Jacques
Names: JacquesJacqueJockJacques Johansson
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 59 (59. Another One)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 59Jacques is heading for Delta Pavonis and is about twenty-two months away.
- Ch 60Jacques will reach Delta Pavonis in eighteen months, positioned to send Claude reinforcements if the Others head his way.
- Ch 63Jacques resolves to build colony ships using Riker's design to get some Pav off-planet if the Others come.
- Ch 64Jacques argues the Others might skip Gamma Pavonis for Delta Pavonis because Delta has much higher metallicity.
- Ch 66Jacques has twenty dreadnaughts, each with five fission bombs and busters for defense.
- Ch 68Jacques is recording everything he can about Delta Pavonis 4 and its Pav civilization before the Others arrive.
- Ch 68Jacques built stasis chambers as an informal genetic diversity vault, stocking it with samples of every species he can.
- Ch 68Jacques' plan involves kidnapping twenty thousand Pav; he chose two towns of just under ten thousand each as targets.
- Ch 68Jacques worries that Bobs share a need for attachment and fears getting attached to individuals as Bob-1 did.
- Ch 72Jacques was killed during his group's attack and will be restored from a recent backup once a new vessel is available.
- Ch 73Jacques chose two towns in different parts of the target country to maximise genetic diversity while keeping community.
- Ch 74Jacques built two colony ships now holding twenty thousand Pav in stasis, plus spare matrices; with no ship of his own, he is a passenger.
- Ch 74Jacques has seed stock to rebuild a basic ecology, but ninety percent of the planet's diversity is gone.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 2Jacques writes blog entries about the Pav and had a plan to rescue twenty thousand of them.
- Ch 44Jacques feels depressed that the Pav colony is not expansion but refugees fleeing a lost home.
- Ch 47Jacques, Phineas and Ferb build a colony for twenty thousand Pav, with residences, a fence, Pav crops and farm animals.
- Ch 47Jacques meets the Pav in a human-looking android, choosing to appear alien rather than imitate a Pav.
- Ch 52Jacques refuses to give up his Pav biosamples, reserving them for the Pav on HIP 84051-2.
- Ch 56Jacques holds a visceral hatred of the Others.
- Ch 73Jacques personally tells Hazjiar that the Bobs won the battle and wiped out the Others.
- Ch 73Jacques tells Hazjiar the Bobs want no power over others and will step back unless the Pav need them.
Connections
- related toMarioJacques is scouting for Mario
- inDelta Pavonis
- ally ofClaude
- related toPavholds twenty thousand in stasis
- ally ofPhineas
- ally ofDa Hazjiar Los
- ally ofFerb
- family ofClaudeclone-mates
- friend ofFerb
- member ofPav Reclamation Project
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 63Jacques discovers the Pav
Jacques arrives at Delta Pavonis and finds an industrial-age civilization on its fourth planet, likely in the Others' path.
- Book 2 · Ch 63Jacques plans a rescue
Jacques tells Bill he will build dreadnaughts but also colony ships to evacuate some Pav; Bill suggests raising it at a moot.
- Book 2 · Ch 63Learning the Pav language
Jacques uses roamers and drones in bookstores and reading clubs to learn Tinozj, the language of the Zjentfen.
- 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 64Jacques presents the Pav
After the formal meeting, Jacques gives an informal presentation on the Pav, which Bill watches alongside Bob-1.
- 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 2 · Ch 66Claude sends reinforcements
Claude launches all his new dreadnaughts to Delta Pavonis, due to arrive just before the Others, for a combined force of thirty-five.
- Book 2 · Ch 68Jacques records the Pav world
Ahead of the Others' arrival, Jacques records Pav culture and biology, builds a genetic vault, and selects two towns, Mheijrkva and Aizzilkva, for a planned evacuation of twenty thousand Pav.
- Book 2 · Ch 68Surveillance of the Los family
Jacques plants tiny cameras in a randomly chosen Mheijrkva household, the Los family, to document Pav life at grass-roots level.
- Book 2 · Ch 72Battle of Delta Pavonis
Bobs attack the Others' armada in three staggered waves plus stealth nukes; they destroy three death asteroids and several cargo ships but lose many dreadnaughts and fail to stop the fleet.
- Book 2 · Ch 72Others' threat and Pav evacuation
The Others vow to harvest Delta Pavonis, Sol and Epsilon Eridani; learning Jacques was killed, Bill triggers the plan to take twenty thousand Pav off-planet.
- Book 2 · Ch 77Pav choose a new world
Bill and Jacques wake eight Pav and explain the Others; led by Hazjiar, they choose resettlement at HIP 84051 over returning to Aszjan.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Medeiros attacks Mack
While Bill visits, Mack's vessel is crippled by a Medeiros missile; Bobs piggyback on roamers to save Mack's cube, destroy sensitive tech and fight Medeiros' boarding roamers before the hulk is destroyed.
- Book 3 · Ch 44Pav refugees reach HIP 84051
Jacques surveys HIP 84051-2 for the Pav refugees; Phineas proposes delaying their decanting to recreate Pav plants and animals first, and Jacques agrees.
- Book 3 · Ch 47Jacques meets the Pav in person
Jacques wakes Hazjiar and seven other Pav and meets them face to face in an android to plan awakening twenty thousand refugees.
- Book 3 · Ch 47Pav colony established
With the Pav settled, Hazjiar thanks Jacques but signals her people need distance from the Bobs' unsettling ideas.
- Book 3 · Ch 56Others' fleet detected
Riker's drone network detects a huge Others fleet approaching Sol; Bill convenes a council that estimates odds and orders early countermeasures.
- Book 3 · Ch 73Pav told of the Others' end
Jacques visits Hazjiar at HIP 84051 to announce the Bobs' victory and the extermination of the Others, and that the Bobs will step back.
- Book 3 · Ch 73Restoring the Pav home system
Ferb updates Jacques on the Pav Reclamation Project's progress rebuilding ecosystems and finding planetoids to supply metals.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Autofactory deal concluded with the Pav
Jacques meets Pav administrator Da Azzma Hizz in a tent on New Pav and confirms payment in elements for two human-owned autofactories; relations remain cool.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Ferb reveals his galactic-north plan
In the deserted Pav Reclamation Project center, Jacques and Ferb discuss their guilt over the Pav and Phineas's flight; Ferb confides his plan to travel above the galactic plane.