Listener 1379

Character from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

A lonely Trisolaran officer manning Listening Post 1379 who, in 1979, intercepts Wenjie's signal — and chooses, against orders and against the survival of his own world, to send back a warning: Do not answer.

Also known as: 1379, the Listener

What They Know

• He intercepted Wenjie's 1971 broadcast at Listening Post 1379 and identified Earth's location from it
• He sent the warning 'Do not answer' to Earth in fluent Mandarin, against direct standing orders
• He understood that revealing Earth's existence to Trisolaran command would doom that world, and chose to risk his own life instead

Connections

• ally_of — ye_wenjie
• enemy_of — princeps
• located_in — listening_post_1379

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