United Nations
Names: United NationsUNUN Space Development Agency
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 2 (Year 3, Crisis Era)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 8The UN uses the revised Wallfacer Act and the hibernation of Luo Ji's family to coerce and control him.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 5Small countries favored strengthening it for aid, while great powers reluctantly ceded only symbolic commitments and invested heavily in their own space defense.
- Ch 43The UN and Fleet International wanted Cheng Xin and Luo Ji to get reassuring information from Sophon, even suggesting fabricating some.
Connections
- led bySaysecretary general
- ally ofBunker ProjectAgrees with Fleet International that Earth resources would not be drained
- ally ofSolar FleetJointly ran the simulation test
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 2Escapism outlawed
The UN passes Resolution 117 making Escapism illegal. Zhang Yuanchao learns that his 400,000 yuan escape fund purchase was a scam.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Luo Ji named Wallfacer and refuses
Frozen at the UN rostrum, Luo Ji is named a Wallfacer. Afterwards he tells Say he refuses the role and she replies he may.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Luo Ji shot outside the UN
Wandering out unprotected, Luo Ji is shot in the chest by an ETO assassin near the swords-to-plowshares statue. Shi Qiang's security team saves him and takes him to hospital.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Luo Ji understands his Wallfacer status
Meeting Say, Luo Ji grasps that Wallfacer status is inescapable and every action will be scrutinized. He learns he is a huge gamble with the fewest resources, then leaves despairing.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Luo Ji requests his dream home
After calming himself in the Meditation Room, Luo Ji tells Garanin to build a secluded luxurious house by a lake and mountains, with a fireplace, and never reveal its location.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Wallfacer Project hearings
The revived commission demands Luo Ji do something, offering his family's reawakening in exchange. It assigns him the Snow Project to track the nine droplets.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Stars Our Destination Project launched and fails
Say proposed auctioning rights to distant stars to fund UN defense research. The PDC passed a limited version, but only seventeen stars sold at minimum price, raising about forty million dollars, and the project was forgotten.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Crisis Amendment adopted
The great powers amended the Space Convention so that resources beyond the Kuiper Belt fall under UN auspices, as political theater.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Cheng Xin sells the planets, keeps the star
Awakened to resolve ownership of DX3906, Cheng Xin sells its planets to the UN but retains the star, and hires AA to run her company.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Authority handed back to Luo Ji
After Luo Ji transferred deterrence control to the UN and Fleet, humanity quickly realized only he gave credible deterrence and returned it within eighteen hours; Trisolaris failed to strike during that window.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Sophon announces the genocide of Australia
Addressing an emergency UN General Assembly in Canberra, Sophon declares a blockade of Australia and a ban on electricity for three months, dooming most of the 4.2 billion people there to starvation.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Public blame after the Deterrence Era
After the universal broadcast, humanity denounces the Swordholder and the selection process, though Cheng Xin is treated relatively sympathetically and fades from public attention.
- Book 3 · Ch 52Attention shifts to the Bunker Project
Politicization and lack of progress ended hopes of a miracle, and Fleet International and the UN turned to preserving civilization with known technology, via the Bunker Project.
- Book 3 · Ch 53Bunker Project outlined
The document lays out the Bunker Project: after rejecting stellar escape and long-distance avoidance, humanity would build fifty space cities in the shadows of the four gas giants to survive a dark forest strike on the Sun.
- Book 3 · Ch 58Alarm declared false
Fleet International and the UN announce the dark forest strike alarm is false, ending unauthorized launches; the aftermath leaves burnt bodies and chaos at the spaceport.
- Book 3 · Ch 60Lightspeed research banned
Because trails expose civilizations, Fleet International, the UN and nations prohibit curvature propulsion research, leaving only the Bunker Project and the Black Domain Plan.
- Book 3 · Ch 62Bunker Project simulation test
A hydrogen bomb detonated among asteroid stand-ins for the planets. Volunteers sheltered behind the fake Jupiter survived unharmed, and the broadcast brought cheers on Earth.