超级激光炮（superlaser）

南方战士

翻译：南方战士、where

superlaser 超级激光炮



Affiliation:
Empire
隶属：
帝国

Type:
Planet-destroying superweapon
类型：
毁灭行星的超级武器

Manufacturer:
Various contractors
制造者：
诸多承包商

Each of the Empire’s Death Stars was built around a terrifying weapon – a superlaser array capable of destroying a planet. According to legend, the ancient Sith used massive kyber crystals to create superweapons; during the Clone Wars, the Geonosians revived the superlaser design. The Empire constructed the first Death Star in secret for nearly two decades before using it to destroy Alderaan; the second Death Star boasted a more powerful superlaser, with improved targeting sensors and power regulators.
帝国的每颗死星都围绕一件可怕的武器建造。这件武器就是能摧毁一颗行星的超级激光炮阵列。根据传说，古西斯利用大块凯伯水晶制造超级武器；克隆人战争期间，吉奥诺西斯人重拾了超级激光炮的设计。帝国几乎用了二十年时间秘密建造第一颗死星，然后用它摧毁了奥德朗；第二颗死星拥有更强大的超级激光炮、改良的瞄准传感器和动力调节器。

电影



The Death Star's prime weapon unleashed unthinkable levels of raw energy capable of tearing apart entire worlds. That energy began deep inside the gargantuan station, and was eventually channeled into an array of eight tributary laser cannons. The beams from these cannons culminated into a central blast directed from the eye-shaped concavity in the Death Star's upper hemisphere. Teams of highly skilled Imperial gunners manned advanced control stations, managing the titanic weapon.
死星的主要武器释放出程度令人难以想象的原始能量，能毁灭整颗星球。该能量始于这座巨型太空站的内部深处，最后流入八门分支激光炮。在位于死星上半球类似眼睛的凹陷处，由这些激光炮所发出的光束汇集成一道中央能量束。多组技能娴熟的帝国炮手操纵先进的控制站，管理这巨大的武器。

With this weapon, the Death Star reduced Alderaan to rubble. It never had a chance to fire again, as the Rebel Alliance was able to destroy the station at the Battle of Yavin. It wasn't long before the weapon was resurrected in an improved form aboard the second Death Star.
死星用这种武器将奥德朗轰成碎片。它再也没开第二次火，因为义军同盟在雅文战役中摧毁了那座太空站。不久以后，该武器的改良版在第二颗死星上重生。

This second cannon could target capital ships and its power yields could be managed to support frequent firing. Many key Alliance warships were vaporized by the Death Star during the Battle of Endor.
这第二门炮可以瞄准主力舰，其功率产额能支持其频繁开火。恩多战役期间，许多重要的同盟军舰被死星轰碎了。

衍生宇宙



The Death Star's superlaser was a triumph of combat engineering. Though the concept of culminating laser beam amplification had existed in the latter days of the Republic, the sheer scale of the Death Star's prime weapon is staggering. For optimum performance, the superlaser was manned by 168 Imperial gunners, with at least 14 soldiers manning each of the initiator lasers.
死星的超级激光炮是战斗工程学上的一次胜利。虽然汇聚放大激光束的概念在共和国后期已被提出，但死星主要武器的庞大规模还是令人难以置信。为达到最佳性能，超级激光炮需要168名帝国炮手操控，每门初始激光炮至少需要14名士兵操控。

The majority of the Death Star's interior volume was dedicated to housing and supporting the superlaser. The weapon's heart drew power directly from the station's raging hypermatter core, converting and amplifying the colossal powers into focussed energy.
死星的内部空间大多用于安放和维持超级激光炮。该武器的核心直接从太空站活跃的超物质中心获得动力，再将巨大的动力转换放大成聚集的能量。

The eight tributary laser beams converged at a central amplification nexus. The outer perimeter of the superlaser dish also had four back up lasers should any of the eight fail. The lens of the cannon (colloquially known as "the Eye") was built around an immense amplification crystal.
八道分支激光束在中央放大结点汇聚。超级激光炮的外周还有四门备用激光炮，以便在八门炮中出现任何失灵现象时使用。激光炮的透镜（俗称“眼”）是围绕巨型放大水晶建造的。

The superlaser's power needed recharging between blasts, limiting the number of firings per day. The weapon could produce a blast scaled to destroy capital ships at a rate of one per minute. The superlaser could only fire planet-destroying yields once per day.
超级激光炮的动力需要在每次开火后重新补充，所以每天开火的次数受到了限制。该武器发出的能量束能每分钟摧毁一艘主力舰。但超级激光炮每天只能摧毁一颗行星。

With the amount of research and resources allocated to the superlaser project, it's little wonder this weapon was not allowed to die with the destruction of the Death Star. As refinements in the technology were carried out aboard the Tarkin weapons platform, the second Death Star was developed. Though the second never saw completion, its operational superlaser performed commendably during the Battle of Endor.
由于大量的研究和资源被投入超级激光项目的研究，因此不难想到，这武器不会随着死星的摧毁而消失。第二颗死星随着“塔金”武器平台上的技术进步而开始建设。虽然第二颗死星从未竣工，但在恩多战役期间，其可操作的超级激光炮表现出色。

Even after the Battle of Endor, the threat of superlaser technology returned to haunt the New Republic. The original and functional concept model of the Death Star emerged from Maw Installation, but was quickly defeated. A new but ultimately ill-fated generation of Eclipse- and Sovereign-class Star Destroyers featured axial superlasers that, while not able to obliterate a planet, could sear a planet's entire surface. Even the ambitious Hutts launched a woe-filled caper to secure a superlaser with the development of their disastrous Darksaber project.
甚至在恩多战役后，超级激光技术的威胁都没有离开新共和国。还能正常运转的死星原始概念型号在“无底洞”设施出现，但很快被消灭。新一代的“日蚀级”和“主权级”歼星舰在中轴上装有超级激光炮，虽然不能摧毁行星，但可以完全焚毁行星表面，不过这些歼星舰最终都命运悲惨。甚至连野心勃勃的赫特人都以身试法，想在开发他们可怕的“暗剑”项目时造一门超级激光炮，但这个项目问题多多。

幕后



The superlaser effects were a combination of matte painting (for the laser channel) and animation (for the beam itself). In Return of the Jedi, footage from A New Hope was reused for the Death Star gunners. The second Death Star's firing sequence differed as the central "eye" punched through the tributary beams, something the Death Star from Star Wars did not do.
超级激光效果是背景彩绘（激光炮管道）和动画（激光束本身）的结合体。在《绝地归来》中，《新的希望》里的片段被再次用于死星炮手。第二颗死星的开火镜头有所不同，其中央“眼”射穿分支激光束，这是《星球大战》的死星所不具备的。

波斯大帝

其实  哪怕第二颗死星的体量规模——即便相比类地行星或者气态星球卫星都显得小的多。按照实际是无法打爆一个大中类地天体的(当然，电影可以艺术化效果)。能量才是最大问题：必须有产生亿度能量武器.一般自己都会被毁灭了，一个豌豆粒大小激光枪炮再强大也打不掉一个有硅酸盐石＋金属层外壳的‘大西瓜或者小皮球'。也就是说，月球也不能打破打碎，一般只能对付直径千公里以下的天体吧 ！