Crimson Dragoons

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Crimson Dragoons were an elite military unit within the People's Liberation Army before the Great War.

Background[]

Trained in combat from birth, the Dragoons represented the best the PLA had to offer, and were used on the most important fronts of the Sino-American War, both alongside regular ground troops^[1] and for covert operations in mainland United States.^[2] A lifetime of shaping and training resulted in strong mental conditioning that was very difficult to overcome,^[3] as the choice boiled down to unquestioning loyalty^[4] or death.^[5]

Deployments[]

Almost exclusively deployed as commandos and saboteurs, combining elite training^[6] with Hei Gui stealth armor that made them next to impossible to detect until too late, they became as much of a psychological threat as a physical threat on the battlefield. By 2077, American troops aware of their deployment were told to shoot first at anything that moves in an odd fashion.^[7] All suits were fitted with sophisticated tracking devices, monitoring Dragoons on deployment and allowing Chinese intelligence operatives to track them even after the Great War rendered pre-War ideological struggles moot.^[8][9] Ironically, Hei Gui suits captured by Americans were reverse-engineered to create the Stealth Boy.^[10][11]

Known deployments include:

• Battle of Anchorage: The Anchorage Reclamation simulation features them in critical areas, such as the listening post and the artillery overlook preventing U.S. forces from setting up a forward base near Anchorage.^[12][13]
• Hoover Dam: Several suits were recovered at Hoover Dam by the NCR Army, suggesting they were deployed there in some form.^[14]
• The Deep^[15]

Known Dragoons[]

• Agent Mochou: The only Dragoon known to break their mental conditioning, Mochou survived the Great War and went rogue once she realized that both China and United States were puppeteers, lying to their citizens.^[3] She thought the Great War meant she was free, but she was tracked down by loyalist operatives years after the Great War,^[16] and forced to do their bidding or see Jen killed.^[17]

Appearances[]

The Crimson Dragoons first appeared in the Fallout 3 add-on Operation: Anchorage and are indirectly mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas, in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues, and in Fallout 76.

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