Maintaining order in the skies of Cloud City is a small fleet of atmospheric vehicles known as cloud cars. The streamlined brick-colored craft consists of twin cockpits or pods connected by a repulsorlift and engine block. The lightly armed vehicle has a pair of laser cannons recessed into the snouts of the twin-pods.
维持云城天空秩序的是一小队被称为“云车”的大气层内交通工具。这种流线型砖红色飞行器由两个驾驶舱或车体组成,它们通过一个反重力与引擎块相连。这种轻型武装交通工具有一对激光炮被嵌在双体的头部。
衍生宇宙
The Bespin Motors Storm IV twin-pod cloud car is an atmospheric vehicle that employs both ion and repulsorlift engines. The native Cloud City company imports a miniature version of the Quadex Kyromaster ion engine for the cloud car, the same model also used in the Alliance B-wing starfighter. To reduce engine heat, the Kyromaster lacks a cover, allowing maximum air-cooling.
贝斯平飞车公司的“暴风Ⅳ”双体云车是一种同时使用离子和反重力引擎的大气层内交通工具。这家云城本土企业为云车引进了夸德克斯“凯罗大师”离子引擎的迷你版。同盟B翼星际战斗机也使用这一型号的离子引擎。为降低引擎温度,“凯罗大师”没有引擎罩,以便最大程度的利用风冷。
Like skyhoppers, cloud cars employ the dual engine system to achieve incredible speeds and low orbital flight ceilings. Their twin cabins are pressurized; the pilot sits in the port pod, while the gunner sits in the starboard one.
跟跃空机一样,云车使用双引擎系统实现惊人的速度和低轨道最大飞行高度。云车的两个舱是密封增压的;驾驶员坐在左舱,炮手坐在右舱。
幕后
The cloud cars seen in The Empire Strikes Back were miniatures photographed using motion control. The limitations of bluescreen optical compositing of the era required ILM to take extra care in filming and inserting the cloud cars into the Bespin skies. The method used to composite starships against space wouldn't suffice, since the cloud cars would have appeared too crisp and heavily outlined against the hazy nimbuses. Instead, the models were filmed in multiple passes to allow a certain atmospheric distortion appropriate for the scene. The cloud cars added to the Special Editions of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were computer-generated.
《帝国反击战》里出现的云车是利用运动控制拍摄的缩微模型。由于当时蓝幕光学合成的局限,工业光魔必须格外小心地把云车拍摄和插入贝斯平天空。用于把星际飞船合成进太空背景的方法已无法胜任,因为云车在朦胧的雨云中会显得过于清晰,轮廓过于明显。于是,模型被多层拍摄,以实现某种在大气层内的失真效果,适应该场景。被加入《帝国反击战》和《绝地归来》特别版的云车是计算机生成的。