LBHIDDEN[0]LBHIDDEN 五千年银河文明史
——我们将在这里为您描述CORE ARM TLL RIM 的起源以及他们之间的恩恩怨怨。——
（本文非官方故事背景。请勿对号入座。）
CORE
所属：银河轴心帝国。
轴心帝国是已知文明中唯一一个曾经成功统一整个银河系的文明。轴心人发源自银河的中心地区。巨大的金属星就是他们开始创建霸业的家园。轴心人能够将人脑的意识移植机器上，使科学家，舰队指挥官，以及社会其他方面的精英能够不必担心寿命限制，而近乎永久地为帝国工作下去。轴心帝国的科技文明因此空前发展，但是也为此而付出了惨痛的代价。当轴心帝国执政团试图以武力强制那些宁愿老死也不愿变成机器的社会精英们移植其意识时，叛乱爆发了。起初叛乱行为被轻易镇压，但是更多的科学家和激进派军官逃到了轴心帝国统治相对薄弱的大旋臂地带。一些人甚至在那里从事煽动推翻轴心执政团的阴谋活动。轴心帝国执政团决心派出帝国舰队去讨伐那些收留了叛逆分子的行星。为此，无数星球被炮火摧毁。
ARM
所属：银河旋臂联盟。
轴心人在古代银河统一战争中，征服了银河系壮丽的大旋臂地区，并设置了若干行省，以统治处于大旋臂地带错综复杂的诸异族文明。随着轴心帝国发生的一系列政治风波，大批反对政府的激进派涌入该地区。出于对轴心帝国的不满或者仅仅是同情，旋臂人容纳了他们。帝国舰队随后赶来，并粗鲁地进行了一系列军事惩戒行动。这大大激化了旋臂人同帝国之间的矛盾。出于共同的目的，反叛的轴心人和大旋臂地区的试图恢复独立的各个被统治种族结成了军事同盟，不惜以武力同轴心帝国周旋。
指挥官的传说和银河战争
为了摧毁旋臂联盟，轴心帝国集中了全银河系的精英，建造了“指挥官”。它是台强悍无比的机器战士，被赋予毁灭世界和重建世界的能力。（轴心执政团的计划是利用“指挥官”完全毁灭旋臂联盟控制的世界，并在之后进行重建为忠于轴心的新世界。）
为了以防万一，轴心人着手为“指挥官”1号建造了一个备份系统“指挥官”2号。然而很不幸的是，在一次可以说是轴心自作自受的叛逃事件中“指挥官”2号的数据资料及其元件落入了旋臂联盟的手中。
银河战争随即爆发，通过旧帝国和新联盟大量修建的交通网络——银河之门，金属指挥官们穿梭于星际之间。将战火带到每一个有银河之门的行星上去。战争旷日持久，永无尽头。轴心人，悬臂人，以及其他大大小小的银河文明在不断毁灭和反复重建中痛苦地挣扎了几千年，终于销声匿迹。然而，不死的指挥官们还活着，程序使它们不知疲倦地在文明巨大废墟的阴影下，继续着已经不会再有胜利者的银河战争…
TLL （The Lost Legacy）
所属：寻根联合舰队
他们是迷失在宇宙的轴心殖民者的末裔。
轴心帝国在征服了银河系的其他主要文明后，制定远征河外星系的新计划。一支庞大的军事殖民舰队被派往银河系的最边缘。他们的任务是在那里建立起为未来远征提供中转服务的前哨殖民地。舰队经过漫长的航行，几乎马上就要抵达边缘地带了。然而等待他们的却是一场突发的超新星爆发事件。
大多数船舰来不及转向，人们只能眼睁睁地看着闪着红光能量流横扫一切。大型旗舰被撕得粉碎。殖民舰队遭到灭顶之灾。只有少数机动灵活的舰船得以幸免。残存的所剩无几的舰只失去了和轴心帝国的联系（由于银河战争的爆发，超时空通信中断。但是当时的殖民者是无从知晓的。）。资源匮乏最终使他们中止了回航的努力，就近在适宜的无人行星登陆，建设殖民家园。在银河大战进行得如火如荼之际，他们则在这荒凉之地安享和平。他们利用舰船上遗留的少量的技术，为重新恢复文明进行了几千年的努力。
四千银河年过去，在一次对当年舰队残骸的考古发掘后，他们开始沉思他们所失去祖传之物、他们的起源文明。他们决新重新组织一支联合舰队，返回银河系的中心，去寻找他们祖先的发源地。然而，经过几百年的航行，当寻根联合舰队抵达银河系的中心地区后，到处是战争的残迹和古文明的碎片，却唯独不见文明活动的迹象。
终于，他们遭遇上了轴心和旋臂不死的机械军团。这些金属战士运行着非我即敌的逻辑程式。当寻根舰队执意要到轴心文明的发源地——金属星——寻找遗失的祖传之物时，正在争夺金属星控制权的两大阵营——轴心和旋臂——不约而同地袭击了他们。寻根联合舰队舰毁人亡，没有任何幸存者（即使有，也不可能在全金属的世界里活过三天）。
然而，事情并没有这样结束，在飞船坠毁前，安全装置自动启动了殖民者末裔们制造的金属指挥官。它是根据考古发掘中发现的一小段文字描述加上全新的技术制造出来的。它被装载在寻根联合舰队的旗舰上，原本计划用于重新探索开发银河中心地带。
很快，寻根者们制造的指挥官步出旗舰的残骸，按照殖民者末裔预先设定的程序开始探索并重建世界（它没有意识到这样做已经毫无意义了）。
它本来对轴心或者旋臂不抱敌意，不过，它建立起的能量采集站在两群机械部队的交火中被摧毁后，它的程序系统重新经过计算和分析后判定，在执行全面重建程序之前，有件事情需要优先解决…
RIM
所属：边缘星系共和国
生动地讲，边缘星系就像是银河系大旋臂在旋动中抛洒向外太空的一串珍珠。当地的智慧文明是整个银河系最原始，最落后的种族。当古代轴心人探险舰队第一次光顾这里时，他们甚至还不懂得进行恒星际载人飞行。由于该地区过于偏远，轴心人在雄心勃勃地将整个银河系圈进帝国版图之后，甚至都忘记在这里设置行省。
然而，当轴心人开始策划对河外文明进行一次史无前例的大远征之后，这里作为未来舰队中转站的战略意义日渐凸现。轴心人向边缘星系派出了一支规模空前的武装殖民舰队，按照轴心人的想法，这些野蛮人会为能够成为帝国管辖下的一份子而感激涕零。
然而，边缘人在探知帝国舰队的接近后，却以引爆途中一个荒废星系的恒星的方式来欢迎轴心人。大多数轴心殖民舰在这场超新星爆炸中化为宇宙的尘埃。残余舰只仓皇向故土的方向逃亡。
边缘人俘获了一艘在逃亡中迷失方向的轴心舰船。船上的设备和技术大大加速了边缘人发展星际文明的脚步。
若干年后，边缘人已经成功统治了整个边缘星系。甚至萌发了进而统治整个银河的想法。但是苦于大规模星际殖民技术的欠缺，征服银河始终只是一个幻想。
一天，一艘漆有轴心标志的太空舰突然闯入边缘星系。该舰的舰长声称，银河系爆发了空前规模的内战。金属星和都市星早已被废弃。残存的人类纷纷逃向银河系的尽头。他们也是逃难者中的一批，在冻眠技术的帮助下，已经在银河系漫无目的地漂泊近两千年。
边缘人进行了彻底的搜查，希望能从这艘破烂不堪的中型远航舰上找到大规模星际殖民技术。然而，所能找到的大多数技术对边缘人来说或者无关紧要，或者早已掌握，除了一些记录了不死的金属战神构造的数据资料。资料的持有者在讯问中自称是轴心帝国的末代科学部主管的后裔，先祖曾经参与过“指挥官计划”的数据整理和升级工作。他的姓氏今天无从知晓，只知道其他人称呼他“小轴心”。作为允许太空舰通过的交换，小轴心留下，并按照边缘人的命令为其打造全新的，忠于边缘共和国的金属指挥官。
若干年后，新的边缘指挥官被制造出来。边缘人用一艘自动驾驶的超远程太空梭将其载往银河系的中心地带。边缘人希望它能作为银河中心殖民计划的先锋，彻底清除前银河文明的残渣，重建世界，并在边缘人掌握大规模星际殖民方法之后，迎接边缘人的殖民。
数百年后，边缘指挥官的太空梭坠落在银河系中心地带的一个不知名的行星上，因为一些计算误差，它的系统在稍晚后才启动。而等待它的是它那些素未谋面却对它虎视眈眈的兄弟们…
VINE
所属：轴心生物机械开发部
轴心人在“指挥官计划”之前研发的特种藤本植物同机械的混合体。低成本和快速自我复制是该混合体的特色。据说，其后的“指挥官计划”就受到VINE自我复制的启发。轴心人曾在某行星上秘密测试了VINE的作战能力，甚至一度有投放战区的打算，但是轴心人最终还是废止了VINE的发展计划，关闭了试验区的银河之门，并将该行星列为禁入地带。废止计划的原因据说是执政团担心VINE既不可预测亦无法控制的发展能力。其后的银河战争中，VINE和它所盘踞的行星被人们遗忘。然而历经五千银河年后，原本被封印的银河之门不知因为什么原因自动开启了。VINE在默默等待五千年后，终于找到了通往外界的入口…
VINE单位：
除了廉价和快速自我复制外，VINE单位大都具有较强的自我修复能力。此外，每个VINE单位在诞生之后，随着年龄的增长，会越来越结实（显示为近乎空的血格一点点增长）。
VINE单位对金属的需求量不大，此外所有的VINE单位都可以通过自身的光合作用获取可观的能量，因此一般来讲不需要特地去建造能量收集站。VINE是如此喜爱阳光，它们可以凭借变异的厌氧细胞在没有空气的行星上活动，但是无法到达没有阳光的海底。因此，它们没有潜艇单位和海底单位。同时，由于种种原因，VINE也没有严格意义上的空军的单位。
一般来讲，VINE分为可移动的VINE和不可移动的VINE。可移动的VINE种类不多，而且和纯金属机动单位相比，其中大多数的移动速度算是奇慢无比的。他们的重要任务就是传播VINE的种子，也有少数具备攻击能力的机动VINE。不可移动的VINE是整个家族的主要构成，有的是繁殖可移动VINE的平台，有的则是防御或者进攻武器的平台。 VINE主要靠阵地战将对手一点一点挤压直至消灭。
有传闻说，VINE可以将普通的植物转化为作战单位。但是，目前还未经证实。总的来说，VINE仍是一个谜。
（本文非官方故事背景。请勿对号入座。）
大赠送！！
给英文的爱好者们：
官方英文原版故事背景：
Long ago, the galaxy had known peace.
Paradise was ruled with the hand of science, and the hand was that of the galactic governing body known as the Core.
Ironically, it was the Core’;s ultimate victory, the victory over death itself, that brought about the downfall of its paradise and started the war that would decimate a million worlds.
The immortality process, known as “patterning,” involved the electronic duplication of brain matrices, allowing the transfer of consciousness into durable machines. Effectively it meant immortality, and the Core decreed the process mandatory for all citizens in order to ensure their safety.
However, there were many citizens unwilling to toss aside their bodies so casually, many indeed who regarded patterning as an atrocity. They fled to the outer edges of the galaxy, forming a resistance movement that became known as the Arm. War began, though it was never officially declared by either side.
The Arm developed high-powered combat suits for its armies, while the Core transferred the minds of its soldiers directly into similarly deadly machines. The Core duplicated its finest warriors thousands of times over. The Arm countered with a massive cloning program. The war raged on for more than 4,000 years, consuming the resources of an entire galaxy and leaving it a scorched wasteland.
Both sides lay in ruins. Their civilizations had long since vanished, their once vast military complexes were smashed. Their armies were reduced to a few scattered remnants that continued to battle on ravaged worlds. Their hatred fueled by millenia of conflict, they would fight to the death. For each, the only acceptable outcome was the complete and utter annihilation of the other.
TLL英文原版故事：
ACT I: The crash.
After hundreds of years spent in cryogenic hibernation, the members of the fleet of imperial colonization of humatran were brutaly awoken. The life systems were reactivated in each starship and vessel, and all other crew started has to be awaked, the external warning systems were activated and indicated an imminent danger. Whereas they crossed first system of the edge, of the closest galaxy (which they were to colonize), its central star was in its final phase of life,and much weaker than what they first thought. At once, the colonists launched their emergency repatriation plan. But the first waves of the explosion of the monstrous supernova were already to feel…
A ray of a sharp red shined forth, enveloping the spaceships. Panic seized each ship, and the colonists frantically brought the ships back online, in order to be the first to set out again. The small vessels, lighter and faster, were already turning and had begun to accelerate, while largest flagship had begun his turn. When the first shockwave reached the fleet, the lighter vessels were at once swept away like simple sheets with the wind, while the majority of largest ships began disintegrating, slowly. Luckiest of these had begun accelerating with the intent to flee the area, when the second and final shockwave reached the fleet…
The fleet was almost destroyed by this second deadly shockwave, the vessels which survived were only a handful, and the state of each was pitiful. Only one had fully functional engines, and immediately undertook operations to rescue the crew of the other heavily damaged ships. But the return to their galaxy was impossible, all auto-navigation systems destroyed, like all the communication systems. Their only hope, was to find a planet to settle.
They spent whole months in space in the search of a planet to to settle, when finally they approached the first planet whose characteristics were not entirely hostile. In any event, they did not have the choice, because the amount of food was insufficient to continue, and the life on board the man-of-war was uncomfortable and becoming insupportable. When the vessel entering the atmosphere began its landing operation, the undergone damages were much more serious than they had envisaged. The control sytems burnt out in the descent through the atmosphere, one after another, and the crash of the vessel seemed nearly ordained… The crew ran to the rescue pods. The vessel was specified to carry many, thus small pods were released towards the surface of planet softly, while the ship continued its infernal descent.
ACT II: Birth of a giant.
The first landing pods disgorged their crewmembers, and the hundreds of survivors gathered to organize a search for their vessel. When they arrived at the site of the crash, there remained only burning sheets on the ground. Nothing remained!!! No more space transports, neither communication systems, nor tools. They would have to rebuild, to rediscover, to relearn… But life took off, again, quickly…
Hundreds of years later, the descendants of the people who had colonized the planet had rebuilt all the technology that which the original colonists had saved on the few holodisks that were salvaged from the wreck of their ship. They relearned to travel trough space and soon left to conquer the galaxy. They met other civilizations, of which some had common ancestors, “travelers of stars” as they were called by primitive tribes who were descendants of colonists aboard other vessels, whom had not been able to join them in their quest for a new home.
Meetings with hostile powers multiplied, and wars were commonplace. The pacts of peace, the treaties of alliance with extraterrestrial civilizations, which were integrated into their culture, all contributed to reinforce their strength, their capacity, their knowledge, and their technology. Their power and their influence on the galaxy only grew. When the moment had come, they began to ponder their lost Legacy, the civilization of their origin, of which they had been separated for such a long time. Not receiving reports from the probes that they had sent, they built a large fleet of ships, with which to find their ancestors. This new fleet returned to the galaxy from which they originated, and began to search through space, for many years…but what they found while searching this galaxy was very different from what the old men on the holodisks reported…
The planets were devastated by wars whose devastation could only have been of galactic size. The surface of each planet that they visited was completely destroyed. No remaining resources, nor trace of life. All that existed were remnants of violent wars, and fragments of lost civilizations. No sign of their mother civilization.
The first meeting between the two warrior camps was far from peaceful, because each one saw in the other a potential danger, a trick of the enemy, and thus began to treat them as enemies. These quarrelsome forces bore the name of the CORE and the ARM…
ACT III: The lost Legacy.