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翻译：南方战士、Darth Maul
Death Star 死星
Size:
120 kilometers in diameter
尺寸：
直径120公里
Weapon:
Prime weapon: superlaser
武器：
主要武器：超级激光炮
Affiliation:
Empire
隶属：
帝国
The Death Star was the Empire’s ultimate weapon: a moon-sized space station with the ability to destroy an entire planet. But the Emperor and Imperial officers like Grand Moff Tarkin underestimated the tenacity of the Rebel Alliance, who refused to bow to this technological terror…
死星是帝国的终极武器：这座太空站足有一颗卫星那么大，能摧毁一整颗行星。但皇帝和像高级星区总督塔金那样的帝国官员低估了义军同盟的坚韧。义军拒绝屈服于这恐怖的科技……
正史
FALL OF THE REPUBLIC
共和国的陨落
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, with assistance from the Geonosians, had plotted to build the first dreaded Death Star -- a weapon unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen. Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, had his apprentice Darth Tyranus (also known as Count Dooku) deliver the plans from Geonosis to Coruscant at the start of the Clone Wars.
在吉奥诺西斯人的帮助下，最高议长帕尔帕廷阴谋建造可怕的第一颗死星——一件银河系从未见过的武器。在克隆人战争初期，作为秘密的西斯尊主达斯·西迪厄斯，帕尔帕廷命令他的徒弟达斯·泰拉纳斯（又被称为杜库伯爵）把死星设计图从吉奥诺西斯送往科洛桑。
Even as the Clone Wars raged, the Death Star secretly took shape in space above Geonosis. Access to the former Separatist world was restricted, with very few in the Imperial hierarchy allowed to know about the battle station’s construction.
就在克隆人战争如火如荼地进行时，死星在吉奥诺西斯上空秘密成形。涉足这个前分离势力星球是被禁止的，只有极少数帝国高官被允许知晓这座战斗太空站的建造。
THE DARK TIMES
黑暗时代
The Empire initially appointed Vice Admiral Rancit to supervise the network of bases protecting the Death Star, an effort overseen from the remote Sentinel Base. Rancit’s replacement, Wilhuff Tarkin, faced a host of challenges, from delayed shipments and raw-materials shortages to missed engineering deadlines and attempts at sabotage. Tarkin proved a capable commander, and Palpatine rewarded him by making him a Grand Moff with greater control over the project. Tarkin would become the battle station’s greatest champion, seeing it as the key to vanquishing all resistance to Palpatine’s rule.
帝国起初指定兰西特中将管理保护死星的基地网，他在偏远的哨兵基地监督这些基地。威尔赫夫·塔金接替兰西特后，面临一系列的挑战，从装船延误和原材料短缺到错过工程期限和破坏企图。塔金被证明是一位有才干的指挥官。作为奖励，帕尔帕廷将其任命为高级星区总督，使他能更好地控制死星工程。塔金成为这座战斗太空站的最大捍卫者，将它视为镇压所有叛乱、维护帕尔帕廷统治的关键。
GALACTIC CIVIL WAR
银河内战
The Empire completed construction of the Death Star, but Rebel Alliance spies managed to steal data tapes containing its schematics. Their goal: to find a weakness within the superstructure and exploit it. Darth Vader, an Imperial enforcer serving the Emperor and Grand Moff Tarkin, led an Imperial hunt to recover the plans. While he proved unsuccessful on that front, the Sith captured Princess Leia Organa, a suspected Rebel sympathizer. In a display of the Death Star’s might, Grand Moff Tarkin used the space station to destroy the Princess’ home planet of Alderaan, killing billions.
帝国完成了死星的建造，但义军同盟间谍设法窃取了包含死星图表的数据带。他们的目标：找到表层结构的弱点并利用它。作为为皇帝和高级星区总督塔金效力的帝国打手，达斯·维德率领一支帝国部队试图追索死星设计图。这名西斯虽然没有在这方面取得成功，但逮捕了疑似同情义军的莱娅·奥加纳公主。为了展示死星的威力，高级星区总督塔金用这座太空站摧毁了公主的母星奥德朗，杀害了几十亿人。
After the Princess’ rescue, however, the stolen plans -- which Leia had hid in the droid R2-D2 -- were finally delivered to the Alliance. It was discovered that a proton torpedo, shot precisely into a small exhaust port, could trigger a reaction that would destroy the Death Star. The Rebels launched a desperate attack, and a young pilot named Luke Skywalker -- strong with the Force -- flew an X-wing down the Death Star’s trench, making the impossible shot. The space station was destroyed, and Tarkin with it. Darth Vader, however, absconded in his TIE Advanced.
莱娅公主其实把窃得的设计图藏在机器人R2-D2体内。她获救后，这份设计图最终被交给义军同盟。义军同盟发现，一枚质子鱼雷如果被精确射入一个小排热口，就能触发一场摧毁死星的反应。义军发起一场孤注一掷的进攻，原力强大的年轻飞行员卢克·天行者驾驶X翼飞入死星堑道，击中了不可能击中的目标。塔金与这座太空站同归于尽。而达斯·维德和他的TIE高级战斗机则退出了战斗。
电影
The Death Star was the code name of an unspeakably powerful and horrific weapon developed by the Empire. The immense space station carried a weapon capable of destroying entire planets. The Death Star was to be an instrument of terror, meant to cow treasonous worlds with the threat of annihilation. While the massive station is evidence of the evil that was the Galactic Empire, it was also proof of the New Order's greatest weakness -- the belief that technology and terror were superior to the will of oppressed beings fighting for freedom.
死星是一个代号，专指帝国开发的一种武器，它的强大和可怕令人难以形容。这座巨型太空站装有一种能摧毁整颗行星的武器。死星是恐怖的工具，用毁灭来恐吓叛国的星球。这座巨型太空站虽然是银河帝国邪恶的证据，但也证明了新秩序最大的弱点——坚信科技和恐惧能镇压为自由而战的受压迫者。
The Death Star was a battle station the size of a small moon. It had a formidable array of turbolasers and tractor beam projectors, giving it the firepower of greater than half the Imperial starfleet. Within its cavernous interior were legions of Imperial troops and fightercraft, as well as all manner of detention blocks and interrogation cells. The Death Star was spherical, and dark gray in color. Located on the Death Star's northern hemisphere was a concave disk housing the station's main laser weapon.
死星是一座跟小型卫星差不多大的战斗太空站。它有一系列强大的涡轮激光炮和牵引波束投射器，使其火力超过半数帝国星际舰队。在其洞穴状的内部有大量帝国军队和战斗飞行器，还有各式各样的拘留间和审讯室。死星呈球形、暗灰色。一个凹陷的圆盘坐落于死星北半球，里面装有这座太空站的激光主炮。
The technical schematics for the Death Star were developed by the cutting edge technologists of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. With the defeat of the Separatists and the Republic's transformation into Empire, the Death Star project fell under the command of Grand Moff Tarkin, one of the Empire's preeminent governors. The Death Star was developed in secret, through many difficulties over a span of almost 20 years. Rebel Alliance spies were nonetheless able to learn of the weapon's existence, and stole vital technical schematics from guarded Imperial vaults. These desperate spies transmitted this data to Rebel leader Princess Leia Organa, who stored the plans in R2-D2's memory systems.
死星的技术图表在克隆人战争期间由独立星系邦联的尖端技术专家研发。随着分离势力的失败和共和国演变为帝国，死星工程变成由高级星区总督塔金主持。塔金是帝国最杰出的总督之一。死星秘密开发了20年，经历了许多困难。但义军同盟的侦察员还是获悉了该武器的存在，然后从戒备森严的帝国数据库中偷取了关键的技术图表。这些孤注一掷的的侦察员将这些数据传送给义军领导人莱娅·奥加纳公主。她将设计图存入R2-D2的存储系统中。
In a brutal display of the Death Star's power, Grand Moff Tarkin targeted its prime weapon at the peaceful world of Alderaan. Leia Organa, an Imperial captive at the time, was forced to watch as the searing laser blast split apart her beloved world, turning the planet and its populace into orbital ash and debris.
在一次展示死星威力的残酷行动中，高级星区总督塔金命令主炮瞄准和平的奥德朗星球。当时已被帝国俘虏的莱娅·奥加纳被迫看着强烈的激光将她热爱的母星炸碎，将这颗行星及其人口变成轨道灰烬与碎片。
Using the stolen technical data, Alliance tacticians were able to pinpoint a crucial flaw in the Death Star's design. A small ray-shielded thermal exhaust port led directly from the surface of the station into the heart of its colossal reactor. If the port could be breached by proton torpedoes, then the resulting chain reaction would destroy the station.
同盟战术家用偷来的技术数据找到了死星设计上的一个致命缺陷。一个有射线护盾的小排热口从太空站表面直通其巨大的反应堆核心。如果质子鱼雷能突破这个排热口，那引起的连锁反应就将摧毁整个太空站。
The Rebel Alliance boldly launched its available starfighter forces against the station. The Imperials were so confident in the Death Star's might that they never considered the Rebel fighters a viable threat. After all, the station was designed to withstand a full frontal assault from large capital ships. At first, the Empire didn't even launch TIE fighters to counter the attack.
义军同盟大膽地派出其可支配的星际战斗机部队来对抗这个太空站。帝国对死星的强大非常自信，从未将义军战斗机视为可能的威胁。毕竟，这个太空站在设计时只考虑了如何抵挡大型主力舰的正面全面进攻。起初，帝国甚至没有派出TIE战斗机还击。
With the aid of Han Solo, the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the power of the Force, Luke Skywalker was able to successfully hit the small target, and triggered the Death Star's demise.
在汉·索洛、欧比-旺·克诺比的英灵和原力的帮助下，卢克·天行者成功命中那个小目标，引发了死星的毁灭。
Over three years later, the threat of the Death Star returned, as the Alliance discovered a second, larger Death Star under construction over the remote forest moon of Endor.
三年多后，死星的威胁再次出现，同盟发现另一个更大的死星在遥远的恩多森林卫星上空建造。
衍生宇宙
The Death Star project fit well with the Doctrine of Fear proposal that Grand Moff Tarkin made to Emperor Palpatine. Rather than expend the incredible amounts of resources necessary to subjugate all the worlds of the Empire, the New Order would instead make visible a single show of force that could be used to quell any treasonous activity. With Palpatine's approval, Tarkin was appointed to make this vision a reality.
死星工程非常符合高级星区总督塔金向帕尔帕廷皇帝提出的恐惧学说。与其耗费必不得已的惊人巨量资源去征服帝国的所有星球，新秩序不如就炫耀一次能平息任何叛国行为的武力。在帕尔帕廷的认可下，塔金被指定实施这次武力炫耀。
Though the plans developed by the Confederacy during the Clone Wars were remarkably brilliant and advanced, the practical application of so many new technologies at such an unprecedented scale required years of research and development. Many began to doubt if the Death Star would ever become a reality as the years slogged on. Repeated, if ill-fated, sabotage attempts did little to assuage the fears of the skeptical.
尽管邦联在克隆人战争期间研发的这些设计图非常出色和先进，但以如此空前的规模实际应用这么多的新技术需要多年的研究和发展。随着时间的推进，许多人开始怀疑实现死星的可能性。屡试屡败的破坏行动几乎没有减缓这些怀疑论者的恐惧。
When the superlaser project hit a critical development roadblock, an enclave of top scientists were recruited or forcibly assigned to the Death Star development project. Tarkin maintained a top-secret laboratory code-named Maw Installation in the heart of one of the most inhospitable regions of the galaxy. There, scientists such as Qwi Xux, Tol Sivron and Bevel Lemelisk developed design concepts and engineering breakthroughs that would make the Death Star possible.
当超级激光工程遭遇关键的开发难点时，一小群顶尖科学家被招募或强制分配到死星开发工程上。在银河系最不宜居住的区域之一的中心地带，塔金建了一个代号为无底洞设施的机密实验室。在那里，奎·祖克斯、托尔·西夫伦和贝弗尔·勒梅利斯克等科学家提出的设计理念和取得的工程突破使死星的诞生成为了可能。
Once a functional test model proved that the technical refinements to the Death Star would work, Bevel Lemelisk took the plans from Maw Installation to the remote Outer Rim world of Despayre. There, prison labor mined the world for the necessary materials needed to finalize this weapon of terror. After long years of toil, during which many slaves died, the Death Star finally was completed. To mark the occasion, and to test its superlaser, Despayre became the first world targeted by the gargantuan weapon. The planet that was the Death Star's cradle was utterly obliterated.
一旦可行的测试模型证明对死星的技术改良能成功后，贝弗尔·勒梅利斯克就把设计图从无底洞设施带到遥远的外环星球迪斯派尔。那里的监狱劳工在星球上挖掘完成这件恐怖武器所必需的原料。在多年的艰辛工作中，许多奴隶死了，但死星最终得以建成。为了纪念这个时刻和测试超级激光炮，迪斯派尔成为第一个被该巨大武器瞄准的星球。这个曾是死星摇篮的行星被彻底摧毁。
Even before the Death Star became fully operational, its detention blocks began to fill with detainees. Political troublemakers, Rebel insurgents, dangerous pirate forces and other enemies of the Empire were made to quietly "disappear" from public view within the enormous prisons of the still-classified battle station. The stormtroopers of the 501st Legion were among those assigned to protect the Death Star's interior. They were forced to put down a prison break that had somehow occurred within the station. Shortly after this embarrassing debacle, the 501st were reassigned and moved off the station.
甚至在死星完全投入运行前，其拘留间就开始塞满囚犯。政治异议分子、义军造反派和危险的海盗等帝国的敌人都从公众视野中悄悄“消失”在这座仍属机密的战斗太空站的巨大监狱里。501军团的冲锋队员是奉命保卫死星内部的部队之一。他们在这座太空站内部被迫镇压了一起不知怎么发生的越狱事件。这次尴尬的混乱事件发生后不久，501军团离开这座太空站，被部署到其它地方。
The Death Star was 120 kilometers in diameter. Much of its interior space was devoted to systems required to maintain its massive superlaser and power plant. At the heart of the Death Star is a gigantic hypermatter reactor. Within this chamber burned a fusion reaction of prodigious proportions, fed by stellar fuel bottles lining its periphery.
死星直径120公里。其大部分内部空间被用于维持其大型超级激光炮和发电机所必需的系统。死星中心是一个超大型超物质反应室。在反应室内进行着惊人范围的聚变反应，恒星燃料瓶排列在其边缘为聚变反应助燃。
Facilitating the Death Star's realspace propulsion were a network of powerful ion engines that transformed reactor power into needed thrust. In order for the Death Star to be a viable threat, it needed to be mobile. Using linked banks of 123 hyperdrive field generators tied into a single navigational matrix, the Death Star could travel across the galaxy at superluminal velocities. The incredible energies harnessed by the station combined with its great mass gave the Death Star magnetic and artificial gravitational fields equal to those found on orbital bodies many times greater in size.
帮助死星在实空间推进的是强大的离子引擎网，它们将反应堆动力转化为所需的推力。为使死星成为真正的威慑，它必须可以移动。123个超空间驱动场发生器连接成单一的导航矩阵，令死星以超光速穿越银河。这座太空站运用的惊人能量加上其自身巨大的质量使死星的磁场和人造重力场等于比它大数倍的轨道天体。
The Death Star's superlaser derived power directly from the hypermatter reactor. Its faceted amplification crystal combined the destructive power of eight separate tributary beams into one single blast with the intensity of a stellar core. Though the energy output of this blast could be scaled to fire at smaller targets such as capital ships, the two instances in which the superlaser was fired were at full power at planetary bodies.
死星的超级激光炮直接从超物质反应室汲取动力。其多面放大水晶将八条单独分支激光束的破坏力组合成一道强度堪比恒星核心的能量束。虽然这道能量束的能量输出能缩小到摧毁主力舰这样的小目标，但超级激光炮的两次开火都是以完全火力摧毁行星。
The Death Star's interior follows two orientations. Those areas closest to the surface are built with concentric decks with gravity oriented towards the Death Star's core. Past this shell of surface "sprawls," the Death Star's interior had stacked decks with gravity pointing toward the station's southern pole.
死星的内部有两个重力方向。那些最靠近表面的区域建造有同心甲板，其重力指向死星的核心。穿过表面“城区”外壳后是死星内部层层叠叠的甲板，其重力指向这座太空站的南极。
Splitting the station into two equal hemispheres was a huge equatorial trench 376 kilometers in length. This area of the station housed most of the major landing bays, drive thrusters, sensor arrays and tractor beam systems. Halfway between the equator and each pole were two supplementary trenches.
一条长达376公里的巨型赤道堑道将这座太空站分为两个相同的半球。太空站的这个区域容纳了大部分主着陆坪、驱动推进器、传感器阵列和牵引波束系统。在赤道和南北极中间有两条辅助堑道。
The Death Star was divided into 24 zones, 12 per hemisphere, each controlled by a "bridge." To further organize the immense amount of activity aboard, there were specific "sectors" denoting function. These included the General, Command, Military, Security, Service and Technical sectors.
死星被分成24个地带，每个半球12个地带，每个地带都由一个“桥”控制。为更好组织站上的大量活动，死星上有功能不同的专门“区”。它们包括综合、指挥、军事、安全、服务和技术区。
Since service on the Death Star was a long-term affair, the station maintained a number of civilian amenities to make the time aboard a deep space station more comfortable. Parks, shopping centers and recreation areas could be found in the general sectors of the station.
由于在死星上服役是长期任务，因此这座太空站提供了很多生活设施，使深空太空站上的时光变得更加舒适。在这座太空站的综合区能找到公园、购物中心和娱乐区。
The Death Star operation was commanded by a triumvirate made up of Governor Tarkin, Admiral Motti, and General Tagge. Although separate from the command structure, Darth Vader was an influential presence aboard the station as the personal emissary of the Emperor. These high-ranking officials would make command decisions from the overbridge, the nerve center of the Death Star. This command station was situated just above the top edge of the superlaser dish.
死星的军事行动由塔金总督、莫蒂上将和塔格将军组成的三人团指挥。尽管不属于该指挥体系，但作为皇帝的私人特使，达斯·维德在这座太空站上有很大的影响力。这些高级官员在天桥——死星的神经中枢——上作出指挥决策。该指挥站就位于超级激光炮盘面的顶边上方。
Scattered across the Death Star's surface were thousands of weapons emplacements: a total of 10,000 turbolaser batteries, 2,500 laser cannons, 2,500 ion cannons and 768 tractor beam projectors. The station carried a crew of 265,675, plus 52,276 gunners, 607,360 troops, 25,984 stormtroopers, 42,782 ship support staff, and 167,216 pilots and support crew. The station also carried 7,200 starfighters, four strike cruisers, 3,600 assault shuttles, 1,400 AT-ATs, 1,400 AT-STs, 1,860 drop ships, and more.
死星表面散布着数千个炮位：共10000门涡轮激光炮、2500门激光炮、2500门离子炮和768个牵引波束投射器。这座太空站有工作人员265675名、炮手52276名、士兵607360名、冲锋队员25984名、飞船维护人员42782名、飞行员和后勤人员167216名。这座太空站还有7200架星际战斗机、四艘打击巡洋舰、3600艘突击穿梭机、1400台AT-AT、1400台AT-ST和1860艘投送舰等。
A Rebel mercenary, Kyle Katarn, stole the Death Star plans from an Imperial data vault on Danuta. He transmitted these plans to Rebel spies in the Toprawa system. These plans were combined with similar technical data secured by Keyan Farlander to construct a full schematic of the Death Star. It was through the efforts of these Rebel heroes, and others, that a weakness was found in the Emperor's most prized weapon.
义军雇佣兵凯尔·卡塔恩从达努塔的帝国数据库中偷取了死星设计图。他将这些设计图发给托普拉瓦星系的义军间谍。这些设计图和凯恩·法兰德得到的类似技术数据构成了死星的完整图表。正是通过义军英雄和许多其他人的努力，这件皇帝最得意武器上的一个弱点才暴露出来。
The Death Star was but the first in a long series of superweapons developed by the Tarkin Doctrine. Following its destruction, other weapons followed, including the Tarkin, the second Death Star, the Galaxy Gun, the Sun Crusher and the World Devastators.
死星仅仅是根据塔金主义开发的一系列超级武器中的第一件。它被摧毁后，其它武器陆续问世，包括“塔金”、第二颗死星、银河大炮、“灭日者”和“毁世者”。
幕后
During the design process, the Death Star underwent a number of iterations, though the idea of an immense mechanical sphere was the present in all versions. Some early concept models were silvery in color, and sported a number of mechanical "blisters" on the surface. Another version had the immense laser dish on its equator.
在设计过程中，死星经历了数次反复修改，但巨型机械球体的设想贯穿始终。一些早期概念模型是银色的，表面有许多机械“水疱”。另一个版本将其巨型激光炮盘设定在赤道位置。
In the finished film, the Death Star was a combination of whole models (including one that measured 120 cm in diameter), sectional models (particularly for the station's visible surface during the trench runs), and matte paintings.
在最终电影里，死星由完整模型（包括一个直径达120厘米的模型）、局部模型（专用于堑道疾飞期间的太空站可见表面）和背景彩绘组成。 |
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发表于 2012-10-31 19:37
发表于 2012-10-31 20:01
