chain of suspicion
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 8 (“Yet its engine lights up. We’ve observed that. When it went out for a second time, Blue Shadow wasn’t close enough to capture an image in time, so we don’t know where the light came from.”)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 8The chain of suspicion means civilizations cannot know what the other thinks about what it thinks, regardless of morality; across space distances it becomes practically indestructible.