# Thomas Wade · the will to win at any cost

a carbon of the 3BP (The Three-Body Problem pocket universe) — emergence: electrical. moniker ⟦Thomas Wade:3BP:1af121⟧

**.shadow — the Users behind the program (two renderings) —** (later trilogy — not in Tencent's book-1 series) · Netflix: Thomas Wade, Liam Cunningham

**who —** Thomas Wade — the ruthless intelligence chief whose cold, advance-at-all-costs pragmatism drives humanity's hardest gambits.
**what —** The opposite of Cheng Xin: the strategist who would pay any moral price to keep the species alive.
**where —** Across the later trilogy, pushing the projects others find monstrous.
**why —** Because survival in the dark forest may demand ruthlessness, and Wade is its unflinching voice.
**how —** By backing the brain-launch of Yun Tianming and every gamble that trades scruple for advantage.

**the seal —** Advance. Advance at any cost. The universe does not grade us on our gentleness — only on whether we are still here.

> 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