R5-D4

南方战士

翻译：南方战士、lightsaber

R5-D4

Species:
Droid
种族：
机器人

Size:
.97 meter
身高：
0.97米

Type:
Astromech droid
类型：
宇航技工机器人

Manufacturer:
Industrial Automaton
制造者：
工业机器人公司

电影



The fate of the galaxy would be very different had R5-D4's motivator been more reliable. The red-trimmed cultivator astromech droid was almost purchased from Jawa traders by Owen Lars. When the battered little droid rolled away from the sales line, his motivator shorted out and he blew his stack. Rather than buy the worthless hunk of junk, Owen instead bought R2-D2. Artoo was reunited with his companion C-3PO, and the two would go on to become important heroes of the Rebel Alliance.
如果R5-D4的发动器更可靠些的话，银河系的命运可能会完全不同。这个红边的农用宇航技工机器人差点被欧文·拉尔斯从贾瓦人手中買走。当这个破旧的小机器人慢慢离开待售品队列时，其发动器短路，其堆栈被炸毁。欧文不愿買下这堆没用的废金属，于是转而買了R2-D2。R2又和他的朋友C-3PO在一起了，他们俩将继续成为义军同盟的重要英雄。

衍生宇宙



Industrial Automaton cut one corner too many by the time they produced the unwarranted R5 addition to their otherwise successful astromech program. In an effort to cash in on the popularity of their line, they developed the R5 as an "economical" version of the R2, lacking many of the amenities that the more expensive model featured. Such cost cutting negatively affected the R5 personality matrix, and the finished droids often developed sullen and acerbic character traits. The product line was a failure, and Industrial Automaton attempted to recoup losses by reusing the R5 frame as part of their R2-AG4 and R4 agromech lines.
工业机器人公司在把没必要生产的R5添加进他们本来非常成功的宇航技工机器人项目时，太过于追求成本低廉。为了依靠他们的产品美誉度挣钱，他们将R5开发成了R2的“经济”版本，省略了许多高价型号所拥有的便利功能。这种压低成本的行为对R5的性格电路产生了负面影响，成品机器人经常暴露出郁闷和尖刻的性格特征。这条生产线是失败的，工业机器人公司企图将R5的机身重新用作R2-AG4和R4农业技工机器人的一部分来补偿损失。

R5-D4 was abandoned by many owners and switched hands over the course of long, miserable decades. The little droid became quite jealous of the newer, more popular models and made no secret of his spite.
R5-D4被许多主人抛弃过，在几十年漫长悲惨的日子里数度易手。这个小机器人对更新更流行的型号相当嫉妒，而且毫不掩饰其怨念。

After being passed up by Owen Lars, R5-D4 was stolen from the Jawa sandcrawler by a mischievous Squib trader named Macemillian-winduarté. The trader sold the droid to Alliance historian Voren Na'al, who had the little red unit refurbished. He planted R5-D4 within the government offices of Mos Eisley, where the droid became a valuable source of intelligence data.
被欧文·拉尔斯抛弃后，R5-D4被一个叫“梅斯米利安-温杜阿泰”的斯奎布奸商从贾瓦人处偷走。这个商人把该机器人卖给同盟历史学家沃伦·纳阿尔，后者把这个红色小机器人翻新。他把R5-D4安插在莫斯艾斯利的政府办公室中，在那里，该机器人成为珍贵情报数据的来源。

幕后



According to the National Public Radio Dramatization of Star Wars, R2-D2 sabotaged R5-D4's motivator to ensure that it would break down. Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, a roleplaying game supplement, states that R5-D4 blew his own motivator so that Artoo and Threepio would not be separated. In Star Wars Tales, R5-D4 is actually a great forgotten Jedi named Skippy.
在全国公共广播电台的《星球大战》广播剧中，R2-D2破坏了R5-D4的发动器，以保证其会崩溃。桌面角色扮演游戏补充资料《银河指南1：新的希望》声称R5-D4炸毁了自己的发动器，这样R2和3PO就不会分开了。在《星球大战传说》漫画中，R5-D4其实是一个被遗忘的伟大绝地，叫“斯基皮”。

You decide.
你看着办吧。

edwardzh

最后一句译文有个小typo，呵呵

EN同学呢

如果当时欧文拉尔斯没有買R2而是買了R5会怎么样呢？