Classified installation

Red Coast Base

A remote military research installation built to explore communication beyond Earth.

This public dossier identifies the entity without exposing its outcome. Story-specific roles and relationships unlock from your reading progress.

Visual primer · role and meaning

Story function

Classified interstellar communication site

From Chapter 1

Red Coast Base

Classified installation

Ideas illuminated

First contact

Role in the story

The Three-Body Problem

Encountered by Chapter 1

Its antenna and political isolation give Ye the means and opportunity to broadcast beyond Earth.

Contact through infrastructure

A military research system becomes the material route by which one decision reaches another civilization.