《奇点》官方背景设定资料翻译

艺术指导Charles Morrow和创意总监Steve Raffel 构建了整个奇点的总体观感。

  [Charles Morrow:] 奇点是由一个小型但是天才的团队构想出来. 我们明白这是一个很科幻的标题, 但我们并没有立即把这个概念付诸实践.故事的可信度被放在了第一位，之后首席艺术指导得到了一些废弃城市和建筑的震撼照片. 那真是尽可能接近真实的，可信的，史诗般的，被遗忘的世界的感觉.

我们首先提出Katorga-12岛的现实主义概念, 第二阶段制作消光绘图回波处理的经典科幻图章,  符合冷战美学的40和50年代的美国文献图章. 结合了现实和幻想的纹理材质.要求概念美工尽量接近 Katorga-12:一方面真实还原50年代的苏俄, 另一方面塑造科幻太空时代的美国, 并把两者有机地结合起来. 在文体上, 要求也很严格. 我们把这称为“光枪现实主义（Ray-gun Realism）.”

我们还在游戏制作早期选定了一个苏俄取景地点. 在游戏主题方面,这能使我们的英雄通过科学奇点置身于历史上著名的冷战紧张局势. 在游戏外观方面, 我们可以创造出一种能够平衡史实与美学的冷峻, 严酷的苏维埃时代建筑风格.

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.
没人知道，1949到1950年冬冷战期间，斯大林，前苏联的野蛮领袖，拥有两大超级武器...远程导弹和原子弹。

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.
但即使他的团队强迫工人制造足够负担原子弹负载的导弹，斯大林仍然面对着美国和它的战略空军的包围。

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国的有利条件，某个保证苏维埃安全与领先的条件。

Then came the chance discovery,on a remote island off the Kamchatka peninsula,of a
previously unkonwn material,Element 99.
然后机会出现了，在一个远离堪察加半岛（位于苏联东北部）的偏远小岛上，一个之前未知的材料，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（简称E99）成为斯大林新的希望之源：一种新的拥有无比强大力量的新能源。遗憾的是，这种新元素会产生一种新的污染风险。

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.
但这些风险对于斯大林来说都是可以接受的-只要是任何有利于苏维埃人民进步的东西。在1950年9月21日，项目即将完工的时候，一个名叫Barisov俄国科学家，违背了所有安全条例，私自启动了由E99驱动的设备，导致了一个影响全岛的灾难性事件。

What happened next is unclear.However,there are reports that stalins final dying order
was a hand-written scrawl to quarantine katorga-12.
之后发生了什么事尚不清楚。但是，有报告指出斯大林临终时写下的潦草手书命令封锁katorga-12地区

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.
之后关于那个岛的资料一直被掩盖，直到2010年-当西方国家的智能报告确认了俄罗斯联邦秘密在一个偏远的环状珊瑚岛上的一些活动。世界各国对katorga-12地区毫无印象，对在这个远离俄罗斯东南海岸的小岛的可能发生的事毫无概念。其实这可以被认为是世界不能负担的另一个切尔诺贝利-或许更糟。美国的回答是秘密飞越这一地区。他们需要侦查-现在就要.

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岛上的苏维埃矿工在挖掘战备物资铁矿石的提取到了一种
大块橙红色矿石，地理位置远离堪察加半岛（位于苏联东北部）。经研究，它被发现与钚
（94号元素）元素属性类似-于是根据元素周期表简单命名为99号元素

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.
第二次世界大战结束后，科学家突然造访 Katorga-12岛去研究这种无法解释的物质- Viktor Barisov就是其中之一。经过他两个月的研究，Barisov博士发现把E99置于电场中将会导致它立即破裂，但在破裂过程中会产生十倍比例的剩余能量。Barisov很快痴迷于这项研究-这几乎是一种自由能（译者注：自由能指的是在某一个热力学过程中，系统减少的内能中可以转化为对外作功的部分，它衡量的是：在一个特定的热力学过程中，系统可对外输出的“有用能量”。），并且使这个转化过程完美会给他和苏联在史书上留下重重一笔。

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.
在接下来的几个月，直接参与E99工作的科学家比参与其他实验研究的人发生了更多的“意外”-Barisov秘密的给其中几个受害者验尸。他的发现非同寻常-虽然尸体被烧得面目全非，一些尸体似乎经历了细胞加速老化而其他尸体则经历了还原过程。

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的能量放大有一个即危险又不可预测的副作用-它可以改变它所碰到的任何东西的时间状态

↓↓以下有轻微剧透注意↓↓但只是游戏开始的剧情，只提醒对剧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.

游戏发生在冷战高超时期一个名叫"Katorga-12"的神秘小岛上，在那里俄罗斯进行包括"E99"在内的许多科学实验。1950年的某个时候，被称为是 "奇点"的大灾变发生在这个岛上。玩家控制的是Nate Renko，一名被派来岛上调查奇异辐射变化的空军飞行员 ，不料飞机竟会失事撞毁岛上。当他恢复知觉后，Nate找到了TMD(时间操控设备），并发现岛上的时间状态不断从1950年和2010年来回变化。Renko的目标就是找到他的副驾驶（co-pilot大副），逃离小岛并且最终阻止奇点灾难发生。

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.

在冒险期间，玩家必须要在两个时间层面搞定俄国敌军，还有可怕的突变动植物和岛上的原住民，他们之中有些还拥有先进的时间操控能力。

Multiplayer 多人游戏

A multiplayer mode has been confirmed for Singularity, although no details have yet been announced.
奇点的多人游戏模式已经确认存在，虽然还没宣布进一步的细节信息。