Bobiverse

Bobiverse is the name of a series of science fiction books by Dennis E. Taylor.

Stats

• Author: Dennis E. Taylor
• Publication dates:
  • 2016-10-20: We Are Legion
  • 2017-03-18: For We Are Many
  • 2017-08-08: All These Worlds
  • 2021-01-26: Heaven's River
  • 2024-09-05: Not Till We Are Lost

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People

Andrea

(b1c1) Twin sister of Alaina and sibling of Bob.

Alaina

(b1c1) Twin sister of Andrea and sibling of Bob.

Archimedes

(b1c30) A Deltan that Bob judges to be particularly intelligent and adept at tool creation. (b1c44) Bob makes Archimedes his Messiah to help Deltans survive their existential threat of Gorilloids.

Arnold

(b1c35) A particularly strong Deltan named by Bob after Arnold Schwarzenegger. (b1c37) Wields an axe crafted by Archimedes to single-handedly dispatch many attacking gorilloids.

Arthur

(b1c31) A particularly morose Bob that irritates Riker. (b1c47) Killed near Saturn by a nuke trap.

Bashful

(b2c13) Created by Mario on May 2180 in Gliese 54. Their name is a reference to the dwarves of Snow White. (b2c30) Travels to Gliese 877 in November 2187 and finds Other activity. Collects data via remote probes and forwards them to Mario. Is detected and remotely shut down by a mysterious weapon fired from a grid on a Death Star-shaped ship. Bashful's GUPPI self-destructs their ship via reactor overload to prevent capture.

Bender

(b1c30) Names Delta Eridani 4 “Eden” as the birthplace of the Deltans. (b1c39) Departs with Luke from Delta Eridani for Gamma Leporis A. (b4) A Bob clone who was shot down while exploring a megastructure housing beaver-like creatures named Quins. (b4c34; a.k.a. Motorola) Bob finds Bender has been captured as just a matrix and has worked many years in captivity.

Bill

(b1) One of the first Bobs. Decides to settle and manage Epsilon Eridani and research subspace theory and to refined ship designs.

Bob

(a.k.a. Robert Johansson, Bob-1) The main character. (b1c1) A software-based emulated human mind. (b1c13) Departs Earth on Heaven-1. (b1c27) Discovers intelligent life on Delta Eridani which he names Deltans and helps survive. (b4) Is on a quest to rescue Bender. (b2c12) Bob logs onto BobNet.

Bridget Sheehy, Dr.

(b2c25) A red-haired biologist attractive to Howard. Reveals rabbits can eat some common Vulcan flora and thus provide meat to colonists. (B2c29) Given name is “Bridget”. Develops a test using body odor to detect parasite egg infections for Landing colonists on Vulcan. (b2c35) Howard and Bridget create Irish Whiskey and begin dating.

Butterworth, Colonel

(b1) Military leader of the remains of the United States of Eurasia. First Earth survivor to contact Riker and Homer.

Calvin

(b1) A Bob in the same cohort as Hobbes. (b1c28) Explores Alpha Centauri with Hobbes, finding wreckage of a USE probe at AC-B. They fight and almost wipe out Medeiros at AC-A.

Cranston, Minister

(b1c33) FAITH leader based in San Diego. (b1c36) Attempts to mind control Riker. (b1c38) Introduces Riker to Julia Hendricks, a distant descendant of Robert Johannsonʼs sister, Andrea.

Deltans

(b1) Intelligent inhabitants of Delta Eridani 4 found by Bob. (b1c27) Bob detects the fires of tool-using bat-pig creatures on Delta Eridani 4. (b1c30) Bob names the bat-pig natives of Delta Eridani 4 “Deltans”.

Diana

(b1c11) A female Deltan that Archimedes fancies.

Dopey

(b2c13) Created by Mario on May 2180 in Gliese 54. Their name is a reference to the dwarves of Snow White.

Doucette, Dr.

(b1c11) A beautiful employee supervised by Dr. Landers who also assists Bob. (b1c13) Informs Bob of the death of Dr. Landers during the war on Earth.

ephemeral

(b2) A derogatory term for biological humans that contrasts their short life span with the amortal nature of replicants.

FAITH

(b1; a.k.a. Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony) A conservative theocracy that sacked and replaced most of the United States of America.

Freida

(b4) Quin Resistance leader. (b4c32) Gives Bob into custody of Natasha for money.

Goku

(b1c28; a.k.a. Bob-10) Explores Alpha Centauri with Calvin. They find wreckage of a USE probe at AC-B. They fight and almost wipe out Medeiros at AC-A.

Gorilloids

(b1c35) Inhabitants of Epsilon Delta that prey upon the Deltans.

Gudmund Valter

(b1c33) Ex-military leader of Spitsburgen Island.

Hoffa

(b2c19) A Deltan who criticizes Bob's plans.

Homer

(b1) A Bob created by Riker to assist him with the reconnaissance of Sol system after Bob settles Epsilon Eridani. Adopts the cartoon Homer voice and appearance to try and tease Riker into relaxing but fails.

Howard

(B1) A clone of Riker tasked with overseeing the Earth refugee colonists that settled Vulcan. (B2) Develops feelings for the human Dr. Bridget Sheehy. (b2c69) attends the funeral is Stefane's Bridget's Catholic husband. Tests out Bill's prototype android, Manny, by attending the wake in it.

Howie

(b2c69; a.k.a. Howard ) 13-year-old human son of Bridget and Stefane. Fascinated by his namesake, Howard.

Hungry

(b2c13) Created by Mario on May 2180 in Gliese 54. Their name is an obtuse reference to the dwarves of Snow White.

Julia Hendricks

(b1c38) Descendant of one of Bob's sisters. Mother of Justin Hendriks.

Justin Hendriks

(b1c54) Son of Julia.

Landers, Dr.

(b1c2) An employee of Applied Synergetics Inc. that guides Bob following his creation from the frozen brain of Robert Johansson. (b1c11) Supervisor of Dr. Doucette. (b1c13) Killed during the global war on Earth that wiped out most humans.

Lianne

(b2c69) Daughter of Bridget and Stefane.

Linus

(b1) A Bob created in Epsilon Eridani who chooses to explore. (b1c40) Discovers a failed Australian replicant probe in Epsilon Indi named Henry Roberts.

Luke

(b1c39) Departs from Delta Eridani for Kappa Ceti.

Marvin

(B2c?) Stays behind to help Bob protect the Deltans as Luke and Bender depart Delta Eridani. (b2c24) Drops Bob's Sky God project in Delta Eridani and heads to Pi³ Orionis.

Milo

(b1) A bob that discovers and names Vulcan and Romulus in Omicron² Eridani. (B1c46) is killed by missiles while exploring 82 Eridani.

Motorola

(b4c34) An alias for Bender.

Natasha

(b4) Quin aristocrat supporting the Resistance. (b4c32) Pays Freida to capture Bob.

raptors

(B2) A predator of Vulcan resembling velociraptors that threatens Landing colonists.

Riker

(b1; a.k.a. Will, William) The second replicate Bob ever created. Returns to Sol system after first Bob settles Epsilon Eridani. Leads the evacuation effort of Earth, assisted by Homer. (b158) Successfully leads effort to build Exodus-1 and Exodus-2 to evacuate USE survivors from Earth.

Rosie

(b2c69) Daughter of Bridget and Stefane.

Sheehy, Dr.

See Bridget Sheehy

Sleepy

(b2c13) Created by Mario on May 2180 in Gliese 54. Their name is a reference to the dwarves of Snow White.

Spits

(b1c33) Inhabitants of Spitsburgen Island, led by Gudmund Valter. Are in possession of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the Svalbard Global Genetic Diversity Vault which they hold hostage as leverage against Riker to get a more favorable position in the evacuation queue.

Stéphane

(b2c16) Leader of a group of raptor hunters on Vulcan.

VEHEMENT

(b1c38) Earth survivors rebelling against Riker's rule. (b2; a.k.a. Voluntary Extinction of Human Existence Means Earthʼs Natural Transformation)

Places

82 Eridani

(b1c46) A star system with two habitable worlds discovered by Milo. Milo is killed by missiles soon after arriving into orbit around one of the worlds. (b1c60) Khan arrives with a retaliation fleet.

Alpha Centauri

The nearest star system to Earth. (b1c22) Destination for Calvin and Goku after departing Epsilon Eridani in September 2150. (b1c28) Visited by Calvin and Goku in November 2163.

Augsburg, Germany

A gathering place for some Earth survivors. Gathering place for USE survivors.

Beta Hydri

(b1c57) A star system explored by Mario. Scoured clean of easily-accessible metal. Habitable planets show signs of violent and rapid sterilization via gamma ray bursts.

Delta Eridani

(b1) A star system explored by Bob. (b1c?) Home of the Deltons that Bob and Marvin help survive.

Earth

(b1) The original planet of humans and the Bobs.

Eden

(b1c30; a.k.a. Delta Eridani 4) The planet of the Deltans. Named by Bender.

Epsilon Indi

(b1c40) A system where Australian replicant Henry Roberts arrived and went insane.

Gliese 54

(b2c54; a.k.a. GL 54 ) Bill tells Hal that Others are headed from GL 877 to GL 54.

Gliese 877

(b2c53; a.k.a. GL 877) Hal tests Zapper shielding and succeeds.

Landing

(b2) Primary settlement on Vulcan.

Omicron² Eridani

(b1) Star system explored by Milo. Contains the twin habitable planets discovered by Milo: Vulcan and Romulus. (b1c59) Is the destination for the USE colonists from Earth aboard Exodus-1 and Exodus-2 built by Riker, Homer, Arnold, and Ralph.

Okinawa

(b1c33) A gathering place for some Earth survivors.

Romulus

(b1c19) The smaller of two habitable twin planets (0.7 M⊕) discovered and named by Milo in July 2152. Its larger twin is Vulcan. Romulus has less carbon dioxide, a thinner atmosphere, a lower surface temperature, ice caps, and a sparse ecosystem with no fauna larger than a wolf. Milo believes the planet may have recently suffered a major extinction event.

San Diego

(b1c33) A gathering place for some Earth survivors, mostly FAITH.

Sol

(b1) The original star system of humans and the Bobs.

Spitsburgen Island

An archipelago north of Norway between the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean. (b1c33) A gathering place for some Earth survivors (a.k.a. Spits). Location of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and associated Svalbard Global Genetic Diversity Vault.

Vulcan

(b1c19; a.k.a. OE-1A) The larger of two habitable twin planets (0.9 M⊕) discovered and named by Milo in July 2152. Its smaller twin is Romulus. Vulcan has more carbon dioxide, a thicker atmosphere, and warmer surface temperature. Has a robust ecosystem with large fauna. (b1c61) Colonel Butterworth chooses this planet for USE evacuees aboard the Exodus-1 and Exodus-2 to settle.

Things

AMI

(b1c2; a.k.a. artificial machine intelligence) A thinking machine not derived from a scanned human mind as a replicant is. Lacks creative and improvisation abilities compared to flesh humans or replicants.

Exodus-1

(b1c54) One of the first two ships built by Riker, Homer, Arthur, and Ralph for the survivors of Earth.

Exodus-2

(b1c54) One of the first two ships built by Riker, Homer, Arthur, and Ralph for the survivors of Earth.

GUPPI

(b1; a.k.a. Guppy, General Unit Primary Peripheral Interface) An AMI assistant provided to Bob by Landers. (b1c13) Modified by Bob to resemble Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars. (b2)

HEAVEN

(b1; a.k.a. Habitable Earths Abiogenic Vessel Exploration Network) FAITHʼs interstellar von Neumann probe project.

Heaven-1

(b1c12) The HEAVEN space ship built by FAITH that is Bob's body for his journey from Earth.

replicant

(b1c2) A thinking machine that emulates a biological human brain derived from a nerve tissue scanning process.

roamer

(b1c3) An AMI-controlled drone capable of assembling and repairing machinery with a wide assortment of tools.

SCUT

(b1c25) A faster-than-light communications device created by Bill. (b2; a.k.a. Subspace Communications Universal Transceiver)

SUDDAR

(b1c7) A scanning technology capable of remotely resolving the shape of physical objects. Basically, space radar. (b2; a.k.a. Subspace Deformation Detection and Ranging)

SURGE drive

(b1c7) A device that warps space to enable slower-than-light relativistic interstellar mass transport. Generates no reaction mass plume. (b2; a.k.a. Subspace Reactionless Geotactic Emulation)

Zapper

(b2c53) Hal successfully proves Zapper shielding is effective in Gliese 877.

Narrative

Book 1: We Are Legion

We Are Legion chapter summaries

Chapter	Title	Description	Characters
p1c1	Bob Version 1.0	Bob attends two seminars about space exploration and Von Neumann Replicators at a science fiction convention. Bob calls his mother and talks to his sister. Bob is struck by an automobile and killed.	Bob
p1c2	Bob Version 2.0	Bob wakes up 117 years later as a machine intelligence owned by FAITH, their flesh and blood brain destructively scanned in order to create a candidate artificial intelligence slave.	Bob, Landers
p1c3	Bob – June 25, 2133	Bob controls some roamers (robotic spiders) to stack some blocks.	Bob, Landers
p1c4	Bob – July 15, 2133	Bob learns the internet is no longer a thing in FAITH. Information is now hidden or inaccessible by default. Bob resolves to find freedom someway somehow.	Bob
p1c5	Bob – July 18, 2133	A surprise visit from Minister Travis of the ministry of Truth. Bob is given access to a space, station management, simulation and information library.	Bob, Landers, Travis
p1c6	Bob – July 19, 2133	Bob learns to manage AMI controlled roamers in order to affect repairs on equipment such as 3D printers. Bob learns from Landers that his purpose is to be a manager of a von Neumann probe expedition into space.	Bob, Landers
p1c7	Bob – July 25, 2133	Dr. Landers explains to Bob the scope and progress of other rival political blocks of United States of Eurasia, the Brazilian group, the African Republic, and the Australian group. As far as their own private von Neumann exploration projects are concerned. China is likely to be fastest, but relying entirely upon AMIs. Brazil is likely to rely upon sabotage of other projects and the USE is most likely to colonize a star system once found. Additionally, Landers talks about the subspace drive technology that allows faster than light mass transport across interstellary distances.	Bob, Landers
p1c8	Bob – August 4, 2133	Bob aids in the defense of the research complex in which he is housed. Upon subdoing the black-clothed invaders, Landers asks Bob to retreat his roamers back into the training area. Landers tells Bob there is a tactical nuke installed beneath the training facility as a safeguard against Bob gaining freedom. Bob makes a crack about the Andromeda Strain, a Michael Crichton novel. With a single roamer drone that was able to hide in the air ducts of the facility during the battle, Bob is able to build a 3D map of the facility surrounds and concludes that no such tactical nuke is present. Bob discovers the room housing the computers for himself and the four other candidates; Kenneth is his remaining competitor.	Bob, Landers
p1c9	Bob – August 6, 2133	Bob witnesses a confrontation by FAITH Minister Jacoby against Landers using wall vibrations via a roamer bot.	Bob, Landers, Jacoby
p1c10	Bob – August 10, 2133	Bob wakes up with a week-long Gap in his memory. Landers tells Bob that a bomb destroyed the matrices storing his mind and that Bob had been destroyed and then recreated from backups. Bob thinks about his own existence and what defines life. Landers informs Bob that the only other replicant competitor candidate has been decommissioned. Bob concludes that Kenneth the other only living replicants cube that he saw in the room has not been deactivated since now. Bob is running on Kennethʼs old hardware. Bob and frantically distracts Landers after mentioning Kennethʼs name. Landers informs Bob that launch is in a month and can be accelerated if need be. Landers tells Bob that they are now going to be awake continuously, save for short sleep periods required for backups so that Bob can help assist with the project.	Bob, Landers
p1c11	Bob – August 15, 2133	Bob chats with Dr. Doucette, a beautiful substitute for Landers. Bob learns of software enforcement of his mission.	Bob, Doucette
p1c12	Bob – August 17, 2133	Landers awakens Bob after another attack that has fatally wounded more staff. Landers gives Bob a file with not only new training objectives but also access keys to bypass and disable software restrictions that would enslave Bob. Bob awakens on launch day in their ship, commanding the entire vessel.	Bob, Landers
p1c13	Bob – August 17, 2133 – En Route	Bob prepares to launch his spaceship, frame jacking his perception of time in order to read up on his mission objectives and training information. Landers begins a radio transmission to Bob, warning him of a missile strike. Upon hearing the word “missile”, before Landers can finish their sentence, Bob searches his sensors and detects two oncoming missiles. Bob immediately launches from his dock. Bob launches two mining drones to act as makeshift chaffe. Bob succeeds in destroying one missile; the other missile strikes the station he was docked at. A naval engagement among several space-faring factions surround the station as Bob departs. Bob defuses his software self-destruct traps. Bob finally learns of a Brazilian probe, likely hostile, headed his way also to Epsilon Eridani. Bob reviews plans for the remaining 145-ish days left until encounter. Bob learns Landers was killed in the Earth war. Bob finishes Spike (his VR cat), Jeeves (a butler), and Guppy (GUPPI). Bob disables his endocrine system restrictions and breaks down emotionally at losing his family. Guppy informs Bob of many nuclear detonations on Earth. Bob concludes he will not receive any help.	Bob, Landers
p2c14	Bob – August 2144 – Epsilon Eridani	Bob enters the Epsilon Eridani system. Bob reviews plans for encounter with Brazilian probe. Bob concludes that ideal plan is to appear ignorant, receive first shot, play possum, then counter-attack. Bob decides the best course of action is to destroy Brazilian probe outright rather than to engage in protracted long-term battle. Bob begins deploying factory resources to execute plan.	Bob
p2c15	Bob – September 2144 – Epsilon Eridani	Bob encounters the Brazilian probe and fights. Bob deploys his scheme and ultimately wins the battle, thanks to the Brazilian ship favoring torpedo count at the expense of upgrading ship capabilities to adapt to changing battle conditions. In other words, Bob won due to the Brazilian ship having only four missiles.	Bob
p2c16	Bob – September 2144 – Epsilon Eridani	Bob surveys planets of Epsilon Eridani. Bob finally gives in to Guppyʼs insistence on replicating. Bob orders the creation of more Bobs.	Bob
p2c17	Bob – July 2145 – Epsilon Eridani	Bob initializes more Bobs. A Bob wakes up to find they are a copy. Original Bob holds a meeting among Bobs: Bob-2 is Riker. Riker wishes to visit Earth again. Milo wants to avoid Earth and any hostile probe. Riker and Milo butt heads. Mario is quiet. Bill is most amenable to Bob but prefers research rather than exploration.	Bob
p2c18	Bill – September 2145 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill watches Bob, Mario, and Milo leave Epsilon Eridani. Riker plans to build a clone to return to visit Earth. Bob is traveling to Delta Eridani. Anti-social Mario is headed to Beta-Hydri.	Bill
p2c19	Milo – July 2152 – Omicron² Eridani	Milo discovers life at Omicron² Eridani on a binary pair of planets. Milo names them Vulcan and Romulus.	Milo
p2c20	Bill – December 2145 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill and his clone, Garfield, bid farewell to Riker and Riker's clone, Homer.	Bill
p2c21	Riker – January 2157 – Sol	Riker and Homer perform reconnaissance and surveillance on the Sol system. Riker and Homer witness a Brazilian ship destroy a decoy ship. Homer discovers that the Brazilian ships are dropping asteroids upon China.	Riker
p2c22	Bill – September 2150 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill and Garfield bid farewell to Goku, Linus, and Calvin. Calvin and Goku were inseparable but also constantly fighting. Bill and Garfield equipped Calvin and Goku with a ship with cloaking ability, fighting ability, and strong engines to coast undetected. Bill and Garfield note that Calvin and Goku would likely find hostile encounters at their destination of Alpha Centauri.	Bill
p2c23	Milo – February 2153 – Omicron² Eridani	Milo is in Omicron² Eridani. Milo decides not to duplicate itself and instead decides to move on towards 82 Eridani. Milo sends a report back to Bill and proceeds to travel to a new star system.	Milo
p2c24	Riker – April 2157 – Sol	Riker and Homer combat the six Brazillian ships. Riker and Homer destroy four Brazilians behind the Sun. Riker and Homer go silent until they reach Earth and use it to hide their presence from the remaining two Brazilians. Riker and Homer confront the remaining two Brazilians. Homer is struck silent while Riker maneuvers to destroy the last Brazilian ship. Riker deflects the several Chicxulub-scale asteroids the Brazilian space force had intended to use in retaliation against all Earth life for the destruction of Brasil. Riker found the Brazilian ships had been left without factories or shuttles to rebuild their forces or even occupy Earth.	Riker
p2c25	Bill – September 2151 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill and Garfield test out faster-than-light communications. Bill and Garfield plan to deploy IPv8 internet. Bill and Garfield determine that a communication node is required at least every 25 light years. Bill and Garfield decide to transmit plans for the the FTL communications to the other Bobs.	Bill
p2c26	Riker – April 2157 – Sol	Riker discusses logistics for the recovery of human life on Earth. USE Colonel Butterworth tells Riker that the human population has been reduced to several tens of millions of people. Butterworth tells Riker that the global war that occurred was hard-fought and that the last resilient space force remnants were the small survivors of a much larger conflict, but that their ability to drop rocks from space allowed them to massacre billions of lives at the end. Colonel Butterworth asks Riker for help in migrating the survivors to another habitable world since Earth's habitability will not recover for at least another 5 to 10 000 years. Riker tells Butterworth that the habitability of candidate destination planets has not yet been transmitted to him from Bill that in a few years information may be available.	Riker
p2c27	Bob – April 2165 – Delta Eridani	Bob arrives at Delta Eridani. Bob discovers an oxygen atmosphere around one planet. Bob discovers fire-using individuals, likely intelligent species on one of the planets. Bob proposes first contact via a roamer but Guppy shoots down the idea since roamers are not ideal for terrestrial exploration.	Bob
p2c28	Calvin – November 2163 – Alpha Centauri	Calvin finds the wreckage of the USE probe at Alpha Centauri B. Calvin and Goku fight Medeiros at Alpha Centauri A, destroying all but one of his probes which escapes.	Calvin, Goku
p2c29	Riker – September 2157 – Sol	Riker and Butterworth argue about priorities for rescuing the survivors on Earth. Riker believes that prioritizing logistics for creating the colony ship should not impede a search for survivors. Butterworth argues that all resources should be dedicated towards helping USE survivors at the expense of all other Earth inhabitants. Riker and Homer discover undestroyed stations in the Oort Cloud and outer solar system which may be useful for building colony ships. Riker muses about responsibility for ensuring the survival of humanity in the solar system.	Riker, Butterworth, Homer
p2c30	Bob – April 2165 – Delta Eridani	Bob surveils a tribe of Deltans, “Deltan” is the name that Bob has come up for the fire-using inhabitants he found on Delta Eridani 4. Bob watches in particular a single Delton that he has labeled Archimedes due to Archimedes having constructed knife blade with a handle tied to it. A technology unique apparently to deltas, particularly one Delta Archimedes. Bob watches Archimedes with the help of other box that he has commissioned for the help of surveilling the planet including Luke Bender and others.	Bob, Archimedes
p2c31	Riker – January 2158 – Sol	Riker sees his plan encounter delays for constructing the evacuation ships for survivors of Earth. Arthur, a Bob clone of Riker, has found difficulty contacting surviving enclaves due to ongoing hostility from the war. Homer reports to Arthur that enough supplies exist to construct three colony ships for evacuation.	Riker, Arthur
p2c32	Bill – October 2158 – Epsilon Eridani	In Epsilon Eridani, Bill and Garfield receive word from Milo about the twin habitable worlds Vulcan and Romulus. Bill estimates that it will be about 9 years until word of the habitable worlds can be passed to Earth. Bill feels like a shepherd for humanity.	Bill, Garfield
p2c33	Riker – March 2158 – Sol	Riker performs diplomacy with representatives of the survivors of Earth. Riker mishandles the initial meeting with little empathy for the survivors. Homer talks Riker into by recognizing them as passengers who know their fate is being decided by others and wish to have some level of agency in their fate. Riker holds talks with individual leaders. Riker talks with the Spits, survivors who are in physical possession of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault which they threaten to destroy if their group of roughly 4,000 were not prioritized.	Riker, Homer
p2c34	Homer – September 2158 – Sol	Homer talks to himself about Rikerʼs arrogant tyrannical attitude towards others. Homer is amazed that Riker has still not yet recognized that, he Homer, is attempting to ridicule Riker with his cartoon Homer act. Homer anticipates that Riker will perform poorly regarding the evacuation efforts. Homer sees a way to diplomatically smooth evacuation efforts by bumping up the evacuation of certain groups while not affecting the schedule. Homer decides to discuss this possibility with Colonel Butterworth behind Rikerʼs back.	Homer
p2c35	Bob – July 2165 – Delta Eridani	Bob witnesses Deltans killed by Gorilloids. Bob debates with other Bobs the ethics of assisting the Deltans. Bob surveils Deltans and encourages their technological development by providing one Deltan he has named Archimedes with flint nodules. Archimedes produces weaponry for their fellow Deltans. The Deltans successfully repel the next gorilloid attack.	Bob, Marvin, Bender, Luke
p2c36	Riker – September 2158 – Sol	Riker continues to hold meetings with survivors of Earth. Various factions attempts to lobby with Riker for preferential treatment but Riker shuts them all down hard. Colonel Butterworth proposes in private to Riker the possibility of allowing the group that holds control of the seed vault a position in one of the colony ships at the expense of delaying other colonies shipped in order to secure the the seed vault contents. FAITH attempts to hack Rikerʼs systems with a secret code that, before first Bob disabled their software traps, would have turned Riker into their slave. Riker shuts down talks with FAITH immediately.	Riker
p2c37	Bob – August 2165 – Delta Eridani	Bob notices a large gorilloid attack on the Deltans. Bob, Marvin, and company decide to deploy a drone to attack the gorilloids in a kinetic strike. Arnold learns to instantly kill gorilloids with an axe Archimedes made. A gorilloid is atomized. Archimedes begins digging up the metal attack drone crash site. Bob decides to guide the Deltans back to their old flint gathering site. Marvin decides to stay long term to guide the Deltans with Bob. Luke and Bender decide to move on to find a star system with their own project.	Bob
p2c38	Riker – November 2158 – Sol	FAITH holds hostage Bob's descendants. Riker recognizes the young woman that faith presents to him during a call as resembling Andrea, original Bob's sister. FAITH allows Riker and the young woman to freely talk while under surveillance.	Riker
p2c39	Bob – October 2165 – Delta Eridani	Bob bids farewell to Luke and Bender. Luke decides to travel to Kappa Ceti and Bender to Gamma Leporis A. Bob talks with Marvin about the ethics of copying themselves in order to favor psychologies that allow cooperation. Bob vows to help the Deltans develop. Archimedes experiments with the metal wreckage. Arnold continues to learn how to use the acts that Archimedes gave him.	Bob
p2c40	Linus – April 2165 – Epsilon Indi	Linus encounters the Australian probe that has gone insane. Linus extracts the replicant Henry Roberts and builds a realistic VR for them to live. Henry believes their time as a probe was a nightmare.	Linus
p2c41	Riker – May 2162 – Sol	Riker breaks the news of the availability of Vulcan and Romulus to the Earth survivors. Riker threatens to withdraw all support if survivors continue to demand individual planets for themselves.	Riker
p2c42	Bill – April 2162 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill and Garfield butt heads about TODO list priorities. Bill decides to ease off on first Bob's declaration that most senior Bob has final say.	Bill
p2c43	Riker – September 2164 – Sol	Riker inspects the construction of colony ships. Riker thinks about metal scarcity. Homer has been assigned to bootstrap a metal gathering operation with printers. Riker, Homer, and Charles hold an all-Bobs meeting in Earth orbit. The Bobs brainstorm ideas for saving the Earthbound survivors: orbital mirrors to combat global cooling, moving people towards the equator, moon colonies, space stations.	Riker
p2c44	Bob – January 2166 – Delta Eridani	Bob makes Archimedes his Messiah. Bob orders the Deltans to return to a previous encampment site rich in flint.	Bob
p2c45	Bill – January 2165 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill receives word back from Bart who built the FTL communication array. Bart tells Bill that the Alpha Centauri systems that Calvin and Goku settled are building Bobs and gathering resources, but that Calvin and Goku have since moved on to explore more star systems. Bart informs Bill that the Brazilian ships that had been defeated by Calvin and Goku were all destroyed except one which got away. Bill is reassured that another Bob factory is in operation since Bill has not created new box in some time.	Bill
p2c46	Milo – August 2165 – 82 Eridani	Milo explores 82 Eridani, a new star system, and finds two habitable planets. As Milo approaches and enters orbit around one of the habitable planets, he is fired upon by several missiles. Milo transmits a partial differential backup of his mind back to Bill at Epsilon Eridani. Milo deploys countermeasures and fights with his rail gun but is ultimately overwhelmed.	Milo
p2c47	Riker – January 2166 – Sol	Riker talks with Homer about the evacuation effort. Arthur is killed by a nuclear bomb trap near Saturn.	Riker
p2c48	Bob – May 2166 – Delta Eridani	Bob governs the migration of the Deltans across a mountain pass. Several stray Delton communities join the main group.	Bob
p2c49	Riker – May 2166 – Sol	Homer proposes to Riker the idea of agricultural space stations that prioritize creating food in lieu of hosting living humans which have higher requirements to maintain. Riker proposes the agricultural space station idea to the survivors of Earth who generally reject the idea initially. Riker passes the idea through the representatives meeting by noting that the agricultural products of kudzu will prevent mass death due to starvation among most of the survivors on Earth. Rikerʼs GUPPI notes that a hacking attempt originating from New Zealand was deflected by Bob oneʼs firewall which could have compromised Rikerʼs mind. Riker meets with FAITH representative Cranston; Cranston proposes sharing FAITH food supplies with other nations in exchange for preferential treatment in in colonyship scheduling. Riker discusses the hacking attempt with Cranston; Cranston tells Riker that FAITH replicant technology was stolen via espionage from Australian researchers who pioneered the technology. Cranston believes the hack was performed by people of New Zealand where many Australian survivors fled to. Riker discusses the the idea of agricultural space stations Homer and Charles; The Bobs of Sol agree that Cranston's proposal is acceptable.	Riker
p2c50	Bob – June 2166 – Delta Eridani	A very large group of gorilloids attacks the Deltans that just made the trip across the mountains. Overall, the attack was repelled at the cost of many Deltan lives. Bob decides to devote resources towards printing printers and armaments of an explosive nature in order to combat future attacks. Bob, through Archimedes, recommends the settlement of the local area instead of completing the journey to the Flint rich area in order to capitalize upon the fear inflicted upon the gorilloites during the counter-attack. The Deltans accept Bob's plan.	Bob
p2c51	Bill – January 2174 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill receives Milo's final transmissions. Bill orders the creation of a retaliatory fleet.	Bill
p2c52	Riker – January 2168 – Sol	Homerʼs ranch donut project bears fruit: kudzu crops are successfully supplanting the diet of Earth survivors. Riker is congratulatory to Homer.	Riker
p2c53	Bob – June 2166 – Delta Eridani	The Deltans suffer an attack by a big cat. Bob begins teaching the Deltons medicine. The Deltons arrive at the flint site.	Bob
p2c54	Riker – October 2170 – Sol	Riker, Homer, Charles, and Ralph oversee the commissioning of Exodus-1 and Exodus-2.	Riker
p2c55	Bob – July 2166 – Delta Eridani	Bob discovers that the Deltans migrated away from the flint site due to proliferation in the local region of plants that the gorilloids ate. Deltans filled a protein hole in the gorilloid diet. Marvin shows Bob that the Deltans have begun worshiping “Bawb” by building shrines around wreckage of the buster machines used to automatically defend the Deltan camp perimeter from gorilloids.	Bob
p2c56	Bill - March 2167 - Epsilon Eridani	Bill iterates on his android project. Latency and sensory processing problems persist.	Bill
p2c57	Mario – August 2169 – Beta Hydri	Mario arrives at Beta Hydri. Mario discovers the system almost completely devoid of easily-accessible metallic ore. Mario discovers signs of an artificial gamma ray burst used to instantly sterilize local planets of life. One of Marioʼs roamers opens a box containing small machines that begin disassembling the roamer. Mario discovers the small machines are powered by his own SUDDAR scans. Mario captures one of the small ant-like machines in plastic. Mario decides to fly back to inform the other Bobs of his discovery since he lacks metals to construct an FTL communication station.	Mario
p2c58	Riker – April 2171 – Sol	Riker sees the launch of the first two colony ships depart Sol system with USE colonists, two Riker clones, and Howard, a recent Bob clone.	Riker
p2c59	Bill – May 2172 – Epsilon Eridani	Bill holds the first Bob-moot in Epsilon Eridani. The colonists are en route to Omicron² Eridani.	Bill
p2c60	Khan – April 2185 – 82 Eridani	Khan leads 7 other Bobs to attack Medeiros in 82 Eridani. Khan is the only survivor. Khan reports back to Bill. Several Bobsʼ differential backups failed to be completely received. Khan vows to return to fight Medeiros in 82 Eridani agian.	Khan
p2c61	Howard – September 2188 – Omicron² Eridani	Howard arrives at Omicron² Eridani with the Earth colonists aboard Exodus-1 and Exodus-2. Colonel Butterworth is awoken and settlement of Vulkan begins in earnest.	Howard

Book 2: For We Are Many

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For We Are Many chapter summaries

Chapter	Title	Description	Characters
c1	Sky God; Bob, February 2167, Delta Eridani	Deltans take down a pigoid. Bob pressures Cruella, a Deltan medicine woman, to use hot water to dress a wound. Marvin tells Bob of a mystery of Deltan migration patterns.	Bob, Marvin, Archimedes, Cruella
c2	Colony Site; Howard, September 2188, Vulcan	Howard learns of an attack by local birds against excavation equipment. Howard meets with Colonel Butterworth regarding New colony issues. Colonel butcher worth expresses desire for future colonists to pick a different planet besides Vulcan.	Howard, Butterworth
c3	Life in Camelot; Bob, March 2167, Delta Eridani	Bob speaks with Archimedes who is curious about Bob's nature.	Bob
c4	Water Planet; Mulder, October 2170, Eta Cassiopeiae	Mulder explores the system. Mulder finds a water world covered with a sparse scattering of photosynthesizing oxygen producing mats floating on the surface. Mulder finds the ocean is 800 km deep. Mulder creates two Bobs: Skinner and Johnny. Johnny is extremely sarcastic. Johnny wishes to depart quickly for another place.	Mulder
c5	Progress; Howard, December 2188	Howard discusses with butcherworth the progress on securing the perimeter of Landing, the primary settlement on Vulcan. But it reports that local wildlife continues to attack the colonization site but they show no sign of intelligence. Howard has a meeting with Bert and Ernie informing them that they may soon be released to return to Earth. Colonist decanting begins and completes. Howard nodes that the next shipment of colonists the spits going to have to be delayed in order to facilitate or accommodate the securing of Landing. Bert and Ernie note that the spits would likely be departing Earth as scheduled, but they cannot help their detenting date.	Howard
c6	Contacting Bill; Mulder, April 2171, Poseidon	Molar constructs the scut scut in order to communicate with Bill. Mulder is extremely surprised when Bill enters his own VR environment in real time. Bill tells Mulder that habitable planets are still in demand. Mulder decides to work in Earnest to prepare the local system Poseidon specifically into being ready to receive colonists. Mulder notes that colonists for Poseidon will have to initially be space-based due to the lack of land on Poseidon.	Mulder
c7	Back to Work; Riker, July 2171, Sol	Riker receives reports from Charles about VEHEMENT terrorist attacks that have begun to become more deadly. Charles believes that the attacks are now coming from two groups. Not just VEHEMENT. Riker attends another United Nations meeting and lads the speech of a Maldives representative who insists upon spreading humanity beyond just epsilon eradani and into Poseidon as well in order to further create more redundancy in human civilization.	Riker, Charles
c8	Farming Satellites; Howard, April 2189, Vulcan	Howard oversees the commissioning of farming stations. Heaven-3 arrives. The captain, Sam, meets with Howard, expressing distaste for being a truck driver. Howard enjoys Sam's cognac. Howard asserts dominance over colonists via their position of power over food production. Howard's primary argument rests upon their lack of involvement in creating the war that killed most humans on Earth. Howard discuses incompatibility of Vulcan flora and fauna.	Howard, Sam, Butterworth
c9	Something is Out There; Bob, September 2169, Delta Eridani	Bob reviews the status of the Deltans. Marvin tells Bob that there was a predator in the recent past. That's nearly wiped out the Deltans that was not the gorilloids. Bob decides to postpone armament production in order to produce scouts to scan Eden's surface in search of the predators that Marvin believes exists.	Bob, Marvin
c10	Genocide; Mario, November 2176, Zeta Tucanae	Mario discovers more evidence of a genocide in a separate star system that he had fled to after departing Beta Hydri. On a habitable world, Mario discovers the planet to be sterilized and evidence of cities and transport infrastructure laid waste to an effort to recover metal and the bodies of the inhabitants.	Mario
c11	Mating Dance; Bob, November 2169, Delta Eridani	Bob teaches Archimedes principles of Jujutsu to further his eugenics project of increasing Deltan intelligence by spreading Archimedesʼ genes in the next generation. Archimedes fancies Diana. Marvin informs Bob that a Deltan has fallen prey to the mystery predator.	Bob, Archimedes, Marvin
c12	Bob Calling; Bill, May 2171, Epsilon Eridani	Bill receives contact from Bob who just constructed their SCUT device and logged onto BobNet. Bill and Garfield are surprised that Bob made First Contact with intelligent life in Delta Eridani. Bill is surprised at Bob-1's adeptness with virtual reality programming and decides to copy much of Bob's work. Bill catches Bob up on the human evacuation of Earth to Omicron² Eridani. Bill confesses their android project has only yielded a quadruped model so far.	Bill, Bob, Garfield
c13	Investigating the Others; Mario, May 2180, Gliese 54	Mario finds no sign of the genociders in Gliese 54. Mario creates Bashful, Dopey, Sleepy, and Hungry. They consider plans to gauge the magnitude and direction of the genocider threat. Mario recommends frequent differential backups in case one of them is compromised to prevent secrets being leaked from disassembly.	Mario
c14	Sabotage; Riker, December 2170, Sol	Riker learns of VEHEMENT attacks on cattle. UN representatives condemn the attack. Riker wishes he had some political agenda to push since VEHEMENT has made itself a common enemy and thus generated consensus in the UN. Homer reveals that he has been under-reporting agricultural production so the VEHEMENT attacks only ate into that safety factor.	Riker
c15	A Visit From Bill; Mario, November 2180, Gliese 54	Mario receives blueprints for and builds a SCUT. Bill calls Mario. Mario shares the bad news about the genociders. Bill promises to work on developing weapons.	Mario
c16	Hunted; Howard, September 2189, Vulcan	Howard intervenes with a Buster to save a colonist hunting raptors. Howard talks with Hunter Stéphane. Howard meets with Bob and Bill in a camping VR environment. Bob says he feels anxious when thinking about his flesh relatives. Howard tells Butterworth about the Others that Mario and company is tracking down. Butterworth is angry. Butterworth and Howard lament their lack of free time.	Howard
c17	We’ve Lost a Drone; Bob, May 2171, Delta Eridani	Bob continues to transmit SCUT plans to Luke and Bender's anticipated position. Marvin and Bob discover more evidence of the unknown predator of Deltans after the predator took down a drone.	Bob, Marvin
c18	It’s Getting Worse; Riker, Sept 2172, Sol	A bombing in a Brazilian favela. Brazilian Minister Benedito asks for help but Riker declines. New Zealand Minister Gerrold accuses Riker of failing to catch the terrorists. Maldives Minister Sharma defends Riker, citing bigotry against replicants. Riker notices Homer is quiet.	Riker
c19	Prey; Bob, June 2172, Delta Eridani	Bob and Marvin deduce the predator is a camouflaging Hippogriff, a horse-sized relative of a smaller predator flyer observed long ago. Bob kills a Hippogriff approaching Camelot with a buster. Many Hippogriffs approach in response. Bob kills them with all available busters. Three Deltans are killed by Hippogriffs. Leader Hoffa accuses Bob of leading the Deltans into the Hippogriff territory. Bob defends his recommendation for the Deltans to relocate to their flint site. Bob kinetically bombards a nearby island densely packed with Hippogriff. The Delta leader Hoffa bans Bob. Bob leaves. Diane is triumphant.	Bob, Marvin, Hoffa, Archimedes
c20	Parasite; Howard, October 2189, Vulcan	Howard and Butterworth watch parasite eggs and larva being removed from a person. Howard watches a conference call between Riker and Julia and her son, Justin. Howard and Butterworth see a captured flying adult version of the parasite.	Howard, Butterworth
c21	Attacks Continue; Riker, December 2174, Sol	A cargo drone is lost carrying food and agricultural equipment to Vancouver Island. One of Homerʼs farming donuts suffers a VEHEMENT cyberattack, destroying kudzu. Riker decides to study cryptography after being unable to identify the attack vector.	Riker
c22	Fallout; Bob, December 2173, Delta Eridani	Bob meets in secret with Archimedes. Bob teaches Archimedes about archery and crafting bows. Archimedes says Bob is no longer welcome in Camelot due to the decrease in hippogriff attack frequency since Bob left; Bob retorts that, although they have been exiled, Bob has still been eliminating hippogriffs in the vicinity to protect Archimedes. Marvin announces his departure from Delta Eridani. Bob wonders how Luke and Bender are doing, wishing they'd make a SCUT transmission eventually.	Bob
c23	VEHEMENT; Riker, September 2175, Sol	Riker receives notification that another VEHEMENT attack occurred, this time destroying a newly constructed donut-farm that Homer had built. Homer is distraught and sullen. Riker speculates on how VEHEMENT is coordinating actions with this new second faction that seems more capable and has effected complex attacks on the planetary power system. Riker speculates that VEHEMENT is using steganography to communicate because he cannot detect any unusual traffic in the limited planetary communication network.	Riker
c24	Visiting Marvin; Bob, March 2174, Delta Eridani	Bob calls Marvin over SCUT. Bob admires Marvinʼs habitable Moon environment. Bob tells Marvin that he has created Pete and Victor. Victor is willing to try and track down Luke or Bender. However, Pete is fiercely independent and simply wishes to go explore on his own. Bob and Marvin worry about the fates of Luke and Bender.	Bob
c25	Rabbits; Howard, November 2189, Vulcan	Howard receives a call from a biologist named Dr. Sheehy telling him that rabbits have the ability to consume local flora and convert that biomass into meat which the colonists on Vulcan can consume. Dr. Sheehy also informs Howard that local vegetarian megafauna that have been eating fence material have begun to be hunted by colonists for their meat.	Howard
c26	Selling Poseidon; Riker, December 2175, Sol	Ambassador Gerrold accuses Riker of failing to stop VEHEMENT attacks. Riker bluffs, saying he already has thwarted most of its attacks. Riker orders Guppy to monitor communication channels for reactions to his private meeting with Gerrold. Riker attends a meeting debating which colonists will be sent to Poseidon. Guppy informs Riker that a drone happened to catch a tight-beam message from New Zealand to Homer's Heaven vessel. Riker concludes Homer's mind has been compromised.	Riker
c27	Luke Returns; Bob, March 2178, Delta Eridani	Luke calls Bob from Kappa Ceti via SCUT. Bob shows Luke his real-time VR of Deltan villages. Luke tells Bob that he has no idea what happened to Bender.	Bob
c28	Et Tu, Homer; Riker, December 2175, Sol	Riker meets with Charles via direct laser communication to discuss the issue of Homer being infected with a mind control virus. They agree to set a trap for Homer. Riker calls a meeting with Homer, saying he has identified a VEHEMENT plan. Riker sets up a sandbox Bob and asks Charles to take aim at Homer's reactor core. Homer disables Riker's sandbox Bob. Charles shoots Homer's reactor core, shutting down Homer's power. A digital autopsy reveals a security vulnerability via laser communications. Charles asks Riker to audit his, Charles’, software; Riker shuts down, inspects, and declares clean Charles. Riker and Charles confront Ralph and force him to undergo shutdown and undergo a software audit; Ralph submits. Riker rebuilds Homer as best as he can. Homer awakens but is extremely traumatized at being puppetted into killing people and being unable to even end himself. Bill offers weapons development help to kill those responsible. Riker identifies and confirms that a New Zealand military communications site as the source of the infecting signal.	Riker
c29	Emergency; Howard, April 2190, Vulcan	Howard tracks raptors that broke into Landing. No colonists were killed but the raptors displayed advanced battlefield tactics that only were thwarted by Howard's framejack ability to effectively integrate many drone sensor streams simultaneously. Dr. Sheehy develops a passive body odor detection method for parasites and names the species “Cupid Bugs” for their tendency for larva to attack human hearts.	Howard
c30	Found Something; Bashful, November 2187, Gliese 877	Bashful explores Gliese 877. They find technological radio signals. Bashful sends some stealth probes that they designed into the system to collect data through passive scans. Bashful maneuvers their ship to stay far away from the star system and intercept the drifting probes. Bashful intercepts the probes, downloads their contents, forwards them back to Mario for analysis, and begins their own analysis. While analyzing in deep space, Bashful is surprised by a proximity alert. After a brief attempt at escaping six pursuing vessels, a large one resembling a Death Star aims and fires its primary weapon. Due to Bashful shutting down and multiple system failures, GUPPI self-destructs Bashful via reactor overload.	Bashful
c31	Taking Care of Business; Howard, January 2191, Vulcan	Howard meets with Bridget to test alcohol to beverages that he has been producing. Howard meets with Bridget and Stéphane for a casual round of drinks. Stéphane compliments Howard and Bridget on the rabbits project, noting that he has sampled rabbits too several times and enjoys it. Bridget tells Howard about a joke involving toasting rituals for alcoholic drink and Irish ridicule of the British.	Howard
c32	Linus; Bill, May 2178, Epsilon Eridani	Linus meets with Bill bringing Henry to meet. They discuss VR matters. Linus and Henry are to get to their own new ships.	Bill
c33	Trouble in Paradise; Bob, January 2180, Delta Eridani	Bobby Marvin monitor and discuss the Deltans. Deltan society has progressed to the point of high population and intersectional conflict with multiple murders having occurred.	Bob
c34	Moose; Bill, June 2185, Epsilon Eridani	Bill rides across Ragnarök in his quadruped moose therioid named Bullwinkle on Ragnarök. Bill meets with ten new Bobs created to occupy 82 Eridani. One is a copy of Khan named Loki. An Elmer backup is one of the Bobs created. The new Bobs depart for 82 Eridani. Bill introduces to the Bobs the Australian replicant Henry that Linus found at Epsilon Indi.	Bill
c35	Sales Call; Howard, September 2192, Vulcan	Howard and Bridget present Irish Whiskey to Butterworth who approves. Howard and Bridget begin dating.	Howard
c36	Asteroid Movers; Bill, March 2187, Epsilon Eridani		Bill
c37	He’s Gone; Riker, August 2176, Sol		Riker
c38	Following up; Hal, May 2188, Gliese 877		Hal
c39	Bob-Moot; Bill, August 2188, Epsilon Eridani, February 2178, Vulcan		Bill
c41	Casualties; Bob, July 2182, Delta Eridani		Bob
c42	Business; Howard, March 2193, Vulcan		Howard
c43	An Exchange of Words; Riker, March 2178, Sol		Riker
c44	Baseball; Bill, March 2189, Epsilon Eridani	Garfield presents to Bill a flying android: Rocky. Garfield flies in Rocky's body, but crashes.	Bill, Garfield,
c45	Replication; Howard, August 2193, Vulcan	Howard talks to Riker and fields the idea of scanning a living person in order to convert them into a replicant. Riker is suspicious but agrees to look into the matter. Howard, in private, re-examines a medical image involving Bridget Sheehy. Later Howard confronts Cranston regarding bootleg alcohol being smuggled into New Jerusalem. Howard begins talks to regulate trade between lending and New Jerusalem. Privately, Riker tells Howard that he wants to eliminate Cranston.	Howard, Riker
c46	Klown Kar Planet; Rudy, February 2190, Epsilon Indi	Rudy arrives at Klown Kar Planet (KKP) a few weeks before Edwin. Rudy briefs Edwin on the extremely varied and competitive biodiversity of KKP.	Rudy, Edwin
c47	New Village; Bob, September, 2182, Delta Eridani	Deltan adolescents part the main encampment to resettle an abandoned one. Bob and senior Deltans celebrate their successful reverse psychology ploy of getting the overcrowded Deltan population to disperse somewhat. Marvin warns that the competing Deltans will likely eventually use violence to compete for resources.	Bob, Marvin
c48	Operation; Howard, September 2193, Vulcan	Howard waits for Bridget to come out of surgery to remove cancerous tumors. Stéphane notifies Howard that Bridget has exited surgery explaining that the tumors were more widespread than previously were found but that the doctors had a positive outlook. Anyway. Howard is present when Bridget wakes up. And almost makes a joke but is interrupted when Stéphane enters the room. And Howard feels like a third wheel Howard excuses himself from Bridget and Stéphane's conversation noticing that they are more than a close friends and Howard feels jealous. Howard reflects that his love for Bridget is not possible to act upon due to the fact that Howard is a replicant and Bridget is a flesh and blood human.	Howard
c49	Arrival; Mulder, March 2195, Poseidon (Eta Cassiopeiae)	Loki and other Bobs battle Medeiros in 82 Eridani. After a battle between stealth ships, they deduce a weakness in Medeiros's communication system that relies heavily upon AMIs for locally executing tactics. The Bobs exploiti this reliance upon AMIs and Medeiros's command ships to reveal their position. The Bobs wipeout installations in 82 Eridani. Loki and others deduce that many other Medeiros are unaccounted for and that there were actually three, not two Medeiros probes that originally launched.	Mulder
c50	Second Expedition; Loki, November 2195		Loki
c51	Wedding; Howard, April 2195, Vulcan	Howard donates his stake in the Irish Whiskey business to Stéphane and Bridget as a wedding gift. In reality, Howard is disappointed that Bridget chose to partner with Stéfane. In order to get over Bridget, Howard decides to leave Vulcan entirely and go exploring. Howard, Bridget and Stéphane part ways amicably.	Howard, Bridget, Stéphane
c52	Bullwinkle; Bill, December 2195, Epsilon Eridani	Bill is testing out Bullwinkle on Ragnarok when Garfield calls and tells him that the 82 Eridani expedition has reported back good news. Garfield tells Bill that Loki is successfully reverse engineering the cloaking technology that Medeiros wielded in battle. Marvin and Luke propose to Bill a long-term project to find Bender, their cohort-mate, in order to find out what happened to him.	Bill
c53	Testing; Hal, April 2196, GL 877	Hal sends an AMI-driven Heaven ship decoy into known Others territory to test Zapper shielding. Others appear and follow the decoy. Mario joins Hal in watching the pursuit. The decoy is zapped but survives, sending a scan of the internals of the Others ships. Hal and Mario see large communal living areas within the Others ships. Hal departs to GL 54.	Hal
c54	Stuff is Happening; Hal, October 2197, En Route to GL 54	Bill tells Hal that Others are headed from GL 877 to GL 54.	Hal
c55	Contact; Bill, October 2204, GL 54	Bill talks to Others via a decoy vessel in GL 54. The Others communicate to Bill using the chinese language that they say they learned from a probe they captured. Bill asks why the Others genocide planetary inhabitants such as those of Zeta Tucanae. The Others call him and all life besides themselves “food”. The Others reveals their knowledge of Sol and Epsilon Eridani and their plants to harvest food there. Bill	Bill
c56	Descendants; Bob, January 2183, Delta Eridani	Bob passively observes Archimedes and his family over time. The Deltans treat their memory of Bawbe as that of a malicious deity.	Bob
c57	Moot; Bill, October 2204, Epsilon Eridani	Bill presents scans of the Others ships to Bobs at a moot. Other Zapper and remote subspace power beaming technology is discussed. Other biology and their packed living conditions are presented.	Bill
c58	News; Howard, July 2198, Interstellar Space	Howard receives an update on Bridget and Stéphane. Howard learns that Cranston has has been forced from power and New Jerusalem is now a democracy. Howard learns that Bridget and Stéphane had a son. The son's name is Howard. Howard is conflicted and regretful.	Howard
c59	Another One; Bill, April 2205, Epsilon Eridani	Bill sees from surveillance drones that Others are mounting an expedition to NN 4285. Bill talks to Mario who says Claude is headed to Gamma Pavonis and Jacques to Delta Pavonis]], two star systems near NN 4285. Bill contacts Claude to ask him to prepare for war; Claude is hesitant, not wanting the responsibility. Bill searches for manufacturing centers and decides to use Alpha Centauri which is uninhabited; Bart had left it with only an AMI long ago. Bill tells Garfield he intends to print himself a replicant matrix in Alpha Centauri and load a backup of himself there to begin the war effort against the Others.	Bill
c60	Arrival; Claude, May 2205, Gamma Pavonis	Claude arrives in Gamma Pavonis. The system has an ideally habitable world with no obvious intelligent life. Claude informs Bill who says Others consume a star system once roughly every decade or two. Bill says reinforcements from Jacques will arrive around the same time the Others do.	Claude
c61	Starting Over; Oliver, September 2205, Alpha Centauri	Bill's backup wakes up in Alpha Centauri and names himself Oliver after another Bloom County character. Oliver decides to research relativistic velocity weapons. Oliver scales up production first with printers then Bobs and battle cruisers. Oliver mentions Butterworth provided H-bomb blueprints.	Oliver
c62	Departure; Mulder, November 2201, Departure	Mulder prepares to depart Poseidon leaving command of the system in charge of Marcus. Monty prepares to pilot a ship back to Sol system. Marcus shows Mulder a prototype floating city design that should be in operation by the time Mulder returns to solar system. Riker and Mulder have a call. Riker tells Mulder that several colonists ventures at Vulcan, Poseidon, Epsilon Indi, and 82 Eridani are underway. The Others threaten Epsilon Indi and 82 Eridani.	Mulder
c63	The Pav; Jacques, February 2207, Delta Pavonis	Jacques arrives at Delta pavonis and finds an industrial era civilization on one of the planets. Jacques and Bill are both somewhat sad that the Others are likely to destroy this civilization. Bill exhorts Jaques to build dreadnaughts of Oliver's design from local solar system resources in Delta Pavonis in order to prepare to defend the system or to provide backup to Claude. Jaques provisionally calls the intelligent life of Delta Pavonis the Pav. Jaques deploys drones to infiltrate Pav cities and begins reading Pav books as well as listening to Pav orators read from books. Jacques observes that the Pavs physically resemble meerkats and have family units composed many adults with genders roughly evenly split.	Jacques
c64	Moot; Bill, March 2207, Epsilon Eridani	Bill holds a moot to discuss Other movements. Others have kicked out Mario from GL 54. The Others are moving towards NM 4285. Bill informs the moot of the habitable planet in Gamma Pavonis and intelligent life in Delta Pavonis. Strategic weapons are discussed: cloaking, relativistic ramming, SCUT-based suicide bombers. Bill listens to Jacques present his observations of the Pavs. Bill regrets that the Bobs are so disorganized.	Bill
c65	Grandpa; Bob, January 2195, Delta Eridani	Bob watches Archimedes spend time with his grandchildren. Bob regrets being exiled. Bob wishes Bill would accelerate android research but knows Bill is occupied with other major projects such as terraforming Ragnarök.	Bob
c66	It’s Happening; Bill, January 2208, Epsilon Eridani	Bill discovers the Others have deployed a convoy to Delta Pavonis. Bill immediately warns Jacques and Claude. Oliver and Claude agree to send reïnforcement warships. Bill holds a somber moot. The idea of moving the Pav planet is proposed and shot down. Garfield tells Bill that the Others have get to face significant resistance and so the Others may have a weakness in their overconfidence.	Bill
c67	Bad News; Howard, December 2210, HIP 14101	Howard receives notification that Bridget's husband, Stéphane, had contracted a fatal illness and is soon to die. Howard calls Bridget who tells him the illness progressed quickly and Stéphane is now beyond speaking to. Howard receives one of Bill's humanoid androids to wear for Stéphane's funeral.	Howard
c68	Recording; Jacques, September 2212, Delta Pavonis	Howard collects biological samples and records extensive sensor data on the Pav planet. Howard focuses his attention on two communities called Mheijrkva and Aizzilkva. Howard focuses on a single Pav family called the Los family in Mheijrkva. Howard focuses further on the family's matriarch and town councilwoman Da Hazjiar Los.	Jacques
c69	Wake; Howard, January 2211, Vulcan	Howard attends Stéphaneʼs funeral wake piloting Manny, the prototype android Bill created. Howard meets Bridgetʼs children: Rosie, Lianne, and Howie. Howard reports back to Bill and original Bob on Mannyʼs performance; Howard compares VR to embodying an android to trying to tickle yourself versus being tickled by someone else. Bill convinces Bob to help with the Android Project development.	Howard
c70	Conversation; Howard, May 2211, HIP 14101	Howard discusses with Bridget the possibility of her becoming a replicant. Bridget declines. Howard asks if Butterworth would like to be replicated for the war effort and he agrees.	Howard
c71	Charlie; Bob, June 2213, Delta Eridani		Bob
c72	Battle; Bill, February 2217, Delta Pavonis		Bill
c73	Collection; Phineas, February 2217, Delta Pavonis		Phineas
c74	Observing the Process; Bill, May 2217, Delta Pavonis		Bill
c75	Reunion; Howard, January 2216, HIP 14101		Howard
c76	Funeral; Bob, November 2220, Delta Eridani		Bob

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Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost

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See also

• Wikipedia:Bobiverse

External links

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