Black Domain Plan
Names: Black Domain PlanGod's Engineering Projectthe cosmic safeblack domain
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 57 (Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Three Paths of Survival for Earth Civilization)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 57The Black Domain Plan would turn the Solar System into a reduced-lightspeed black hole to broadcast a cosmic safety notice.
- Ch 57It requires altering a physical constant within a region fifty AU (7.5 billion km) in radius, and was the most technically challenging plan.
- Ch 57It would be the most protective option, and the only one letting humanity keep living on Earth's surface rather than in space exile.
- Ch 57Its price: the Solar System would be sealed from the universe, and computers would run extremely slowly, perhaps regressing humanity to low technology.
- Ch 61The public valued the Black Domain Plan because it promised a serene life after three centuries of horror, despite being sealed off from the universe.
- Ch 61Supporters of lightspeed flight despised the Black Domain Plan, seeing it as digging humankind's own grave and life under it as civilizational death.
- Ch 61Laypeople doubted that humans could slow down lightspeed, calling it God's Engineering Project, which is why the Bunker Project drew more interest.
Connections
- createdblack domainThe plan would create a black domain around the Solar System
- includesLightspeed II
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 57Three survival paths outlined
The excerpt compares the Bunker Project, Black Domain Plan and Lightspeed Spaceflight Plan, weighing feasibility, protection and costs, and concludes all three should be pursued at once.
- Book 3 · Ch 60Lightspeed research banned
Because trails expose civilizations, Fleet International, the UN and nations prohibit curvature propulsion research, leaving only the Bunker Project and the Black Domain Plan.