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引用:原帖由 Maventurk 于 2008-2-14 20:46 发表 
但是在萨尔那加之影这本书的开头也说了,Xel’Naga,也被叫做Wanderers form Afar,是一个和平而又善良的种族。他们酷爱研究,并且在全宇宙开展他们的人工进化活动。他们在许多星球上开展试验,然后来到了Aiur这个丛林世界, ... 但是这并不能否认小说中Xel'Naga人创造的 phoenix creature 吸收基因的本质。我看的是英文版,文中这样描述:With a squidlike form of incandescent energy barely held within a luminous organic skin, the real creature, a glorious being, emerged from the broken shards of its cocoon. It rose like a phoenix made of giant feathery wings, grasping tentacles, and blazing suns for eyes.
Koronis stood watching the wondrous beast. It looked unlike anything he had ever seen, and yet there was nothing wrong about it. The creature combined elements of Terran butterfly and jellyfish and sea anemone. This being had a purity of purpose that seemed to reach a pinnacle higher than either the Protoss or the Zerg, which were the Xel'Naga's other primary creations.
The awakened entity moved quickly, rising out of the shattered chrysalis and
hovering over the battlefield. Koronis felt as if he were a part of it. The
creature sang a telepathic melody, a song written by the long-dead Xel'Naga, infused with a throbbing resonance that felt attuned to every strand of his DNA.
But Koronis sensed that he and his Protoss were not here just as observers. This phoenix monster needed him, and it needed the Zerg. They were resources to complete its grand metamorphosis. The buried cocoon had been placed here aeons ago, growing, incubating, waiting . . . until now.
A typhoon of wind and carefully targeted lightning bolts flew around the rising
creature like a fury, and it struck out in a kaleidoscope of color across the
battlefield.
The Protoss and the Zerg stood helpless as theXel'Naga-spawned being flashed them all with its high-powered scanning beams, disintegrating and absorbing them, gathering up their genetics, all the thoughts and souls of these other children of the Xel'Naga. The area for miles around glowed, not with nuclear radiation, but with a seething backwash of life force.
Now more than the sum of its parts, the magnificent phoenix creature rose
through the sky, tearing apart clouds and turning them hot and orange. The adult life-form ascended into space, leaving behind the destruction and the shell of its chrysalis in the blasted mountainside.
On its way it encountered the few remaining Alpha Squadron Battlecruisers in orbit.
Already on edge, knowing that the ground forces had been wiped out in the
titanic three-way battle around the artifact, the captain of the wounded
Battlecruiser Napoleon opened fire with a blast of his Yamato gun. Seeing the dazzling creature hurtling toward him like a hurricane, he had no time—or desire—to wait for orders from General Duke down in his command center in Free Haven.
The captains of the other Battlecruisers came to the same conclusion. Yamato guns fired at the oncoming phoenix-thing, unwittingly increasing the being's biological power reservoirs. It glowed brighter, hotter. . . .
And as it swept past, the newborn entity vaporized, absorbed, and digested the Terran battleships, drinking their power, leaving only sparkling chunks of
molten debris, which flash-froze in the cold vacuum of space.
Then it engulfed and absorbed the Zerg and Protoss secondary forces that had remained in reserve above the planet.
另外,小说和游戏一样,都是虚构出来的。而且最早出现女性的 Protoss 族就是在这本小说中。现在游戏剧情中女性执行官 Selendis 也出现了。讨论官方小说不怎么贴近游戏的背景设定没有必要,呵呵
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