Wallfacer Project
Names: Wallfacer ProjectWallfacersWallfacerWallfacer missionWallfacer planWallfacer ActWallfacer Project Commission
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 2Trisolaris views the Wallfacer Project, about to be put into action, with the same revulsion humans feel toward a snake; the ETO offers to help navigate its mazes.
- Ch 2Plan to select individuals who devise strategies entirely in their own minds, deceiving both enemy and allies, since sophons cannot read human thoughts.
- Ch 2Wallfacers get extensive powers to mobilize military resources without explaining their actions, and may use hibernation to span the centuries until the Doomsday Battle.
- Ch 2The Wallfacer Project was announced to the whole world, along with Luo Ji's refusal.
- Ch 3The Wallfacer Project keeps humanity's real strategy inside one person's mind, the only place safe from sophon spying.
- Ch 4The public treats Wallfacers as messiahs, a cult has formed around them, and this gives them great political capital.
- Ch 4Opposition to the Wallfacer Project has grown after the first Wallbreaker emerged and Tyler failed, leaving supporters in a stalemate.
- Ch 4The amended Act tightens examination and restriction of Wallfacer resource allocation, though Luo Ji's plan uses almost no resources.
- Ch 6Wallfacers have legal immunity, but the Wallfacer Act allows limiting plans showing dangerous tendencies.
- Ch 7The doctor says one Wallfacer committed suicide and another was stoned to death; the other two are thought to be still hibernating.
- Ch 7Terminated after 205 years; the proposition called it a complete failure and the most foolish action in human history.
- Ch 8The Wallfacer Project has been revived because 187J3X1's destruction is taken as proof that Luo Ji's spell worked.
- Ch 8The revived Wallfacer Act lets Luo Ji mobilize practically all resources of Earth International and Fleet International, though with restrictions.
- Ch 9Luo Ji says the three other Wallfacers were great strategists who saw humanity's inevitable defeat in the Doomsday Battle; Trisolaris held them in contempt.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 5An international UN-framework effort that changed history and deeply influenced the course of civilization.
- Ch 9The Wallfacer Project was announced to the world at a special General Assembly session; four Wallfacers were revealed.
- Ch 18Initially judged a ridiculous, childish act, yet it led to dark forest deterrence and its ghost lived on in the Swordholder.
Connections
- related toPlanetary Defense Councilmonitors and may veto Wallfacers
- has memberLuo Jiwas a Wallfacer
- has memberManuel Rey Diaz
- has memberFrederick Tyler
- has memberBill Hines
- part ofCrisis Infantilismclassic example
Key moments
- 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.