Marcus
Names: MarcusMr. JohanssonCaptain Crash
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 49 (49. Arrival)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 49Marcus will stay on Poseidon to build human-crewed spaceships so the colonists do not depend on the Bobs.
- Ch 49Marcus proposes an electrified net to repel kraken, adding six months to the colony schedule.
- Ch 62Marcus stays on at Poseidon as Bob-in-residence.
- Ch 62Marcus has built a small prototype aerial city that floats in the air, with triple redundancy and failsafes.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 3Marcus, a computer who was once human, serves Poseidon's colony without any official position and has been handing functions to the administration for a decade.
- Ch 3Marcus agrees to act as a wild card against the Council and plans a personal appearance, calling Howard for help.
- Ch 8Marcus makes his first public appearance in a new android body, meeting Kal, Gina, Denu and Vinnie in person.
- Ch 8Marcus is reluctant to become a revolutionary and hopes his nearly ready flying cities will force change without violence.
- Ch 8Marcus gives his allies encrypted SCUT-based communicators protected by tamper-detecting nanites.
- Ch 13Marcus refuses to give the Council exclusive control of flying cities, wanting people to 'vote with their feet'.
- Ch 13Marcus plans to make the flying city project completely open, even filing construction plans with the government.
- Ch 16Marcus evacuates would-be emigrants to Thark using cargo drones as 'buses', knowing he is playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship.
- Ch 19Marcus is the only Bob in Poseidon's system, with ship busters, roamers and printers but no ready autofactory.
- Ch 19The Council destroys what Marcus calls his decoy in space, cutting off his space assets.
- Ch 26The Council destroyed only a Heaven-vessel decoy; Marcus had lied about his location and keeps a backup at his Fortress of Solitude near Eta Cassiopeia B.
- Ch 26Marcus finally strikes back, using cloaked busters to disable all known Council ships and roamers to overwhelm Council security.
- Ch 26Marcus wonders how many deaths he is answerable for, recalling the Sol System War and the overthrow of New Jerusalem.
- Ch 31Marcus keeps busters hidden on Pelias, Poseidon's inner moon, and uses them to defend the cities, killing some attackers.
- Ch 35After the uprising, Marcus reluctantly becomes Chairman Pro Tem of Poseidon and intends to arrange elections as soon as possible.
- Ch 39Three years after the revolution, Marcus has handed Poseidon's autofactories to the population and has no duties left in the system.
- Ch 39Marcus, a driven workaholic like all Bobs, struggles with being redundant and considers a new career in oceanography.
- Ch 39Inspired by Garfield's pterosaur-like android and Bob-1's non-human android, Marcus wonders how an android dolphin would fare on Poseidon.
- Ch 72Marcus has built flying cities and dolphin-like androids on Poseidon, transforming its society.
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 13Marcus has lived among the Poseidon dolphins almost full-time for years and is accepted by them, if seen as a little weird.
- Ch 13Marcus is selectively breeding Poseidon dolphins for intelligence by rewarding communication with food, a non-invasive uplift.
- Ch 13Marcus was a key figure in overthrowing Poseidon's totalitarian government, now replaced by independent city-states.
- Ch 20Marcus asks Maleb to quietly audit software, change passwords and raise physical security in case Starfleet acts on its threats.
- Ch 20Marcus misses his human friends deeply and has made few new ones since their deaths.
- Ch 33Marcus, or an engineering friend on Poseidon, found a workaround to safely reset booby-trapped relay stations.
Connections
- friend ofMulder
- createdaerial city
- inPoseidon
- friend ofKal
- friend ofGina
- member ofRevolutionary Council
- createdHelium
- enemy ofPoseidon Administrative Council
- createdThark
- friend ofRiker
- ally ofKal
- ally ofDenu
- ally ofVinnie
- ally ofGina
- leadsPoseidonChairman Pro Tem
- related toPoseidon dolphinslives among them and is breeding them for intelligence
- friend ofHoward
- related toPoseidonhas engineering friends on Poseidon
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 49Colony arrives at Poseidon
Monty and Marcus arrive at Poseidon; colonists begin settling on large floating mats in the tropics, waking in small groups.
- Book 2 · Ch 49Kraken kill settlers
After more settlers are taken by kraken, Marcus proposes an electrified defensive net, delaying the colony by six months.
- Book 2 · Ch 62Mulder departs Poseidon
Mulder files his final report and leaves Poseidon for a new system, Monty heads back to Earth, and Marcus remains, showing off his aerial city prototype.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Marcus joins the conspiracy
Kal and Gina convince Marcus that the Poseidon Administrative Council is grabbing power; he agrees to help as a wild card and resolves to make a personal appearance, calling Howard.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Council rejects flying cities
Marcus proposes his flying cities to Councilors Benben, Murray and Brennan, who reject them, insisting people must live where labour is needed and dismissing Riker's agreement.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Council crackdown and bugs found
The Council cuts off supplies and reassigns Gina and Denu; Marcus's roamers find three bugs in Kal's apartment, and the group switch to secure communicators, now officially revolutionaries.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Unveiling of Helium
Marcus reveals the flying city Helium to a hand-picked group on the Great Northern Mat, aiming to let Poseidon's people escape the Council's control.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Gina warns of war
Gina convinces Marcus that the Council will see the flying cities as war and target him, and he agrees to take security seriously.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Standoff over Thark emigrants
Council security blocks citizens from flyers bound for the aerial city Thark; Marcus lands cargo drones behind the crowd and carries them off without violence.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Riker relays the Council's complaint
At the Poseidon Council's request, Riker talks to Marcus about fomenting revolution; he sympathises but warns him not to get anyone killed.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Council declares city residents deserters
The Poseidon Council declares the flying-city residents deserters, issues arrest warrants, locks Marcus out of colony systems and seizes the Lagrange stockpiles.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Council blows up Marcus's decoy
While Marcus discusses the Council's moves with his allies, the Council destroys his decoy in space.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Council attacks the cities
Believing Marcus dead, the Council tries to seize four cities, attacks Amhor with missiles, threatens to shoot down cities, and downs Thark.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Marcus strikes back
Marcus's busters disable all tracked Council ships and squads of roamers overwhelm Council security; Kal's group takes the comms center.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Council attacks Aanthor, Kaol and Ptarth
Council warships fire missiles at several flying cities; Marcus's busters down seven attackers and track the two survivors home.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Capture of Brennan
Gina leads security forces, backed by Marcus's busters and roamers, to storm the Council's hidden airbase and capture Brennan.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Poseidon's new government
A month after the uprising, Marcus, Kal, Denu, Gina and Vinnie meet as Poseidon's new government to decide the fate of captured Council members and plan elections.
- Book 3 · Ch 39Marcus retires
Voted out of office and with no duties left on Poseidon, Marcus tells Kal he is considering oceanography using an android dolphin body.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Swimming with Poseidon dolphins
Howard and Bridget borrow dolphin mannies from Marcus and join a native pod at Moody Port to learn about aquatic mannies for the Quinlan expedition.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Leviathan passes
A huge leviathan glides beneath the pod near the mat; everyone keeps still until it passes, and Marcus alerts Perimeter Security.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Marcus warns Maleb
Marcus asks Maleb to quietly harden Poseidon's autofactories and systems against possible Starfleet action; Maleb agrees to bump some projects' priority.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Bob audit on Poseidon
Marcus asks Guppy for a summary of the audit of the Bobs' industrial presence in the Poseidon system.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Relay stations recovered
Thor reports that a workaround found via Marcus has recovered two booby-trapped relay stations after six were lost.