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| <b>名称(单数与复数):</b> 塔拉奇人 | | <b>名称(单数与复数):</b> 塔拉奇人 |
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| | <b>性别:</b> 雄性与雌性,各占一半。 |
| <b>Sexes:</b> Male & Female, equal split. | |
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| | <b>身高:</b> 平均 6 英尺 1 英寸。 |
| <b>Height:</b> 6' 1", average. | |
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| | <b>体重:</b> 一半个体能够飞行,塔拉奇人因进化中舍弃致密骨骼与外骨骼所带来的安全性和耐力,体型虽大却很轻,仅 80 至 100 磅。 |
| <b>Weight:</b> With half of them capable of flight the tarratch are light for their size, their evolution trading the safety and endurance afforded by dense bone and exoskeleton structure to achieve weights of 80-100 pounds. | |
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| | <b>毛发:</b> 仅头部有,天生几乎皆为黑色。 |
| <b>Hair:</b> Head only, naturally almost universally black. | |
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| | <b>眼睛:</b> 黑色,无瞳孔。 |
| <b>Eyes:</b> Black, pupil-less. | |
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| | <b>翅膀:</b> 季节性,仅雄性拥有。<i>参见繁殖。</i> |
| <b>Wings:</b> Seasonal, male only. <i>See Reproduction.</i> | |
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| | <b>触角:</b> 最容易辨认的天然特征。塔拉奇触角以“颈鬃”冠状环绕颈部,如短而宽的羽毛,振动时闪耀催眠般万花筒色彩。除能感受震动外,颈鬃显然还赋予佩戴者有限感知附近心灵的能力,可用来与其他塔拉奇人无声交流。 |
| <b>Antenna:</b> Their most recognizable natural feature, tarratch antennae grow in a “ruff” corona around their necks. They have the appearance of short, wide feathers which when vibrated shimmer with hypnotic, kaleidoscopic colors. Aside from being able to sense vibration the ruff apparently lends its wearer a limited ability to sense nearby minds, and can be used to communicate silently with other tarratch. | |
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| | ===外观=== |
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| Evolving from the strange insect analogues of their uncompromising home world of Origaiz, the tarratch are bipedal humanoids with distinct arthropod features. Their delicately featured spearhead-shaped faces and their alabaster skin are immediately recognizable to humans and ausar; their inky eyes, spidery digits and black exoskeleton-clad limbs are not. Their physical similarity to other sentient insect analogues, such as the recently discovered zil and myr, has lent fuel to the fire of galactic divergent evolution or “Seeder Precursor” theories. Setting them apart from other bipedal insect sentience are their ruffs of diaphanous, multi-colored moth-like feathers, which the tarratch can use to hypnotize and, with the aid of their long, butterfly-like tongues, feed psionically upon prey.
| | 塔拉奇人由严酷母星奥里盖兹上奇异的昆虫类比生物进化而来,是带有显著节肢动物特征的双足类人种族。人类和奥萨尔人能立刻认出他们精致的矛头形脸与雪白皮肤,却难以认出墨黑眼睛、蜘蛛般手指和覆有黑色外骨骼的四肢。他们与近期发现的兹尔人、密尔人等其他智慧昆虫类比生物的相似性,为银河趋异进化或“播种者先驱”理论提供新论据。使其区别于其他双足昆虫智慧种的是半透明、多彩蛾状羽毛的颈鬃;塔拉奇人可用它催眠猎物,并借助长长的蝶状舌头对其进行灵能进食。 |
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| | ===性别二态性、繁殖与性=== |
| ===Gender Dimorphism, Breeding and Sexuality===
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| Male tarratch naturally have a black, slightly curved prong penis roughly six inches in length. Their testicles are internal. Females have a black, clitoris-less vagina, the inside of which in turn is slightly curved. Tarratch do not ejaculate in quite the same manner as most species do; the tip of the prong penis is porous, and the male seeps its oily, transparent semen throughout intercourse, in this way facilitating penetration with increasing amounts of lubrication. Although lacking a clitoris, tarratch vaginas are self-lubricating and sensitive, and females are more than capable of sexual gratification.
| | 雄性塔拉奇人天生有约六英寸长、微弯的黑色叉状阴茎,睾丸内置。雌性有黑色、无阴蒂且内部略弯的阴道。塔拉奇人不像多数种族那样射精:叉状阴茎尖端多孔,雄性在性交全程渗出油性透明精液,以逐渐增加润滑并方便插入。尽管没有阴蒂,塔拉奇阴道会自行润滑且敏感,雌性完全能够获得性满足。 |
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| | 塔拉奇人的性别二态性不大,雌雄均身形纤细、中性而俊美。雌性则有小型装饰性胸部隆起和位于臀部上方的昆虫腹部,通常仅足球大小。由于母星资源稀缺,塔拉奇人大部分生命都不育,只有身体感知到附近资源足够养育孩子时才会自然恢复生育力。届时雌性腹部膨大,雄性有时生出半透明昆虫翅膀,且两性性攻击性增强。受精后,雌性经腹部在短暂孵育期后产下一小窝卵。 |
| Gender dimorphism amongst the tarratch is not large, with both males and females sharing slim frames and androgynous, delicate good looks. Females however have small, ornamental chest bumps and an insect abdomen above their rear, which under regular circumstances is as small as a football. Thanks to the scarcity of resources upon their home planet the tarratch remain sterile for most of their lives, naturally only becoming fertile when their bodies sense there are enough nearby resources available to support children. When this happens, the females abdomens become swollen and the males sometimes sprout diaphanous insect wings; both genders become more sexually aggressive. Once fertilized, the female lays a small clutch of eggs from her abdomen after a short incubation period.
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| | 尽管能与其他拟昆虫种族(或改造充分的其他种族)繁殖,塔拉奇人并不特别受生殖需求驱使。他们把天然不育视为恩赐,让自己纯粹为了享乐和强化心灵进食感受而追求性。和人类一样,他们乐于基因拼接以增强性快感,遇到带离奇附肢和改件的塔拉奇人并不罕见。 |
| Although capable of breeding with other pseudo-insect races (or others sufficiently modded) the tarratch are not particularly driven by the need to procreate. They regard their natural sterility as a boon, allowing them to pursue sex purely for the enjoyment of it and to intensify the sensation of mind feeding. Like humans they enjoy gene splicing themselves to further enhance the pleasures of sex, and encountering tarratch with outlandish appendages and add-ons is common.
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| | 两性数量相等、身体差异小,加上雌性分娩相对容易,使塔拉奇人形成昆虫种族中相当罕见的性别平等观。遇到掌权或显要的雄性与雌性的概率相同——如果偶遇时能分辨差别的话。处于一个性别差异显著的银河中,塔拉奇人常以玩味态度对待性别,夸大天生中性特征以混淆、令他人不适,甚至引诱他人。 |
| Their equal gender split, the lack of physical differences between sexes and the relative ease with which females can give birth has allowed the tarratch to evolve an egalitarian view towards genders that is fairly rare amongst insectoid races. Encountering males in positions of power or significance is about as likely as finding females - if that difference can even be discerned from a chance meeting. As a result of existing in galaxy full of races with marked sexual differences, tarratch often adopt a playful attitude towards gender, exaggerating their natural androgyny to confuse, discomfort or even entice others.
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| | ===历史=== |
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| The planet Origaiz is a small rock with minimal axial tilt, which only just falls within the habitable zone of its white hot sun. One side bakes in merciless heat whilst the other freezes to the core with a rapid turnover. All life upon it has evolved the ability to survive both extreme heat and cold, drawing in energy during the day, dissipating it in the night, invariably burying deep into the planet’s crust to escape the temperature and to access aquifers. With food upon the surface at a premium, the tarratch evolved early on to transfix prey with their shimmering collar displays, forcing thoughts and memories to the surface of their simple minds so that the whereabouts of their nest could be accessed. The hostile and fast-changing conditions of their home meant the tarratch developed a capricious, variegated and ruthless civilization revolving around internecine warfare and slave-taking; with the best resources moving constantly with the band of temperate weather between day and night the idea of lasting societies with long term goals was a complete mystery to them.
| | 奥里盖兹是一颗小型岩石星球,轴倾角很小,勉强处于炽白恒星的宜居带内。一面在无情酷热中炙烤,另一面又随迅速轮转冻结至核心。所有生命都演化出同时承受极热与极寒的能力:白天吸收能量、夜晚散失能量,并总是深埋地壳以避温并取得含水层。地表食物极少,塔拉奇人很早便演化出用闪耀颈鬃定住猎物、迫使其简单心灵将思绪和记忆浮现,以获知巢穴位置。母星敌对且急变的环境,使他们发展出反复无常、多样而无情的文明,围绕内战与掳奴运转;最佳资源不断随昼夜之间的温和天气带移动,因而拥有长期目标的持久社会概念对他们完全陌生。 |
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| | 第十次行星热潮中,奥萨尔人发现并提升塔拉奇人时,他们仍在铁器时代边缘挣扎。他们逃离奥里盖兹,来到对他们而言像无尽夏晨的银河多样生境,也发现拥有异常丰富心灵和有趣身体的大量智慧生命,令掳奴与交易能力呈指数扩张。塔拉奇人只部分依靠声带交流,也通过羽毛传递思想和感情,涉及复杂的礼节和虚张声势艺术。因此这昆虫种族文化上会轻蔑看待任何具有生物或人工灵能的种族,视其为受限的智慧,不能理解自己天生不过是塔拉奇人的玩物。 |
| The tarratch were struggling beyond the iron age when they were discovered and uplifted by the ausar during the tenth planet rush. They escaped Origaiz into a galaxy full of biomes which to them felt like a never-ending summer morning. They also discovered a whole range of sentients with excitingly rich minds and interesting bodies, expanding their capacity to take and trade slaves exponentially. The tarratch communicate only partially via their vocal chords; they also transmit thoughts and feelings to each other through their feathers, involving an intricate art of etiquette and bluff. The insect race are therefore culturally disposed to view even those races with biological or artificial psionic capability with a kind of contempt, stunted sentience that is incapable of understanding that its birthright is to be little more than playthings to the tarratch.
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| | 急于勘探、提取奥里盖兹矿产与奇异野生动物的奥萨尔人,曾轻易提升这群感激而非敌对的塔拉奇人;当他们与边陲海盗和掳奴者同义时,奥萨尔人后悔不已。U.G.C. 多次撤销奥里盖兹会籍并置其观察期,试图迫使其控制问题,却收效甚微。奥里盖兹位置偏远、环境严酷,吓退潜在占领者;而该种族技术上不与任何人交战,也乐意同任何足够不择手段的人交易矿物、珍贵致幻蛾及契约仆役,使 U.G.C. 不愿采取更强硬手段。许多塔拉奇阶层还与人类、奥萨尔人所有的基因改造、房地产和贷款公司建立获利伙伴关系,深度介入银河金融业来抵御谴责。 |
| Impatient to begin examination and extraction of the mineral resources and strange wildlife of Origaiz, the ausar regretted uplifting the grateful and non-hostile tarratch so readily once the race had become synonymous with frontier piracy and slave-taking. Origaiz has had its U.G.C. membership withdrawn and placed upon probation numerous times in an attempt to force it to get a handle on the problem, with little effect. Origaiz’s distant location and hostile environment deters would-be occupiers, and the fact the race aren’t technically at war with anyone and are perfectly willing to trade minerals, the prized mood-altering glamorflies and of course indentured servants with anyone unscrupulous enough, means the U.G.C. aren’t inclined to chase more hardball tactics with them. They have further buttressed themselves against opprobrium by becoming heavily involved within the galactic financial sector, with many tarratch hierarchies forging profitable partnerships with human and ausar-owned gene mod, real estate and loan companies.
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| | ===社会=== |
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| Away from the frontier the tarratch have developed into an urbane, pleasure-seeking society, forever inquisitive as to the next thrill and high that the galaxy can provide them.
| | 离开边陲后,塔拉奇人发展成都市化、追求享乐的社会,永远好奇银河下一种刺激与快感。 |
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| | 塔拉奇人技术相当先进,却几乎不明言关注改造、享乐和灵能以外的领域。其快速攻击、攫取资源的本能令他们形成闪电战方式:飞船与军备都为立即震慑、压倒敌人而设计;若不成功,就尽快撤退。虽然偏爱同类陪伴,他们也愿与其他种族合作,可在边陲作为佣兵、商人和拼接师找到。但因观察期身份难以在核心世界通行,他们几乎总出现于银河无政府枢纽。虽官方殖民地不多,却在跨域法较宽松的门户世界和空间站有强大存在,得以自由活动。 |
| The tarratch are a reasonably technologically sophisticated race, however they have little explicit interest in areas outside modding, pleasure and psionics. Their natural instinct for fast attack and resource seizing has caused them to evolve a lightning approach to warfare; their craft and armaments are designed to shock and overwhelm an enemy immediately, and if that doesn’t work, to retreat as fast as possible. Whilst they prefer the company of their own kind they are willing to work with other races, and can be found throughout the frontier working as mercenaries, traders and splicers. However, the difficulty they have moving throughout the core worlds thanks to their probationary status means that they are almost always found in the lawless hubs of the galaxy. Though they have few official colonies the tarratch have heavy presences on gateway worlds and stations, where intragalactic law is relaxed enough for them to operate freely.
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| | 塔拉奇人没有可识别的中央政府,而是组织成“阶层”。每个阶层关注何事、规模多大、如何治理差异极大,并随新伙伴关系、分裂团体、接管或政变不断变化。奥里盖兹快速变化的环境并未让他们形成特定治理模式;相反,这个文化以适应性、反复无常以及让其他社会难以捉摸为傲。若有什么文化母题,那就是可变性。塔拉奇人几乎没有背叛或叛国概念:若某人因下属或同伴反对而失权,只被认为不够聪明或不够适应。 |
| The tarratch lack any recognizable form of central governance, instead organizing themselves into “hierarchies”. What each is concerned with, how big they are and how they are governed varies wildly, and changes all the time as new partnerships are formed, new groups splinter off and takeovers or coups are performed. The swiftly changing conditions of Origaiz did not readily implant a particular style of governance amongst the tarratch. Indeed, they as a culture express a pride in their adaptability, capriciousness and the difficulty other societies have in pinning them down. If they do express a particular trope culturally it is just that: changeability. Tarratch have little concept of betrayal or treason; if one tarratch loses his position of power as a result of their underlings or comrades working against him, this is considered a result of him simply not being smart or adaptable enough.
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| | 融入更广银河社会后,许多以营利为本的阶层找到限制过度变化的方式,以便更好地与非塔拉奇人做生意。这常采取正式“门面”形式,通常在外星人协助下建立,供他人谈判;后台的塔拉奇人仍可实行让大多数外人困惑、不安的政治。商务旅行者应注意,塔拉奇人很少只为一个目标订约;他们买卖货物可能有多达三十六个理由,其中多数对另一方不透明,却未必没有后果。 |
| Since integration into wider galactic society, many profit-based hierarchies have worked out ways of moderating excessive changeability, in order that they may do business better with non-tarratch. This often takes the form of official “fronts”, usually constructed with the help of aliens, which others may negotiate with, whilst backstage the tarratch can continue practicing a form of politics that is bewildering and unsettling to most outsiders. Business travelers should be aware that tarratch rarely enter deals with only one goal in mind; there may be as many as three dozen reasons why they are attempting to buy or sell a good, most of which will be opaque to the other party, if not without consequence.
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| The only truly stable interest tarratch culture has, aside from a pronounced love of fashion and pleasure, is slavery. Their fast-changing societies on Origaiz has evolved in them a different view of the practice to most; on a world where a dictatorship could become a commune within the same month, tarratch slaves may be presented with plenty of chances to overcome their position, and therefore a slave that stays a slave deserves or desires to do so. This feeds into a wider view amongst tarratch that other races - slow, staid, mostly incapable of pseudo-psionic communication, minds richly nutritious - simply merit enslavement, and that indeed it is a natural state for them to be in. They are perfectly capable of respecting U.G.C. rule of law, however, and scare stories of tarratch cot-robbers and press gangs on space stations are invariably untrue. All official hierarchies confine themselves to indentured servant trading, enslaving outlaws and, during frontier rushes, technically legal poaching of native species.
| | 除对时尚与享乐的强烈热爱外,奴隶制是塔拉奇文化唯一真正稳定的兴趣。奥里盖兹上快速变化的社会使他们对此有别于多数种族:在同月内独裁国可变成公社的世界,塔拉奇奴隶或许有很多机会摆脱地位,因此仍为奴者是应得或想要如此。这支撑他们更广泛的看法:其他种族缓慢、刻板、多数不能进行伪灵能沟通,而心灵又营养丰富,因此理应被奴役,且这本就是其自然状态。不过他们完全能尊重 U.G.C. 法治,塔拉奇人从婴儿床偷人或空间站抓丁的恐怖故事总是假的。所有正式阶层仅从事契约仆役交易、奴役不法者,以及边陲热潮中技术上合法地捕猎本土种族。 |
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| | 塔拉奇人签约的仆役必然用于性、营养及/或装饰目的。用奴隶劳动的需要早已消失,作此用途被视为尴尬浪费。为获得营养,塔拉奇人常让仆役经历多种体验,以使其心灵更丰富、进食更满足。塔拉奇人对基因改造的兴趣恰好相配:富有主人会反复改变仆役,试验新的改造组合,从而改变仆役感知、赋予从极端快感到震惊恐惧的各种情绪,再从中汲取享用。奴隶有声望价值,交易外形与心灵异样的财产是极受欢迎的消遣。成为塔拉奇人的契约仆役通常经历多彩,却极度消耗。 |
| Tarratch-contracted servants are invariably kept for sexual, nutritional and/or ornate purposes. Any need to use slaves for labor purposes died out long ago, and employing them in this capacity is seen as an embarrassing waste. For the purposes of nutrition, tarratch often expose servants to a wide variety of experiences, in order to make their minds richer and therefore more satisfying to feed off. Tarratch interest in gene-modding is a happy coincidence; richer owners will literally change their servants repeatedly, testing out new combinations of mods that will in turn shift the perceptions of the servant and inflict any number of new emotions on them, from extreme pleasure to shock and horror, which can then be tapped and enjoyed. Slaves have prestige value, and trading exotically shaped and minded pieces of property is an extremely popular pastime. Being an indentured servant to the tarratch is generally an eventful but extremely draining occupation.
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| | 塔拉奇运营的集团常把自己宣传为“专业”契约仆役商,努力满足最挑剔客户的口味,同时在边陲与竞争者、独立海盗打地盘战。近来为抵销契约仆役贸易中的激烈竞争,据称部分塔拉奇阶层扩展到毒品走私和化学麻醉剂试验。 |
| Tarratch-run syndicates often market themselves as “specialist” indentured servant traders, looking to meet the tastes of the most discerning of customers, whilst waging turf wars with their rivals and independent pirates in the frontier. More recently, in order to offset bitter competition they have encountered in the indentured servant trade, some tarratch hierarchies have reportedly expanded into drug running and chemical narcotic experimentation.
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| | 除了其他生物生命也理解的一般进食需求外,塔拉奇人还受驱使吞食其他存在的思绪与感情。这一过程尚未获更广银河社会完全理解,显然为他们提供继续保持功能性灵能所需养分。 |
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| | 准备进食的塔拉奇人会用羽毛颈鬃催眠目标,将其最私密的思绪和记忆拉到表层,以性方式压倒对方。随后,他们把长而中空的舌头插入目标最接近嘴的部位,吞食已形成的浓烈灵能意象泡沫,通常也会同时利用受害者兴奋状态。此感受被形容为接受漫长、极其无情的心灵口交。 |
| A tarratch looking to feed hypnotizes his or her target with their feather ruff, drawing their most intimate thoughts and memories to the surface, sexually overwhelming them. They then insert their long, hollow tongues into whatever closest resembles a mouth upon the target and feed upon the heady froth of psychic imagery that has formed, usually taking advantage of the aroused state of the victim at the same time. The sensation is described as like receiving long, extremely ruthless mental oral sex.
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| | 塔拉奇人能以这种方式有限阅读受害者心灵——尤其可辨明清晰记忆和强烈冲动——但可观察到他们明确偏好原始情绪的“味道”,通常会在其他事情前从被侵入的心灵抽取强烈感受。被塔拉奇人进食的短期影响包括记忆空白、性兴奋反冲和完全失去一种或数种情绪;若受害者有足够时间恢复,这些会消退,缺失思绪会再生。 |
| The tarratch are capable of reading their victim’s minds to a limited extent this way – particularly clear memories and strong impulses can be discerned – but observably and explicitly prefer the “taste” of raw emotion, usually seeking to drain a strongly perceived feeling from an invaded mind before anything else. Short term effects from being fed upon by a tarratch include memory blanks, sexual arousal backwash and complete loss of one or several emotions; if the victim is given enough time to recover however this recedes and missing thoughts grow back.
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| | 在数千年间以动物简单、原始情绪为食后,塔拉奇人发现银河智慧生命如不可思议的丰盛盛宴;他们大部分时间都在饕餮享用,同时想出让其更美味的新法。除非足够绝望,塔拉奇人很少在门户世界和空间站直接攻击他人,更可能以金钱或信用点征求自愿“捐赠”。边陲遇到的智慧生命,或塔拉奇人自有的契约仆役,则被视作可任意取用。 |
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| Having spent millennia feeding upon the simple and base emotions of animals, the tarratch found the sentient life of the galaxy an almost impossibly rich banquet which they have spent most of the intervening time gorging upon whilst working out new ways to make it even more delicious. Tarratch will rarely simply attack other beings on gate-worlds and stations, unless suitably desperate – they are much more likely to solicit willing “donations” with money or credit. Sentients encountered on the frontier, or indentured servants the tarratch themselves own, are considered fair game.
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