《奇點》官方背景設定資料翻譯

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藝術指導Charles Morrow和創意總監Steve Raffel 構建了整個奇點的總體觀感。

  [Charles Morrow:] 奇點是由一個小型但是天才的團隊構想出來. 我們明白這是一個很科幻的標題, 但我們並沒有立即把這個概念付諸實踐.故事的可信度被放在了第一位，之後首席藝術指導得到了一些廢棄城市和建築的震撼照片. 那真是儘可能接近真實的，可信的，史詩般的，被遺忘的世界的感覺.

我們首先提出Katorga-12島的現實主義概念, 第二階段製作消光繪圖回波處理的經典科幻圖章,  符合冷戰美學的40和50年代的美國文獻圖章. 結合了現實和幻想的紋理材質.要求概念美工儘量接近 Katorga-12:一方面真實還原50年代的蘇俄, 另一方面塑造科幻太空時代的美國, 並把兩者有機地結合起來. 在文體上, 要求也很嚴格. 我們把這稱為「光槍現實主義（Ray-gun Realism）.」

我們還在遊戲製作早期選定了一個蘇俄取景地點. 在遊戲主題方面,這能使我們的英雄通過科學奇點置身於歷史上著名的冷戰緊張局勢. 在遊戲外觀方面, 我們可以創造出一種能夠平衡史實與美學的冷峻, 嚴酷的蘇維埃時代建築風格.

Background  背景
In the dark,Cold War winter of 1949-50,Stalin,the brutal leader of Soviet Union,had two
super weapons...long-range missiles and the atomic bomb.
沒人知道，1949到1950年冬冷戰期間，史達林，前蘇聯的野蠻領袖，擁有兩大超級武器...遠程導彈和原子彈。

But even if his teams of forced laborers managed to build a missile powerful enough to
carry an atomic payload,stalin still faced encirclement by the United States and its
Strategic Air Command.
但即使他的團隊強迫工人製造足夠負擔原子彈負載的導彈，史達林仍然面對著美國和它的戰略空軍的包圍。

He knew that he needed another advantage over the United States,one that would insure
Soviet security and superiority.
他明白他需要其他超越美國的有利條件，某個保證蘇維埃安全與領先的條件。

Then came the chance discovery,on a remote island off the Kamchatka peninsula,of a
previously unkonwn material,Element 99.
然後機會出現了，在一個遠離堪察加半島（位於蘇聯東北部）的偏遠小島上，一個之前未知的材料，元素99

Element 99(E99) became the new source of stalins hope: a new energy source of
unparalleled power. Unfortunately,the new element also yielded a new kind of
contamination risk.
元素99（簡稱E99）成為史達林新的希望之源：一種新的擁有無比強大力量的新能源。遺憾的是，這種新元素會產生一種新的污染風險。

But these were acceptable risk to stalin-anything for the advancement of the Soviet
People.On Sept 21,1950,driven to complete the project,and in violation of all safety
protocols, a Russian scientist,Barisov,personally triggered a device powered by E99 that
cause a catastrophic event that affected the entire island.
但這些風險對於史達林來說都是可以接受的-只要是任何有利於蘇維埃人民進步的東西。在1950年9月21日，項目即將完工的時候，一個名叫Barisov俄國科學家，違背了所有安全條例，私自啟動了由E99驅動的設備，導致了一個影響全島的災難性事件。

What happened next is unclear.However,there are reports that stalins final dying order
was a hand-written scrawl to quarantine katorga-12.
之後發生了什麼事尚不清楚。但是，有報告指出史達林臨終時寫下的潦草手書命令封鎖katorga-12地區

And so the knowledge of the island remained buried,..until 2010-when intelligence reports
in the west confirm activity on a remote atoll in the Russian Federations shadow.
The world has no memory of katorga-12,No concept of what may be on this island off the
southeast coast if Russia.It is deemed that the world cant afford another Chernobyl-or
worse.Americas answer is to scramble a stealth flyby of the area.they need RECON-and
they need it now.
之後關於那個島的資料一直被掩蓋，直到2010年-當西方國家的智慧型報告確認了俄羅斯聯邦秘密在一個偏遠的環狀珊瑚島上的一些活動。世界各國對katorga-12地區毫無印象，對在這個遠離俄羅斯東南海岸的小島的可能發生的事毫無概念。其實這可以被認為是世界不能負擔的另一個切爾諾貝利-或許更糟。美國的回答是秘密飛越這一地區。他們需要偵查-現在就要.

E99（(Element 99)
In 1941,Soviet miners extracting iron ore for the war effort came upon strange
chunks of orange rock on the island of Katorga-12,just off the Kamchatka
peninsula.When studied,it was found that its properties were similar to
Plutonium-it was the periodic table and simply named Element 99.
1941年，Katorga-12島上的蘇維埃礦工在挖掘戰備物資鐵礦石的提取到了一種
大塊橙紅色礦石，地理位置遠離堪察加半島（位於蘇聯東北部）。經研究，它被發現與鈈
（94號元素）元素屬性類似-於是根據元素周期表簡單命名為99號元素

After WWII ended,scientists descended on Katorga-12 to study this unexplained
substance-one of those scientists was Viktor Barisov.About two months into his
research,Dr.Barisov dicovered that bathing the E99 in an electrical field would
cause it to break down immediately,but create an energy surplus on a 10 to 1
scale in the process.This research soon became Barisovs obsession-it was nearly
free energy,and perfecting this process would create a place in history for both
him and Soviet Russia.
第二次世界大戰結束後，科學家突然造訪 Katorga-12島去研究這種無法解釋的物質- Viktor Barisov就是其中之一。經過他兩個月的研究，Barisov博士發現把E99置於電場中將會導致它立即破裂，但在破裂過程中會產生十倍比例的剩餘能量。Barisov很快痴迷於這項研究-這幾乎是一種自由能（譯者註：自由能指的是在某一個熱力學過程中，系統減少的內能中可以轉化為對外作功的部分，它衡量的是：在一個特定的熱力學過程中，系統可對外輸出的「有用能量」。），並且使這個轉化過程完美會給他和蘇聯在史書上留下重重一筆。

Over the next few months,scientists working directly with E99 saw more lab
"accidents" than other experimentation and research-privately,Barisov autopsied
some of the victims.What he found was quite unusual-although the bodies were
charred beyond all recognition,some of the bodies seemed to have gone through
accelerated cellular aging while others went through a reversion process.
在接下來的幾個月，直接參與E99工作的科學家比參與其他實驗研究的人發生了更多的「意外」-Barisov秘密的給其中幾個受害者驗屍。他的發現非同尋常-雖然屍體被燒得面目全非，一些屍體似乎經歷了細胞加速老化而其他屍體則經歷了還原過程。

It became clear that E99s energy amplification had a dangerous and unpredictable
side effect-it altered the time-state of everything it touched.
有一件事情很清楚，那就是E99的能量放大有一個即危險又不可預測的副作用-它可以改變它所碰到的任何東西的時間狀態

↓↓以下有輕微劇透注意↓↓但只是遊戲開始的劇情，只提醒對劇透非常敏感的人注意。

Premise前提
The game takes place on a mysterious island known as "Katorga-12" where Russian experiments involving "E99" took place during the height of the Cold War era. Sometime during 1950, a terrible catastrophe known as the "Singularity" occurred on the island.[3]  The player controls Nate Renko, an Air Force pilot who is sent to investigate bizarre radiation emissions coming from the island, only to crash land there. After regaining consciousness, Nate finds the TMD (Time Manipulation Device) and discovers that the island is constantly shifting between the time periods of 1950 and 2010. Renkos goal is to find his co-pilot, escape the island and eventually prevent the Singularity from occuring.

遊戲發生在冷戰高超時期一個名叫"Katorga-12"的神秘小島上，在那裡俄羅斯進行包括"E99"在內的許多科學實驗。1950年的某個時候，被稱為是 "奇點"的大災變發生在這個島上。玩家控制的是Nate Renko，一名被派來島上調查奇異輻射變化的空軍飛行員 ，不料飛機竟會失事撞毀島上。當他恢復知覺後，Nate找到了TMD(時間操控設備），並發現島上的時間狀態不斷從1950年和2010年來回變化。Renko的目標就是找到他的副駕駛（co-pilot大副），逃離小島並且最終阻止奇點災難發生。

During his quest, the player will have to deal with hostile Russian forces in both time periods, and the hideously mutated flora, fauna and former residents of the island, some of which have developed time manipulation powers of their own.

在冒險期間，玩家必須要在兩個時間層面搞定俄國敵軍，還有可怕的突變動植物和島上的原住民，他們之中有些還擁有先進的時間操控能力。

Multiplayer 多人遊戲

A multiplayer mode has been confirmed for Singularity, although no details have yet been announced.
奇點的多人遊戲模式已經確認存在，雖然還沒宣佈進一步的細節訊息。