187J3X1
Names: 187J3X1Luo Ji's 187J3X1
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 4 (Year 8, Crisis Era)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 4187J3X1 is a star 49.5 light-years from the sun that Luo Ji chooses; he asks Ringier to draw up its position pattern.
- Ch 4187J3X1 is a star about fifty light-years from the sun, chosen as test target; astronomers say its planets have no life.
- Ch 8The star 187J3X1 was destroyed fifty-one years ago by a near-light-speed object, vaporizing its four planets; the destruction was observed a year ago and noticed only this afternoon.
- Ch 8Luo Ji sent three images to the cosmos using the sun, locating 187J3X1 among twenty-nine surrounding stars; the star was then destroyed.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 18Luo Ji broadcast this star's location; no one can prove whether it had life-bearing planets, so Luo Ji is suspected of mundicide.
- Ch 39The star 187J3X1 was destroyed 157 years after Luo Ji's broadcast of its coordinates, roughly a modern human lifespan.
- Ch 40Its destruction after Luo Ji's dark forest experiment is disputed. Astronomers argue it may have been a natural supernova.
- Ch 53The state of this system after its destruction supports the belief that a second strike is unlikely.
- Ch 59187J3X1 was destroyed by a photoid, one of two such attacks observed by Earth.
- Ch 68Its three giant planets orbited extremely close to their star, so its explosion destroyed them and they could not serve as barriers.
Connections
- related toLuo JiHis dark forest experiment led to the star system's destruction