Jupiter
Names: JupiterJupiter baseFleet CommandJovian orbitJovian
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 22 (22)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 6In the Wallbreaker's chain reaction, Jupiter would also fall into the sun, and Uranus and Neptune might follow.
- Ch 7The three fleets base at Jupiter because its hydrogen-helium ocean provides inexhaustible fusion fuel.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 53Along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Jupiter would survive a solar explosion with only surface disturbance, because destructive force falls with the inverse square of distance.
- Ch 58About fifty thousand people live at Jupiter, mostly space force personnel and Bunker Project staff; wealthy people secretly built stellar and near-stellar yachts to hide behind giant planets.
- Ch 63Twenty-six space cities hide in Jupiter's shadow; Saturn shelters twenty-six, Uranus four and Neptune eight, as protection from a dark forest strike.
- Ch 67There are fifty-two large space cities in the Jupiter cluster, most combined into larger cities; all remain Jovian satellites until an alert.
Connections
- containsSpace City Asia Iin Jupiter's shadow
- containsspace citiesLocated near Jupiter
- containsLightspeed IIat the Sun-Jupiter L2 point, near Jupiter's shadow edge
- containsJupiter Combination IIorbits as a satellite
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 7Zhang Beihai assigned as acting captain
At Jupiter Fleet Command, the Asian Fleet commander explains the mental seal threat and orders the reawakened contingent to act as acting captains of centrally commanded warships. Zhang Beihai doubts this but is told refusal is not tradition.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Zhang Beihai hijacks Natural Selection
After the permissions handover, Zhang Beihai locks out the captain, cuts communications and orders deep-sea state. Dongfang Yanxu complies, and he launches the ship at Ahead Four from Jupiter.
- 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 67Cheng Xin and AA awaken at Jupiter
Cheng Xin and AA are woken on the Halo near Jupiter in Year 67. Cao Bin tells them an attack alert has sounded, though the cities are not hiding.
- Book 3 · Ch 70The Sun is flattened
From Pluto, Luo Ji, Cheng Xin and AA watch the Sun collapse into two dimensions and die, followed by Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus.