Character from dark-forest by
Captain of Blue Space, sole survivor of the Battle of Darkness — the man who orders his crew into vacuum suits because he has thought the dark forest through.
Chu Yan is the only ship's captain in Starship Earth who solves the supply problem the right way: by assuming everyone will arrive at the same answer he did. He puts Blue Space into vacuum on a hunch, has his crew sealed and breathing canister air, and survives the infrasonic strike that kills everyone else. He does not celebrate. He turns the bow toward NH558J2 and accepts a two-thousand-year voyage with the faces of the dead in the cabin's memory.
A middle-aged Chinese officer with a calm face and a sailor's tan even in zero gravity. The Asian Fleet captain's uniform, worn with the cuffs slightly rolled as a habit. Steady hands.
Also known as: 楚岩