Judgment Day
Names: Judgment Daythe target
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 28 (28)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 28The ship that houses the Second Red Coast Base; a converted oil tanker with a giant round antenna.
- Ch 30Judgment Day is the Adventists' core base and command center; Mike Evans and other leaders usually reside there.
- Ch 30The intercepted Trisolaran messages are stored on a computer aboard Judgment Day, and the Adventists could erase them if attacked, so the ship is spared.
- Ch 31A rebuilt oil tanker with a complex, renovated interior layout; it stores intercepted Trisolaran messages and is controlled by human traitors to humanity.
- Ch 31Built to Panamax specifications, it is 31 meters tall with about an 8-meter draft, and it submitted plans to transit the Panama Canal.
- Ch 31A sixty-thousand-ton ship with a black hull and white superstructure, it was sailing through a canal when the trap was sprung.
- Ch 31Passing between the steel pillars, the ship was sliced by nanofilaments into more than forty thin slices that spilled across the shore.
Connections
- containsSecond Red Coast Basebase is built on the ship
- part ofAdventistsThe Adventists' base
- containsTrisolaran messages
- containsMike Evans
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 28Ye arrives at the Second Red Coast Base
Ye is flown by helicopter from Heathrow to the ship Judgment Day in the Atlantic, where about two thousand ETO members await.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Operation Guzheng begins
At the Gaillard Cut, workers raise the hidden filament net as Judgment Day approaches. Wang and Stanton watch from the slope while a walkie-talkie counts down the ship's distance.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Judgment Day destroyed by the deadly zither
Judgment Day sails between the steel pillars; the nanofilaments slice crew, engine and hull into slices. The ship crashes into the bank and soldiers and helicopters secure the wreckage while Wang watches.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Evans's last conversation with Trisolaris
Evans and the Trisolaran discuss why 'think' and 'say' are synonyms for Trisolarans. Evans's wolf story reveals that Trisolarans cannot comprehend deception; the Trisolaran admits fear of humans, and the conversation ends.