爱 死亡和机器人
虫群
在余下的航行中 We shall miss your conversation
我们会怀念与你的对话的 艾佛瑞尔博士 on the rest of our voyage, Dr. Afriel.
我也是 And I yours.
对我来说 我们互换的信息极其珍贵 Our exchange of information has been extremely valuable to me.
人类是那种我们享受与之 Humanity is the kind of race
进行交易的种族 we enjoy doing business with.
年轻 热切 灵活 Young, eager, flexible.
但我们不懂 But we do not understand
研究虫族能给你们带来什么好处 the profit you seek in studying the swarm.
它们只是一群有组织的动物 They are merely well-organized animals.
我们人类从点滴处学习 Hmm. Well, we humans learn wherever we can.
艾佛瑞尔博士 Dr. Afriel.
根据我们的运送合约 Per our transit contract,
我方将在人类的六百天后返回 we shall return in 600 of your days.
艾佛瑞尔博士 Dr. Afriel.
欢迎 Welcome.
摩尼博士 见到你很荣幸 Dr. Mirny. An honor to meet you.
我也是 And I you.
见到同类的感觉 真是太好了 It's good to see another human face.
另外 请叫我贾丽娜 And please, call me Galina.
- 什么 - 别担心 - What? - Don't be alarmed.
它会把你的信息素带给女王 It will convey your pheromones to the queen.
否则 你可能会被视为入侵者然后被杀掉 Otherwise, you might be considered an invader and killed.
我对你关于 I followed your study of
虫族的研究有着极大的兴趣 博士 the Swarm with tremendous interest, Doctor.
但我不知道你还学会了跟它们交流 But I had no idea you'd learned to communicate with them.
不完全是 Not exactly.
我发现虫族各阶层间并不使用语言 I found no Swarm castes that use language,
但一些共生物种之间会使用 but several symbiote species still do.
我将这些称之为跳虫 I call these springtails.
我相信此种族也曾具备太空旅行的能力 I believe they were once a spacefaring race
它们发现了虫群 然后被同化了 who discovered the Swarm and were absorbed by it.
现在的它们不过是野蛮的寄生虫而已 But now they are little more than parasitic savages.
目前 我已辨识出十五类独特的共生外星物种 So far, I've identified 15 unique symbiotic aliens
生存在数百种 living among the hundreds
各具功能的虫群原生阶层 of specialized castes native to the Swarm.
各种各样营养丰富的真菌 Various strains of nutrient-rich
是虫族主要的食物来源 fungi are the hive's main food source.
因为我们具有相似的生物化学性 Since our basic biochemistry is similar,
所以完全可以食用 it's perfectly edible.
我学会了运用反射式拍打收集食物 I've learned to solicit food with a pattern of reflex tapping.
在工虫的肠胃里发酵后 Fermentation in the worker's gut
会增加一些营养价值 Adds nutritional value.
味道也更好 Makes it taste better too.
好吃 Mmm. It's wonderful.
隧道工 Tunneler.
它可以把我们带向巢穴深处 It can take us further into the Nest.
女王 The queen.
巢穴的心脏 Heart of the Nest.
无论需要什么阶层的工虫 Whatever caste of worker is needed,
她都能造出来 she can create it.
整个巢穴是基因自动化的奇迹 The entire Nest is a wonder of genetic automation.
真的很神奇 It is truly amazing.
兵虫阶层 异常致命 Warrior caste. Very deadly.
但前提是你有意伤害女王和她的虫卵 But only if you mean harm to the queen and her eggs.
艾佛瑞尔博士 我觉得 Dr. Afriel, I think it's
是时候告诉我你为何来这里了 time you told me exactly why you're here.
根据你的发现 As you've discovered,
虫族是近乎完美的有机系统 the Swarm is a near-perfect organic system.
有这样的资源 With a resource like this,
我们可以给人类混乱的扩张带来秩序 we can bring order to the chaos of human expansion.
我们必须掌控它的力量 We must harness its power.
你是说剥削吧 Exploit it, you mean.
如果你想要的是秩序 If order is what you want,
环顾周围 look around.
这里总是很温暖 好闻 到处都是食物 It's always warm, it smells good, and there's plenty of food.
这个巢穴已经在此存在数百万年了 This Nest has been here for millions of years.
但千年后 又有谁会记得人类呢 Who will remember humanity in even a thousand?
即使我活不到见证我们种族胜利的那一天 Even though I won't live to see our race triumph,
但只要能预见那一天就足够了 it's enough that I can foresee that day.
傲慢 Arrogance.
博士 这些生物是无辜的 These creatures are primordially innocent, Doctor.
他们不应该变成 They should never become
数光年外权力斗争的棋子 pawns in some power struggle light-years away.
我们只需要一颗虫卵中的基因信息 But we only need the genetic information from one egg.
有了这个 我们可以培育出我们自己的女王 With that, we can grow our own queen.
她的后代会建立一个新巢穴 Her offspring will build a new nest.
若没有巢穴信息素的控制 They would be useless
它们将毫无用处 without the Nest's pheromones to control them.
人造静脉 Mm. Artificial vein.
它躲过了投资者的检疫 This slipped past the Investor quarantine.
里面是基于你的样本合成出的 Inside is a selection of the Swarm pheromones we synthesized
虫族信息素 based on your samples.
如果成功了 我们就可以控制数百万的工虫 If these work, we could control millions of workers.
和兵虫大军 Armies of warriors.
你计划培育出一个奴隶种族 You are planning to breed a slave race.
我们可以 We could...
你也自己说 它们没有感觉 You said yourself, they aren't sentient.
它们是有机机器 They're organic machines.
它们可不会 It's not as if they'd be
仰望星空 渴望自由 staring up at the stars pining for their freedom.
这倒是真的 It's true.
对它们来说 为我们工作 Whether they work for us
或为虫族工作 没有任何差别 or the Swarm will make no difference to them.
这就是这个想法的美妙之处 博士 And that is the beauty of the idea, Doctor.
只要不给巢穴带来伤害 As long as no harm comes to the Nest
我就帮你 I'll help you.
我们需要通过一系列的试验 We'll need to test the synthesized pheromones
测试合成的信息素 with a series of trials.
第一个瓶子里是最基础的信息素指令 First vial contains the most basic pheromonal commands.
一个简单的分组刺激 A simple grouping stimulus.
但为了达到最大效果 But to work most effectively,
信息素需要在化学程序中相结合 the pheromones need to be combined in a chemical program.
收集 然后挖掘 Gather, then dig.
在这里种植食物 然后收获 Grow food here, then harvest.
或者找到一颗受精卵 Or retrieve one fertilized egg.
我们人类也没什么不一样 We humans are not so very different.
漂泊在古老的化学潮汐上 Adrift on ancient chemical tides.
淹没在生命的温暖的 Submerged in the warm ebb and flow
潮涨潮落中 of life.
怎么了 What is it?
提供食物的虫子 不行 不进食 Food-giver no good. Not feed.
带我去见她 Take me to her.
来啊 你们这群没脑子的杂种 Come on then, you mindless motherfuckers!
贾丽娜 Galina?
我没有名字 I have no name,
但你可以称呼我为 but you may address me as
虫群 Swarm.
我是虫群的阶层之一 I am one of its castes.
我的专长是智慧 My specialty is intelligence.
我们没有伤害你的意思 We... we mean you no harm.
我们只是想寻求知识 We seek only knowledge and...
你们想培育我们 You sought to breed us.
利用我们 Use us.
但你们粗糙的实验 But your crude experiments
激发了特定的基因协定 triggered certain genetic protocols,
所以我诞生了 and I was born.
我只有几周大 I am only a few weeks old,
但我有着数百万年的种族记忆 but I have millions of years of racial memory.
你显然拥有智慧 You are clearly an intelligent being.
我们一定能找到一种方式 Surely we can find a way to...
拜托 博士 我只是一个工具 Please, Doctor, I'm just a tool.
一个虫群曾多次用来 One the Swarm has used
解决类似你们这样的威胁的工具 to deal with threats like yours many times.
通过她的记忆 我了解了你的种族 Through her memories, I understand your race.
一个特别有活力的种族 An especially vigorous one.
我期待他们能在数百年后 I expect they could be here,
来这里与我们竞争 competing with us within a few hundred years.
那一天很快就会到来 Hmm. It will be sooner.
或许吧 Perhaps.
但按照虫族的时间比例 But on the timescale the Swarm operates,
你的种族很快就会消亡 your race will soon be gone.
如果你试图毁灭我们 我们会 If... if you intend to destroy us, we will...
你们最有可能会自我毁灭 Most likely, you'll destroy yourselves.
智慧 In... intelligence.
并不是种族延续的决定性因素 Is not a winning survival trait.
想想依靠你的呕吐物生存的食腐虫 Consider the scavenger feeding on your vomit.
两百万年前 Two million years ago,
它们的祖先曾使银河系颤抖 its ancestors made the galaxy tremble.
当它们攻击虫群时 When they attacked the Swarm,
我们培育出更聪明 we bred smarter,
更坚韧的同类 与它们作战 tougher versions of their own race to fight them.
我们的巢穴是它们所知的唯一的世界 Our nests were the only world they'd known,
它们用我们无法匹敌的愤怒和创造力 and they fought with a fury and inventiveness
与我们作战 we never could have matched.
这是个绝佳的策略 It is an excellent strategy.
你们两个组成了一对完美的繁殖者 And the two of you make a perfect breeding pair.
我绝不会背叛我的种族 I would never betray my race.
我会自杀 I will kill myself.
这种情况下 我会 In which case, I would
直接克隆你 然后独自抚养孩子 simply clone you and raise the children myself.
伤脑筋 Bothersome.
那么我给你一个选择 And so I offer you a choice.
依然做一个拥有智慧的生命体 还是 Remain an intelligent living being or
逼我用强 Real ugly events
所以 So,
你接受我的提议吗 博士 do you accept my offer, Doctor?
我接受你的挑战 I accept your challenge.
我们不会变成寄生虫的 We won't become parasites.
人类是不同的 Humans are different.
你们当然不一样 Of course you are.
我很高兴不用同化你 I'm glad I won't have to absorb you.
我会怀念 I would have missed
与你的对话的 your conversation.