【自译】星战小说《达斯·普雷格斯》 序

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away:.
很久以前，在遥远的银河系中……
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A tremor took hold of the planet.
整个星球震颤于恐惧之中。
Sprung from death, it unleashed itself in a powerful wave, at once burrowing deep into the world's core and radiating through its saccharine atmosphere to shake the stars themselves. At the quake's epicenter stood Sidious, one elegant hand vised on the burnished sill of an expansive translucency, a vessel filled suddenly to bursting, the Force so strong within him that he feared he might disappear into it, never to return. But the moment didn't constitute an ending so much as a true beginning, long overdue; it was less a transformation than an intensification-a gravitic shift.
从死亡诞生出的恐惧形在剧烈的震颤中释放自己，深入核心，撼动星月。西迪厄斯立于这震颤的中央，细腻的手紧紧攥住半透明的抛光窗台，一旁盛满液体的容器突然爆裂。他的原力太强大了，他甚至担心自己会湮没其中，不得复生。但这一刻并非结束，更像是一个被逾期的正式开始；与其说是减弱，不如说是强化——如同一次重力的逆转。
A welter of voices, near and far, present and from eons past, drowned his thoughts. Raised in praise, the voices proclaimed his reign and cheered the inauguration of a new order. Yellow eyes lifted to the night sky, he saw the trembling stars flare, and in the depth of his being he felt the power of the dark side anoint him.