Snow Project
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 8 (“Yet its engine lights up. We’ve observed that. When it went out for a second time, Blue Shadow wasn’t close enough to capture an image in time, so we don’t know where the light came from.”)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 8The Snow Project would seed dust clouds with stellar hydrogen bombs and Neptune's oil film so droplets passing through leave trackable traces.
- Ch 8The project stalled after eighteen months with only 1.5 million tons of oil film collected and 3,614 bombs deployed, under a fifth of the target.
- Ch 9The Snow Project deployed 3,614 stellar hydrogen bombs in solar orbit, each wrapped in oil film, kept non-triggered by a signal sent every second.
- Ch 9If detonated, the bombs' dust clouds would make the Sun flicker, broadcasting the coordinates of Trisolaris relative to twenty-nine stars and revealing the Sun's location.
- Ch 9During the Snow Project Luo Ji spent two months remotely adjusting bomb positions in solar orbit, which Trisolaris dismissed as escapism.
Connections
- led byLuo Ji
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 8Snow Project fails and Luo Ji loses prestige
The project stalls after a year and a half, and the public loses faith in Luo Ji as a savior.