Starship Earth
Names: Starship EarthStarship InternationalSpaceship Earth
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 five ships Natural Selection, Blue Space, Enterprise, Deep Space and Ultimate Law form an independent country of just over five thousand people, all that remains of Earth's space fleet.
- Ch 8It is heading toward NH558J2, eighteen light-years away, a two-thousand-year voyage; the assembly voted unanimously to keep this heading.
- Ch 8Five ships now seventy AU from the sun, with fuel for only about two ships, limited spare parts, and a route crossing dust clouds that slow them.
- Ch 8The surviving citizens of Starship Earth number 1,273 crew members aboard Blue Space.
Connections
- led byZhang Beihai
- includesNatural Selection
- includesBlue Space
- includesEnterprise
- includesDeep Space
- includesUltimate
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 8Founding of Starship Earth
Zhang Beihai tells the crews they cannot return to Earth. They name themselves Starship Earth, and the Citizens' Assembly sets course for NH558J2 and declares independence. The UN and SFJC give tacit blessing.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Psychological crisis spreads
Senior officers become withdrawn and gloomy, violence erupts on Natural Selection, Scott hints at the 'fruit of knowledge', Lan Xi succumbs, and the captain of Ultimate Law kills himself.