Captain Zao

Captain Zao is a ghoul living in the Yangtze submarine in 2287.

Background
Captain Zao is a former captain of the Chinese Navy. He is the captain of a Yangtze class Submarine; the Yangtze-31.

It is not clear if he is responsible for the nuclear detonations in the Commonwealth, but he does reflect with guilt for having fired most of his ship's nuclear salvo. If China acted first in the Great War, it is possible that one of his ship's fired warheads was the big one that created the Glowing Sea.

He mentions that he has to fend off raiders at times, and that he has been observing the city from the docks since his ship hit a mine and became stranded. The rest of his crew are feral, but he cannot bring himself to kill them. He does mention that Operation Anchorage was a joke and still seems to be aware of the war being over yet still hold tradition values of the old world.

Somewhere between 2069 and 2077 he was fighting off a few military and civilians alike while headed for the American coastlines. Most of his crew and himself sustained little damage but they were on high alert as they submerged themselves under water. Their suspicious seemed to had lead them to underwater mines and soon rested on a dock.

By then the orders came in for his crew to fire off its warheads to demolish the American city and so forth. Leaving only piles of rubble and other debris leftover from the war. So far he refers to most people as "Capitalist" or "American" believing that the people of the wasteland still held their ancestory's heritage.

Quests
Here There Be Monsters: The Sole Survivor can help Zao repair the Yangtze submarine.

Effects of player's actions

 * Should the Sole Survivor call him commie, they will demand that he dies for destroying your country, and Captain Zao will immediately turn hostile and try to shoot the player character with his 10mm pistol.
 * Should one help him repair the Yangtze's reactor, he rewards with homing beacons for small tactical nukes fired from the Yangtze, saying "I do not want to bring the fire home." Zao will also give the player character a chinese officer sword named Zao's Sword, if all three Charisma checks asking for money are passed.

Appearances
Zao appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes
Yangtze=长江, The Yangtze River of China. He ping=和平, Peace. Jang Shi=殭屍, Zombie. Qian ting=潛艇, Submarine. Wei xian=危險, Danger. Gu shi=故事, Story. Bao Wu=寶物, Treasure. Shi de=是的, Yes. Tong ku=痛苦, Pain. Xing yun=幸運, Luck/Fortune. Bu xing=不幸, Unfortunate. Xie xie=謝謝, Thanks. Zhongguo=中國, China. Jia=家, Home. Zu guo=祖國, Motherland. Xian jin=現金, Cash. Yi han=遺憾, Regret. Jian=劍, Sword. Gong zuo=工作, Work. You xiu=優秀, Excellent/Outstanding. Bei=悲, Sadness. (however, Bei is usually associated with other adjectives instead of on its own.) Jia ren=家人, Family. Jue wang=絕望, Despair. Ji dan=雞蛋, Chicken's egg. Xiao xin=小心, Careful. Si wang=死亡, Death. Bao zha=爆炸, Explosion.
 * 'Zao' is probably a misspelling of the common Chinese surname 'Zhao'（趙）, since there is no real-life Chinese surname called 'Zao'. That is, however, assuming that 'Zao' is Captain Zao's surname.
 * He often mixes Chinese with English in his speech.
 * Here are a list of Chinese vocabulary he used during conversation.
 * If turned hostile, he will say "Zhu! Ze ben jia! Die!" Which means, Leave, capitalist! Die!

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