RTD谈及Time War
RTD谈及Time War
一篇Russell T Davis写在2006 Doctor Who年刊的文章
内容是关于The Last Great Time War和一些相关的背景资料
文中很多特别名词, 尤其是他们的武器...
2006 Doctor Who annual
"Meet The Doctor" © Russell T Davies
当Doctor来到地球 － 追踪Nestene Consciousness和他的塑料仆人Autons (曾在1x01 Rose出现) － 他无意找一个人类旅行伙伴。曾经有不少伙伴和他一起旅行，当然，他们大部份都是人类。他最喜爱的种族！但这都是在宇宙还是年轻，精力充沛，充满友善态度的时候，一切都过去了。
这个宇宙，自从那时候，已经改变了。至少在Doctor看来是这样。
有一场战争，the Great Time War，在Time Lords和Daleks之间爆发。在这之前，曾经有两场Time War，分别是Halldons和Eternals (永生族) 之间的小规模冲突，和Omnicraven Uprising残酷的屠杀。这两场战争中，Doctor的族人都加入了而平息纷争。Time Lords有一套不干预宇宙事务的政策，但从更高的层面去看，凡涉及时间漩涡的事情他们都谨慎地担当着保护者的角色。他们自我任命为和平的守护者，除非是迫不得已才会加入斗争。
现在，(最后的) Great Time War的故事是很难完整的拼凑出来，因为实在太少生还者了。多年来双方都一直试探对方的实力。Daleks曾威吓Time Lords的最高议会，表示会以Daleks的复制品取代议会的成员。其中一个Dalek Puppet Emperor (Dalek木偶帝王?) 公开表示他的敌意。也许Daleks的愤怒是合理，但他们肯定被触怒了！的确，在历史上某一刻，Time Lords派遗Doctor回到过去，阻止Daleks的诞生。种族屠杀的行为！无疑是Time Lords挑起了纷争，尽管这是因为他们预见Daleks在未来将会侵略所有文明而成为宇宙中的支配者。
有些人曾尝试寻求和平解决方法。虽然很难找到关于这些事件的准确纪录，但据说在Act of Master Restitution (统治偿还法案) 下，总统Romana提出和Dalek签订和平条约。也有人说Etra Prime一事 (Etra Prime是一星球名字) 令事件升温。无论原因是什么，也肯定整个故事还没有被揭露，那场可怕的战争开始了。Time Lords回到他们自己的过去，聚集一队Bowships, Black Hole Carriers和N-Forms的军队。Daleks释放所有Deathsmiths of Goth的力量，由Dalek帝王带领下发动舰队进入时间漩涡。
战争爆发了，但宇宙大部份种族的生活还是如常。战争在时间漩涡里进行，也在Ultimate Void (终极零空间) 发生，普通生物是无法察觉的。次等种族在不知情下生活。如果一个星球发现它的历史微妙地改变了，可能是在漩涡破裂的压力下被扭曲和改写了。这样星球上的人成为改变的一份子，不能意识有什么改变。只有在进化阶梯高高在上的高等种族才看到事情的发生。The Forest of Cheem (1x02 The End of the World中出现的树人) 看着血溅而流泪了。The Nestene Consciousness (1x01 Rose) 失去它所有的星球，更发现自己在时空的压力下异变。The Greater Animus消失了，而它的Carsenome Walls也变为尘土。有说Ethernals (永生族) 也在看着，对现实感到绝望，远离他们的圣堂，永不再出现...
多年以后，那些伟大的军队毁灭了。然后，静默。没有人知道在最后一战里到底发生了什么事。也没有人知道它怎样完结。只知道一个人在残骸中迈步跨过，踏出Galifrey和Skaro的颓垣败瓦。名字叫Doctor的Time Lord。他带着沉重的心情，再一次踏上他的飞船，向天空发去，逃避一切他所看见的，一切他所做的...
他独自一个人，但某程度上他认为这是他应得的。他继续流浪，决定不再让任何人站在他身旁。他的Tardis里没有𠠬余空间。他是一个旅行者，他不需要任何人。
可是当他在伦敦一间已关门店铺的地下层，拉着一个地球女孩Rose Tyler的手，看着她的眼睛，那些决心都跑了！旅程继续，一个人类在他身旁，谁会知道旅程会在哪里完结...
宇宙的远处，在行星Crafe Tec Heydra，山的另一边满是雕刻和象形文字，尽都是一场看不见的战争的表述。这些艺术品表达两个种族的冲突，一方是金属的生物，另一方是血肉之躯。可怕的爆炸，孤独的生还者自残骸中踏出。孤独？也许不是。在这个图案之下，石头上还刻了一个句子，翻译为：you are not alone (你不是一个人)...
原文:
2006 Doctor Who annual
"Meet The Doctor" © Russell T Davies
When the Doctor came to Earth – to track down the Nestene Consciousness and its plastic servants, the Autons – he had no intention of finding a human companion. He’d had fellow travellers alongside him before, of course, and most of them human. His favourite species! But that was in the old days, when the universe seemed young and fresh and more inclined to friendly gestures
The universe, since then, had changed. At least for the Doctor.
There had been a War, the Great Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords. There had been two Time Wars before this – the skirmish between the Halldons and the Eternals, and then the brutal slaughter of the Omnicraven Uprising – and on both occasions, the Doctor’s people had stepped in to settle the matter. The Time Lords had a policy of nin-interference in the affairs of the universe, but on a higher level, in affairs of the Time Vortex, they assumed discreetly the role of protectors. They were the self-appointed keepers of the peace. Until forced to fight.
Now, the story of the Great (and final) Time War is hard to piece together, because so little survived. Certainly, both had been testing each others strength for many, many years. The Daleks had threatened the Time Lord High Council before, by trying to replace its members with Dalek duplicates. And one of the Dalek Puppet Emperors had openly declared his hostility. Though perhaps the Daleks’ wrath was justifiable – they had been provoked! At one point in their history, the Time Lords had actually sent the Doctor back in time, to prevent the creation of the Daleks. An act of genocide! The Time Lords fired the first shot – though in their defence, they took this course of action because they had foreseen a time when the Daleks would overrun all civilized life and become the dominant life-form in the universe.
Some tried to find a peaceful solution. While it’s hard to find precise records of these events, it’s said that under the Act of Master Restitution, President Romana opened a peace treaty with the Daleks. Others claim that the Etra Prime Incident began the escalation of events. But whatever the cause – and its almost certain that the full story has yet to be uncovered – the terrible War began. The Time Lords reached back into their own history, to assemble a fleet of Bowships, Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms; the Daleks unleashed the full might of the Deathsmiths of Goth, and launched an awesome fleet into the Vortex, led by the Emperor himself.
The War raged, but for most species in the universe, life continued as normal. The War was fought in the Vortex, and beyond that, in the Ultimate Void, beyond the eyes and ears of ordinary creatures. The Lesser Species lived in ignorance. If a planet found its history subtle changing – perhaps distorting and rewriting itself under the pressures of the rupturing Vortex – then its people were part of that change, and perceived nothing to be wrong. Only the Higher Species – those further up the evolutionary ladder – saw what was happening. The Forest of Cheem gazed upon the bloodshed, and wept. The Nestene Consciousness lost all of its planets, and found itself mutating under temporal stress. The Greater Animus perished and its Carsenome Walls fell into dust. And it is said that the Eternals themselves watched, and despaired of this reality, and fled their hallowed halls, never to be seen again…
Years passed, as the mighty armies clashed. And then, silence. No one knows exactly what happened in the final battle. And no one knows how it came to end. All that is known is that one man strode from the wreckage, one man walked free from the ruins of Gallifrey and Skaro. The Time Lord called the Doctor. And his hearts were heavy as he boarded his ship once more, and took to the skies, to escape everything he had just seen; everything he had just done…
He is alone and thinks, somehow, that he deserves this. And as he wanders on, he decides that no one should stand beside him. He’s got no room, on board his TARDIS. He is a traveler, and needs no other.
But then he finds himself in the cellar of a London shop at closing time, and he grabs the hand of an Earthling called Rose Tyler, and looks into her eyes, and all those resolutions go out of the window! The journey goes on, with a human at his side, and who knows where it will end…
And far away, across the universe, on the planet Crafe Tec Heydra, one side of a mountain carries carvings and hieroglyphs, crude representations of an invisible War. The artwork shows two races clashing, one metal, one flesh; a fearsome explosion; and a solitary survivor walking from the wreckage. Solitary? Perhaps not. Under this figure, a phrase has been scratched in the stone, which translates as: you are not alone…
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