Second Trisolaran Fleet
Names: Second Trisolaran FleetSecond Fleet
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 32 (Post-Deterrence Era, Day 60 A Lost World)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 32Consists of 415 ships that left Trisolaris five years earlier and passed through the first dust cloud four years ago.
- Ch 32Crossed from the first dust cloud to the second in six days, whereas the First Fleet took five years; the Trisolarans achieved lightspeed.
- Ch 32Is now decelerating about six thousand AU from Earth at 15 percent of lightspeed and will reach the Solar System's edge in one year.
- Ch 32Accelerates conventionally for a year, cruises at lightspeed, then drops out about six thousand AU from the destination, apparently to avoid harming either star system.
- Ch 34The fleet will arrive in four years to complete Trisolaris's total conquest of the Solar System.
- Ch 35The fleet of 415 ships had crossed the Kuiper Belt; the resettled people pinned their hopes on its arrival.
- Ch 36Moving near lightspeed toward Earth, it should arrive in four years; its trails were seen in the dust cloud near Trisolaris.
- Ch 60It cruised conventionally for a year before entering lightspeed six thousand AU from Trisolaris, and exited six thousand AU from the Solar System, to avoid exposing locations with trails.
- Ch 71Over sixty years ago the Second Trisolaran Fleet fought a brutal battle near Taurus against an unknown foe; the outcome is unknown.
Connections
- member ofTrisolarislaunched from Trisolaris
- part ofOur Lord
- createdcurvature propulsion trailleft trails entering and exiting lightspeed
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 32Second Trisolaran Fleet discovered
After deterrence ends, the observation station finds 415 trails showing a second Trisolaran fleet. Further trails reveal it travelled at lightspeed and is now decelerating, arriving in about a year rather than centuries.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Referendum on the universal broadcast
Chu Yan presents the lightspeed Trisolaran fleet and calls a vote of 1,415 people; with 943 ayes, Morovich and others add the deciding vote and the broadcast of Trisolaris's location begins.