Pluto
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 69 (Bunker Era, Year 68 Pluto)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 69Pluto is at its apogee, far from the two-dimensional space, so it will collapse later; it has a surface of blue frozen nitrogen and methane and black rock.
- Ch 70Pluto is falling with the surrounding space toward the plane, so the Sun and planets appear ever larger.
Connections
- containsEarth Civilization Museum
- includesCharonmoon of Pluto
- containsHalolanded on Pluto's landing field
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 69Federation requests an artifact rescue mission
Cao Bin asks Cheng Xin and AA to take Halo to Pluto to scatter museum artifacts in space and tells them Luo Ji wants to see them. They agree.
- Book 3 · Ch 69Meeting Luo Ji in the museum
Halo lands on Pluto; Cheng Xin and AA enter the monolith and meet Luo Ji, who explains the museum is humanity's tombstone and its history.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Neptune and Saturn seen flattened
Stepping onto Pluto's surface, Cheng Xin and AA see Neptune and Saturn collapsed into giant two-dimensional rings, like a pair of eyes in the sky.
- 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.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Luo Ji stays behind
Luo Ji refuses to board Halo and returns to the monolith, insisting Cheng Xin and AA depart on their mission and stay in contact.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Luo Ji refuses to leave Pluto
Luo Ji declines to board and, using his authority over Halo, orders curvature propulsion, explaining that the black domain could be formed by lightspeed ship trails, and tells them to find the other survivors.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Solar System flattened
Pluto expands onto the plane and Luo Ji goes into the picture. The last voices fall silent as the Solar System becomes a completed two-dimensional painting.