The Three-Body Problem: From Earth to Ruling the Universe

After unifying Earth, Li Shu set his sights on the cosmos, and went on to unify the universe! And so begins Li Shu’s grand saga of bringing the universe under one rule: Crowned by the Stars: The Dawn of a Cosmic Community As Earth united under the glow of the “Homeland” network, as the lunar city “Guanghan New Capital” became humanity’s solid stronghold in deep space, and as the first green shoots of an ecological dome bloomed across Mars’s red wastelands, Li Shu’s gaze had already pierced the boundaries of the solar system, reaching into the depths of the Milky Way’s spiral arms and beyond, into the vast cosmic ocean. “Unifying Earth is not the end, but the beginning.” Beneath the White House dome, Li Shu declared to Wang Xin, Cheng Kai’e, and the core members of the Starsea Community, which had replaced the old United Nations, “Humanity’s destiny should not be confined to a mere star system. The vastness and mysteries of the universe are our everlasting frontier. And the goal of our journey is to establish a cosmic community founded on intelligence, understanding, and peace!” This was no longer a union of nations or planets, but an ascent to and integration of civilizations on a whole new level. Step One: Folding Dimensions, Opening Starways. The Interstellar Homeland Department, led by Wang Xin, achieved a revolutionary breakthrough. Building on the WLSAP Protocol and combining it with a radical application of cosmic string theory, they developed the “Dimensional Folding Hub.” It was not a wormhole in the traditional sense. Instead, it precisely manipulated local spacetime curvature to “smooth out” distances on a cosmic scale, creating an almost instantaneous, interstellar-spanning “Homeland” network. The first hub was anchored at the edge of Proxima Centauri’s habitable zone, marking humanity’s official entry into the age of interstellar colonization.