their first encounter with the greater galactic community, humanity has risen quickly to prominence, establishing colonies throughout the stars. Humans are generally seen as intelligent, aggressive, and highly adaptable. Their brisk population growth and rapidly developing military strength have led to resentful speculation that the newcomers will soon be given an invitation to join the ranks of the Council itself.

自几十年前人类第一次接触周边银河系生物文明之后，人类迅速发展壮大，冠于其中，建立的殖民地遍及很多星球。人类被视作聪明，富有侵略性和有着很强适应能力的种族。人类高速的人口增长和高速的军事力量进步让银河系大邦参议会（Citadel Council）里面的成员感到愤愤，然则他们也预测这样下去不久人类就会被邀请加入银河大邦参议会了……


年表

2148 AD  公元2148
Humanity discovers a small cache of highly advanced alien technology hidden deep beneath the surface of Mars. Building on the remnants of this long extinct race - known as the Protheans - humanity quickly masters the science of mass effect fields, leading to the development of faster than light travel.
人类于火星的地下深处发现了一小处高度发达的外星科技的隐蔽住所。基于这个早已灭绝的种族—先贤的残余的科技之上，人类迅速掌握了质量效应场，并且开往了通向超光速旅行的一道门



2149 AD  公元2149
Spreading out through their own solar system, humanity discovers that Charon, Pluto's moon, is actually a massive piece of dormant Prothean technology - a mass relay - encased in ice.
在人类自己的太阳系中展开自己的势力之后，人类发现了冥王星的卫星卡戎实际上是一大块被厚冰包裹着的先贤科技成果—一个已经休眠很久的质量中继器藏于其中

Once activated, humanity discovers that the mass relay allows instantaneous travel across thousands of light years to a synchronized mass relay in another part of the galaxy.
启动了质量中继器之后，人类发现了质量中继器让穿越数千光年的旅行瞬间就可以完成，即从一个质量中继器跳跃到另外一个位于银河系其他位置的质量中继器

There they discover several more dormant relays. Over the next decade humanity expands rapidly, establishing colonies and activating dormant relays to open up more and more unexplored regions of space.
并且在那里人类发现更多休眠的中继器。之后的几十年中人类迅速扩张，建立的数个殖民地和启动了休眠的中继器进而敞开了更多更多未开发的宇宙空间的大门


2155 AD  公元2155
To defend its rapidly expanding empire, humanity assembles a massive fleet and constructs an enormous military space station at the nexus of several key mass relays...even though they have yet to encounter another intelligent space-faring species.
为了保卫高速扩张的帝国，人类组织了一支数量可观的舰队，并且在几个关键的质量中继器连接处建立了庞大的军用太空站，尽管到目前为止人类还没有遇到另外一个占有了宇宙空间的智慧种族


2157 AD  公元2157
Humanity makes first contact with another space-faring culture: the turians. Unfortunately, the encounter is far from peaceful. Over the next several months a brief but tense conflict known on Earth as the First Contact war ensues.
人类第一次和另外一个智慧种族接触，他们称这个种族为”图人“。然而不幸的是，这次相遇远非平和安宁。在之后的几个月内一次短暂但是激烈的武装冲突发生了，地球的人们称之为”始遇之战“



This conflict draws the attention of the Citadel Council - a multi-species government body that maintains peace and stability throughout the known galaxy. The Council intervenes before hostilities escalate further, revealing the existence of the greater galactic community to humanity and brokering a peace between them and the turians.
这次冲突引起了银河大邦参议会的注意，大邦参议会是一个多种族的政权实体，维持整个银河系的稳定和和平。参议会在人类和图人的冲突进一步升级之前介入其中，向人类展示了更加宽广的银河系文明体系的存在，并且让人类和图人达成了和平协议


2165 AD  公元2165
Humanity continues to expand, founding more colonies and establishing trade alliances with many of the other species who recognize the authority of the Citadel Council. In 2165 the Council makes official recognition of humanity's growing power and influence in the galactic community. Humanity is granted an embassy on the Citadel, the political and economic heart of the galaxy.
人类继续扩张，建立了更多的殖民地，并且与很多承认银河系大邦国参议会绝对权力的其他种族开立了贸易联盟。在2165年，参议会对于人类于银河文明体系中不断成长的力量和影响做出了正式的承认。人类至此终可派大使去到银河系的经济和政治中心的大邦，参议银河系事务


2183 AD  公元2183
Commander Shepard - a promising young officer in the Human Alliance military - is assigned to the crew of the Normandy, the most advanced prototype vessel ever designed.
年轻有为的人类联盟军官Shepard，被分配指挥诺曼底号，诺曼底号是有史以来最先进的原型舰只





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条目2：

The Advent of Humanity on the Galactic Stage
Hostile Entity: the Geth
敌对方：客西族（注3）

注3：不知道名字是不是出自新约全书中的Gethsemane，我先入为主的认为是此，故译”客西“


The geth are a bi-pedal, humanoid race of networked AIs that resides in the Terminus Systems. The geth were created nearly 300 years ago by the quarians as laborers and tools of war. When the geth began to question their masters, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. The example of the geth has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.
客西是两足行走，具有人类特征的种族。他们是由联网化的AI所组成，住在终端系统之中。客西于300多年前由夸族人创造出来，作为夸族人的劳动力和战争的工具。但当客西开始质疑他们的主人之后，夸族人开始试图消灭客西。最终客西赢得了战争的胜利。这之后，客西反抗的事例导致了官方立法的对银河系社会中的AI的有系统的镇压


The geth can learn and grow intellectually, but they progress far more slowly than an organic being. Still, the story of the geth's creation and evolution serves as a warning to the rest of the galaxy of the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
客西可以学习并且在知性上成长，但他们个体的进步过程还是远远比有机生物的学习过程缓慢。不过，客西的创造和进化的故事还是给银河系其他地方可能存在的AI的危险提供了预警

The closer geth physically are to each other, the more intelligent each one becomes. Effectively, they "share" brain power. An individual geth has only a basic intelligence on par with animal instincts, but in groups they can reason, analyze situations, and use tactics as well as any of the organic races.
客西的个体之间靠的越近，那么他们就会变得更加聪明。他们可以非常有效的”共享“思维的能力。一个客西的个体只有同等于动物本能的基本智力水平，但是在群体单位中，他们可以像任何其他的有机生命的种族群体那样思辨，分析情况，并且制定方略



Over time the geth have evolved into numerous sub-forms - from the diminutive but highly agile hoppers, to the gigantic, lumbering geth armatures. It should be stressed, however, that in all forms the geth are to be approached with extreme caution as they are universally violent creatures.
光阴荏苒，客西已经进化出了数种衍生体，从微小的但是极度敏捷的跳蚤，到巨大行动缓慢的客西厚甲生物。然而这里要强调的是，所有客西的衍生体都极具攻击性，接近都需要十二分的小心。














条目3：

Citadel Council Race: Turians
大邦参议会种族：图族


The turians were the last of the Citadel races to join the Council. Their features are avian, making them resemble humanoid birds or raptors. They have a reputation for skill and bravery in combat, but they are not known to be bloodthirsty. A rigid code of honor and strict discipline are the hallmarks of any turian officer. This includes humane treatment of prisoners and conquered enemies. A turian patrol unit will never willingly leave behind one of their own, no matter what the cost of saving them.
图族是最后一支加入大邦参议会的大邦种族。他们的特征是类飞禽，让他们看起来像人形的鸟或者猛禽。他们以技术和战斗中的果敢著称，但是图族人并不嗜血。荣誉和严谨纪律性的刻板要求是任何一个图族指挥官的特征。这些特征让图族人对待囚犯和已征服的敌人很仁慈。每一个图族巡逻小队的成员永远也不会拉下他们中的任何一员，无论付出任何代价来救援他们的同伴。





Turian society is highly regimented and very organized, and the species is known for its strict discipline and work ethic. Turians are willing to do what needs to be done, and they always follow through. They are not easily spurred to violence, but when conflict is inevitable, they only understand a concept of "total war." They do not believe in skirmishes or small scale battles; they use massive fleets and numbers to defeat an adversary so completely that they remove any threat of having to fight the same opponent more than once. They do not exterminate their enemy, but so completely devastate their military that the enemy has no choice but to become a colony of the turians.
图族的社会高度秩序化并且非常有组织，图族因他的严格律法和工作的道德准则而被人所知。图族人愿意做任何必须要做的工作，并且他们从头到尾坚持做完。图族人并不容易被暴力所激怒，但是当冲突无可避免的时候，他们则会只拥有一个概念—”全面战争“。他们不信仰小规模冲突或者小范围的缠斗；他们会动用大规模的舰队和数量可观的军队来完全彻底击溃敌人，消除这个敌人的任何威胁性，以让他们不会再和这个敌人战斗第二次。他们不会对他们的敌人赶尽杀绝，但会彻底摧毁他们的军力，让他们的敌人除了成为图族人的殖民地之外别无选择。



Other species see them as "men of action," and they are generally regarded as the most progressive of the Citadel races. Since their culture is based on the structure of a military hierarchy, changes and advances accepted by the leadership are quickly adopted by the rest of society with minimal resistance.
其他的种族视图族人为”行动者“，并且图族也被视为在大邦种族中最为求进步的。由于图族的文化是建立在军事阶级的结构之上，由领导阶级所定的改革和前进措施会迅速被整个社会体系所用，并且这种体制把改革的阻力降到了最低







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[ 本帖最后由 Jonsoncao 于 2008-7-27 00:10 编辑 ]

占1楼供更新

楼主现在对这个很感兴趣...

bioware湿犯！外加科幻铁杆！怎能不湿！

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有谁知道大约的发售期?

其实我很羡慕cao总的英文。。。

希望能把英文部分换一种颜色，绿色看着有点刺眼的感觉。。

在cao的带动下，你说能不湿么？？

尤其是这种科幻题材

[ 本帖最后由 chenyao 于 2006-10-1 19:10 编辑 ]

可惜啊，文中提到的冥王星已经被踢出九大行星了

我的天哪！越看越湿！Bioware万岁！

楼上签名满配这张图

啊……太湿了……

BioWare便是神一样的存在啊

这游戏预定会是个三部曲，在剧情上应该有了精彩的大规划～～就等游戏出来了

另外Mass Effect 官网上有一句“They are about to return”，不知道这个“They”指的是什么。

附官方壁纸： （更大尺寸 http://masseffect.bioware.com/downloads/#dl-wallpapers ）

they应该制的是那种定期返回银河系收割文明的机械文明体
以前最早的mass effect背景介绍里说过的