Trisolar Crisis
Names: Trisolar CrisisTrisolaran invasionthe crisis
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 2 (Year 3, Crisis Era)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 3Hubble II's confirmation of the fleet ended humanity's last fantasies and began life under the Trisolar Crisis.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 5Its impact on society was far deeper than first imagined, shaking culture, politics, religion and economics; nothing in prior human experience compares.
- Ch 8The Crisis turned the expected paradise of the future into a hell on Earth, so hibernating into the future lost its appeal even for terminal patients.
- Ch 8Faith that tomorrow will be better reached its apex on the eve of the Crisis, when people expected paradise within a hundred years.
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 8Hibernation freed from restraint
The Trisolar Crisis made the future seem dangerous, so governments stopped suppressing hibernation. It developed freely and became commercially viable, letting humans travel through time.