USE colony ship
Names: USE colony shipcolony shipcolony ships
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 26 (Riker – April 2157 – Sol)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 26The USE had completed plans for a colony ship; Butterworth asks the Bobs to help build two and leave the solar system.
- Ch 43The first two colony ships, each carrying ten thousand people in stasis, are half-built; the third will follow four months later for the Spits.
- Ch 58The first colony ships carry USE colonists in stasis pods, with a share of the Svalbard Vaults' contents, on an eighteen-year voyage at 1 g.
- Ch 58The colony ships are crewed by Riker clones and roamers; Riker installed the replicant matrices at the last moment to prevent tampering.
Connections
- related toHowardescorts the colony fleet
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 26Plan to leave Earth
Butterworth explains how the war escalated and asks Riker to help build two USE colony ships to evacuate humans; Riker agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Bootstrapping industry in Sol
Homer surveys battle wreckage for materials and sets up autofactories, feeding Lagrange-point yards that will build Bobs and eventually colony ships.
- Book 1 · Ch 58First colony ships launch
After loading USE colonists into stasis and a ceremony full of speeches, the first colony ships depart Sol escorted by Howard, watched by an emotional Riker.