VEHEMENT
Names: VEHEMENTVoluntary Extinction of Human Existence Means Earth’s Natural Transformation
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 38 (Riker – November 2158 – Sol)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 38VEHEMENT is an anonymous fringe group demanding humanity let itself die out, threatening guerrilla tactics against emigration.
- Ch 47VEHEMENT has begun attacking food supplies, leaving several groups facing starvation over winter.
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 7VEHEMENT is a radical environmental group that wants humanity extinct and sabotages food-production infrastructure with technical skill.
- Ch 8VEHEMENT has shown no sabotage at Vulcan yet, but members may have travelled on the colony ships.
- Ch 14VEHEMENT poisoned fifty cattle in the Maldives, its third terrorist act this month and the first to take lives.
- Ch 14VEHEMENT's manifesto says humanity has ruined the solar system and must bow out, and it intends to help that happen.
- Ch 21VEHEMENT bombed a cargo drone delivering food to Vancouver Island, destroying the whole shipment, and claimed responsibility.
- Ch 21VEHEMENT sabotaged a farm donut's irrigation, though only Bobs have legitimate access to the space farms.
- Ch 23VEHEMENT blew up Farm-6, a newly commissioned farm donut, destroying six months of work along with its crops and livestock.
- Ch 28VEHEMENT's apparent headquarters is a former military outpost in New Zealand's back country, the source of the tight-beam signal.
- Ch 43Riker destroys VEHEMENT's headquarters with a second ship-buster, effectively ending the organization.
Connections
- enemy ofRiker
- enemy offarm donut
- related toHomerreceived a suspicious tight-beam signal from New Zealand
- enemy ofHomer
- inNew Zealand
- led byMr. Vickersuses it as a tool for his own goals
- related toMr. Vickerscited by Bill as an earlier case of an outside agenda teaming with a group
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 38VEHEMENT threat emerges
Riker learns from Butterworth about VEHEMENT, an anonymous group threatening violence to stop humanity from continuing.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Sabotage on Earth investigated
Charles reports two groups behind attacks: VEHEMENT targeting food infrastructure, and cruder bombings in Florianópolis aimed at killing people. Riker quietly sets up comms surveillance.
- Book 2 · Ch 14VEHEMENT poisons cattle
VEHEMENT poisons half a herd of cattle in the Maldives; Sharma vows a UN task force and Homer reveals a hidden food surplus to cover the loss.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Vancouver Island delivery bombed
A VEHEMENT bomb destroys a food delivery drone at Vancouver Island; Riker arranges a secure replacement with Homer and Premier Grady.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Farm donut sabotaged
Chemicals introduced into a farm donut's irrigation kill three kudzu sections, raising the question of how VEHEMENT accessed Bob-only facilities.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Farm-6 destroyed
VEHEMENT destroys Farm-6 in an explosion; the attackers leave no trace in Riker's monitoring, and Homer takes the loss hard.
- Book 2 · Ch 28VEHEMENT base located
Drones trace the tight-beam signal to a back-country outpost in New Zealand that appears to be VEHEMENT's central base; Riker vows a reckoning.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Riker finds a VEHEMENT operative
Riker locates a hidden VEHEMENT operator in a remote farmhouse through maser scatter, eavesdrops undetected, and prepares payback.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Death of Vickers
Riker confronts Vickers, who boasts of inventing replicant tech and approving Homer's suicide, then destroys him and VEHEMENT headquarters with ship-busters.