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Item from The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

An unremarkable star fifty light-years from Earth — the first one Luo Ji named in his broadcast and the first one the dark forest answered.

Also known as: the Test Star, Luo Ji's Star

What They Know

• Coordinates broadcast by Luo Ji using the Sun as a solar amplifier in Year 8 of the Crisis Era.
• Destroyed in Year 197 by a relativistic projectile classified as a 'photoid' striking the stellar atmosphere.
• First empirical confirmation of the dark forest hypothesis observed by humanity.

Connections

• rivals — the_spell

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