# The Trisolarans · San-Ti · the civilization across the gulf

a synth of the 3BP (The Three-Body Problem pocket universe) — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦The Trisolarans · San-Ti:3BP:a5f207⟧

**synth —** no single User; a concept of the universe distilled.

**who —** The Trisolarans — the alien civilization of a chaotic three-sun system (Alpha Centauri), survivors of endless apocalypses, who dehydrate to outlast the Chaotic Eras.
**what —** The other: a desperate, brilliant, ruthless species that has died hundreds of times and is coming for a stable home.
**where —** Four light-years away, with a fleet en route and sophons already here.
**why —** Because the dark forest needs a face first — a neighbor whose desperation we can understand even as it dooms us.
**how —** By answering Ye Wenjie, locking human physics, and setting out to take the Earth.

**the seal —** We have burned and frozen and started over more times than your history is long. Netflix calls us the San-Ti. Either way: we are tired, and we are coming.

> a catalogued personification of a character/concept of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past and its
> adaptations, under the DLW standard — commentary and cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by
> the rights-holders (© Liu Cixin / China Educational Publications; Tencent; Netflix).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · 3BP · The Three-Body Problem · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0