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Astrophysicist aboard a deep-space scout ship, the man Cheng Xin and AA meet at DX3906 — the cosmologist who first spells out, to the only humans left, what the dual-vector foil really did and why the universe looks the way it does.
Guan Yifan is the calm last cosmologist, the man who explains the dark forest to Cheng Xin in a small ship's galley with the gentleness of a teacher who knows the lesson is too late. He fell in love with her years before they met, by reading the records the Halo Group transmitted. He waits.
Late thirties, of medium height, with the close-cropped hair, soft features, and steady dark eyes of a Galaxy Era spacefarer. He wears the simple gray jumpsuits and soft-soled boots of long-duration crew. There is a small, perpetually amused crease at the corner of his mouth.
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