Luo Ji

Character from deaths-end by Liu Cixin

The first Swordholder. Held the dark-forest deterrence over two civilizations for fifty-four years and is now a centenarian forced to hand the switch to a woman everyone knows will not pull it.

Also known as: 罗辑, Luo Ji, the Swordholder, the Wallfacer

What They Know

• He invented and proved the Dark Forest theory by destroying star 187J3X1 with a broadcast spell
• He held the Swordholder switch — the deterrence trigger — for fifty-four years without firing
• He is widowed; his wife Zhuang Yan and daughter Xia Xia were taken into hibernation early as a hostage incentive and never re-emerged in the normal way
• After the deterrence collapse he is brought back into service to oversee the dispersal of humanity's cultural heritage
• He becomes the chief curator of the Earth Civilization Museum on Pluto in the late Bunker Era
• He dies on Pluto when the dual-vector foil collapses the Solar System, with AA's last shipments stowed safely in his vault

Connections

• ally_of — cheng_xin
• rivals — sophon
• located_in — deterrence_center
• leads — earth_civilization_museum
• ally_of — aa

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