The Dark Forest

Dramatis Personae

ETO — Earth-Trisolaris Organization

PDC — Planetary Defense Council

SFJC — Solar Fleet Joint Conference

Luo Ji — Astronomer and sociologist

Ye Wenjie — Astrophysicist

Mike Evans — ETO financial backer and key leader

Wu Yue — Captain in the PLA Navy

Zhang Beihai — Political commissar in the PLA Navy; Space Force officer

Chang Weisi — General in the PLA; Space Force commander

George Fitzroy — US general; coordinator at the Planetary Defense Council; military liaison to Hubble II project

Albert Ringier — Hubble II astronomer

Zhang Yuanchao — Recently retired chemical plant worker in Beijing

Yang Jinwen — Retired middle school teacher in Beijing

Miao Fuquan — Shanxi coal boss; neighbor to Zhang and Yang

Shi Qiang — PDC security department officer, nicknamed Da Shi

Shi Xiaoming — Shi Qiang’s son

Kent — Liaison to the PDC

Secretary General Say — Secretary general of the UN

Frederick Tyler — Former US secretary of defense

Manuel Rey Diaz — Former president of Venezuela

Bill Hines — English neuroscientist; former president of the EU

Keiko Yamasuki — Neuroscientist; Hines’s wife

Garanin — PDC rotating chair

Ding Yi — Theoretical physicist

Zhuang Yan — Graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

Ben Jonathan — Fleet Joint Conference special commissioner

Dongfang Yanxu — Captain of Natural Selection

Major Xizi — Science officer of Quantum