#sophon

This is a somewhat canon-divergent reimagining of the scene where the ship "Judgement Day" and all its crew and passengers is being sliced by the "zither", a set of near-invisible nanomaterial strings that are strung across the Panama canal. The nanoscientist Wang Miao, whose research lab has manufactured the deadly strings, is forced to watch the ship being destroyed. He is very upset by the sight. The two sophons are watching from Earth's orbit. One of them secretly sympathizes with the people of Earth and does not want their destruction. It has to keep these sympathies secret from the other sophon and from the Trisolaran government, while it struggles to find a way to relieve Wang Miao's distress.