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Rosetta System

First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 38 (Post-Deterrence Era, Day 1–Day 5 Gravity and Blue Space, Deep Space Beyond the Oort Cloud)

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Book 3: Death's End

Ch 38A database for teaching Earth languages to Trisolarans, with two million characters of documents plus images and decoding software; sent to the Ring by Gravity's neutrino beam.

Key moments

Book 3 · Ch 38Exploring the Ring
Guan, Zhuo and West fly a pinnace through four-dimensional space to the Ring, exchange prime-number bitmaps, and send the Rosetta System. The Ring declares itself a tomb and converses with them.

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