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作者: o07608 (無良記者) 看板: SLG
標題: Endless Space Wiki: Endless part3
時間: Sun Jun 8 00:05:05 2014
永恆族第三篇，這篇會一口氣全部貼完所有故事
剩下一段莫名其妙的鬼東西明天貼
上兩篇：
Endless Space Wiki: Endless part1 (#1Ja97wCA)
Endless Space Wiki: Endless part2 (#1JaR0zBQ)
拜託有能力有時間的板友一定要幫我看看並修訂裡面的翻譯問題阿......
實在是太多了，這樣會不敢拿出去見人的>"<
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Endless Space Wiki 翻譯
http://endlessspace.wikia.com/wiki/Endless_Space_Wiki
google文件：http://0rz.tw/oRHT9
我把google文件的權限調到只要有連結的人就能評論
如果要修改的板友，請標明修改段落並留下您的ID
這樣以後有機會發佈時，我才知道感謝名單要列上哪些人
感謝
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Virtualization 虛擬化
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.
對於任何知覺物種來說，其中一個最大的謎團就是對於意識的認知。因為永恆族的科技已
經臻至爐火純青的地步，他們開始對於這最古老的謎團投入越來越多的心力。（譯註：這
句看不會翻譯）。然而，要替機器加裝人工智慧，和真的把一個活生生的心智安裝到一個
電子容器內是差很多的。
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.
一個AI應該要能夠思考，而神經網路和學習系統的進步使的永恆族在這方面得到了很大的
進展。然而，他們仍然尋找著這個領域的終極獎勵：發明能夠讓生物把自己的記憶和性格
「上傳」到電腦裡的方法和系統。
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.
沒有比耐心和獻身更能形容永恆族的詞彙了，他們當時發明了能把心靈轉換到機器裡的裝
置，被複製過去的心靈和原本身體裡的幾乎毫無二致。他們開始迫不及待的上傳和下載他
們自己的靈魂，這使得無論用網路或一般交通工具旅行所花的時間都變得毫無意義。永恆
族要學習駕馭這不同的形態，但這種電子型態與他們熟悉的肉體完全不同，因此他們也要
發展新的感覺器官，好讓虛擬體之間能互相交流和獲得五感。
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:
大量關於永恆族歷史的物品，及許多科學家根據對於永恆族歷史的解讀都確認了他們的成
就，（譯註：這句不會翻譯）：
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;
一個名為Sluaym（譯註：不會發音）的教授與他的團隊，他們在「尋找今後的下一個方向
」（DINWARD，或者進階心理學研究）部工作，（譯註：然後後面那票完全看不懂）
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.
一支由科學家組成，公然過著所謂奇怪的生活的團隊。他們住在一個環繞著「鐵托米俄斯
少年」恆星的巨大氣態行星上，該團體成員自稱為「一性一方、多種程序（譯註：求更好
的翻譯）」(Osowmap)，其中的核心成員有克利歐伊奈、克萊歐布爾、克羅伊耶克和克羅
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.
一支和電腦有仇的團隊，由「維持神替我們選擇的生活」（Mocholi，又名防衛）局所組
建。該團隊由一小群極右翼軍官營運，他們都是一項保護凱洛斯殘餘部分為中立區的任務
中的一份子。
However, the most likely candidate was a scientist named Ortaam…
然而，最佳候選者是一個名為歐爾帖的科學家……
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.
在大移民開始時，得益於外圍小行星帶開採技術的進步及高精密度的外太空建築設施，使
得永恆族幾乎是以指數速度在進步。他們在幾個地方研究想像力所及最先進的物理及生物
科技，把生命、意識及現實的境界推到了新高點。
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.
有顆環繞著一個棕矮星的行星，名為比樂伽立，上面有三個研究站，由永恆族有史以來最
傑出的三位科學家運行。他們天賦異秉，以整個永恆族可行的最高科技力為後盾，努力要
揭穿一切未知。其中一個研究站名為伊訪，由諾娜．沃瑞領導，專門研究生物科學和創造
及進化的科學。第二個名為法頓，該站較偏向技術性，研究數學及計算機系統的分科，在
計畫、預測及統計方面上特別精密。第三個研究站名為列頓，研究心理學、神經生物學和
認知科學，該站由一個名為史波托拉．歐爾帖的交替學家領導。
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.
有支破破爛爛的艦隊來到了這個星系，他們由一個名為依卡瑞爾的幻想家領導，他只靠著
意志力和人格力量就把無數的耶烏爾從死亡邊緣拯救出來。他不停對他們疾言厲色及哄騙
哀求，使他們能在這場橫跨險峻宇宙以尋找一個祥和命運的旅途中堅持下去。這些夢想家
中的大部分從比樂伽立站的科學中找到了慰藉，而依卡瑞爾卻中了最古老的魔法：他深深
迷戀上史波托拉的智慧及熱情。在艦隊抵達該星系的一個禮拜內，他就宣布退位、離開艦
隊、並發誓跟隨她直到永遠。
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.
史波托拉對此倒是沒多少陶醉，她對於工作以外的事情都沒什麼熱情，加上難民們持續懇
求依卡瑞爾回到他的位置上，使的事情沒有任何進展。接連不斷的拒絕使的依卡瑞爾再也
無法保持他自己，有一天他在她的實驗室內自殺了。他命令星塵改造她的醫療設備、移除
自己的心臟並使之保持在血行停滯的狀態下。史波托拉在結束她的下一個睡眠循環後回到
實驗室，這時才看到這個景象：一顆心臟在無重力環境中永恆的緩緩旋轉、搏動著。她最
終對這個瘋狂的男子產生了好奇心，並想認識更多關於這人的事情。她分析了創造出如此
心靈和精神的DNA，這個分析成為她研究中的最後一個環節，變成她要把精神從肉體中分
離開來所需的最後一個元素。
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.
這個發現的影響（譯註：中間這句不會翻譯）非常巨大。無論在實務、經濟和社會方面，
它都對整個社會的根本造成了劇變，同時永恆族文明也開始需要一個全新的定義。誰需要
擔心像是實務、衣服和庇護處這種雜七雜八的東西？只要一個地方有足夠先進的公共建設
，光靠足夠的能源供給和優良的維持機器人就能達到所有人的需求。
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?
虛擬化對於這個散亂不堪的永恆族社會造成爆炸性的衝擊。死亡，這終極的命運，已經被
他們的科學所擊敗了。然後呢？當一切可能性突然變得像時間一樣無所限制時，他們該往
哪裡走？
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.
遺憾的是，大部分的社會僅僅「斷開魂結」並陷入追尋、旅行、極限體驗……等等的熱潮
之中。既然沒人殺的了你，生命還會有什麼限制？無節制的放縱程度升高到達很可怕的地
步，好像整個社會都沉浸於色慾、食慾和SM慾裡。星塵能重建身體、能儲存心靈，一個沒
有肉體只有心靈的社會，在去除了肉體的需求後變成了整個脫離根本的社會。因為太無聊
，他們開始追求更奇怪的嗜好：創造突變體、活體玩具、極限自我交替……在他們的財富
和力量之前，他們開始輕蔑任何事物，認為一切都是沒有價值的。
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.
這個社會擴展到整個宇宙，卻讓自己變得太過稀薄，而大量的裂縫隨之產生。根據估計，
在1200M.E.時，包括探險船（通常都已經發展出自己的子政府及社會結構）、居住地、研
究站、礦場、殖民星、船隊和小社團在內，有超過一萬個分離的社會躲在以所謂「永恆族
」為名義的大傘之下。
As happened at Kyros, for many reasons