Gravitational Wave Broadcast System

Item from remembrance-of-earths-past by Cixin Liu

A worldwide network of long-baseline gravitational-wave antennae — the trigger of the Dark Forest broadcast that would expose both Earth and Trisolaris to extermination — and the system Sophon's Droplets destroyed in a single coordinated strike at the end of Deterrence.

What They Know

• The deadman-switch architecture connecting the Swordholder's grip to the broadcast trigger
• The complete locations of the planetary antennae destroyed by the Droplets in the opening minutes of the Broadcast Era
• The function of the warship Gravity's antenna ring as a deep-space backup broadcast platform

Connections

• created_by — luo_ji
• located_in — earth

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