Oliver
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 61 (61. Starting Over)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 61Oliver is Bill's backup loaded at Alpha Centauri; he takes the name Oliver in keeping with a Bloom County theme.
- Ch 61Oliver was previously one of Bob-1's first cohort in Epsilon Eridani, as Bill.
- Ch 61Oliver plans autofactories in both Alpha Centauri A and B to build Bobs on a crash basis.
- Ch 61Three years after waking at Alpha Centauri, Oliver has his first cohort of battle cruisers.
- Ch 64Oliver in Alpha Centauri has designed a new battle-wagon, but is too far away to help Jacques and Claude.
- Ch 66Oliver is building rapidly but is too far away to help at Delta Pavonis.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 15Oliver, in Alpha Centauri, is concentrating on preparing for an assault by the Others.
- Ch 54Oliver's latest batch of drones will complete Sol's coverage, giving a few weeks' warning of an Others convoy.
Connections
- copy ofBill
- inAlpha Centauri
- createdVersion 5 Heaven vesselwith Bill
- ally ofRiker
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 61Oliver awakens
Bill's backup is loaded into a new matrix at Alpha Centauri and, needing a new name, chooses Oliver.
- Book 2 · Ch 61Oliver builds a war fleet
Oliver ramps up printer production, designs weapons and the Version 5 Heaven with Bill, and after three years has his first cohort of battle cruisers.
- 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 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 50Monitoring network planned
Bill, Garfield and Will calculate that about eighty thousand drones are needed to watch for a circling attack, starting with the direct path from GL 877.
- 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 4 · Ch 60Plan to pre-empt the UFS land grab
Will reports the UFS will claim systems near New Pav; he and Oliver plan to claim them first with Bob military presences and sell them to the Pav.