Little Yangtze

Little Yangtze is a location in the northwest quadrant of Big MT in 2281.

Background
Named after the largest river in Asia, Little Yangtze is a concentration camp located at Big MT. Before the Great War, Executive Order 99066 designated certain areas as military zones, and the Chinese-Americans in these zones were to be relocated to internment camps. However, under the guise of establishing a detention center under the provisions of the executive order, Little Yangtze was set up as little more than a storage area for Big MT test subjects in the form of Chinese-Americans detained by the military as alleged saboteurs and spies that were branded as enemies of the state by the American government. On its very first day of operations, the camp was filled with three entire trainloads of prisoners, some of who had a very limited grasp of English, which prompted vigorous nightstick-assisted explanation from camp guards.

The squalor of the camp, as well as abductions of inmates for research purposes and brain extraction (as Big MT was perfecting robobrain technology at the time), resulted in a constant tension among the prisoners and their guards, as the former was constantly looking for ways to escape the camp, while the latter had to work triple shifts to cover the camp and catch escapees. The resulting morale impact prompted the camp commander to requisition freshly prototyped explosive collars to stop escapees dead in their tracks.

After the War, the military abandoned Big MT and left behind the prisoners still locked up in the camp. The radioactive fallout turned the survivors into ghouls, but due to the bomb collars on their necks, leaving the camp remained ill-advised. As it stands, they were forced to eke out an existence for over two centuries, locked inside the prison camp. In the late 23rd century, Elijah rediscovered Big MT and for a time used Little Yangtze as his base of operations, reverse engineering the technology used to force prisoners into submission for future use in breaching the Sierra Madre, searching for a specific frequency, and used the bomb collars and the prisoners as test subjects.

Prison camp
Situated in the northwest quadrant of the crater, the prison camp is a fenced-in area with four gates. The interior is filled with field tents containing rusted bunk beds, with a number of makeshift graves outside. The small surviving population of insane, ghoulified survivors continue to eke out an existence, unable to leave the perimeter. Two former inmates, ghouls Number 27 and Number 34 managed to escape the perimeter, but continue to shamble around the perimeter with little grasp of their remaining mental faculties.

Building
North of the camp is a collapsed building containing a Christine's CoS silencer rifle, a dose of steady and ammunition on the second floor. The building was used by Christine Royce as a shooting position while she tracked down Elijah. However, she was captured when she tried killing the rogue elder.

Watchtower
The camp has a single watchtower, which was used by Elijah as a workshop during his first days at the Big MT. When he was forced to move due to the run-in with Christine, he left behind his LAER, alongside deactivated bomb collars and other work materials he used to crack the bomb collars.

Notable loot

 * Christine's CoS silencer rifle - on the second floor of the ruined building to the north next to Little Yangtze, next to an ammunition box and one steady. (Once the rifle is picked up, three lobotomites will spawn from the surrounding area.)
 * Elijah's advanced LAER - on the second-floor balcony of the Little Yangtze watchtower near the east gate of Little Yangtze.
 * Recipes - Survival skill book - after entering the prison camp's east entrance, first tent on the right under the first bunk bed on the right.
 * Book Chute Upgrade: Mulching holotape - found inside the watchtower, leaning against a coffee maker.
 * Deactivated bomb collars and broken detonator - found in the Little Yangtze watchtower.
 * Protonic inversal axe - on the unique ghouls Number 34 and Number 27.

Appearances
Little Yangtze appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * Directly south of the western gate is a truck stuck halfway into the side of the ridge with a green puddle underneath it. The front half is on the other side of the ridge. With the Wild Wasteland trait, it has the license plate Rokit 88, which is the same as the rocket truck that Buckaroo Banzai drives in the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.


 * The name of the two unique ghouls could possibly be a reference to the novel The Count of Monte Cristo in which the protagonist, Dantes, is assigned the number 34 and his cellmate is assigned the number 27.

Bugs

 * The dead Yangtze prisoner in the watchtower may disappear.
 * In the watchtower, if the head of the dead Yangtze survivor is removed, then the player character leaves the building and returns again, a new head will be spawned.