“主要人物” (Main Characters)
澈 & 景池 — “她是他的春天。”
在一个古老的昨日，我的结局都已写好。这里将是我的彼岸。
如果我将想念放置在天文宇宙的尺度上，让浩瀚地无法计算的庞大来填充我，那我对你的想念将不再逼仄。播放器里的钢琴音传来，河面上的风起得更轻了，落叶在水上缓慢旋转，映衬着曾经的这些对白。恒星年的秋天有一种奇怪的透明度，情绪像是被放大之后再被收紧，而我们——
我们只是被宇宙的往事所包围。
在离开北部基地的这么多年里，却还是醉心。也许是应该从飞行器的圆盘周期里向外找寻，而后再反应过来，那是一种阔别已久。
“可是景池，如果我真有一天偏离得太远呢？”
“那我就去找你。”
Che & Jingchi — “She is his spring.”
In some ancient yesterday, my ending had already been written. This place will be my far shore.
If I place my longing on an astronomical scale, letting an immeasurable vastness fill the space within me, then perhaps the thought of you will no longer feel so confined. A piano piece drifts from the player. The wind over the river grows softer. Leaves turn slowly on the surface of the water, echoing those conversations we once had. Autumn in a stellar year has a strange transparency. Emotions seem first magnified, then drawn tight again. And we— we are simply surrounded by the past of the universe.
All these years after leaving the Northern Base, I still find myself quietly intoxicated by it. Perhaps one should begin by looking outward, beyond the orbital cycles of the craft, and only then realize that what it’s something I’ve been away from for a long time.
“But Jingchi… what if one day I drift too far away?”
“Then
I’ll come find you.”
概念设定 - “世界褶皱里的印记” (Impressions in the Folds of the World)
“我记得你。”
“每一处坐标我都认得出，底色、运河、傍晚、空廓柔和的风廊。”
“在斯瓦尔巴的夜里反复调试望远镜的你，在公路旅行中辨认行星坐标的你，安静到几乎透明的叙述者的你，穹顶之下的你。”
“你偶尔离开时，我替你照看未完成的院落。”
“现在你回来了。”
“边陲的温度还是记忆中的样子。雪落得很慢，星光抵达时已经走了几亿年。”
“你回望镜片上的霜。”
“是回到那个夜晚，还是去寻找未被讲述的偏斜？”
“从哪一处继续呢？从哪一处开始呢？”
“我记得你。”
"I remember you."
"I recognize every coordinate—the undertones, the canals, the dusk, the vast and gentle corridors of wind."
"You, fine-tuning the telescope in the nights of Svalbard; you, identifying planetary coordinates on road trips; you, the narrator, quiet to the point of transparency; you, beneath the dome."
"Whenever you leave, I look after the unfinished courtyard for you."
"Now you are back."
"The temperature of the frontier is just as I remember. The snow falls slowly; the starlight has traveled for hundreds of millions of years by the time it reaches us."
"You look back at the frost upon the lens."
"Is it to return to that night, or to go in search of the untold deviation?"
"From where shall we continue? From where shall we begin?"
"I remember you."
概念设定 - “而岁月不见火焰低吟” (The Quietness of a Flame)
“静穆与你一同出现，一些盛开悄无声息。”
"Quietness arrives with you— and somewhere, something blooms in silence."
Note: The images are collected from「一言」which provdes open-source images and quotes.
概念设定 - “长风之境” (The Realm of Long Wind)
“漫长与柔和的空廓”
"A vast and gentle emptiness."
“无意拨动的琴弦之上是漫天大雪，像是一封不可及的信。在火车上，在人群里，薄雾迷离。眉宇之间晶莹剔透的像一颗心。人们说如果在夜晚美丽将是一种神秘，这和白天的价值观是如此背离，又如此统一。”
"Upon the strings aimlessly plucked falls the heavy snow, like a letter that can never be reached. On the train, amidst the crowd, the mist drifts in a blur. Between the brows, something crystal clear, like a heart. They say if beauty at night is a mystery, it is as much a departure from daytime values as it is a unification with them."
Note: The image is collected from「CUTO」which provdes open-source images.
概念设定 - “海之心” (Heart of the Sea)
"悬于蔚蓝初生星上的微光栖所，向深海与星际同时敞开。"
"A glimmering habitat suspended above a blue, newly born star, open to both the deep sea and the stars."
概念设定 - “行星门 & 事件视界” (Planet Gate & Event Horizon)
「事件视界」一种时空的曲隔界线。视界中的任何事件无法对视界外的观察者产生影响，在黑洞周围的便是事件视界。
"Event Horizon" - A boundary in spacetime. No events within the horizon can affect an outside observer. The region surrounding a black hole is an event horizon.
Note: The video is made by Seedance 2.0.
概念设定 - “原行星胚胎计划” (Protoplanet Embryo Initiative)
"在恒星诞生的尘埃边缘守望未竟之地，等待世界缓慢成形。"
"On the edge of the dust where stars are born, watching over the unfinished land, waiting for the world to slowly take shape."
概念设定 - “河西走廊” (Hexi Corridor)
"历史的遗迹们是被时间压缩的空间节点。人们试图用几何与语义，为文明建立可被往日读取的坐标。"
"空间如何承载文明？无论是河西走廊，还是银河边缘，或许是同一个问题。"
"Historical relics are spatial nodes compressed by time. People attempt to use geometry and semantics to establish coordinates for civilization that can be read from the past. How can space bear the weight of civilization?
Whether in the Hexi Corridor or at the edge of the Milky Way, it's the same question."
Note: The inspiration comes from a research proposal I wrote for a PhD application. More information can be found here.
地点设定 - “模糊界限，等我们又归于星辰” (Until We Return to the Stars)
"流淌的气息能够寻回往日痕迹。我们降落，在一颗孤独星球。我们返回，返回到世界懵懂。"
"Breath in motion finds what once was. We touched down on a solitary planet. We returned, to the world in its unknowing."
手记 - 短篇《漂泊星座》 (Notes: Wandering Constellations)
“也许这是一种寄情，寄往我说不清也说不尽的莫名。”
"Perhaps this is a form of sentience, directed toward an inexplicable and endless mystery that I cannot name."
“是从何时起，如果全然暴露于满天的美艳，我会觉得慌乱，想念那些温润醇和的夜晚。”
"When did it begin? If I were entirely exposed to the flamboyant beauty of the sky, I would feel a sense of panic, longing for those gentle and mellow nights."
“也许往后的岁月亦是为了充分理解从前。”
"Perhaps the years that follow are also meant for a fuller understanding of the past."
“理解自我是一个复杂的命题，它要求你不断地感受，回溯，反思。到头来，寻回的又不再是最初的你，而是另一个你了。”
"Understanding the self is a complex proposition; it demands constant feeling, retracing, and reflection. In the end, what you find is no longer the original you, but someone else entirely."
手记 - 短篇《绛珠草》 (Notes: The Crimson Pearl Grass)
“要往哪儿走，应该怎么做？自己时而有头绪，时而觉得迷茫。铁轨之后是另一段铁轨，吊桥之后是另一座吊桥，公路之后是另一段公路。”
"Where to go, and what to do? Sometimes I have a direction, sometimes I feel adrift. Beyond one set of tracks is another; after one suspension bridge, another; after one highway, yet another stretch of road."
“没有答案，不会有答案，或许，也不应该有答案么。”
"There is no answer, there will be no answer—and perhaps, shouldn't there be none at all?"