Chu Yan
Names: Chu YanCaptain Chu
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 36 (The Final Ten Minutes of the Deterrence Era, Year 62 November 28, 4:17:34 P.M. to 4:27:58 P.M.: Gravity and Blue Space, Deep Space)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 36Blue Space's captain, 43, scholarly and calm. He ordered the ship's interior turned to vacuum during the dark battles and delayed its return after deterrence began.
- Ch 36He concluded the broadcast had been activated on Earth, deterrence had failed and Earth was likely occupied, and proposed a referendum on broadcasting Trisolaris's location.
- Ch 38Chu Yan is captain of Blue Space. He guides Morovich and Guan into four-dimensional space, and later orders both ships to retreat from the fragment.
- Ch 38Ordered the pinnace's return and the abandonment of the plan to board the Ring.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 36Referendum on the universal broadcast
Chu Yan presents the lightspeed Trisolaran fleet and calls a vote of 1,415 people; with 943 ayes, Morovich and others add the deciding vote and the broadcast of Trisolaris's location begins.
- Book 3 · Ch 38First entry into four-dimensional space
Chu Yan leads Morovich and Guan through a warped point in Blue Space. They experience four-dimensional space, learn about warped points and the fragment, then return.
- Book 3 · Ch 38Retreat from the fragment
After repeated micrometeoroid strikes, including one that nearly destroys Blue Space's reactor, Chu Yan orders both ships to decelerate and leave the fragment.