Major Ernesto Medeiros
Names: Major Ernesto MedeirosMedeirosMedeirithe Brazilian
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 15 (Bob – September 2144 – Epsilon Eridani)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 15Major Ernesto Medeiros is the Brazilian Empire replicant commanding the armed probe Serra do Mar.
- Ch 15Medeiros declares that serving the Brazilian Empire is his only priority and refuses Bob's offer of peace.
- Ch 22The Bobs agree unanimously to show Medeiros no warning and no quarter.
- Ch 28A Medeiros autofactory in Alpha Centauri A was building four probes, run by a copy of Medeiros left without a ship.
- Ch 46Medeiros ambushes Milo at 82 Eridani with eight missiles launched from behind a moon in two waves.
- Ch 51Bill regards Medeiros as a recurring threat after Epsilon Eridani, Alpha Centauri and 82 Eridani.
- Ch 60Medeiros has spent thirty-five years at 82 Eridani building copies, decoys and cloaked fission bombs on large SURGE drives.
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 10Mario fears more Medeiros clones may be loose, since Brazil planned to keep producing them; Bob beat Medeiros at Epsilon Eridani partly by luck.
- Ch 50Medeiros meets the Bobs with nukes, cloaked drones, spike-proof drones and a wave of passive ordnance.
- Ch 50The two Medeiros vessels at 82 Eridani are destroyed and all Brazilian equipment in the system is hunted down.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 21A Brazilian Medeiros sneaks into 82 Eridani and cripples Mack's vessel with a short-range missile.
- Ch 21Loki identifies the attacker as the incomplete Medeiros chased out of Alpha Centauri by Calvin and Goku, lacking autofactory tech.
- Ch 21Medeiros's missiles are home-brewed, suggesting he built some manufacturing capability at another system en route.
- Ch 25Medeiros has built his own busters and uses them to patrol and destroy anything he detects around the colonies.
- Ch 25Bill believes Medeiros wants to gather printers while denying them to the Bobs, gaining an exponential advantage.
- Ch 30Medeiros cables busters to a metal ingot to make a crude asteroid mover capable of wiping out a colony.
- Ch 30After his ship is disabled by mosquito killers, Medeiros destroys his own vessel rather than be captured.
- Ch 42Medeiros must have made two trips, had help, or be building his busters, missiles and roamers locally.
Connections
- enemy ofBob
- member ofBrazilian Empire
- related toBrazilian probereplicant controlling the ship
- copied intoBrazilian probesprobably controlled by Medeiros clones
- enemy ofCalvin
- enemy ofMilo
- enemy ofBill
- enemy ofMario
- enemy ofKhan
- in82 Eridani
- enemy ofLoki
- enemy ofMack
Key moments
- 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 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 46Milo ambushed at 82 Eridani
After finding two comfort-zone planets, Milo is outflanked by Medeiros's missiles; out of busters, he transmits a partial backup as the last missiles close in.
- 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 60Ambush at 82 Eridani
Eight version-3 Bobs approach 82 Eridani to attack Medeiros; Hannibal is destroyed by a cloaked nuke, and the Bobs destroy three more with Bill's new plasma spikes.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Battle of 82 Eridani
The Bobs dive into the system; Khan pinpoints Medeiros and a buster swarm destroys three Brazilian probes, but Medeiros's units kill every Bob except Khan.
- 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 50Battle of 82 Eridani
Loki's force fights waves of Medeiros drones, losing Jeffrey, Milton and Zeke, then overwhelms the AMIs and destroys both Medeiros vessels.
- 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 21Emergency moot on 82 Eridani
Bill, Oliver, Loki, Isaac and Will deduce the attacker is the Alpha Centauri Medeiros seeking autofactories, and scatter the printers out of his reach.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Medeiros takes the high ground
Medeiros finds the 82 Eridani autofactories stripped, then uses newly built busters to intercept a printer convoy bound for Asgard.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Mosquito killers down busters
Using thousands of colonist-built mosquito killers, Bill and Captain Richards swarm and disable two of Medeiros' busters near Asgard.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Strike on Medeiros
Colony busters destroy Medeiros' busters while mosquito killers from Takama rip open his ship, leaving him adrift with the ingot threat stalled.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Medeiros self-destructs
As Asgard's roamers board to capture his matrix, Medeiros blows up his own ship.
- Book 3 · Ch 42Search for Medeiros fails
Mack reports to Bill that scans of 82 Eridani found no sign of Medeiros; they suspect a cloaked autofactory and plan more surveillance drones.