Garanin
Names: Garaninthe chairthe rotating chairPDC chair
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 3 (Luo Ji thought this over. “I’d still like to see the secretary general. I ought to have that power.”)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 3Garanin, a burly white-bearded Russian, is the PDC's current rotating chair and approves Luo Ji's request pending commission audit.
- Ch 3Garanin says the commission may question Wallfacers only over excess resource use or harm to human lives, and finds Luo Ji's baffling behavior ideal for a Wallfacer.
- Ch 3Garanin says Tyler, Rey Diaz and Hines disappointed him because their grand strategies are easy to read.
- Ch 3Garanin is the PDC rotating chair who presides over the Wallfacer Project Hearing.
- Ch 6Rotating chair of the PDC since the Wallfacer Project began, about to retire; he escorts Rey Diaz out.
- Ch 6Garanin escorted Rey Diaz to Caracas, lamented that Wallfacers used their privilege against humanity, and wept as they parted.
- Ch 6After retirement Garanin and Kent secluded themselves in northern Europe where Luo Ji once lived, and possibly lived to a hundred.
Connections
- leadsPlanetary Defense Councilcurrent rotating chair
- related toLuo Jiarranged the estate from Luo Ji's sketch
- related toManuel Rey Diazescorted him by plane to Caracas
- friend ofMr. Kent
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3Luo Ji requests his dream home
After calming himself in the Meditation Room, Luo Ji tells Garanin to build a secluded luxurious house by a lake and mountains, with a fireplace, and never reveal its location.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Tyler presents mosquito swarm plan
At the PDC hearing, Tyler discloses his plan of a thousand hydrogen-bomb fighters with hibernating pilots; Wallfacers bicker and Luo Ji is absent.
- Book 2 · Ch 4PDC hearing on Luo Ji's plan
Luo Ji presents his plan, a spell targeting 187J3X1 via the sun, to the PDC. Delegates mock it as sorcery; he says he will hibernate afterward.
- Book 2 · Ch 6PDC Wallfacer hearing
Major powers seek to suspend and prosecute Rey Diaz. He reveals his cradle dead-man's switch linked to something in New York City, forcing them to let him leave.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Death of Rey Diaz
Rey Diaz returns to Caracas and addresses the crowd at Plaza Bolívar; the people stone him to death, an old woman delivering the last stone.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Passing of the Golden Age generation
Over the following decades, key figures retire, die or enter hibernation, and the Golden Age generation vanishes from living memory.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Handover of the Swordholder switch
Luo Ji hands the gravitational wave broadcast switch to Cheng Xin in the white hall, ending his fifty-four-year tenure; no one thanks him.