and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso,

军需品巨头Alvar Hanso
whose financial backing

他的强大的经济后盾使得
made their dream of a multi-purpose social science research facility a reality.

他们多目标的社会科学研究设施的梦想得以实现
You and your partner are currently located in Station Three, or "The Swan",

你和你的伙伴从现在开始将一直在第3站或"天鹅座"上
and will be for the next 540 days.

接下来的540天都将如此
Station Three was originally constructed as a laboratory

原先的构想是想把第3站建成一个实验室
where scientists could work to understand

在那科学家们能够研究推测
the unique electromagnetic fluctuations emanating from this sector of the island.

这岛上这块区域所发出的单一电磁波
Not long after the experiments began, however,

但是在实验开始不久之后
there was...an incident.

发生了一起...意外
Since that time, the following protocol has been observed.

从那时开始下面这些协定就开始被执行了
Every 108 minutes, the button must be pushed.

每隔108分钟这个按键必须按下