Dual-Vector Foil

Item from deaths-end by Liu Cixin

A white slip of paper the size of a credit card, fired by Singer at the Solar System — a dark-forest weapon that collapses 3D space into 2D and never stops spreading.

What They Know

• Visually appears as a small white rectangle the size of a credit card; called the 'slip of paper' (小纸条) in Chinese
• Collapses 3D space into 2D within an initial radius of 30-50 AU; only lightspeed-capable craft can escape
• Continues to spread without natural limit; will eventually flatten the entire universe
• Fired at the Solar System by the dark-forest hunter known as Singer
• Use forces the firing civilization to either retreat into a pocket universe or accept self-flattening

Connections

• created_by — singer

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