Chapter 12 Analysis Behind the Escape_1

Logic's statement made people realize that there must be something hidden behind the escape law, but it was unclear.

Logic's voice sounded again.

"The Trisolaran Bugs' way of looking at problems is very direct. They think that after the anti-escape law comes into effect, humans will stop escaping. Simple and straightforward bug thinking.

The enactment of any law is a sign that some people will break it. There's another implication to the escape law: once people have fled, human laws can no longer punish them, and those who escape will do everything possible to get away."

The main point I want to talk about isn't about escaping. The main point is that the Trisolarans are afraid of our escape, and that is their biggest blunder.

Through this blunder, we see several points that can guide our future direction:

First, the technology of escape. The fact that Trisolarans fear our escape suggests that even though Sophons have blocked our fundamental physics, we can still develop interstellar ships.

According to the Science Advisory Board's analysis, the minimum speed requirement for our escape is 5% of the speed of light, and this technology needs to be achieved within 100 years. Without such speed, we won't get far before the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet catches up and annihilates us.

What Trisolarans are telling us is that we can succeed in both the miniaturization of controlled nuclear fusion and the interstellar ecological system.

Controlled nuclear fusion and ecological systems. We can persist in our research, no matter how many failures or setbacks we encounter, we need not give up, because someone has told us this direction is correct.

It's said that our Space Force has had a major divergence and controversy over the unpropellant radiation propulsion method and traditional propulsion. Now there's no need for debate, the Trisolarans have given us the answer.

At the same time, when we formulate space warfare theoretical strategies, we can completely set them at a high-technology level, which is to use ships with 5% light-speed capability, and the range of combat travel will be expanded to the Oort Cloud.

I believe that the Space Force can develop a more detailed plan based on this.

Second, the speculation on Sophon communication, which may have a distance limit, perhaps four light-years is its maximum.

If the human government organizes a large-scale escape, the Trisolarans could have Sophons continually track our Escape Fleet, and wherever we try to escape, we won't get out of the Trisolarans' control—unless we believe that the speed of future human warships will be faster than Trisolarans'. Then, do we still need to escape?

(The speed of future human warships can reach 15% of light-speed, which indeed is stronger than Trisolaris, but that is unimaginable for people today. For people today, the right lie can actually increase their confidence in fighting against Trisolaris.)

This means if we escape far enough, even if Sophons are still tracking us, will the Trisolarans still be able to find us?

Their attempt to prevent our escape indicates that the Trisolarans want to wipe us out entirely, leaving no threats behind.

If they can continuously send Sophons to follow us and communicate with their home planet in real-time, our escape does not make much difference to them.

(Of course, this is a lie, but it is the most logical deduction under the circumstances.)

On a small scale, dispersed escapes could indeed avoid Sophon tracking, as it is impossible for every Escape Fleet to be accompanied by a Sophon.

But a small-scale escape is nearly impossible. The distances between stars are easily over ten light-years, the journey lasts thousands of years, and without any logistics maintenance or industrial system support, we cannot retain the seeds of civilization.

Unless the future human technology develops to the point where even a small number of people can maintain an industrial system, and the warship remains stable over thousands of years of travel.

If technology is strong enough to such an extent, do we really need to escape?

The speed of the Trisolaran warships can reach 10% of light-speed. The distance between the Trisolaran Star System and ours is four light-years, but their travel time is not 40 years, it's a prolonged 400 years, and along the way, they probably have to keep patching up their warships.

For a considerable time in the future, the Trisolarans' technology will remain far superior to ours; what they cannot achieve, we should not invest too much of our precious resources and time in.

The difficulty of escape far exceeds our imagination, and I have said before that the Trisolarans are giants of logic. If they believe we can escape, it means that under current conditions, we surely can.

Therefore, sophon communication must have a distance limitation; otherwise, they wouldn't fear our escape.

Does knowing this help us?

Of course, it's very helpful.

The Trisolarans use sophons to blockade our particle collider experiments, which indicates that there's a crucial theory behind particle collisions. Once we grasp it, we would possess a weapon to counter the Trisolarans.

They fear us obtaining such a weapon, but when would we obtain it?

The Trisolarans also tell us by preventing our escape that this time will certainly not be too long.

They worry that once our Escape Fleet moves beyond the range of sophon communication, we will quickly master this type of weapon.

Beyond the range of sophon communication, sophons are equivalent to offline intelligent programs that can only operate in fixed patterns. Due to the Trisolarans' lack of imagination, this set of intelligent programs definitely cannot handle many unexpected situations.

An intelligent program with only fixed decision-making patterns, we might even decipher its operational rules. There are many types of particle collider experiments, some with low economic costs, others with high. After probing its operational rules, we could even use some low-cost collisions to lure it, providing cover for our real particle collider experiments.

Knowing this, we can attempt to build particle accelerators further away, like in the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, or even farther.

Also, there's no need to worry that such particle accelerator spaceships would escape; I believe no one would flee with such a behemoth.

This also points out the direction behind the concept of escape.

Third, the situation of the Doomsday Battle.

If the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet fears our escape, what would they do? The greatest possibility is that the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet will adjust the deployment upon their arrival in the Solar System to encircle us from four directions at the Kuiper Belt, thus thoroughly limiting the possibility of our escape.

Knowing this will also be beneficial for our war deployment.

Future mainstream strategic defense plans must expand beyond the Kuiper Belt; the Oort Cloud is also our territory.

This is my understanding of the Escape Act.

Although a Wallfacer is not required to answer any questions, if anyone has doubts, they can ask, and I will respond.

"Who knows if my responses are part of the plan?"

Logic's analysis of the underlying implications of the Escape Act, at least logically, has no flaws, except that some of the conjectural conditions cannot be verified.

It deeply impressed most of the elite humans present, opening a great door of hope for humanity, and it is the most hopeful direction that Logic has found for humankind.

Many people at the scene discussed Logic's exposition and were deeply impressed. Yet, many also realized that Logic seemed not to have proposed his own plan. Could this be related to Logic's plan, or is Logic's plan based on the above analysis?