Pav
Names: PavPavs
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 63 (63. The Pav)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 63Delta Pavonis 4 is home to an intelligent species Jacques calls the Pav, in roughly a Victorian-era industrial age.
- Ch 63The Pav look like six-foot giant meerkats, walking upright or on all fours.
- Ch 63The Pav live in families of up to eight adults, with little monogamy, and have countries and governments much like humanity's.
- Ch 64The Pav lean toward a natural socialism with privately funded social institutions and lean governments, but are poorly organized.
- Ch 68The Pav have a Victorian-era level of science, and sightings of Bob drones have spawned Pav conspiracy theorists.
- Ch 68Pav families are large and communal, with little need for privacy and chaotic free-for-all mealtimes.
- Ch 77The Pav reject depending on the Bobs for all resources, and are shocked that the Bobs don't use money.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 2The Bobs lost the fight to protect the Pav, and a billion Pav are now expected to die.
- Ch 24The Pav use base 10, and Herschel insists some Pav are still alive.
- Ch 44The Pav refugees will stay in stasis while the Bobs prepare the new planet with recreated Pav life.
- Ch 47The Pav resemble six-foot-tall meerkats; to them smiling is a challenge and a steady stare is aggressive.
- Ch 47The Pav civilization's highest technology is the steam engine, and they find the Bobs' ideas hard to absorb.
- Ch 73The Pav military remains wary of the Bobs, uneasy at the technological gulf between them.
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 1Many Pav now believe the Bobs, not the Others, destroyed their home world and lied about it.
- Ch 28The Pav refuse to join the UFS and insist on traveling where they please; their fleet is two small Heaven-1-based exploration vessels.
- Ch 66The Pav have a growing Pav-crewed fleet and plan a voyage to their home world to evaluate recolonization.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 39Bio-human contact with the Pav has been rare and video-only, and no one has studied human–Pav sensory differences.
- Ch 46The Pav have mounted an expedition to their home world and are hostile to VR, seeing it as a Bob thing.
Connections
- inDelta Pavonis 4
- includesZjentfen
- enemy ofThe Othersconvoy heading for their system
- has memberDa Hazjiar Los
- related toJacquesholds twenty thousand in stasis
- led byDa Azzma Hizzplanetary administrator
- led byDa Hazjiar Losformer planetary administrator
- related toPhineaslearned their language by observation
- related toFerblearned their language by observation
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 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 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 73Abduction of the Pav
Phineas and Ferb gas two Pav towns at night and carry nearly twenty thousand unconscious Pav, plus soldiers from nearby bases, into stasis.
- Book 2 · Ch 74Harvest of Delta Pavonis 4
Bill's stealth drones record the Others sweeping Delta Pavonis 4 with death asteroids, killing up to a billion Pav, and setting up massive printer operations.
- 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 2Howard tells Bridget the Bobs lost
A distraught Howard tells Bridget the Bobs have lost against the Others at the Pav home world, dooming a billion Pav; a moot will meet to decide what to do.
- 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 47Pav colony established
With the Pav settled, Hazjiar thanks Jacques but signals her people need distance from the Bobs' unsettling ideas.
- 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 4 · Ch 28UFS debates the Pav
The UFS council argues over the Pav's refusal to join and respect colony space; Vulcan proposes grabbing all habitable planets, and Will foresees war.