Australia
Names: AustraliaAustralian Reservation
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 34 (Post-Deterrence Era, Day 60 A Lost World)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 34Australia and one-third of Mars's surface are designated as human reservations; Australia is the main resettlement destination since space habitats hold only about three million.
- Ch 35Australia became a miniature replica of Earth with districts by nation; only the largest cities kept their names.
- Ch 35Existing food reserves could sustain 4.2 billion people in Australia for only one month, making the electricity ban effectively genocide.
- Ch 37Refugees from the Great Resettlement are leaving Australia to return to their original homes; evacuation will take three to six months.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 34Reservation Proclamation
Sophon announces the Second Trisolaran Fleet arrives in four years and orders humanity to disarm and resettle in Australia within one year.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Great Resettlement begins
After the attacks and Sophon's second speech promising eventual coexistence, humanity begins relocating to Australia.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Wade warns Cheng Xin
Cheng Xin visits Wade at his prison work site; he whispers that she must leave Australia before resettlement is complete, then dismisses her, leaving her terrified.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Fraisse's haka
Fraisse performs a true Māori war haka for Cheng Xin and AA and comforts Cheng Xin that her failure was not her fault.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Australia descends into chaos
Australia's hard-line government restricts migrants; the Sydney Incident and Canberra Massacre follow, and resettled society turns totalitarian and warlike.
- Book 3 · Ch 35The Great Resettlement completes
With New Zealand as buffer, the last refugees reach Australia three days before the deadline; 4.16 billion are in Australia, and Sophon orders extermination of those outside.
- Book 3 · Ch 35ESF raids; Cheng Xin seeks Sophon
ESF bombers strike Australian power plants and harbors. Cheng Xin bikes to the city government and asks the mayor to contact Sophon or send her to Canberra; he refuses and advises her to stay.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Cheng Xin goes blind and rescues her friends
Cheng Xin faints on hearing the announcement and wakes blind. She speaks to Sophon by phone, asking that AA and Fraisse be evacuated, and refuses to leave herself.
- Book 3 · Ch 37Announcement of the universal broadcast
Sophon announces over the information window that Gravity broadcast Trisolaris' location. The Trisolarans flee, the droplets vanish, and the crowd in Australia erupts in cheers as the refugees prepare to return home.
- Book 3 · Ch 37Cheng Xin is told to go home
A messenger sent by the mayor tells blind Cheng Xin that everyone is returning to China and offers to take her to the provincial government. She asks to be left alone as the sun rises.