Milo
Names: MiloBob-4
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 17 (Bob – July 2145 – Epsilon Eridani)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 17Bob-4 takes the name Milo, has an airship VR, and refuses to go back to Sol, preferring to explore.
- Ch 18Milo heads for Omicron2 Eridani.
- Ch 19Milo chose Omicron2 Eridani partly because it is Star Trek's semi-official Vulcan home system.
- Ch 19Milo's VR is an airship drifting over the south of France, with his dog Lucy.
- Ch 19Milo sends drones to test whether Earth life could safely eat local biology, and reports his finds to Sol and Bill.
- Ch 23Milo spends seven months cataloguing the biologies of Vulcan and Romulus, sending all reports to Bill and on to Sol.
- Ch 23Milo leaves an autofactory, drones and a squad of busters at Omicron2 Eridani, with the station AMI ordered to ram Medeiros on sight.
- Ch 23Milo decides not to build more Bobs, leaving resources for colonists, and heads for 82 Eridani.
- Ch 32Milo reports finding a system with twin habitable planets, which he has named.
- Ch 46Milo arrives at 82 Eridani hoping to log his second consecutive habitable-planet find.
- Ch 46Milo spends all eight busters on the first wave and tries to send a backup to Bill before the last missiles hit.
- Ch 51Milo's last message reports a promising colony world at 82 Eridani and his ship's destruction.
- Ch 51Milo's differential backup was cut off; Bill declines to force a restore that might be insane, and archives it In Memoriam.
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 12Milo discovered two habitable planets at Omicron2 Eridani and named them Vulcan and Romulus.
- Ch 20Milo had expressed a lack of caring about humanity's fate; Howard feels sadness at his memory.
Connections
- copy ofBob
- related toRikerbutt heads over returning to Sol
- enemy ofMajor Ernesto Medeiros
- related to82 Eridanifound two habitable planets there before being torpedoed
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 17The first copies
Bob loads backups of himself into four new vessels; the copies wake, take the names Riker, Bill, Milo and Mario, while Bob moves into Heaven-1A.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Dividing the work
The Bobs discuss next steps: Bill stays to research subspace and run the Bob factory, Riker plans to investigate Sol, Milo and Mario head out to explore.
- Book 1 · Ch 18The Bobs disperse
Bob, Milo and Mario leave Epsilon Eridani for Delta Eridani, Omicron2 Eridani and Beta Hydri, while Bill builds new Bobs for himself and for Riker's Sol trip.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Discovery of Vulcan and Romulus
At Omicron2 Eridani, Milo finds a habitable double planet with oxygen, oceans and life, and names the worlds Vulcan and Romulus despite mission rules.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Drone survey of the double planet
Using Bill's drone designs, Milo sends biological survey drones down, finding related life on both worlds and starting biocompatibility tests.
- Book 1 · Ch 23Milo leaves Omicron2 Eridani
Having surveyed Vulcan and Romulus and left defences behind, Milo departs for 82 Eridani without building copies.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Milo's report of two habitable planets
Bill receives Milo's report describing a system with two habitable planets and forwards it toward Earth.
- 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.