（本文的内容属于“传说”（legends）宇宙。）

第二章：古共和国

THE ANCIENT REPUBLIC

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“The goal of war is to take your enemy’s possessions whole and intact. A shattered country is not a prize but a burden.”

—Sayings of Uueg Tching

“战争的目标是完整的夺取敌人的财产。一个支离破碎的国家不是战利品，而是负担。”——韦格·钦

==绝地与莱托军团的战争==

==THE WAR OF THE JEDI AND THE LEGIONS OF LETTOW==

According to ancient records, the Jedi Orderbegan on Tython, where Force-userstapped energy they called the Ashla, rejecting the lures of dark energy they called the Bogan. The Force Warspitted adherents of the two creeds against each other, with the Ashlavictorious. But a new conflict later arose between the Jedi—then based on Ossus—and a splinter group that called itself the Legions of Lettow. Little was known conclusively of this conflict until the discovery of the warrior Arden Lyn, who had survived twenty-five thousand years in stasis before being awakened by Imperialagents in 4 BBY. Lynkilled Inquisitor Ameesa Darysand fought off Antinnis Tremayne, but was maimed and captured by Torbin, who filed these selections from her debriefing:

根据古代文献的记载，绝地武士团起源于泰桑，在那里原力运用者会使用一种叫“阿什拉”的能量，同时又拒绝被他们“博根”的黑暗能量的诱惑。原力战争使这两种能量的信徒互相对立，而阿什拉最后取得了胜利。但是在此之后，以奥苏斯为基地的绝地武士和一批自称为“莱托军团”的分裂势力爆发了新的冲突。在一位名叫“阿登•林”的勇士被发现之前，人们对这场冲突知之甚少。阿登•林在停滞状态下存活了25000年，在雅文战役前4年被帝国时期的人唤醒。林杀死了裁判官阿米萨•达理斯并击退了安廷尼斯•特里梅因，自己却被托宾所伤而成为俘虏。托宾在林的口供中归档出了以下内容：

The Jedi? Those handmaidens of the Ashla, the weak side of the Force? For ten thousand years they sat on Tython, staring into the stars and debating the nature of the cosmos, like a sewing circle of widows on Peshara. They did nothing. They were nothing. And without us they might have remained nothing.

绝地？那群阿什拉的侍女、原力中的弱者？上万年以来，他们在泰桑上打坐，仰望星空，辩论宇宙的本质，跟佩沙拉上那群围在一起的寡妇一样。他们什么也没做，而他们自己什么都不是。如果没有我们那他们可能一无所有。

The Jedicalled the Boganthe dark side, but it is the side of vitality, of purpose. For what does life do? Whatever it must to survive. It thrums with the desire to compete, to overcome, to better itself. Is that selfish? Those who must fight to survive would laugh at the question. Striving, besting—these desires can lead to hate and to war, it is true. But they also drive love, passion, and creation itself. That is the Bogan—the power that drives all life, from one-celled organisms to the leviathans of deep space.

绝地把博根称为黑暗面，但它其实是充满活力且相当有目的性的一面。生命是怎么运作的？无论如何它是要进行生存的，它受控于竞争、客服和超越自我的欲望，这算是自私吗？那些必须为了生存而战斗的人肯定会觉得这个问题幼稚到好笑。努力奋战、向着胜利前进——这样的欲望会引起仇恨与战争，这是事实，但它们也驱动着爱与激情，甚至世界本身。这就是博根，驱动所有生命的能量，从渺小的单细胞生物到游弋于深空的巨兽，都是如此。

The crowning joke, Xendorliked to say, was that we created the Jedi. It was the followers of the Boganwho gave the Ordersomething to define itself against. It was the followers of the Boganwho drove the Orderto shape itself into something other than a band of useless mystics. The Bogangave the Jedifocus. It gave them purpose. It made them strong.

曾多喜欢说这样的话：世上最大的笑话，就是我们创造了绝地。正是博根的追随者让绝地武士团有机会定义自己反对的东西，正是博根的追随者让绝地武士团显得跟那些无用的神秘主义者不同。博根让绝地武士集中了注意力，让绝地武士有了自己的目的，让绝地武士更加强大。

The wars of Tythonwere ancient history in my time. The Ashlaand the Boganfought, and the followers of the Boganwere defeated, and so they fled Tython. They went in many directions, heeding the Bogan’s commands. In some places they discovered others who had been awakened by the Bogan, and learned their traditions. In others they served as teachers of their own ways. But always the message was the same: Go forth, survive, multiply, succeed.

泰桑上爆发的战争在我这个时代是一段古老的历史。阿什拉和博根两方的较量，而博根的追随者落败并逃离了泰桑。他们跟随博根的指引向着多个方向行进，其中一些人发现了其他受到博根召唤的觉醒者并学习他们的传统，另一些人则用他们自己的方式扮演起导师的职位。不管以何种方式，勇往直前、生存、繁衍和成功依然是不变的方针。

* * *

In my time neither the Jedinor we Renunciatesused lightsabers. As part of their initiation, Padawanswould forge their own steel blades and imbue them with the Force. And we would do the same.

不论是绝地还是我们这样放弃原先信仰的人，都会使用光剑。作为他们启蒙的一部分，学徒会锻造自己的钢刀并是注入原力，我们也会这么做。

An initiate Legionnaire would select a bar of high-carbon steel and shape it into a blade in the academy furnaces. The work was physical—annealing, quenching, and tempering. But it was also mental—an initiate hammering at hot steel to bend it and temper it would also be directing the Forceto flow into the blade, forming the atoms into a lattice. This lattice would harden the blade and focus its edge, and prepare the blade to receive the crystal. Once blade and lattice were forged, the initiate would place the crystal in the hilt and marry the lattices, submerging so deeply in the Forcethat blade and crystal and wielder became one. The wielder would channel the energies of the Forcethrough the crystal and into the blade, making it glow with a nimbus of energy. But sometimes the forging would fail. Sometimes blade or crystal would shatter.

一名初学的战士会选择一根高碳钢棒，在学院的熔炉里把它锻造成剑刃。这个工作是物理意义上的，它包括了退火、淬火和回火这样的过程；同时这个工作也是心理意义上的，对加热钢铁初始的锤击能使其弯曲以及回火，同时也能让原力流入剑刃并让原子形成晶格。晶格能让剑刃更硬更锋利，此时这把武器已经能够装载水晶了。一旦剑刃与晶格结构形成，学徒就会将水晶放入剑柄与晶格结合，自身在原力的沉浸之中与剑刃和水晶合为一体。持剑者能够通过水晶将原力的能量传递到剑刃上，这会让剑刃发出光芒。但是有时锻造失败的话，剑刃和水晶都会化为碎片。

So, sometimes, would the initiate.

也正因为如此，有些时候，那些学徒也会遭遇同样的结果（指锻造武器失败和剑刃水晶一起木大）

* * *

The Jedicalled it the Great Schism—as tends to happen, later events forced it to be renamed the First Great Schism.

绝地称之为大分裂——而之后发生的事情又迫使其改称为第一次大分裂。

We didn’t call it anything.

而我们并没有给它任何称呼。

The worlds of the Corehad joined together to form the Republic. But there were dangers beyond the Rim—the old empire of Xim, the slave kingdoms of the Hutts, and all manner of satrapies and dominions that your historians have forgotten.

核心世界的星球联合起来组建了共和国，但是环域之外的威胁依然存在——希姆的旧帝国、赫特人的奴隶王国，以及各式各样已经被你们的历史学家遗忘的地方势力。

After my investment as a Steel Hand of Palawa, I journeyed to Pelgrinto learn my fortune from the Oracle. This was before the Jediexpunged all knowledge of the Oracle, as they expunged so much that threatened their own power and prestige. I listened to the clockwork of the Oracle, and it told me many things. It told me that I should go to Ossus, where I would meet a man fair of face and clever of mind, and make him my master.

在我成为帕拉瓦铁腕之后，我前往佩尔格林，通过神谕来了解我将来的命运。这些都发生在绝地清除所有神谕的知识之前，他们会清理掉很多威胁到他们权利和威望的东西。我听到了神谕的声音，它告诉我很多事情。它对我说我应该去奥苏斯，在那里我会遇到一群面容白皙、头脑聪明之人，而我应拜他们为师。

Ossuswas the headquarters of the Jedi Order, which had left Tython to distance itself from the machinations of the growing Republic. I was welcomed there, as were other Followers of Palawa—we were considered fellow students of the Force. But the Orderwas already changing, growing doctrinaire. Its masters had fallen prey to the whispering of the Snouts—the Caamasi, those ancient beguilers of humanity. And they had fallen prey to the whispering of their own ambition—the collective ambition that seeks to deny that of the individual, so that the strong can be weakened and ruled more easily. By the time I arrived it was too late—the Orderhad set itself upon the path it would follow. But that is never apparent at the time. Only later can we discern the point when change became an impossibility.

奥苏斯是绝地武士团的大本营，这让泰桑能够远离日益壮大的共和国的阴谋。我和其他帕拉瓦追随者一样受到了欢迎，还被认为是原力的学生。但是武士团已经变了，他们变得越来越教条。他们的导师在潜移默化的影响下沦为了卡马斯人这群人类骗子的牺牲品，同时也在潜移默化的影响下沦为他们自己野心的牺牲品，集体的野心试图制约个人的野心，从而削弱并更容易的统治强者。当我到达奥苏斯时其实已经太迟了，武士团已经走上了他将要走的道路，但是那个时候这种情况还不算明显。到了晚些时候我们才知道进行变革是不可能的。

At OssusI met Xendor, the man of my vision. He was a Kashi Merexile, a master of the Breath, as his people called the Force. He was respected in the Order, but vocal in his disapproval of its increasingly exclusionary ways. He first came to me because he wished to learn more about the Palawanmartial arts, but he warned me that we should converse quietly, away from the Jedihierarchs. I don’t know if he knew then that he would break with the Orderand I would follow him. But I knew he would, just as I knew we would become friends and then lovers. The clockwork had already told me so.

在奥苏斯，我遇到了曾多——我的心上人。他是一个卡希穆尔的流亡者，精通气（他那边的人称之为原力）的大师。他在武士团中受到尊敬，但他对武士团日趋明显的排外作风也表现出直言不讳的反对。他第一次来找我是想要学习更多关于帕拉瓦武术的知识，而他还警告我要安静的交谈、远离绝地的领导者。我不知道他当时是否料到之后会和武士团决裂以及我会跟随他，但我知道以后他肯定会这样，就像我知道我们会成为朋友、然后成为恋人一样。这些事情神谕的声音都告诉我了。

At the beginning the break was peaceful. Xendorsought the hierarchs’ permission to create an academy for the study of Forcetraditions—to tap the knowledge of the Chatos Academyand the Dai Bendu, the Palawaand the Kashi Mer, the Boganand the Kel Dorsages, the Way of the Darkand the Protectorate of the Hidden. When they said no, as he’d known they would, he left the Orderto found his own academy on Lettow. I accompanied him, and others followed—first by ones and twos, then in larger groups.

决裂之初状况还算平和。曾多向领导阶级请求许可来建立一个研究原力传统的学院，以此挖掘并了解查托斯学院、代本杜、帕拉瓦、卡希穆尔、博根和凯尔多人的圣贤，以及探索黑暗之道和隐匿者保护国的知识。当拒绝的声音如他所预料的那样传到耳中时，他离开了武士团并在莱托建立了自己的学院。我陪伴着他，接下来有零星的人跟随我们，一开始只是一两个，到了后来则变成了大批群体蜂拥而至。

These newcomers took to calling themselves the Legions of Lettow, for they swore to defend us and our right to seek knowledge of the Forcewithout the interference of the Jedihierarchs and their pronouncements about what was correct and what was forbidden. The Jedihad sought to make the Forcesmaller, to cage it with rules and restrictions, but we knew that the Forcewas larger than any such mortal endeavors, and that it turned aside no one who was willing to learn its mysteries.

这些新来的成员把他们自己称作“莱托军团”，发誓要捍卫我们探索原力知识的权力，不受绝地统治者的干预，不受绝地是非观声明的影响。绝地武士曾试图限制原力的运用，他们制定了规则加以约束，但是我们知道原力比凡人的努力要强大的多，而且原力并不会拒绝愿意学习其奥秘的人。

We had thought the Jediwould leave us alone, to seek our own path. But that was naïve. The mere suggestion that there was another way to know the Force—our mere existence—was a threat to them. And so they branded us dissenters and schismatics and pushed us toward open conflict.

我们本以为绝地会让我们离开后寻找属于自己的道路，但是这种想法太天真了。仅仅只是暗示了一下有另一种方式来了解原力，他们就认为自己受到了威胁。他们给我们扣帽子，指责我们是持异议者和分裂分子，并将事态推向更为明显的冲突。

* * *

They formed armies against us, and so we had to do the same. Xendor, to his dismay, became our general. I served as his right hand. To spare the galaxy bloodshed and pain, we tried to stop the war in its earliest stages, by bringing the fight to Ossus, away from the Republicworlds. We failed, and the Jedipursued us into the Core. Xendortried to alert the Republicto its peril, to make the people see that the Jediwould cloak themselves as protectors and guardians as they waged war and took the levers of power. But he failed, and it was war—war on Chandrilaand Brentaal, then Coruscantand Metellos.

绝地组建了军队来对抗我们，所以我们也不得不那么做。曾多成为了我们的将军，他自己对此很惊讶，而我成为了他的副手。为了让银河系免遭流血冲突的摧残，我们试图在最初的阶段就让战事结束，并将冲突转移至远离共和国世界的奥苏斯。但这次努力以失败告终，绝地追击我们进入了核心世界。曾多试着警告共和国这场战争的危险性，从而让人们看清绝地的真面目——他们会在发动战争和掌权的时候把自己包装成守护者和卫士。这次也没有成功，战火迅速蔓延到了钱德里拉和布伦塔尔，接下来是科洛桑和梅特洛斯。

Xendordied at Columus, as the Jediand the armies they’d beguiled closed in. I wasn’t there, but I saw it as if I had been.

在绝地和被他们蛊惑的军队逼近时，曾多死在了哥伦姆。尽管那时我并不在场，但是我看到了那些画面，仿佛我就在那里一样。

Awdrysta Pina, known as the Green Blade, was the leader of the Jediforces. He was a good choice—a grim man and bloody-minded. He’d spent little time on Ossus, preferring to travel the ancient space lanes beyond the Rimin search of knowledge. I admired him, and so did Xendor—he was better suited to be a Renunciatethan a Jedi. Except Pinahad a fatal flaw—a child-like belief that order and structure were the pillars of civilization, and a refusal to see that they could become civilization’s chains. What we understood as freedom, he could only see as chaos.

奥德里斯塔•皮纳，又被称作“绿刃”，是绝地武士军队的领导。他作为一个性格冷酷思想残暴的人确实很适合这个职位。他更喜欢进入前往环域世界的航道去探索知识，因此他没在奥苏斯的停留多少时间。我和曾多都钦佩他，他更应该成为一名放弃者而非绝地武士。但是皮纳有一个致命的缺点——他有一个孩子般的信念，坚信秩序和体系是文明的支柱，拒绝承认它们会对文明产生束缚作用。我们认为的自由，在他看来只会是混乱。

Pina’s legions had one advantage over ours. They would use the Forceto fight as a collective, subsuming their individuality to a battle-meld so that they moved and reacted as one. We could not match them in this. We would not match them in this. We would not fight like insects. AtColumus,Pina’s armies cut off Xendor and his vanguard from the bulk of his forces, and Pina’s Jedi Knightsadvanced on my love as one. Beside him stood the mightiest of our warriors—the likes of Sethul Asaiageand Tun Bohoi—but one by one they fell to the Jedihive. Until finally Pinastruck down my love, and his spirit fled into the Dark, rather than be drunk by the Green Bladeand destroyed.

和我们的人相比皮纳的军团有一个优势，他们能够利用原力作为一个集体来作战。战士们将自己融入到战斗中，以一个整体的形式移动与应对外界状况。我们在这方面无法与他们匹敌，我们也没打算在这方面和他们匹敌。我们不会用这种虫群一般的战斗方式。在哥伦姆，皮纳的军队切断了曾多及其先锋部队和主力部队的联系，而皮纳麾下的绝地武士将我的爱人也“融合”进了他们的整体内。在曾多旁边站着我们最优秀的战士，诸如塞苏尔•阿萨伊吉和汤•博霍伊这样的人，也都一个接一个被绝地的人群吞没。直到最后，我的爱人被皮纳击倒了，但是他的灵魂遁入了黑暗，避免了被绿刃同化与消灭。

* * *

Then they came to Lettowto kill the rest of us. I knew there was no hope of victory, only of escape. And so we held Pina’s armies off just long enough to seek refuge beyond the Republic’s borders.

他们到了莱托之后开始消灭我们剩余的人，我知道没有胜利的希望，逃跑是唯一的出路，所以我们拖住皮纳的军队足够长的时间来让逃出去的人能在共和国的边界之外寻求庇护。

I fled into the tangled stars beyond Kitel Phard, following secret ways Xendorhad discovered. But the Green Bladefollowed, and I was cornered on Irkalla. I had the Kashi Mertalisman bequeathed to me by Xendor, the symbol of his sundered royal house, and when Pinabattered the blade out of my hand I drew upon this talisman’s powers, making it a lens for my rage and sorrow, for my love for Xendorand my despair over what had been taken from us. I exploded Pina’s blade, driving its shards through his body. He was ruined, and I laughed out loud to see it.

我循着曾多绘制的秘密航线逃向基特尔法德以外的一片复杂的群星之中，但是绿刃紧随其后，在伊尔卡拉我被逼入绝境。我带着曾多留给我的卡希穆尔护身符，这是他那支离破碎的王国的象征。当皮纳将我手中的剑击飞后我使用了护身符的力量，让它如镜子一般映射出我的愤怒与悲伤、对曾多的爱以及我们的一切被夺走之后带来的绝望。我用这股能量破坏了皮纳的剑刃，飞出的碎片击穿了他的身体。看到他被摧毁，我放声大笑起来。

But as I told you, Awdrystawas a bloody-minded man. He had learned to use the Forceto bind and smother an opponent, to subdue one’s life energies. Morichro, they called it. Even as his eyes grew dull, Pinadid this to me. I felt my legs topple, my heart grow heavy and strain, my lungs flutter and struggle. I saw him die, but his spell could not be unmade. All went gray, and then black, and I knew no more.

正如我之前所说的，奥德里斯塔是个残暴且不可能轻易放过对手的角色。他已经掌握了用原力来束缚与压制对手，控制住他的生命能量，这种能力被称作“殁时”。皮纳对我用了这招，即使他当时的眼神已经变得呆滞。我感觉两腿一软站立不稳，心中的压力与紧张感上升，肺部在颤动且变得呼吸困难。我看到他死去了，但是他的诅咒却无法解开，我感到周围的一切变成了灰色，然后是无尽的黑暗，之后发生了什么事情我也不得而知了。

Pinahad not killed me, though many times I have wished he had. I do not know who constructed my tomb or set me within it. I awoke to your faces. I awoke to find that twenty-five thousand years had gone by—all I knew and all I loved curdled into history and then dismissed as myth. Not even dust remains of those who were dear to me. I have outlived planets, and the very constellations are scrambled and strange.

皮纳没有对我下死手，尽管有好几次我都希望他能杀死我。我不知道谁为我建造了坟墓或者为我掩埋，我醒来后看到了你们，然后我发现我所知道的和我所爱的都已经过去了两万五千年，都已经凝为历史，然后被后人视为神话。那些和我亲近的人连一丝尘土都没留下来。我比行星还要长寿，这发生的一切都是无序且不寻常的。

I am alone in a way none of you could possibly imagine.

我处于一种你们谁都想象不了的孤独之中。

* * *

Xendortold me he once journeyed to a dead world where the Forcewas worshipped as a triad of divine beings. The Daughterwas the Light Side. The Sonwas the Dark Side. And the Father? The Fatherwas the Forceitself, perhaps. Xendorsaid he spoke with these beings, and I asked eagerly what he had discovered. He laughed at me, and dismissed the question.

曾多告诉我他有一次去了一个死亡世界，在那里原力作为一个由三位神圣的存在构成的组合被崇拜着，这三位中“女儿”代表光明面，“儿子”代表黑暗面，而“父亲”呢？“父亲”可能代表着原力本身。曾多还说他与这些存在交流过，我急切的询问他接下来有什么发现，他却笑话我还对这个问题不屑一顾。

“Even now, you refuse to understand,” he told me. “There are as many truths to the Forceas there are hearts within which the Forcemanifests itself. The existence of the triad has no more bearing on the reality of the Forcethan the Ashlaand the Bogan, or anything I tell you, or anything you tell others. Any philosophy, creed, or religion that opens the heart to the Forceproves itself to be true. My legions follow the dictates of such a creed. But that is only a demonstration of the application of power, Arden. It says nothing about the rightness of our beliefs, or the universality of our faith.”

“即使是现在 ，你也拒绝理解”，他对我说，“原力体现出的真理，和与原力展开交流的内心是一样多的。和阿什拉以及博根相比，或者和我告诉你的以及你告诉别人的一切相比，那三个神圣的存在对原力并没有造成更大的现实影响。任何的哲学、信条与宗教信仰，对着原力敞开自己的内在，就能证明自己是”真理“。我的军团就处在这样一种信条的支配下。但这只是运用力量的一个示范，阿登，它并没有提到我们信仰的正确性与普遍性。

==译名对照栏==

译名会以星球大战中文网译名表（2021年8月30日版本）、星球大战中文网的文章以及星战官方中文出版物的译名为准，

有部分词汇我暂时未在以上参照内容中找到，其中有一部分可以根据已经找到的译名进行简单的组合或修改后得出，另一部分带“*”标记的译名有我自己根据其大致读音或可能的含义进行脑补的成分。

==人物==

Arden Lyn，阿登•林；

Ameesa Darys，阿米萨•达理斯；

Antinnis Tremayne，安廷尼斯•特里梅因；

Torbin，托宾；

Xendor，曾多；

Xim，希姆/齐姆；

Awdrysta Pina，奥德里斯塔•皮纳；

*Sethul Asaiage，塞苏尔•阿萨伊吉；

*Tun Bohoi，汤•博霍伊；

Daughter，女儿；

Son，儿子；

Father，父亲；

==事件==

Force Wars，原力战争；

First Great Schism，第一次大分裂；

==地点==

Tython，泰桑；

Ossus，奥苏斯；

*Peshara，佩沙拉；

Core，核心；

Rim，环域；

*Pelgrin，佩尔格林；

*Oracle，神谕；

Lettow，莱托；

Chandrila，钱德里拉；

Brentaal，布伦塔尔；

Coruscant，科洛桑；

Metellos，梅特洛斯；

Columus，哥伦姆；

Kitel Phard，基特尔法德；

*Irkalla，伊尔卡拉；

==种族==

Hutt，赫特人；

Caamasi，卡马斯人；

Kel Dor，凯尔多人；

==组织==

Jedi Order，绝地武士团；

Force-user，原力运用者；

Jedi，绝地；

Legions of Lettow，莱托军团；

*Renunciate，放弃者、背离原本信仰的人；

Followers of Palawa，帕拉瓦追随者；

*Kashi Mer，卡希穆尔；

Chatos Academy，查托斯学院；

Dai Bendu，代本杜；

*Protectorate of the Hidden，隐匿者保护国；

==头衔==

Inquisitor，裁判官；

Padawan，学徒；

*Steel Hand of Palawa，帕拉瓦铁腕；

*Green Blade，绿刃；

==其他==

Ashla，阿什拉；

Bogan，博根；

Imperial，帝国的；

Force，原力；

*Palawan，帕拉瓦的；

*Breath，气（？）；

Way of the Dark，黑暗之道；

Morichro，殁时；