Zhang Beihai

Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by Cixin Liu

PLA Navy political commissar, secret Escapist, and the man who hijacked the warship Natural Selection to flee the Solar System rather than die in the Doomsday Battle. The defector whose murder of three colleagues with engineered meteorites bought humanity its only seed-ship.

Also known as: Beihai, Commissar Zhang, 章北海

What They Know

• The hibernation timing trick — surrender his current life so he could be awakened the year the first true space warships were commissioned
• How to murder three rival theoreticians using machined meteorite fragments without leaving forensic evidence
• The full propulsion specs of the Natural Selection — fusion drive, fuel margins, the exact light-year reach he could buy with one hostile boarding
• The doctrine of Strategic Defeatism — that humanity loses the Doomsday Battle and that this is computable years in advance
• Which of the Solar Fleet's senior officers will defect to him when the Trisolaran droplets arrive and the calculation becomes obvious

Connections

• member_of — solar_fleet
• rivals — dongfang_yanxu
• located_in — natural_selection

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