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Left Sophon (Trisolaran Al Emissary on Earth) "The era of Humanity's degenerate freedom has come to and end." "The flag of evolution will once again be raised over the earth." -Turned Australia into a gulag, and forced all 4 billion humans to move there Manuel Ray Diaz (Wallfacer) "I am going to detonate one billion stellar-class hydrogen bombs on Mercury at the same time, stop its orbit, make it fall in to the sun, destroy the entire solar system in a supernova so neither Humans nor Trisolarans will survive." "Might nuke New York while I'm at it." O -Stoned to death by his own countrymen. Was the president of Revolutionary Venezuala -Resisted the American Imperialists Resisted the Trisolarans the same way. Mike Evans "We are the Aztecs, and the Trisolarans are the Spaniards! Thats a good thing! Punish us daddy trisolarans!" "We need pan-species communism!" -Father was an oil tycoon. -spent his inheritance of billions founding a cult to worship the trisolarans instead of telling anyone about their impending invasion. Yun Tianming -Do you want to read one of my hundred fairy tales? -Incel -Dying of lung cancer and he isn't even 25... -his own sister volunteered him for euthanasia... - The first girl who ever talked to him took out his brain and shot it at the trisolaran fleet at 1% light speed. -He was so touched he spent his families fortune buying her a star Cheng Xin Trisolaris I ♡ Yun Tianming - Spawned in an unstable Three-Body star system. - Their civilization has been destroyed and ressurected 217 times over the course of millions of years. - Incapable of lying. - Their technology progresses linearly, while humanity progresses exponentially But Earth is only 4 light-years away and has a stable orbit. They must be invaded. - Our fleet will take 400 years to reach the earth, we must stop human science from progressing beyond where the first fleet has progressed. - Incredibly collectivistic and authoritarian, prepared to genocide an entire race for living space - Deny all chances for peace and co-existance, if we must co-exist humans can only live on Mars and Australia, but we will probably kill them all anyway. - Pushed too hard and ended up revealing the locations of both the Earth and Trisolaris to the Dark forest, and now both worlds are doomed. (Magnification 100x) Trisolarans are hive-minded water bears. Fight me Zhang Beihai - Knew the humans didn't stand a chance against the Trisolarans, and didn't need to be brainwashed by Bill Hines to know it. - Stole a Stellar-Class warship 2km in diameter. "We are starting a new civilization in space. Despite it being more collectivist than the Earth, and completely run by the military, we won't become autocratic." 要想快餐 Ye Wenjie -Hates the Chinese Communist Party -Hates Humanity -Made first contact with Trisolaris after being warned. "Why can't Trisolaris and Humanity be friends?" - First woman swordholder, last woman swordholder. What did Liu Cixin mean by this? - Deterrance rate of like, 2% - Elected by Deterrance Era femboys - We will use almost our entire nuclear arsenal dispersed along the sails trajectory to propel the solar sail to 1% the speed of light. "Come here! I will help you conquer this world. Our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems. We need your force to intervene." (Actually pretty damn cool.) - Maybe we can attach the brain of that incel who bought me a star to it. "If it means people will die, we can't keep researching light-speed ships! Surrender to the feds!" -Decoded Yun Tianming's fairy tales allowing for the production of light-speed ships 200 years before galactic humans. (Also pretty damn cool) -Believes that everyone can just get along. Even after watching Trisolaris get hit with a photoid and explode. She is too pure for this world. Authoritarian - Convieniently gets to escape the dimensional attack she caused on the only existing light-speed ship -Comes thought almost as much as she fails - The only surviving Trisolaran is a human-shaped robot. Ironic. - What's with this human brain floating through space? We should simulate every form of torture possible on it. - We learned how to lie. Wang Miao "I'm a scientist of the Chinese Communist party researching Nanomaterials!" "All of my collegues have mysteriously killed themselves, I hope I'm not next!" "I'm sure this isn't part of a much bigger civilization spanning plot to halt Eath science." "Why is there a countdown in my eyes?" Sophon (Farmer - Pocket Universe 647) "Yeah, I tried to eradicate your entire species. I'm not going to apologize." (Magnification 100x) "I am the only Trisolaran left. There are only two Humans left. Want to watch the death of the universe?" "I've got robot farmers too." "Wait stop farming and give the universe back it's mass." Trisolaran Pacifist "Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!! This world has received your message. I am a pacifist in this world. It is the luck of your civilization that I am the first to receive your message. I am warning you: Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!! There are tens of millions of stars in your direction. As long as you do not answer, this world will not be able to ascertain the source of your transmission. But if you do answer, the source will be located right away. Your planet will be invaded Your world will be conquered! Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!" Returners -Whoever they are, they have at least as much energy as there exists mass in the Milky-Way Galaxy, they can't just take the mass by force though. -Can the universe have it's mass back? -If even one atom of mass is not returned, the universe will not return to its natural ten dimensional state, and will drift apart into nothingness if you don't give it back it's mass. Doesn't actually have any more power than to give off a list of names of the survivors of the dark forest, like its some kind of game show Sophons Big brother Trisolaris is always watching. 11-Dimensional proton sized super computer capable of instananeous communication Used to halt all human science so the Trisolaran fleet won't be outdated by the time it arrives in 400 years. Luo Ji (Sword Holder) -Defended the Earth with Dark-Forest Deterrance for 50 years. -92% -98 % Deterrance Rate -Deterred so hard he forgot how to talk -Learned how to talk again -Didn't abuse his power - Name stands for "Sophisticated- Proton" -Was a literal great man of history -Deterred so hard his wife divorced him and took the kids Allows Trisolaris to know everything happening on earth, except that which happens in the human mind. -Radicals want to put him on trial for potential "Mundicide" - Ignores them. Decided to stay with the solar system and turn into two dimensions when he had the oportunity to flee -Abused the Dark Forest state of the universe to blow up stars while lacking the technological capability just to scare the Trisolarans His actions didn't result in the end of the human race. Da Shi He protec He attac but most importantly, when you wake up 200 years in the future. he has your bac Luo Ji (Wallfacer) "Want to see the Louvre?" -The Trisolarans tried to assassinate him three times -The UN Forced him into being a wallfacer, what does he do with the infinite power and money? Abuse it and buy a mansion in the mountains. - "It's all part of the plan." Used his infinite money and power to force the most beautiful girl in China marry him. When the UN kidnapped his family to make him start working he out-sourced the destruction of stars to superior alien civilizations. Zero-Homers "Maybe the universe will return to its original ten dimensional state if we reduce the speed of light to zero. It just makes sense. YOLO." Libertarian Bill Hines (Wallfacer) -His master plan to defeat the Trisolaran invaders is to brainwash everyone into running away Liu Cixin "I need to get back to writing the best science fiction of a generation, but first let me beat up some more femboys" -His own wife was his wall breaker - Willing to destroy humanity's entire and he never realized bunker world just to reach light-speed ships - Is Br*t*sh "I can live with it." Thomas Wade - Went from leading the C.I.A to the P.I.A - Get this solar sail to 1% light speed. Just do it! "Perfect Specimen", "100% Deterrance rate" ^ Sophon (The robot) -Incinerated by the UN for the crime of not wanting to live in a cage. - "This person is a threat to me being elected sword-holder?" "Oh well, might as well kill her." The UN / Solar Humanity - High population of femboys - Complete control over radio communications - Humanities first "world" government - Bans research on things they find scary, it's not like the Earth's location has been revealed to the Dark Forest or anything. - Despite being a one world government, they preserve democracy, and are very capitalistic. "It's a faaaaaaaaake." Frederick Tyler (Wallfacer) - Was the US Secretary of Defense - Banned light speed ships, "If nOT EVERY HUMAN CAn LeAVe the Solar SysTeM, NO ONE LEaVes!" Tve got an order for the Star-Pluckers? - Said they would operate until the death of humanity. They did not in fact operate until the end of humanity. - Probably only selected as a wallfacer so the US would continue funding the UN "They don't know it's not all part of the plan." "One dual-vector foil - Order up!" -First to have his plan. discovered by a wallbreaker "I'm a boy." My Singer Part of an advanced alien race in the Orion arm of the Milky-Way Galaxy. Used to be 4th Dimensional? His day-job is cleansing potential threats to the home-world in the form of exposed alien civilizations. Dreams of climbing the corporate seed ladder and escaping the position he has been in for several million years. "The absolute state of Deterrence Era men... Word on the home-world is that the war with the fringe world isn't going well. More and more of the third dimension is decaying into two dimensions, I hope our race doesn't decide to become functional two-dimensional lifeforms. Casually turned the Human race into non-functional two-dimensional lifeforms Has likely cleansed hundreds of thousands of low-entropy civilizations, still isn't employee of the time-grain. Ai AA "I'm a capitalist" Her company built orbital churches. Her company built space cities in the shadow of Jupiter Her company illegally carried out research into light speed ships under Thomas Wade. "Of course I will save these children, if they can prove they will be productive workers to the surviving human race." Right "Quick, Trisolar-Human alliance! Blue-Space has escaped from the compass!"
Left Sophon (Trisolaran Al Emissary on Earth) "The era of Humanity's degenerate freedom has come to and end." "The flag of evolution will once again be raised over the earth." -Turned Australia into a gulag, and forced all 4 billion humans to move there Manuel Ray Diaz (Wallfacer) "I am going to detonate one billion stellar-class hydrogen bombs on Mercury at the same time, stop its orbit, make it fall in to the sun, destroy the entire solar system in a supernova so neither Humans nor Trisolarans will survive." "Might nuke New York while I'm at it." O -Stoned to death by his own countrymen. Was the president of Revolutionary Venezuala -Resisted the American Imperialists Resisted the Trisolarans the same way. Mike Evans "We are the Aztecs, and the Trisolarans are the Spaniards! Thats a good thing! Punish us daddy trisolarans!" "We need pan-species communism!" -Father was an oil tycoon. -spent his inheritance of billions founding a cult to worship the trisolarans instead of telling anyone about their impending invasion. Yun Tianming -Do you want to read one of my hundred fairy tales? -Incel -Dying of lung cancer and he isn't even 25... -his own sister volunteered him for euthanasia... - The first girl who ever talked to him took out his brain and shot it at the trisolaran fleet at 1% light speed. -He was so touched he spent his families fortune buying her a star Cheng Xin Trisolaris I ♡ Yun Tianming - Spawned in an unstable Three-Body star system. - Their civilization has been destroyed and ressurected 217 times over the course of millions of years. - Incapable of lying. - Their technology progresses linearly, while humanity progresses exponentially But Earth is only 4 light-years away and has a stable orbit. They must be invaded. - Our fleet will take 400 years to reach the earth, we must stop human science from progressing beyond where the first fleet has progressed. - Incredibly collectivistic and authoritarian, prepared to genocide an entire race for living space - Deny all chances for peace and co-existance, if we must co-exist humans can only live on Mars and Australia, but we will probably kill them all anyway. - Pushed too hard and ended up revealing the locations of both the Earth and Trisolaris to the Dark forest, and now both worlds are doomed. (Magnification 100x) Trisolarans are hive-minded water bears. Fight me Zhang Beihai - Knew the humans didn't stand a chance against the Trisolarans, and didn't need to be brainwashed by Bill Hines to know it. - Stole a Stellar-Class warship 2km in diameter. "We are starting a new civilization in space. Despite it being more collectivist than the Earth, and completely run by the military, we won't become autocratic." 要想快餐 Ye Wenjie -Hates the Chinese Communist Party -Hates Humanity -Made first contact with Trisolaris after being warned. "Why can't Trisolaris and Humanity be friends?" - First woman swordholder, last woman swordholder. What did Liu Cixin mean by this? - Deterrance rate of like, 2% - Elected by Deterrance Era femboys - We will use almost our entire nuclear arsenal dispersed along the sails trajectory to propel the solar sail to 1% the speed of light. "Come here! I will help you conquer this world. Our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems. We need your force to intervene." (Actually pretty damn cool.) - Maybe we can attach the brain of that incel who bought me a star to it. "If it means people will die, we can't keep researching light-speed ships! Surrender to the feds!" -Decoded Yun Tianming's fairy tales allowing for the production of light-speed ships 200 years before galactic humans. (Also pretty damn cool) -Believes that everyone can just get along. Even after watching Trisolaris get hit with a photoid and explode. She is too pure for this world. Authoritarian - Convieniently gets to escape the dimensional attack she caused on the only existing light-speed ship -Comes thought almost as much as she fails - The only surviving Trisolaran is a human-shaped robot. Ironic. - What's with this human brain floating through space? We should simulate every form of torture possible on it. - We learned how to lie. Wang Miao "I'm a scientist of the Chinese Communist party researching Nanomaterials!" "All of my collegues have mysteriously killed themselves, I hope I'm not next!" "I'm sure this isn't part of a much bigger civilization spanning plot to halt Eath science." "Why is there a countdown in my eyes?" Sophon (Farmer - Pocket Universe 647) "Yeah, I tried to eradicate your entire species. I'm not going to apologize." (Magnification 100x) "I am the only Trisolaran left. There are only two Humans left. Want to watch the death of the universe?" "I've got robot farmers too." "Wait stop farming and give the universe back it's mass." Trisolaran Pacifist "Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!! This world has received your message. I am a pacifist in this world. It is the luck of your civilization that I am the first to receive your message. I am warning you: Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!! There are tens of millions of stars in your direction. As long as you do not answer, this world will not be able to ascertain the source of your transmission. But if you do answer, the source will be located right away. Your planet will be invaded Your world will be conquered! Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!" Returners -Whoever they are, they have at least as much energy as there exists mass in the Milky-Way Galaxy, they can't just take the mass by force though. -Can the universe have it's mass back? -If even one atom of mass is not returned, the universe will not return to its natural ten dimensional state, and will drift apart into nothingness if you don't give it back it's mass. Doesn't actually have any more power than to give off a list of names of the survivors of the dark forest, like its some kind of game show Sophons Big brother Trisolaris is always watching. 11-Dimensional proton sized super computer capable of instananeous communication Used to halt all human science so the Trisolaran fleet won't be outdated by the time it arrives in 400 years. Luo Ji (Sword Holder) -Defended the Earth with Dark-Forest Deterrance for 50 years. -92% -98 % Deterrance Rate -Deterred so hard he forgot how to talk -Learned how to talk again -Didn't abuse his power - Name stands for "Sophisticated- Proton" -Was a literal great man of history -Deterred so hard his wife divorced him and took the kids Allows Trisolaris to know everything happening on earth, except that which happens in the human mind. -Radicals want to put him on trial for potential "Mundicide" - Ignores them. Decided to stay with the solar system and turn into two dimensions when he had the oportunity to flee -Abused the Dark Forest state of the universe to blow up stars while lacking the technological capability just to scare the Trisolarans His actions didn't result in the end of the human race. Da Shi He protec He attac but most importantly, when you wake up 200 years in the future. he has your bac Luo Ji (Wallfacer) "Want to see the Louvre?" -The Trisolarans tried to assassinate him three times -The UN Forced him into being a wallfacer, what does he do with the infinite power and money? Abuse it and buy a mansion in the mountains. - "It's all part of the plan." Used his infinite money and power to force the most beautiful girl in China marry him. When the UN kidnapped his family to make him start working he out-sourced the destruction of stars to superior alien civilizations. Zero-Homers "Maybe the universe will return to its original ten dimensional state if we reduce the speed of light to zero. It just makes sense. YOLO." Libertarian Bill Hines (Wallfacer) -His master plan to defeat the Trisolaran invaders is to brainwash everyone into running away Liu Cixin "I need to get back to writing the best science fiction of a generation, but first let me beat up some more femboys" -His own wife was his wall breaker - Willing to destroy humanity's entire and he never realized bunker world just to reach light-speed ships - Is Br*t*sh "I can live with it." Thomas Wade - Went from leading the C.I.A to the P.I.A - Get this solar sail to 1% light speed. Just do it! "Perfect Specimen", "100% Deterrance rate" ^ Sophon (The robot) -Incinerated by the UN for the crime of not wanting to live in a cage. - "This person is a threat to me being elected sword-holder?" "Oh well, might as well kill her." The UN / Solar Humanity - High population of femboys - Complete control over radio communications - Humanities first "world" government - Bans research on things they find scary, it's not like the Earth's location has been revealed to the Dark Forest or anything. - Despite being a one world government, they preserve democracy, and are very capitalistic. "It's a faaaaaaaaake." Frederick Tyler (Wallfacer) - Was the US Secretary of Defense - Banned light speed ships, "If nOT EVERY HUMAN CAn LeAVe the Solar SysTeM, NO ONE LEaVes!" Tve got an order for the Star-Pluckers? - Said they would operate until the death of humanity. They did not in fact operate until the end of humanity. - Probably only selected as a wallfacer so the US would continue funding the UN "They don't know it's not all part of the plan." "One dual-vector foil - Order up!" -First to have his plan. discovered by a wallbreaker "I'm a boy." My Singer Part of an advanced alien race in the Orion arm of the Milky-Way Galaxy. Used to be 4th Dimensional? His day-job is cleansing potential threats to the home-world in the form of exposed alien civilizations. Dreams of climbing the corporate seed ladder and escaping the position he has been in for several million years. "The absolute state of Deterrence Era men... Word on the home-world is that the war with the fringe world isn't going well. More and more of the third dimension is decaying into two dimensions, I hope our race doesn't decide to become functional two-dimensional lifeforms. Casually turned the Human race into non-functional two-dimensional lifeforms Has likely cleansed hundreds of thousands of low-entropy civilizations, still isn't employee of the time-grain. Ai AA "I'm a capitalist" Her company built orbital churches. Her company built space cities in the shadow of Jupiter Her company illegally carried out research into light speed ships under Thomas Wade. "Of course I will save these children, if they can prove they will be productive workers to the surviving human race." Right "Quick, Trisolar-Human alliance! Blue-Space has escaped from the compass!"

The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
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