Epsilon Eridani 2
Names: Epsilon Eridani 2EE-2RagnarökEpsilon Eridani Two
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 16 (Bob – September 2144 – Epsilon Eridani)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 16EE-2 is about 90% Earth's size with landlocked seas, 3% atmospheric oxygen, and possibly sea life; habitable only with technological help.
- Ch 16EE-2 has a small moon about 500 km across.
- Ch 41Colonising Ragnarök under domes was considered a last-ditch option, now set aside.
- Ch 42Ragnarök needs five to six hundred cubic kilometres of ice to connect its seas into oceans.
- Ch 56In about ten more years enough ice will have fallen to connect Ragnarök's seas into oceans.
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 34Bill is terraforming Ragnarök with bred moss and lichen and seeded algae, expecting breathable air within about fifty years.
- Ch 36Icebergs are steered to skim Ragnarök's atmosphere and are exploded so they fall as rain, adding water to the planet.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 54Bill's terraforming of Ragnarök has joined seas into oceans, raised oxygen, and spread moss, lichen, conifers and grasses.
- Ch 54Bill reintroduces plants and animals from the Svalbard stocks, and considers keeping Ragnarök as a nature preserve.
- Ch 54Epsilon Eridani is one of the two systems the Others have threatened to harvest, making Ragnarök a poor colony target.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 9Bill has terraformed Ragnarök into near-total forest and chartered it as a perpetual interstellar park and preserve.
- Ch 70Ragnarök's biosphere is about eighty percent complete, with booming animal populations including elk.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 56Iceberg rescue
An off-course iceberg forces Bill to run the drive to the last moment; he fractures the berg into rain but loses part of the drive.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Bill runs Bullwinkle on Ragnarök
Bill remotely runs his moose android across Ragnarök to inspect oxygen-producing plantings in his terraforming project.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Rocky crashes
Garfield flies his winged android Rocky on Ragnarök; turbulence sends it out of control, its wings snap painfully, and it crashes.
- Book 2 · Ch 74Bill's idea
Orbiting Ragnarök with Garfield, Bill watches the Bullseye crater and suddenly sees a new way to approach the problem.
- Book 3 · Ch 54Ragnarök becomes livable
Bill walks Ragnarök in a human android, judging the terraformed planet livable and considering making it a preserve, while a cloaked backup site nears completion.
- Book 4 · Ch 66Bill's theory of Skippy manipulation
Bill tells Bob, Will and Garfield he suspects the Skippies used Starfleet to bring down BobNet so Hugh could join the expedition; Bob adds evidence the Skippies withheld information.
- Book 5 · Ch 2Hugh invites Bill to JOVAH launch
Hugh messages Bill, without apologising for his tech trade with ANEC, inviting him to the launch of JOVAH Version 2, the first step toward a true AI. Bill decides to attend and mend fences.
- Book 5 · Ch 9Skippy security clampdown
Hugh sends Bill an oddly scripted video call hinting something is wrong. Bill has Guppy cut all non-A/V links with Skippyland and warns UFS comms sysops, then calls a moot.
- Book 5 · Ch 21Simulations on JOVAH
Bill gets Hugh to run his parallel simulations for negative energy on the Skippies' old JOVAH hardware, then secures Garfield's promise to help if results emerge.
- Book 5 · Ch 72Meeting of the Ancient Ones
Bob, Bill, Garfield, Howard and Will meet with Steven Gilligan, who proposes a megastructure-based evacuation and a diplomatic mission to the Federation.