【TFWIKI资料翻译/搬运】Polities of Cybertron 赛博坦政体

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Polities of Cybertron

赛博坦政体

Although the bulk of Transformers fiction doesn't bother itself with detailing Cybertron, over time a few things have been said about Cybertron's polities.

尽管大多数有关变形金刚的小说并没有自找麻烦对赛博坦进行详细描述，但随着时间的推移，我们还是了解到了一些关于赛博坦政体的信息。

Contents 目录

1 City

2 City-state

3 Province

4 Orbital Torus State

5 Town

6 Village

City都市

Most frequently referred to in fiction are Cybertronian cities. However, particularly in the Generation 1 continuities, it is not always clear whether something is a city or a city-state. 

都市，在相关小说中常指赛博坦城市。但是（特别是在G1系列中），我们并不总能分清一个地方究竟是都市还是城邦。

City-state 城邦

Though the term city-state would imply cities with their own internal sovereignty, most city-states on Cybertron are usually unified through some sort of planetary government, usually a Council of Elders, a High Council or a Senate. City-states are only confirmed to exist in the Marvel and Dreamwave Generation 1 continuities. In Transformers: Exodus, it is stated each city-state had its own militia while the High Council Guards were in charge of civilian law. Prowl fulfilled a role as a go-between when he was a police officer.

尽管“城邦”这个名号意味着该地拥有自治权，但一般来说，大部分赛博坦城邦都由某种类型的行星政府（通常情况下，行星政府有元老院，最高议会和参议院三种）统一在一起。目前只确定在漫威和DW漫画的G1系列中有“城邦”这一政体的存在。在《变形金刚·征途》（Transformers: Exodus）中提到，每个城邦都拥有自己的自卫队，而最高议会下辖的护卫队则负责市民法。在还是个警员的时候，警车就充当了这两者【1】的中间人的角色。

Province 行省

Provincial structures have only been established in the Marvel and Dreamwave Generation 1 continuities, and rather halfheartedly at that. Only Polyhex in the Marvel comics has been explicitly called a province (at first), while from description Stanix can be deduced to be one. Dreamwave never defined its Cybertronian provinces, but "The War Within #1" confirms the existence of at least sixteen of them.

只在漫威和DW的G1系列中才建立有行省结构，而且建立得相当随意。（起初）只有漫威漫画中的莫邪天城（Polyhex）被明确地称为“行省”，但从对斯坦（Stanix）【2】的描述，可以推断出此地也应是一个行省。DW从未定义过DW世界观下的赛博坦行省概念，但是在《内战#1》（The War Within #1）中证实了赛博坦至少拥有16个行省。

Orbital Torus State 环轨行省

Orbital Torus States were introduced in the Dreamwave Generation One continuity, which depicted Cybertron's surface as divided in small areas of even ground separated from each other by sea, crevice or another large type of depression. Each Orbital Torus State occupies one of the patches of ground formed this way. Transformers: The Ultimate Guide shows about one half of Cybertron consisting of thirteen Orbital Torus States, suggesting there to be a total of about twenty-six of them. Iacon and Kaon are the two Polar States and Uraya, Praxus and Protihex make up a unit called the Tri-Peninsular Torus States.

Exactly what an Orbital Torus State is in relation to other types of polities is unclear. "The War Within #1" and "The Age of Wrath #1" confirm there are both provinces and city-states in Dreamwave G1 continuity. All locations that are designated as a city-states in the Marvel Comics continuity (and Polyhex) are Orbital Torus States in this continuity, suggesting an overlap of the two terms. What this means for the distribution of provinces—at least on Earth the bigger units in which city-states are located—is unknown.

IDW Generation 1 continuity also features Torus States, first mentioned in "Chaos Theory Part 2" in the form of the Tri-Peninsular Torus States and "orbital borders", and later appearing in Autocracy. Autocracy also introduced several "Torus-Cities", most prominently Nyon, which may be the same thing as Torus States.

环轨行省的概念于DW漫画的G1系列引入。此概念将赛博坦的表面划分为平坦的小块地区，每块地区由于海洋，地表裂缝或者另一种巨大的洼地而彼此分隔。每个环轨行省都建立于这样的小块地区之上。《变形金刚·终极指南》（ Transformers: The Ultimate Guide）提到赛博坦的一个半球上包含了13个环轨行省，暗示了环轨行省的总数约有26个。铁堡（Iacon）和卡隆（Kaon）是赛博坦的极地行省，而不破城，云雾山城和婆娑天城则组成了一个被称为“三半岛联合体（Tri-Peninsular Torus States）”的环轨行省单元。

环轨行省与其他类型的政体的关系目前尚不明确。《内战#1》（The War Within #1）和《愤怒年代#1》（The Age of Wrath#1）可以证实在DW漫画的G1系列中行省和城邦两种政体在赛博坦并存。在这个系列中，所有环轨行省的定义都与漫威漫画系列中“城邦”的定义相同（包括莫邪天城），暗示了在DW 漫画中这两个术语出现了概念重叠。这两个术语的概念重叠对赛博坦个行省划分，至少对位于地球的城邦所处的较大的地理单元的意义是未知的。

在IDW漫画的G1系列中也曾特别指出了环轨行省的存在，该定义在《混沌理论》（Chaos Theory Part2）中以“三半岛联合体（Tri-Peninsular Torus States）”和“环轨边界（orbital borders）”的形式第一次出现，不久后又出现在《独裁》（Autocracy）系列中。在《独裁》（Autocracy）系列中还介绍了一些“环面城市”，其中重点介绍了尼昂（Nyon）。环面城市和环轨行省可能是同一概念的不同表达方式。

Town 城镇

Only Yuss has ever been designated as a town. It was featured in the Marvel Comics continuity, among cities, city-states and provinces. It is not known what the Transformers consider the difference between town and city. 

只有尤斯（Yuss）曾被指明是一座“城镇”。尤斯作为一座在都市、城邦和行省之间的城镇在漫威漫画系列里被特别指出。我们并不知晓变形金刚系列怎么定义城镇和都市之间的区别。

Village 村庄

Cybertronian villages are confirmed to exist in the pre-Beast Wars Generation 1 amalgam, as Roulette and Shadow Striker lived in one before the war. The Dreamwave version of the Unicron Trilogy has the Mini-Con Sector divided into various villages.

赛博坦上的村庄被认为在野兽之战第一季是之前就存在，因为刺客和转轮【3】在战前就生活在一个村庄里。在DW版本的宇宙大帝三部曲中，赛博坦上的迷你金刚扇区被划分成了许多村庄。

译者注：【1】由于原文的省略，我们不能确定此处是指警车作为“护卫队和自卫队的中间人”还是“城邦和最高议会的中间人”，为避免错误，采用模糊化处理。但我们根据现有的资料推断，是“护卫队和自卫队的中间人”的可能性较高。欢迎对此有了解的小伙伴进行指正。

【2】斯坦(Stanix)为译者音译，并未找到与此地区相关的资料。欢迎对此有了解的小伙伴进行指正。

【3】刺客和转轮（Roulette and Shadow Striker）的名字在国内没有相应的官方汉化，因此选择了一个介绍BotCon的玩具帖里的汉化（事实上也只找到了这一个帖）。