Lightspeed II
Names: Lightspeed IIghost city
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 64 (Bunker Era, Year 11 Lightspeed II)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 64Lightspeed II was a science city, one of two research centers studying lowering the speed of light for the black domain; it is now abandoned and in ruins.
- Ch 64Lightspeed II does not spin, is a vacuum inside, and is essentially a giant container holding a microscopic black hole at its center.
- Ch 64A protective net with a five-thousand-meter radius surrounds the black hole; research personnel were forbidden to enter it.
Connections
- part ofBlack Domain Plan
- inJupiterat the Sun-Jupiter L2 point, near Jupiter's shadow edge
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 64Visit to Lightspeed II
Cheng Xin and Cao Bin enter the ruined Lightspeed II, see the flickering blue glow of the black hole, and Cao Bin tells her its story.
- Book 3 · Ch 64高 Way falls into the black hole
高 Way entered the protective net and drifted into the black hole; observers see him eternally frozen at the event horizon, alive from outside but dead in his own frame.