Great Ravine
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 7 (Year 205, Crisis Era)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 7The Great Ravine is a catastrophic event after which marriage and family disappeared; the doctor suggests it is better Luo Ji not know of it.
- Ch 7After the Great Ravine ended, most of the world's cities were rebuilt underground in preparation for war.
- Ch 7The Great Ravine drastically reduced the human population, which is why people now have so much living space.
- Ch 7A roughly fifty-year famine caused by economic transition, pollution and desertification; world population fell from 8.3 billion to 3.5 billion.
- Ch 7It led people to prioritize present life, ending space strategies, followed by a second Enlightenment and renewed technology, genetic engineering and fusion food production.
- Ch 7A period of resource shortage and volatile international relations, after which about half a century of peace followed.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 17The Great Ravine was a catastrophic period that few survived; it interrupted society's trend toward femininity.
- Ch 46A historical event that extinguished humanity's enthusiasm; technology leapt forward after it.
- Ch 47The Great Ravine was a brief despotic militarized age before everything from faith to life collapsed; old propaganda posters from it remain in the station.