Bunker Project
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 52 (Broadcast Era, Year 7 Yun Tianming’s Fairy Tales)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 52Grew from research on Trisolaris's destruction, used to model a Sun failure after a dark forest strike, and replaced Tianming's message as the focus of attention.
- Ch 53Plan to shelter humanity in fifty space cities hidden in the shadows of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would shield them from a solar explosion.
- Ch 53It would take twenty years to build resource-extraction infrastructure and sixty years to build the space cities, with the stages overlapping by ten years.
- Ch 53Planned to use only off-Earth resources, mainly from Jovian moons and planetary rings, so as not to drain Earth's economy.
- Ch 53Twenty cities would shelter behind Jupiter, twenty behind Saturn, six behind Uranus and four behind Neptune, each housing about fifteen million people.
- Ch 53Public fears that the project would exhaust Earth's resources and cause a second Great Ravine were the greatest obstacle, rather than technology.
- Ch 54Its preparations pushed Yun Tianming out of public attention, and some IDC members read his fairy tales as supporting the plan.
- Ch 57The Bunker Project was the plan with the most hope of success, since it used only known technologies with no theoretical unknowns.
- Ch 57The Bunker Project was devised entirely by Earth itself and was not described in Yun Tianming's message.
- Ch 57It amounts to a natural continuation of humanity's expansion, focusing the colonization of the rest of the Solar System.
- Ch 61The public cared most about the Bunker Project, which seemed the most practical path to survival.
- Ch 62It is humankind's mainstream survival plan, with the Black Domain Plan as a under-resourced gamble run in parallel.
- Ch 62Research into lightspeed spaceflight has been totally rejected and proscribed.
- Ch 63Space City Asia I was one of the earliest cities built under the Bunker Project.
- Ch 68Humanity placed its hopes in it, planning to use gas giants as barriers, ignoring that observers might anticipate this.
Connections
- has memberSolar FleetFleet International and the UN agree the project can avoid draining Earth's resources
- ally ofUnited NationsAgrees with Fleet International that Earth resources would not be drained
- includesspace cities
- includesSpace City Asia I
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 53Bunker Project outlined
The document lays out the Bunker Project: after rejecting stellar escape and long-distance avoidance, humanity would build fifty space cities in the shadows of the four gas giants to survive a dark forest strike on the Sun.
- 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.