Chen Lanshu

Chen Lanshu
Biographical information
Species:	Human
Gender:	Male
Political and military information
Affiliation:	Exodus Program
Rank:	General

"Imagine something going wrong. Imagine this road choked with corpses. Imagine the security team gunning down refugees as they try to force their way onto the ships. Imagine cars from here to the horizon—"

— General Chen Lanshu

General Chen Lanshu was a leading figure in the Exodus Program and was stationed at the Cosmodrome near the end of the Golden Age.

Biography

When General Chen was around sixty or seventy years old, he used his rank to visit the Never-Be installation in Taipei. Viewing the fresco at the facility caused him to feel a sense of dread about a threat he could not put a name to. Decades later, he felt that same dread when told about the vision machine being worked on by a group of scientists in Lhasa.

One year after being briefed about the vision machine, Chen oversaw the launch of SABER GREEN, a doomsday weapon designed by the Warmind Rasputin, into orbit. He masked himself to hide his identity due to his concerns about security and the number of weapon launches that Rasputin had been ordering. Chen also spoke with an AI aboard one of the colony ships who called Rasputin "the Tyrant", which Chen thought was a mixture of fear and respect. The day after the launch, Chen donned his glider and flew over the Cosmodrome to ponder about the Warmind's actions. As he glided past one of the colony ships, Malahayati informed him that he was making Rasputin nervous, which amused Chen. He told Malahayati that Rasputin could voice his concerns in person, but the Exo told him that the Warmind had become very private lately. Chen responded that the AI could sulk then if it would not speak with him and continued his flight over the Cosmodrome. Malahayati questioned why he was doing this and hid his identity at the launch, but Chen suspected that his aide knew exactly why he was out on his glider, and why he had masked himself the previous day. Chen asked Malahayati to imagine that everything went wrong, and that refugees desperately trying to get onto the colony ships had to be gunned down by security forces. The submind asked if he was expecting violence or something beyond their ability to control, and Chen noted that was what soldiers did, and why they had made Exo like him. He then thought to himself what would have happened had the Traveler not been friendly, and knew that Rasputin had asked the same question and found an answer.

List of appearances

• Destiny: The Taken King (First mentioned)
  • Rise of Iron (Mentioned only)