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RobotoChan
07-18-2008, 08:03 AM
My partner has, very kindly, spent a good chunk of time having a crack at translating the BT-19 and BT-20 story. It is titled 'Unfinished Business' and reads rather well.

There were several words which caused problems because they are specific to the Transformers story. I did my best to find the right phrases but it may still be a little odd.

Here is part 1 from BT-19.


Unfinished Business, part 1

3 cars, rushing to Cybertron city. It's Grimlock, Hound and Bluestreak.

"Hurry up, Grimlock, but also be cautious!"
"Me Grimlock. Shut up blue ass..."

Suddernly, a sharp cry and loud noise came from the residential area on their right.
Something transparent at least a size of an elephant is raging and kicking the trees and cars around.

"ah, a phonon hologram", said Hound, looking slightly fed up.
"It must be some amatuer semi-scientist who did something stupid again with the Binaltech technology."

Since the end of the Binaltech project led by the Earth Defence Force, the relevant information was publicised and development permission was given, there are no end of similiar incidents with "generalised versions of Binaltech".
Bluestreak and his 2 comrades jumped in the scene in Robot form and nutralised the hologram projector with an Ion gun.

They then quickly were back on their way, not waiting to clear up the mess.

"This body is very nice and light. I admire your advanced Binaltech skills", said Bluestreak in high spirits.

"Well, that's because in our dimension, the Binaltech project died out before the Unicron war."

This confused Grimlock. Hound couldn't think of a way to explain him that Bluestreak is a apostole from another dimension, the "dimension with correct history".

Bluestreak turned up in front of Ultra Magnus and went straight to business without going through the process of reporting that he had done the encryption process.

"I have been advised that since the incident a few years back, the "Life Core" of Prowl in this dimension leaked out to a sub-dimension."
Prowl beside him nodded at his statement.
Since the incident, his life is dependent on the transplant of the soul of a genius human scientist, Chip Chase.

"However, his core unit has recently been located/discovered in our side of dimension." This news stirred the audience and Ultra Magnus hushed everyone.

"Let's get some professional advise. Prowl, please let us talk to Chip."
He changed his appearance of a police car into a blue "Chase Mode" with digitise transfer system, he awaken Chip's conciousness deep in his core.
"It is feasible. The 2 worlds have very similar dimension frequency. It is not a surprise those sub-dimensions of each world have a cross connection."

"The problem is the unit is in a dangerous state", Bluestreak stressed.
"2 days ago, a massive unknown energy was sent from your world and the core is now in serious overloaded state." The core is in a link status with self-protection mode that he cannot do anything about.

"We must hurry and investigate the cause and rescue the core, otherwise the soul of a great cavalier will be lost forever!"

Prowl followed the others out feeling slightly flattered.

Melkava
07-18-2008, 08:37 AM
Props to you & your partner :rock
Can't wait for the rest of the parts.

SydneyY
07-18-2008, 08:43 AM
Cool, thanks!

Hard to say without reading the original text, but is "blue ass" = 「尻の青い」 in the original? If so, that's too much of a direct translation....

RobotoChan
07-18-2008, 08:46 AM
Cool, thanks!

Hard to say without reading the original text, but is "blue ass" = 「尻の青い」 in the original? If so, that's too much of a direct translation....

The original says aoi shiri which I assume is ok since he is chatting to Bluestreak. But, yeah, most of it is open to some degree of interpretation so I could be taken differently.

SydneyY
07-18-2008, 08:53 AM
Thanks for the explanation. I guess that pun is hard to put into English.

RobotoChan
07-18-2008, 09:27 AM
I just want to say thanks to my girlfriend for taking time to translate this for me. She has no interest in Transformers but was kind enough to do this in her own time.

That being said, time for Part 2 - BT-20


Argent Meister located the destination from the information provided from Bluestreak's wave energy tracker and raided with his unit.

It was a research facility, assumed to be the base of the human secret criminal society "The Conquerence" and the conspiracy to destroy the life of our Cybertron warrior Prowl was being conducted.

They dashed into the massive underground hangar and were faced with a giant, glittering in gold, supposedly their creation.

Among the fleeing humans at the foot of the giant, there was a familiar robot. It was Swindle, a destron warrior.

"The giant is a fluid-bodied robot made entirely of synthetic electrum!", shouted Wheeljack. Below the smooth body surface is a neuro net like frame and sub-space-like node.

"They must be linking up to Prowl's core and feeding the energy to that monster!"

Their aim seems to be the creation of a super lifeform using Binaltech techniques. But the damage to the core is reaching its limit from the reverse energy from the electrum.

The giant howled and began attacking fiercely.
Though synthetic, the shield power of electrum is blocking off all the attacks and one swing of an arm destroyed the thick inner wall of the hangar.

"Synthetic electrum seems to be the current hot research subject. I happen to be equipped with that upgrade as well...let's see who is better."
Meister injected energy into his "Argent" armor which begun to shine with bright light and charged into the giant.

The whole underground area was shocked with the vibration from the impact of two massive powers. Next moment, the giant lost balance and fell on his knees. Meister grabbed the sword Grimlock tossed to him and cover it with "Argent" and stabbed the back of the giant and took out the trans-link node.
"Shoot it, Bluestreak!"

They were contacted by the Overdrive of the "correct world" outside of the facility whcih was now under their control. The transportation of Prowl's core unit between dimensions would not be desireable as the damage would be too intense. The repair must be conducted on the spot by sending the Binaltech body to save him.

Chip Chase, who gave Prowl a temporary life and is now back into his own body, watched Prowl's body being carried out on a monitor from the hospital bed.

All in all, he can be recovered fully.

"It was the humans who created the monster", Swindle dared. "Even with that core, old Arkville found it by chance. I only gave them an advice."

Though seemingly being quiet and laying low, the destrons are again in connections with the secret societies and inciting the Binaltech development that crosses the lines. There is no time to lose.

Meister shrugged his shoulders and starting to wonder who he should give tomorrow's concert tickets to.

Nevermore
07-18-2008, 09:53 AM
Just a few minor corrections here. :)

The good guys are the "Earth Defense Command".

The bad guys are the "Concurrence". :)

Derik
07-18-2008, 12:23 PM
Meister injected energy into his "Argent" armor which begun to shine with bright light and charged into the giant.

Are you sure you mean Argent, not Auric? Argent = Silver. Auric = Gold. You say the big giant is gold, and theyr'e both made of synthetic electrum, so it struck me as weird.

RobotoChan
07-18-2008, 12:40 PM
Are you sure you mean Argent, not Auric? Argent = Silver. Auric = Gold. You say the big giant is gold, and theyr'e both made of synthetic electrum, so it struck me as weird.

Yup, its definately Argent. I read it as Meister injecting energy into his own Argent armour to give himself a power boost.

If he was injecting the energy into the giant gold thing then it should probably be Auric. But the katakana reads Argent so I assume its right :)

Derik
07-18-2008, 02:03 PM
Yup, its definately Argent. I read it as Meister injecting energy into his own Argent armour to give himself a power boost.

If he was injecting the energy into the giant gold thing then it should probably be Auric. But the katakana reads Argent so I assume its right :)

Weird. But good it know. (I wonder if it's supposed to be a reference to Silver Coat from the Keepers Trilogy?)

Tman978
07-19-2008, 12:30 AM
Thanks for the explanation. I guess that pun is hard to put into English.

Let's see. "Shut your blue ass up!!"
"Shut up, you blue ass!!"
"Shut your blue ass mouth!!"

Tman978
07-19-2008, 12:39 AM
Weird. But good it know. (I wonder if it's supposed to be a reference to Silver Coat from the Keepers Trilogy?)

I dont know if u seen the new Jazz Bt. He's Silver. So that should answer that.

Knightdramon
07-19-2008, 10:00 AM
These read very fanfic like, more like the henkei mangas. Are they still written by that guy, hirofumi ichikawa I think? Anyway, many thanks for the translations!

Jigga
07-19-2008, 10:01 AM
So the new story doesn't really explain the appearance of Bluestreak and Argent Meister right? Or did I miss something from the text I just read. Or are they two Autobot from a different dimension?

Storm
07-19-2008, 10:04 AM
I prefered it when the stories were told from an outside perspective away from the action.

Optimal Optimus Prime
07-19-2008, 12:31 PM
anyone know where I can find the other BT translated stories?

Lucs
07-19-2008, 02:41 PM
Hey thanks for the translation. I just got these 2 yesterday and Meister is pretty sweet, I haven't opened Bluestreak yet

BraveMax
07-19-2008, 06:15 PM
Let's see. "Shut your blue ass up!!"
"Shut up, you blue ass!!"
"Shut your blue ass mouth!!"

It's not quite that simple. "Blue" in Japanese is similar to "green" in English - IE, "Green-horn" or "Green-bark"; young or inexperienced.

So, I guess he's sort of calling Bluestreak a n00b. Or something. While still referring to his blue coloring... So it's correct that the intricacies of the pun don't really translate.

tamo536
07-19-2008, 10:01 PM
"me grimlock"
"shut up blue ass":lolol

Melkava
07-20-2008, 01:18 AM
anyone know where I can find the other BT translated stories?

Try fan2fan's, pretty niffty.

Railguard
07-21-2008, 06:38 AM
Nice. If I was into these things I would buy some but my money is reserved for Universe.

Cinemastique
07-21-2008, 10:39 AM
HAHA!!! I love the reference to KO production in BT-19.