Trisolarans

The Trisolarans are among the defining presences of a world of three suns. Their name comes from that world. Such a world is first approached through Three Body, a strange, immersive virtual reality game encountered by the nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao during the present-day storyline. The game presents a landscape whose sun follows no predictable pattern: civilizations rise during mild stretches called Stable Eras, are destroyed by the extremes of Chaotic Eras, and begin again, while players attempt to work out the logic that drives the cycle.