Alpha Centauri
Names: Alpha CentauriAlpha Centauri AAlpha Centauri B
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 12 (Bob – August 17, 2133)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 22The Bobs expect at least one rival superpower probe at Alpha Centauri, which FAITH avoided for that reason.
- Ch 28Alpha Centauri B has little planetary formation: two asteroid belts and a small Mercury-like planet, good mainly for manufacturing.
- Ch 45Alpha Centauri is rich in resources but has no livable planets.
Connections
- containsBrazilian autofactory
- containsBart
- containsOliver
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 28USE probe wreckage found
Calvin's scouts find the wreckage of the USE probe and its partly built copies in Alpha Centauri B's asteroid belt.
- Book 1 · Ch 28Raid on the Brazilian yard
Calvin and Goku coast in at 13% of light speed and destroy Medeiros' construction yard and three probes; a fourth, unfinished probe flees.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Bart reports from Alpha Centauri
Bart contacts Bill via SCUT, reporting that Calvin and Goku destroyed a Brazilian installation at Alpha Centauri, though one probe escaped.
- Book 2 · Ch 59Plan to seed Alpha Centauri
Finding the Alpha Centauri station uninhabited, Bill decides to have its AMI build a replicant matrix and load a backup of himself.
- Book 2 · Ch 61Oliver awakens
Bill's backup is loaded into a new matrix at Alpha Centauri and, needing a new name, chooses Oliver.
- Book 2 · Ch 61Oliver builds a war fleet
Oliver ramps up printer production, designs weapons and the Version 5 Heaven with Bill, and after three years has his first cohort of battle cruisers.