Yun Tianming
Character from deaths-end by Liu Cixin
The terminally ill engineer who loved Cheng Xin in silence, gave her a star for a present, then was launched as a frozen brain toward the enemy fleet — and survived to send three fairy tales home.
Also known as: 云天明, Tianming, the Storyteller
What They Know
- He bought star DX3906 for Cheng Xin in the early Crisis Era as an anonymous gift, paying with money won by a college friend
- His brain alone was launched on a sail probe by the Staircase Program; the Trisolarans intercepted and grew him a new body
- He composed three fairy tales — 'The New Royal Painter,' 'The Glutton's Sea,' and 'Prince Deep Water' — to encode curvature propulsion, the dual-vector foil, and the safe-haven idea past Sophon's surveillance
- He has lived among the Trisolarans for centuries and learned to think like them while keeping his secrets
- He selects Planet Blue around DX3906 as a meeting place for Cheng Xin and arranges, after her ship is delayed, to leave her his planet and a will carved in rock
- He understands the dark forest more completely than anyone else from Earth and warns through metaphor
Connections
- loves — cheng_xin
- friend_of — aa
- ally_of — guan_yifan
- created_by — staircase_program
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