Our Lord
Names: Our LordGodthe LordTrisolaranspeople of TrisolarisTrisolarisTrisolaranTrisolaran civilizationItthe aliensFirst Trisolaran Fleet
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 16 (16)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 16Wei says the Lord can no longer even protect Himself; sunrises now feel like sunsets to him.
- Ch 18Trisolarans can dehydrate into dry fibrous objects to survive extreme environmental conditions, which Pan says is real.
- Ch 18Trisolaran appearance differs in each civilization cycle; those forming the computer had reflective, deformable bodies and communicated by focusing light.
- Ch 20Hundreds of millions of Trisolarans gathered silently on the desert to watch the fleet depart, hoping for a new world for their civilization.
- Ch 24The ETO's Lord regards the nanomaterial as a threat, so the technology must be extinguished; Ye says she does not know what the countdown ends with.
- Ch 25Trisolaris sent an extraterrestrial message that Ye Wenjie received at Red Coast Base and answered.
- Ch 30Trisolaris has sent no messages for at least four years; no signal has come from Alpha Centauri on any frequency.
- Ch 32Trisolarans can dehydrate in Chaotic Eras and switch sleep on and off at will; idle or unproductive people are dehydrated and burned.
- Ch 32Trisolarans reproduce by mating, merging bodies and fueling a renewal that divides into three to five children who inherit some memories.
- Ch 32Trisolaran society suppresses emotion and art, prizing calmness and numbness for survival under extreme authoritarianism.
- Ch 34Trisolarans regard humans as bugs and do not even hide their plans from the Adventists, whom Ding says they tell everything.
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 2Trisolaris admits it abandoned the Second Wallbreaker's faction out of fear of humans' deceit, and says it is still learning to conceal information.
- Ch 2Trisolaris says the difference in mental transparency strengthens its resolve to wipe out humanity, and that ETO's help would be followed by Trisolaran destruction of ETO too.
- Ch 2Trisolarans communicate through direct, open thoughts, making them poor at deception and camouflage, an advantage for humanity.
- Ch 4Trisolaris ordered the attempt on Luo Ji's life via sophons; it is the only assassination it has ever ordered, and the reason is unknown.
- Ch 4Trisolaris wants to kill Luo Ji, likely because of the cosmic sociology insight Ye Wenjie passed to him.
- Ch 4The Lord has issued a second assassination order against Luo Ji and refuses to reveal the truth, calling it the most important secret in the universe.
- Ch 4The Lord rejected a technology transfer once it learned Luo Ji's location, saying any technology it could give would be ineffective there.
- Ch 6Its planet will be engulfed by its stars, so the Solar System is its only hope.
- Ch 8Human opinion toward Trisolaris shifted from hatred to sympathy and admiration after the droplet's capture.
- Ch 8Humanity had expected a huge Trisolaran fleet, but its only enemy in the battle was a tiny probe.
- Ch 9Trisolaris admits it failed in strategy, and says it long knew the universe is a dark forest, finding it strange Luo Ji realized so late.
- Ch 9Trisolaris has not sent a faster follow-up fleet in two centuries; Luo Ji says it must rely on humanity's future to rescue the diverted fleet.
- Ch 10A Trisolaran saying holds that hiding the self through a faithful mapping of the universe is the only path into eternity.
- Ch 10A Trisolaran fleet is traveling away from the Solar System.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 16Shares an enemy with Earth for the first time in history, Blue Space, and insisted droplets escort Gravity to ensure overwhelming advantage.
- Ch 18Remains two or three technology ages ahead of Earth; deterrence is to be decommissioned only when the two worlds are roughly equal in technology.
- Ch 19Trisolarans, from four light-years away, are the artists behind the era's films, paintings and music, which stuns Cheng Xin.
- Ch 20They repeatedly complained that humanity absorbed their knowledge too slowly and seemed eager for Earth to catch up in basic sciences.
- Ch 20They claim human culture transformed Trisolaran society through multiple revolutions in half a century, and that all Trisolarans love human culture.
- Ch 23Near the start of the Crisis Era, Trisolaris launched six sophons at near-lightspeed to explore other regions of the galaxy, besides those sent to Earth.
- Ch 24Trisolaris made an agreement about fifty years earlier governing where the droplets would position themselves relative to the two ships.
- Ch 26Trisolarans learned strategic thinking, including lies and tricks, from studying human culture; Earth does not believe their claim that six droplets rejoined their fleet.
- Ch 31Trisolaris had waited sixty-two years and expected humanity to choose Cheng Xin as Swordholder.
- Ch 32Their lightspeed drives appear to produce power two orders of magnitude greater than a star, which the observers find unimaginable.
- Ch 33Trisolaran society dismantled the barriers to science imposed by its extreme totalitarian system, encouraged freedom of thought, and began to respect the individual.
- Ch 33The totalitarian system had been adopted as a reaction to Trisolaris's chaotic eras.
- Ch 34Trisolaris has changed policy: it no longer plans to exterminate humanity, but will confine humans to reservations in the Solar System.
- Ch 37After their location was exposed, the Trisolarans are fleeing; the Second Fleet has turned away from the Solar System.
- Ch 38Trisolaris could locate Blue Space and Gravity from a neutrino transmission, so the transmission is delayed.
- Ch 40Its terror of dark forest deterrence is the most convincing evidence for the theory, but humanity does not know the Trisolarans' own reasoning, so it is not direct proof.
- Ch 44Survivors of Trisolaran civilization no longer transfer technology to humanity, fearing human revenge for their failed invasion and attempted genocide.
- Ch 44A believed safety notice would make Earth harmless to Trisolarans too, which is arguably what they want.
- Ch 45Humans came to regard the Trisolarans as victims, then as angels of salvation holding the safety notice secret, and finally as gods to be prayed to.
- Ch 47The Trisolarans will monitor the whole meeting via sophons and may light the red light if Cheng Xin receives forbidden information, even after reviewing the record.
- Ch 47Trisolaran sex merges two partners, who then split into three to five mature offspring inheriting parental memories, so Trisolarans have no childhood.
- Ch 47What remains of Trisolaran civilization is a fleet of spaceships; losing the sophons would end contact with humanity.
- Ch 48The Trisolarans extended Tianming's encounter by six minutes so he could finish the last story, believing the stories harmless.
- Ch 73Their writing is purely ideographic, unconnected to speech; Cheng Xin and Yifan learn it and read about ten times faster than in human scripts.
- Ch 73Trisolaran cosmology proved the universe's total mass was just enough to allow the big crunch; slightly less mass would make it open and expand forever.
- Ch 75They built several hundred mini-universes; Universe 647 was one of the smallest.
Connections
- ally ofSecond Wallbreakerserves it as a devoted ETO member
- has memberTrisolaran probeTrisolaran probe
- enemy ofLuo Jideterrence standoff ending in a deal
- related togravitational wavesused by humanity as the means of deterrence against Trisolaris
- enemy ofEarth
- enemy ofBlue Space
- has memberSophonacts as Trisolaran ambassador to Earth
- createdsophonlaunched them to explore the galaxy
- enemy ofSons of the Earth
- includesTrisolaran probe
- includesSecond Trisolaran Fleet
- related toEarth Security Forceits work benefited Trisolaran civilization
- enemy ofEarth civilizationTrisolarans initiated the invasion; neither is now the other's greatest threat
- includesFirst Trisolaran Fleet
- containsYun Tianmingembedded in Trisolaran society
- related toYun Tianminglives among them and spies on their technology
- createdUniverse 647
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 20Launch of the Trisolaran Expedition
Wang finds hundreds of millions of Trisolarans watching the sky. The thousand-ship fleet lights up, accelerates and vanishes in the west, bound for the nearest star about four light-years away.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Ye Wenjie's interrogation
Ye explains ETO factions, why Judgment Day isn't attacked, the Trisolaran fleet's slow travel, and reveals the two protons Trisolaris sent to lock human science.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Second Wallbreaker contacted by Trisolaris
Trisolaris proves its identity with the dead goldfish and the Evans letter password. It explains its fear of humans and asks ETO to carry out Evans's secret order without revealing ETO's role.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Say reveals Trisolaris wants Luo Ji dead
Say tells Luo Ji the car crash was an ETO assassination ordered by Trisolaris, concluding that Trisolaris fears him, and urges him to uncover why. Luo Ji resolves to wait for his family at doomsday.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Secret meeting on assassinating Luo Ji
Qin Shi Huang's organization discusses the Lord's second order to kill Luo Ji, finds a direct attack impossible against the deep bunker, and is told to submit plans.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Mantis captures the droplet
Mantis approaches and grasps the droplet, retracts it into its cabin, and two hours pass without self-destruction. Earth celebrates and opinion toward Trisolaris softens.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Trisolaris yields to Luo Ji's deterrence
Facing the dark forest deterrence, Trisolaris agrees to turn its fleet around. Luo Ji explains how he deceived them, then lays out likely negotiation topics before the sophon leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Blue Space flees and Gravity pursues
Blue Space begins full acceleration away. Earth and Trisolaris see it as a shared enemy. Earth refuses a droplet strike, and Gravity with two droplet escorts pursues, fifty years from catching it.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Authority handed back to Luo Ji
After Luo Ji transferred deterrence control to the UN and Fleet, humanity quickly realized only he gave credible deterrence and returned it within eighteen hours; Trisolaris failed to strike during that window.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Trisolaran artists revealed
AA reveals that the artists behind the admired films, paintings and music are all Trisolarans, leaving Cheng Xin stunned.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Trisolaris transmits knowledge to Earth
Trisolaris sends complete systems of basic science to Earth, overwhelming scientists. Humans suspect Earth is being used as a knowledge battery, though sophon interference ends and the physics is verified.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Wave of cultural reflection
After the tenth year of the Deterrence Era, Trisolaris sends high-quality art imitating human culture, which becomes popular on Earth and displaces native human culture, while Trisolaris itself stays mysterious.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Sophons lost in blind regions
Six sophons launched by Trisolaris, and later ones, entered blind regions and lost contact permanently. Only two lifeless star systems were explored beforehand.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Blind regions taken as evidence for the dark forest
Earth and Trisolaris interpreted the blind regions as likely artificial and as indirect proof of the dark forest, since the cosmos was being kept hidden.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Transmitters reduced to four
After the attack, Trisolaris pressured Earth into strictly controlling gravitational wave technology, cutting the twenty-three stations to four.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Droplet deployment agreement
Earth agreed that four droplets stay beyond the Kuiper Belt, each accompanied by a human probe; the other six droplets' whereabouts remain unknown.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Analysis of deterrence failure
The author argues the failure stemmed less from the number of transmitters than from their vulnerable placement. Gravitational wave ships were never built in numbers because of extremist threats, cost, and a deep fear of their power.
- Book 3 · Ch 33Trisolaran technology explosion
Trisolaran technology shifted to explosive progress, likely due to human cultural influence via sophons that loosened totalitarianism, and possibly due to knowledge from another civilization found by exploratory sophons.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Reservation Proclamation
Sophon announces the Second Trisolaran Fleet arrives in four years and orders humanity to disarm and resettle in Australia within one year.
- Book 3 · Ch 37Announcement of the universal broadcast
Sophon announces over the information window that Gravity broadcast Trisolaris' location. The Trisolarans flee, the droplets vanish, and the crowd in Australia erupts in cheers as the refugees prepare to return home.
- Book 3 · Ch 40Review of the evidence for dark forest theory
The excerpt examines three pieces of evidence: the destruction of 187J3X1, Trisolaris's fear of deterrence, and the Ring's confirmation. It finds each scientifically inconclusive, and public opinion in the Broadcast Era shifts toward calling the theory a delusion of cosmic persecution.