The fusion drive, also knownas a fusion engine, and more formally referred to as a deuterium fusionreactor, is a type of spacecraft propulsion system which serves as the primaryform of sublight propulsion on human spacecraft, whereas the Shaw-Fujikawa TranslightEngine is used for travel at superluminal, or faster-than-light, speeds. Inaddition to the fusion-powered main drives, human ships utilize smaller rocketthrusters using triamino hydrazine as propellant for small-scale maneuvering.
核聚变引擎，也被称为核聚变发动机，更正式的名称是氘核聚变反应堆，是一种太空器推进系统，可以作为人类太空器在亚光速下的主要动力，同时肖——藤川超光速引擎在超光速旅行下使用。除了核聚变驱动的主引擎外，人类飞船还使用作为推进剂的火箭进行小范围机动。
Contents
1 Description
2 Development history
3 Known models
3.1 Mark II Hanley-Messer DFR
3.2 Naoto Technologies:V4/L-DFR
3.3 XR2 Boglin Fields:S81/X-DFR
4 Use as improvised weapons
5 List of appearances
6 Sources
目录
1 描述
2 发展历史
3 已知型号
3.1 马克二型汉利——梅塞尔氘核聚变反应堆
3.2 直人科技公司：V4/L-DFR（注：DFR是氘核聚变反应堆的缩写）
3.3 XR2博格林力场公司：S81/X-DFR
4 临时充当武器
5 出场
6 来源
Description
描述
The primary component of afusion drive is a inertial electrostaticfusion reactor or a series of such reactors. Theplasma generated by the reactors is channeled into a series of exhaustmanifolds, which vector it into the ship's engine nozzles. The drive exhaustserves as reaction mass, providing propulsion for the ship. The drive systemalso includes an exotic mechanism that utilizeshigher-order manifolds to eliminate the otherwise devastating fusion backblast.As suggested by its technical name, the deuterium fusion reactor is powered bynuclear fusion reactions between deuterium atoms.
核聚变引擎的主要组件是一个惯性约束聚变反应堆或一组这样的反应堆（注：原文直译应为惯性静电聚变反应堆，但是这与人类探索的两种方法：惯性约束和磁约束，都有很大差异，译者最终选择更贴近实际的翻译）。由反应堆产生的等离子气体被导入一系列排气歧管，再导向飞船喷口。引擎的喷气是反应物质，给飞船提供推力。引擎系统还包括一套奇异的装置，利用高阶歧管来消除其他毁灭性的核聚变反向爆炸。
The main components of thefusion drive are typically located in a ship's engineering.The number of fusion engines varies between ship classes. UNSC frigates aretypically equipped with two primary reactors and at least another two secondaryreactors, while Halcyon-class light cruisers are powered by an array of threefusion reactors. Larger ships, such as the mobile hospital UNSC Hopeful, couldpossess as many as six reactors. The number of engine exhausts also variesgreatly; ships usually have two or more primary adjacent exhaust nozzles, and aseries of smaller, secondary ones.
核聚变引擎的主要组件一般被装在飞船的机务舱（注：或者叫机械舱什么的吧）。不同级飞船之间核聚变引擎数量也不同。UNSC护卫舰一般装有两台主反应堆和至少两个辅助反应堆，而翠鸟级轻型巡洋舰由一组三台聚变反应堆驱动。更大的飞船，比如医院船UNSC希望满满号，可以拥有6台反应堆。引擎的排气管数量也有很大差异；飞船经常有2个以上相邻的主喷口，和一系列更小的辅助喷口。
Fusion engines are capable of producingremarkable acceleration; using gravity-assist maneuvers to an advantage, humanships—from small diplomatic shuttles to Halcyon-class cruisers—are capable ofcrossing interplanetary distances in less than an hour.
核聚变引擎能够产生巨大的加速度；如果利用引力弹弓达到一定优势，人类飞船——从小型外交太空梭到翠鸟级巡洋舰——能够在不到一个小时内跨越行星之间的距离。
Development history
发展历史
Significant developments weremade in fusion engine technology over the course of the 26th century; the MarkII Hanley-Messer fusion engines used by Halcyon-class cruisers produced only atenth of the power output of modern reactors as of 2552.
核聚变引擎技术的重大发展是在整个26世纪过程中实现的；翠鸟级巡洋舰使用电马克二型汉利——梅塞尔核聚变引擎只能产生相当于2552年现代化反应堆10%的动力。
In 2552, the UNSC Pillar ofAutumn was refit with a power plant which used an experimental architecturewhere a single main reactor was nestled within two smaller reactor rings. Whenactivated, the secondary reactors supercharged the main reactor, and theiroverlapping magnetic fields could temporarily boost the reactor output by 300percent. In addition, the engine did not require external coolant systems likemost reactors, instead neutralizing waste heat by means of a "laser-inducedoptical slurryof ions chilled to near-absolute zero". The more power thereactor was generating, the more supercooled particles it produced, effectivelycooling itself.
在2552年，UNSC秋风之墩号被重新安装了一台动力装置。该动力装置使用了一套试验性的结构。该结构中只有一台主反应堆，且被安置在两台较小反应堆环中。启动时，辅助反应堆使主反应堆增压，它们的复合磁场可以暂时将反应堆输出增加300%。除此之外，该引擎不像大多数反应堆一样需要外部冷却系统，而是使用“冷却到接近绝对零度的激光诱导光学离子浆料”（注：都不知道译的对不对……）的方式中和（注：我只知道化学里有中和，不知核反应里有没有）废料。反应堆产生更多的动力，就会产生更多的过冷粒子，从而更加有效地冷却自己。
Known models
已知型号
Mark II Hanley-Messer DFR
马克二型汉利——梅塞尔氘核聚变反应堆
The Mark II Hanley-Messer DFRis a type of deuterium fusion power plant used on Halcyon-class light cruisers,which are typically equipped with three of the reactors. They were obsolete by2552, providing only a tenth of the power generated by modern reactors at thetime.
马克二型汉利——梅塞尔氘核聚变反应堆是一种被翠鸟级轻型巡洋舰使用的氘核聚变反应动力装置，一般装有三台反应堆。它们在2552年时已经过时，只能提供当时现代化反应堆10%的动力。
Naoto Technologies: V4/L-DFR
直人科技公司：V4/L-DFR
Manufactured by NaotoTechnologies, the V4/L-DFR is a deuterium fusion drive equipped on Charon-classlight frigates, such as the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn.
由直人科技公司制造，V4/L-DFR是一种氘核聚变引擎，装备在卡戎级轻型护卫舰上，例如UNSC航向黎明号。
XR2 Boglin Fields: S81/X-DFR
XR2博格林力场公司：S81/X-DFR
The S81/X-DFR is an advancedtype of fusion engine used on the prototype warship UNSC Infinity.
S81/X-DFR是一种被用在雏形战舰UNSC无尽号上的先进的核聚变发动机型号。
Use as improvised weapons
临时充当武器
Fusion drives can also be usedas improvised weapons of mass destruction. A ship's captain possesses the codesnecessary to initiate fusion core overload in their command neural interface,but reactor destabilization can also beinitiated manually. Though the fusion reactors are protected by magneticcontainment fields which surround the fusion cells, they can be destabilized byexplosive ordnance once the exhaust couplings protecting the reactor vents havebeen retracted. Significant amount of damage to the engineswill trigger a "wildcat destabilization".The reactor will then detonate within minutes, generating a temperature ofnearly 100,000,000 degrees. The most notable instance of this was when John-117destroyed Installation 04 by overloading the fusion reactors of the UNSC Pillarof Autumn.
核聚变引擎也可以被当作临时的大规模杀伤性武器。一艘飞船的船长在他们的指挥神经接口中拥有开启核聚变核心过载的关键密码，但是反应堆的失稳也可以手动开启。虽然聚变反应堆被核聚变电池周围的约束磁场保护着（注：惯性约束和磁约束其实是完全不同的技术，怎么兼容的不要深究），但是他们也可以被军用爆炸物破坏，只要保护着反应堆通风口的排气连接器被缩回。引擎的显著损伤会导致“野猫般的不稳定”（注：就是疯狂的不稳定反应）。反应堆会在几分钟内爆炸，产生接近1亿度的高温。最著名的例子就是约翰-117利用过载UNSC秋风之墩号的核聚变反应堆摧毁了04特区/大装置04。
List of appearances
出场
Halo: The Fall of Reach (Firstappearance)
《光环：致远星的陷落》（第一次出场）
Halo: Combat Evolved
《光环：战斗进化》
Halo: The Flood
《光环：洪魔》
Halo: First Strike
《光环：初次反击》
Halo 2
《光环2》
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
《光环：奥星的幽灵》
Halo 3
《光环3》
Halo: Contact Harvest
《光环：丰饶星接触》
Halo: The Cole Protocol
《光环：科尔协议》
Halo Wars Genesis
《光环战争创世纪》
Halo Wars
《光环战争》
Halo: Helljumper
《光环：地狱空降兵》
Halo 3: ODST
《光环3：ODST》
Halo: Evolutions - EssentialTales of the Halo Universe
《光环：进化——光环宇宙不能错过的故事》（下面四篇都是这部书中的）
Midnight in the Heart ofMidlothian
《中洛锡安之心号的午夜》
Dirt
《尘土飞扬》
The Mona Lisa
《蒙娜丽莎号》
The Impossible Life and thePossible Death of Preston J. Cole
《科尔将军的传奇一生和最后一役》
Halo: Blood Line
《光环：血脉》
Halo: Reach
《光环：致远星》
Halo: Fall of Reach
《光环：致远星的陷落》
Halo: Glasslands
《光环：焦土》
Halo: Combat EvolvedAnniversary
《光环：战斗进化周年版》
Terminals
各种终端机
Halo: The Thursday War
《光环：星期四战争》
The Commissioning
《入役》（H4宣传片）
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
《光环4：航向黎明》
Halo 4
《光环4》
Spartan Ops
《斯巴达行动》（H4的DLC）
Halo: Escalation
《光环：恶化》
Halo 2: Anniversary
《光环2：周年版》
Terminals
各种终端机
Hunt the Truth
《猎杀真相》（H5宣传广播剧）
All Hail
《万岁》（H5宣传片）
The Cost
《代价》（H5宣传片）
Halo: Fleet Battles
《光环：舰队战》
Halo 5: Guardians
《光环5：守护者》
Halo: The Fall of Reach - TheAnimated Series
《光环：致远星的陷落——动画剧集》
核聚变引擎，也被称为核聚变发动机，更正式的名称是氘核聚变反应堆，是一种太空器推进系统，可以作为人类太空器在亚光速下的主要动力，同时肖——藤川超光速引擎在超光速旅行下使用。除了核聚变驱动的主引擎外，人类飞船还使用作为推进剂的火箭进行小范围机动。
Contents
1 Description
2 Development history
3 Known models
3.1 Mark II Hanley-Messer DFR
3.2 Naoto Technologies:V4/L-DFR
3.3 XR2 Boglin Fields:S81/X-DFR
4 Use as improvised weapons
5 List of appearances
6 Sources
目录
1 描述
2 发展历史
3 已知型号
3.1 马克二型汉利——梅塞尔氘核聚变反应堆
3.2 直人科技公司：V4/L-DFR（注：DFR是氘核聚变反应堆的缩写）
3.3 XR2博格林力场公司：S81/X-DFR
4 临时充当武器
5 出场
6 来源
Description
描述
The primary component of afusion drive is a inertial electrostaticfusion reactor or a series of such reactors. Theplasma generated by the reactors is channeled into a series of exhaustmanifolds, which vector it into the ship's engine nozzles. The drive exhaustserves as reaction mass, providing propulsion for the ship. The drive systemalso includes an exotic mechanism that utilizeshigher-order manifolds to eliminate the otherwise devastating fusion backblast.As suggested by its technical name, the deuterium fusion reactor is powered bynuclear fusion reactions between deuterium atoms.
核聚变引擎的主要组件是一个惯性约束聚变反应堆或一组这样的反应堆（注：原文直译应为惯性静电聚变反应堆，但是这与人类探索的两种方法：惯性约束和磁约束，都有很大差异，译者最终选择更贴近实际的翻译）。由反应堆产生的等离子气体被导入一系列排气歧管，再导向飞船喷口。引擎的喷气是反应物质，给飞船提供推力。引擎系统还包括一套奇异的装置，利用高阶歧管来消除其他毁灭性的核聚变反向爆炸。
The main components of thefusion drive are typically located in a ship's engineering.The number of fusion engines varies between ship classes. UNSC frigates aretypically equipped with two primary reactors and at least another two secondaryreactors, while Halcyon-class light cruisers are powered by an array of threefusion reactors. Larger ships, such as the mobile hospital UNSC Hopeful, couldpossess as many as six reactors. The number of engine exhausts also variesgreatly; ships usually have two or more primary adjacent exhaust nozzles, and aseries of smaller, secondary ones.
核聚变引擎的主要组件一般被装在飞船的机务舱（注：或者叫机械舱什么的吧）。不同级飞船之间核聚变引擎数量也不同。UNSC护卫舰一般装有两台主反应堆和至少两个辅助反应堆，而翠鸟级轻型巡洋舰由一组三台聚变反应堆驱动。更大的飞船，比如医院船UNSC希望满满号，可以拥有6台反应堆。引擎的排气管数量也有很大差异；飞船经常有2个以上相邻的主喷口，和一系列更小的辅助喷口。
Fusion engines are capable of producingremarkable acceleration; using gravity-assist maneuvers to an advantage, humanships—from small diplomatic shuttles to Halcyon-class cruisers—are capable ofcrossing interplanetary distances in less than an hour.
核聚变引擎能够产生巨大的加速度；如果利用引力弹弓达到一定优势，人类飞船——从小型外交太空梭到翠鸟级巡洋舰——能够在不到一个小时内跨越行星之间的距离。
Development history
发展历史
Significant developments weremade in fusion engine technology over the course of the 26th century; the MarkII Hanley-Messer fusion engines used by Halcyon-class cruisers produced only atenth of the power output of modern reactors as of 2552.
核聚变引擎技术的重大发展是在整个26世纪过程中实现的；翠鸟级巡洋舰使用电马克二型汉利——梅塞尔核聚变引擎只能产生相当于2552年现代化反应堆10%的动力。
In 2552, the UNSC Pillar ofAutumn was refit with a power plant which used an experimental architecturewhere a single main reactor was nestled within two smaller reactor rings. Whenactivated, the secondary reactors supercharged the main reactor, and theiroverlapping magnetic fields could temporarily boost the reactor output by 300percent. In addition, the engine did not require external coolant systems likemost reactors, instead neutralizing waste heat by means of a "laser-inducedoptical slurryof ions chilled to near-absolute zero". The more power thereactor was generating, the more supercooled particles it produced, effectivelycooling itself.
在2552年，UNSC秋风之墩号被重新安装了一台动力装置。该动力装置使用了一套试验性的结构。该结构中只有一台主反应堆，且被安置在两台较小反应堆环中。启动时，辅助反应堆使主反应堆增压，它们的复合磁场可以暂时将反应堆输出增加300%。除此之外，该引擎不像大多数反应堆一样需要外部冷却系统，而是使用“冷却到接近绝对零度的激光诱导光学离子浆料”（注：都不知道译的对不对……）的方式中和（注：我只知道化学里有中和，不知核反应里有没有）废料。反应堆产生更多的动力，就会产生更多的过冷粒子，从而更加有效地冷却自己。
Known models
已知型号
Mark II Hanley-Messer DFR
马克二型汉利——梅塞尔氘核聚变反应堆
The Mark II Hanley-Messer DFRis a type of deuterium fusion power plant used on Halcyon-class light cruisers,which are typically equipped with three of the reactors. They were obsolete by2552, providing only a tenth of the power generated by modern reactors at thetime.
马克二型汉利——梅塞尔氘核聚变反应堆是一种被翠鸟级轻型巡洋舰使用的氘核聚变反应动力装置，一般装有三台反应堆。它们在2552年时已经过时，只能提供当时现代化反应堆10%的动力。
Naoto Technologies: V4/L-DFR
直人科技公司：V4/L-DFR
Manufactured by NaotoTechnologies, the V4/L-DFR is a deuterium fusion drive equipped on Charon-classlight frigates, such as the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn.
由直人科技公司制造，V4/L-DFR是一种氘核聚变引擎，装备在卡戎级轻型护卫舰上，例如UNSC航向黎明号。
XR2 Boglin Fields: S81/X-DFR
XR2博格林力场公司：S81/X-DFR
The S81/X-DFR is an advancedtype of fusion engine used on the prototype warship UNSC Infinity.
S81/X-DFR是一种被用在雏形战舰UNSC无尽号上的先进的核聚变发动机型号。
Use as improvised weapons
临时充当武器
Fusion drives can also be usedas improvised weapons of mass destruction. A ship's captain possesses the codesnecessary to initiate fusion core overload in their command neural interface,but reactor destabilization can also beinitiated manually. Though the fusion reactors are protected by magneticcontainment fields which surround the fusion cells, they can be destabilized byexplosive ordnance once the exhaust couplings protecting the reactor vents havebeen retracted. Significant amount of damage to the engineswill trigger a "wildcat destabilization".The reactor will then detonate within minutes, generating a temperature ofnearly 100,000,000 degrees. The most notable instance of this was when John-117destroyed Installation 04 by overloading the fusion reactors of the UNSC Pillarof Autumn.
核聚变引擎也可以被当作临时的大规模杀伤性武器。一艘飞船的船长在他们的指挥神经接口中拥有开启核聚变核心过载的关键密码，但是反应堆的失稳也可以手动开启。虽然聚变反应堆被核聚变电池周围的约束磁场保护着（注：惯性约束和磁约束其实是完全不同的技术，怎么兼容的不要深究），但是他们也可以被军用爆炸物破坏，只要保护着反应堆通风口的排气连接器被缩回。引擎的显著损伤会导致“野猫般的不稳定”（注：就是疯狂的不稳定反应）。反应堆会在几分钟内爆炸，产生接近1亿度的高温。最著名的例子就是约翰-117利用过载UNSC秋风之墩号的核聚变反应堆摧毁了04特区/大装置04。
List of appearances
出场
Halo: The Fall of Reach (Firstappearance)
《光环：致远星的陷落》（第一次出场）
Halo: Combat Evolved
《光环：战斗进化》
Halo: The Flood
《光环：洪魔》
Halo: First Strike
《光环：初次反击》
Halo 2
《光环2》
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
《光环：奥星的幽灵》
Halo 3
《光环3》
Halo: Contact Harvest
《光环：丰饶星接触》
Halo: The Cole Protocol
《光环：科尔协议》
Halo Wars Genesis
《光环战争创世纪》
Halo Wars
《光环战争》
Halo: Helljumper
《光环：地狱空降兵》
Halo 3: ODST
《光环3：ODST》
Halo: Evolutions - EssentialTales of the Halo Universe
《光环：进化——光环宇宙不能错过的故事》（下面四篇都是这部书中的）
Midnight in the Heart ofMidlothian
《中洛锡安之心号的午夜》
Dirt
《尘土飞扬》
The Mona Lisa
《蒙娜丽莎号》
The Impossible Life and thePossible Death of Preston J. Cole
《科尔将军的传奇一生和最后一役》
Halo: Blood Line
《光环：血脉》
Halo: Reach
《光环：致远星》
Halo: Fall of Reach
《光环：致远星的陷落》
Halo: Glasslands
《光环：焦土》
Halo: Combat EvolvedAnniversary
《光环：战斗进化周年版》
Terminals
各种终端机
Halo: The Thursday War
《光环：星期四战争》
The Commissioning
《入役》（H4宣传片）
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
《光环4：航向黎明》
Halo 4
《光环4》
Spartan Ops
《斯巴达行动》（H4的DLC）
Halo: Escalation
《光环：恶化》
Halo 2: Anniversary
《光环2：周年版》
Terminals
各种终端机
Hunt the Truth
《猎杀真相》（H5宣传广播剧）
All Hail
《万岁》（H5宣传片）
The Cost
《代价》（H5宣传片）
Halo: Fleet Battles
《光环：舰队战》
Halo 5: Guardians
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