E-3PO

南方战士

E-3PO

Homeworld:
Mechis III
母星：
米奇斯3号行星

Size:
1.67 meters
身高：
1.67米

Manufacturer:
Cybot Galactica
制造者：
赛博星际公司

Type:
Protocol droid
类型：
礼仪机器人

Affiliation:
Galactic Empire
隶属：
银河帝国

衍生宇宙



They say every family has its black nerf. The same often rings true for droid production lines. While most protocol droids are designed to be courteous and polite, one particular subset of the Cybot Galactic 3PO series was the exact opposite.
据说，每个家族都会出败家子。对机器人生产线而言，亦是如此。虽然大部分礼仪机器人都被设计成彬彬有礼的样子，但在赛博星际公司制造的3PO系列机器人中，还是有一个特别的型号恰恰相反。

The E-3PO series was a specialty line of protocol droid produced during the Galactic Civil War. Housed within its internal components was the TechSpan I, a propriety module that made it possible to interface with Imperial networks, and most importantly, with often rare or undocumented technologies of Imperial subcontractors. With a limited production run and great expense, E-3POs developed an awareness of their special status. This often led to defective metaprogramming over time, resulting in arrogance or haughtiness. Most E-3POs looked down on their fellow droids, particularly civilian-issue models with obvious after-market additions intended to stave off obsolescence.
E-3PO是礼仪机器人中的特殊型号，生产于银河内战时期。其内部组件“TechSpan I”协议模块，能让E-3PO和帝国网络相连。最重要的是，E-3PO能通过该模块接触到帝国转包商提供的技术，因为此类技术往往十分罕见，而且不会被记录在案。由于产量低、费用高，E-3PO逐渐意识到了自己的特殊地位。随着时间的推移，这常常导致元编程错误，使他们变得骄傲自大。大多数E-3PO都看不起他们的同类，尤其看不起那些買来以后修修补补、东拼西凑的民用型号。

It was this personality flaw that caused the megalomaniacal droid IG-88 to use E-3POs as his remote photoreceptors throughout the Empire. IG-88's sleeper programming, inserted at the factory level on the massive production world of Mechis III, would often cause aberrations in droid personalities. Given the E-3PO's already legendary poor disposition, IG-88 could contaminate scores of Imperial protocol droids without drawing much attention.
正是因为E-3PO有这种性格缺陷，自大狂IG-88机器人才会把他们当作自己在帝国境内的远程图像接收器。E-3PO诞生于米奇斯3号行星，那里到处是大型工厂。早在出厂前，IG-88就在E-3PO的系统里插入了一段潜伏程序。虽然这段程序时常造成机器人的性格扭曲，但由于E-3PO本来就脾气坏得出名，因此也不会有人察觉IG-88改动过几十个帝国礼仪机器人。

E-3POs saw such limited distribution among Imperial droid pools that few bothered ever applying individual names or indicators to their serial numbers. They were just simply known as "E-3PO." One particular E-3PO attached to the Imperial Death Squadron was transported to Cloud City to serve as translator liaison with the colony's Ugnaught engineers.
在帝国机器人人口中，E-3PO所占的比例很有限，因此他们几乎不关心是否要给自己的序列号配上个性化的名字或标签。他们仅仅被称为“E-3PO”。一个属于帝国死亡分舰队的E-3PO被带到了云城，担任当地乌格瑙特工程师的翻译。

E-3PO was set on being miserable throughout the entire assignment. The paranoid droid believed his Imperial masters were out to destroy him, by forcing him to work with beings who were known for dismantling and melting down otherwise salvageable droids.
在整个任务期间，E-3PO都处于极度痛苦的状态。这个喜欢胡思乱想的机器人认为他的帝国主人想摧毁他，因为他被迫和乌格瑙特人共事。乌格瑙特人以拆卸和熔化有回收价值的机器人而出名。

While he was translating an Ugnaught's instruction for converting the carbon-freezing chamber's chemical intermix ratios and settings to properly maintain a human test subject's hibernation, the Imperial crew assisting the conversion took to nicknaming E-3PO "E-Gregious." Insulted, the silvery droid stormed out in a huff. Passing a gold-hued protocol droid on his way out, the sour E-3PO uttered a scathing invective to the innocent droid.
为了转换碳凝室的化学混合物比例，将其调整到正好能维持人类试验品休眠的水平，帝国操作人员不得不接受一个乌格瑙特人的指导。当E-3PO在翻译乌格瑙特人的话时，帝国操作人员给他起了个绰号——“异-乎寻常”。这个银色的机器人感觉受了侮辱，气愤地夺门而出。在外面，他路过一个金色的礼仪机器人。但正在气头上的他冲着这个无辜的机器人破口大骂了一声。

After the Imperial takeover of Cloud City, E-3PO remained on permanent assignment on the floating city, serving as Ugnaught liaison for Captain Treece. The droid's brusque tones saw him constantly reassigned throughout Cloud City. When the Imperial occupation fled Bespin, E-3PO was later obtained by the New Republic. Intelligence agents gleefully pored over E-3PO's systems, hoping to find valuable data. The only inside information recovered concerned Imperial dining and casual attire preferences -- the TechSpan module had been hastily removed years previous by an exasperated technician trying to lighten the droid's sour disposition once and for all.
帝国接管了云城后，E-3PO继续在这个漂浮的城市里工作，为特里斯上校充当乌格瑙特人的联络员。他在云城的每个地方都呆过，到处都能听到他粗鲁的话语。不久，帝国占领当局撤离了云城，E-3PO被新共和国俘虏了。情报人员欣喜地检查着E-3PO的系统，希望找到有价值的数据。但其中唯一能获取的信息就是帝国官员的衣食偏好——“TechSpan”模块早在几年前就被一个恼羞成怒的技术员轻率地拆除了，他想一劳永逸地解决这个机器人的暴脾气。

EN同学呢

礼仪机器人的内部不一样，是不同人制造的，但是外壳都是一样的？