Hulk-1
Names: Hulk-1Bellerophonmini-Bellerophon
First appears in Book 3: All These Worlds, chapter 24 (Explorations)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 24Hulk-1 is the Bobs' name for the derelict Others' carrier, which has 864 cargo bays.
- Ch 27Neil proposes fitting Hulk-1 with mover plates and stasis pods to make it a colony ship able to move Earth's remaining population in one trip.
- Ch 33The repaired derelict is named the Bellerophon and will be flown to Earth with 24 mover plates, building stasis pods en route.
- Ch 36The Bellerophon is a vessel large enough to hold all of Earth's remaining population, its hold full of scrap metal.
- Ch 38The Bellerophon is a huge cylindrical cargo vessel with a central corridor, rings of storage bays, and its power core at the rear.
- Ch 50The Bellerophon appears to have been multi-purpose, with reconfigurable cargo bays; its blog is one of BobNet's most popular.
- Ch 62The Bellerophon holds nearly eight million working stasis pods, filling only about two percent of the ship.
- Ch 62Bill believes the Bellerophon was designed to hold atmosphere and may double as a personnel transport.
- Ch 66The Bellerophon carries about six million weightless, frightened refugees wedged into netting in its cargo bays.
- Ch 74The Bellerophon carries the rest of humanity in stasis pods to 82 Eridani.
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 4The Bellerophon is the biggest cargo ship in human space and still holds stasis pods from the Great Exodus.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 7The Bellerophon is a ten-kilometer-long Others derelict, holed in the Delta Pavonis attack, now used as a transport.
- Ch 7Until repaired, the Bellerophon has been pushed by a set of separately controlled pusher plates.
- Ch 66The Bellerophon now has a cloak and internal drive, but can only approach within a million kilometers of Romulus undetected.
Connections
- related toThe OthersOthers' carrier
- inDelta Pavonis
- led byHerschel
- led byNeil
- related toHerschelco-operates the ship with Neil
- related toNeilco-operates the ship with Herschel
- related toRikertravelling aboard a mini-Bellerophon
- containsHerschel
- containsNeil
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 38Bellerophon maintenance woes
In interstellar space, Herschel and Neil restart the Bellerophon's power core and, after the mover plates lose sync a third time, decide to add eight more plates.
- Book 3 · Ch 62Bellerophon evacuates Earth
Herschel lowers the Bellerophon into Earth's atmosphere; a thousand transports load enclaves into its bays over ten stops, with sixteen deaths at the first.
- Book 3 · Ch 65Protecting the Bellerophon
Bill and Will use disguised nuke salvos and concentrated fire to destroy the Death Asteroids zapping at Earth and the Bellerophon, while Thor relays zap coordinates.
- Book 3 · Ch 66Bellerophon flees Earth
Herschel lifts the loaded Bellerophon off Earth and dodges a series of Others' zaps thanks to SCUT warnings, then runs from the battle.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Refugees return home
The Bellerophon unloads its waking refugees back to Earth while those in stasis stay podded until the remaining pods are built.
- Book 3 · Ch 74Bellerophon departs for 82 Eridani
With the remaining humans podded aboard, Herschel and Neil leave Earth and set course for 82 Eridani, taking humanity off the endangered list.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Plan for a distant colony
Herschel and Neil resolve to add mover plates and carry Great Exodus stasis pods to found a human colony well outside human space.
- Book 4 · Ch 47Will proposes joint expedition
Will visits Herschel on the Bellerophon, reveals his secret ship and Ever Onward plans, and proposes leading while Herschel's colony ship follows.
- Book 4 · Ch 47Ex-Man-1 unveiled
Herschel and Neil show Will their flying mannies and the Ex-Man-1, a shape-shifting manny built of microscopic ants; Will suggests a senior-Bob review when ready.
- Book 5 · Ch 7Bellerophon drive repairs
En route to Omicron2 Eridani, Herschel nears completion of the Bellerophon's SURGE drive repairs, planning a full systems test after stowing the pusher plates.