Event Description
After the Three-Body Crisis became public knowledge, the United Nations convened an emergency special session and officially declared the beginning of the Crisis Era. This marked the first time in human history that global society was organized around the survival of the entire species as its central objective. The Planetary Defense Council (PDC), as an international coordinating body transcending sovereignty, was granted unprecedented authority to oversee humanity's space defense strategy.
In the early Crisis Era, global society experienced violent upheaval. "Three-Body panic" swept the world, religious movements surged, and escapist ideologies emerged. Nations began pouring massive resources into space military technology development, with controlled nuclear fusion becoming the highest priority technological goal. However, the sophons' comprehensive blockade of particle accelerators brought fundamental physics research to a near-complete standstill, forcing humanity to develop applied technologies only within existing theoretical frameworks. The existence of this "technological ceiling" drove many scientists to despair.
Nevertheless, humanity demonstrated remarkable resilience and organizational capacity. Construction of the Space Force commenced, and the aerospace industry received unprecedented investment. Nations set aside geopolitical disputes and formed a new international order centered on collective defense. The beginning of the Crisis Era marked humanity's starting point in the difficult transition from a planetary civilization to an interstellar one.