Doomsday Battle

The Doomsday Battle was a space battle between the human Solar Fleet Joint Conference Combined Fleet and a Trisolaran Droplet in Year 205, Crisis Era.

Prelude
Humans anticipated the Doomsday Battle since the discovery of Trisolaris and had spent many years preparing for it. Contrary to their expectations, the first Trisolaran ship to arrive in the Solar System was a single Trisolaran Droplet.

Prior to the battle, the Combined Fleet approached the Trisolaran Droplet, which entered the Solar System and remained in stationary orbit between Saturn and Jupiter.

The fleet was organized in rectangular array formation with ships arranged in 100 rows, with 20 ships per row. The remaining 15 ships were maneuvering outside of the array formation. This non-standard formation was chosen so each ship would have a fair chance at fighting in the event that combat occurred. The SFJC command believed that combat was unlikely.

The Droplet was captured by the Mantis unmanned spacecraft. The first contact team consisted of:


 * Dr. Ding Yi, Physicist and former professor at Peking University.
 * Major Xizi, Science Officer of the warship Quantum and representative of the Asian Fleet.[[
 * An unnamed Major, Science Officer representing the European Fleet.
 * An unnamed Lieutenant Colonel, Science Officer representing the North American Fleet.

Dr. Ding requested that the warship Quantum enter a deep-sea state. This command was also relayed to Bronze Age, but was not a part of the initial plan. As a result, the remaining 2,013 warships were not in a deep-sea state.

Battle
Shortly after the first contact team arrived, the Droplet destroyed the Mantis and proceeded to annihilate the Combined Fleet. The single Droplet began systematically ramming through each warship, destroying each within seconds. The first warship destroyed was Infinite Frontier. Due to the extremely high velocity and unusual flight patterns of the Droplet, the automated warfare systems of the Combined Fleet were unable to detect the threat and thus could not respond effectively.

Approximately 13 minutes after the start of the battle, Ensign Zhao Xin, Assistant Targeting Screener of the warship Beifang and Captain Li Wei, Intermediate EM Weapons System Controller of the warship Wannian Kunpeng determined that the Droplet was the source of the attack. Both Ensign Zhao and Captain Li were hibernators. By this point, over 600 warships had been destroyed.

The warship Nelson was the first ship to attempt firing upon the Droplet using gamma-ray lasers. The warship Green fired upon the Droplet using EM-based kinetic railguns. All attacks on the Droplet were futile and had no effect.

The warships Einstein and Xia entered into Ahead Four acceleration without their crew being in a deep-sea state. While some of the crew was able to abandon ship using fighters and small spacecraft, those remaining onboard were killed as a result of the abrupt high acceleration.

The warship Himalaya collided with Thor and the warship Genesis collided with Messenger.

Over 1,000 warships had been destroyed after 20 minutes. The last ship to be destroyed was Ark. The only warships that were not destroyed were Bronze Age and Quantum.

Additional Warships
The following warships are noted as being present in the battle, but did not play a significant role: Cloud, Yuanfang, Foghorn, Antarctica, Ultimate, Adam, Ganges, Columbia, Justice, Masada, Proton, Yandi, Atlantic, Sirius, Thanksgiving, Advance, Han, Tempest, Meiji, Newton, Enlightenment, and Cretaceous.

Aftermath
The warships Bronze Age and Quantum escaped from the battle by accelerating to Ahead Four. This was only possible as a result of them already being in a deep-sea state as requested by Dr. Ding prior to first contact. These ships were not pursued by the Droplet due to their high speed. In addition, approximately 60,000 humans survived by evacuating their ships using escape pods or other small vessels. These survivors drifted until they were rescued by civilian spacecraft.