Epsilon Eridani
Names: Epsilon EridaniHIC16537
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 12 (Bob – August 17, 2133)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 14Epsilon Eridani has two inner rocky planets, an inner asteroid belt, a Jovian planet, an outer belt, a Neptune-like planet and a Kuiper belt.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 50The Bobs will not defend Epsilon Eridani; if the Others come, Bill will blow everything up and leave.
Connections
- containsBob
- includesEpsilon Eridani One
- includesEpsilon Eridani 2
- includesEE-3
- includesEE-4
- containsBill
- includesKuiper
- containsEpsilon Eridani 2
- includesEpsilon Eridani 1
- includesEpsilon Eridani 3
- containsUltima Thulenow far outside the system
- containsBig Top
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 12Departure for Epsilon Eridani
Warned of a remote detonator, Bob disables his radio and leaves a growing naval battle, heading for Epsilon Eridani.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Arrival at Epsilon Eridani
Bob arrives at Epsilon Eridani, maps its planets and belts, and searches the inner asteroid belt for resources.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Preparing for the Brazilian
Bob begins mining and manufacturing for a trap to meet the armed Brazilian probe, delaying his own reproduction.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Parley with Medeiros
Bob hails the arriving Brazilian ship and appeals for peace; Major Medeiros insults him and refuses.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Battle of Epsilon Eridani
Medeiros fires missiles at Bob; Bob's hidden ship-busters intercept them and smash the Serra do Mar, destroying it, though Heaven-1 is damaged by shrapnel.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Surveying Epsilon Eridani
Bob surveys the system's four planets, finding EE-2 barely habitable and possibly harbouring sea life, but no good colony target.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Bob commits to replication
After wrestling with doubts about cloning himself, Bob orders Guppy to deploy manufacturing systems to build more Bobs.
- Book 1 · Ch 17The first copies
Bob loads backups of himself into four new vessels; the copies wake, take the names Riker, Bill, Milo and Mario, while Bob moves into Heaven-1A.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Dividing the work
The Bobs discuss next steps: Bill stays to research subspace and run the Bob factory, Riker plans to investigate Sol, Milo and Mario head out to explore.
- Book 1 · Ch 18The Bobs disperse
Bob, Milo and Mario leave Epsilon Eridani for Delta Eridani, Omicron2 Eridani and Beta Hydri, while Bill builds new Bobs for himself and for Riker's Sol trip.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Riker and Homer leave for Sol
Riker departs for Sol with his clone Homer and a decoy ship, while Bill's clone Garfield stays to help in the Skunk Works.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Bill's second cohort departs
Bill's new Bobs Calvin, Goku and Linus leave Epsilon Eridani, Calvin and Goku in heavily armed version-3 ships, likely toward rival probes.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Faster-than-light communication
Bill and Garfield test subspace communications over light-minutes and confirm instantaneous transmission, the Skunk Works' biggest breakthrough.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Milo's report of two habitable planets
Bill receives Milo's report describing a system with two habitable planets and forwards it toward Earth.
- Book 1 · Ch 42Ice-delivery plan for Ragnarök
Bill plans to use the new planetary SURGE drive to send Kuiper ice to Ragnarök; at Garfield's urging he runs simulations and refines the plan.
- Book 1 · Ch 42Garfield asserts himself
Garfield objects to being Bill's sidekick, and Bill agrees to give him more say in their projects.
- Book 1 · Ch 51News of Milo's death
Bill receives Milo's final message from 82 Eridani; his backup is incomplete, so Bill archives it and builds Bobs to retaliate against Medeiros.
- Book 1 · Ch 59First Bob-moot
Bill convenes the first Bob-moot in a VR matrix at the Skunk Works, gathering Bobs from several systems, then everyone adjourns to a VR pub to celebrate.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Bob joins BobNet
Bob-1 connects to BobNet; Bill pops into his VR, meets Marvin, and learns the Bobs have made first contact with the Deltans.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Linus returns with Henry
Linus, out of contact for decades, reaches Epsilon Eridani and introduces Bill to Henry Roberts, the rehabilitated Australian replicant, who is welcomed to the Bobiverse.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Second 82 Eridani expedition departs
Ten new Bobs, led by Loki and including Elmer, set out with extra busters to retake 82 Eridani from Medeiros.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Asteroid mover field trial
Bill and Garfield successfully field-test a contactless SURGE-based asteroid mover, redirecting an iceberg toward Ragnarök.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Bob-moot on the Others
Forty-three Bobs meet in Bill's VR to analyse the Others' gamma-ray weapon, propose shielding and decoy tactics, and debate whether they can win a war.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Bob baseball and pub talk
Bobs play Scrub baseball in VR, then debate androids, the word 'ephemerals', asteroid movers and the Others over drinks.
- Book 2 · Ch 52Results from 82 Eridani
Garfield reports the 82 Eridani victory to Bill: three colony targets plus captured cloaking tech and fission bombs, though Bill fears the Others are invincible.
- Book 2 · Ch 57Moot on the Others
Bill briefs the Bobs on the contact with the Others; Garfield explains SUDDAR power beaming and their hive nature, and Bill unveils the first images of an Other.
- Book 2 · Ch 57Bill and Mario discuss the harvest
Mario describes the Others' exponential ant-based stripping of GL 54; Bill argues they must prepare quickly in case Earth is next.
- Book 2 · Ch 59Others launch toward NN 4285
The Others launch another expedition from GL 877; Bill and Mario worry the Pavonis systems are next and that no Bob system is close enough to help.
- Book 2 · Ch 64Moot on defending the Pavonis systems
Bill and Garfield review weapons against the Others; ideas include AMI or remote-controlled suicide battle-wagons, but no plan to protect a planet emerges.
- Book 2 · Ch 66Others convoy heads for Delta Pavonis
Guppy detects a large Others convoy bound for Delta Pavonis; Bill, Jacques, Claude and Oliver tally their forces, which are not ready.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Planet-moving mission launches
After a successful short-range test of the mover-plate arrays on Epsilon Eridani 1 and an ex-moon of Epsilon Eridani 3, Bill sends his clones Daedalus and Icarus off on a possibly suicidal Hail Mary mission.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Mario reports more Others devastation
Mario tells Bill that scouting around GL 877 has found five more planets wiped out by the Others, including another civilization, and urges a final solution to the Others.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Alien power prototype
Bill and Garfield build a prototype of the Others' power core that outperforms Bob fusion reactors fivefold, and brief Riker on the derelict colony-ship plan.
- Book 3 · Ch 50War moot
At a moot, the Bobs review the defense buildup, Bellerophon findings and weapons research; Neil warns the Others may already be circling toward Sol.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Starfleet ultimatum
Bill realizes he was socially engineered into revealing new keys; Starfleet demands the Bobs stop interfering with indigenous species.
- Book 5 · Ch 58First successful wormhole test
Bill and Garfield send a drone through their test wormhole in Epsilon Eridani; it arrives instantly but with new stress fractures.
- Book 5 · Ch 63WormNet opening ceremony
Hugh flies the Singularity through the wormhole to Epsilon Eridani and meets Bill aboard the Snark II, the first Bobs to meet in person across interstellar distances.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Icarus reports to Bill
Icarus and Daedalus call Bill and tell him the Federation fled the galaxy because the dwarf galaxy Nemesis will sterilize it in about a hundred thousand years.