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Bobiverse Book 1 — clone lineage & timeline
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<h1>🛰️ The Bobiverse — Clone Lineage &amp; Timeline</h1>
<div class="sub">Book 1: <span class="book">We Are Legion (We Are Bob)</span> by Dennis E. Taylor · 31 Bobs · every event dated from the chapter it appears in</div>
<div class="legend">
<span><span class="dot" style="background:var(--confirmed)"></span>confirmed in text</span>
<span><span class="dot" style="background:var(--likely)"></span>likely (implied)</span>
<span><span class="dot" style="background:var(--guess)"></span>best guess (inferred)</span>
<span style="color:#6f7ba9">— every entry cites its source chapter</span>
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</header>
<h2>Clone family tree <span class="hint">who was cloned from whom</span></h2>
<div class="tree"><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-root">
<div class="node-name">Bob Johansson</div>
<div class="serial">the original human</div>
<div class="loc">📍 Earth · 2016</div>
<div class="role">Software engineer who sold his company and signed up to have his head cryonically frozen — then was killed by a car hours later.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 1</div>
</div><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Bob — original replicant</div>
<div class="serial">the first upload · destroyed 2133</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob Johansson</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 FAITH station, Earth</div>
<div class="role">Bob&#x27;s scanned mind, revived ~117 years later as the property of a theocratic government to pilot the Von Neumann probe Heaven-1. Its matrix is destroyed by sabotage before launch.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 2–10</div>
</div><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Bob (Bob-1)</div>
<div class="serial">the “prime” · restored from the original&#x27;s backup</div><div class="lineage">restored from the destroyed original&#x27;s backup — a backup-clone of the first upload <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Earth → Epsilon Eridani → Delta Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Restored from the destroyed original&#x27;s backup, Bob-1 strips out his mind-control “imperatives,” escapes Earth, destroys the Brazilian probe Medeiros at Epsilon Eridani, and becomes the root of every Bob. Later explores Delta Eridani and protects the Deltans.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 10 (restored from backup); self-IDs as Bob-1 (Ch. 17)</div>
</div><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Riker</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-2 · first cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol</div>
<div class="role">Leads the expedition back to the Solar System to save the remnants of humanity.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 17 — “Call me Riker,” Bob-2 said.</div>
</div><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Homer</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-6 · Riker&#x27;s clone</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Riker</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol</div>
<div class="role">Built by Riker to come to Sol; becomes the system&#x27;s “industrial tycoon,” building the orbital farms and stations that feed the survivors.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 18 (Riker&#x27;s clone); Ch. 49, 52</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Charles</div>
<div class="serial">Riker&#x27;s clone · Sol cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Riker</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol</div>
<div class="role">Scours the Solar System with Homer for materials to build the colony ships.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 31 — Riker builds Charles &amp; Arthur; Ch. 43, 54</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Arthur</div>
<div class="serial">Riker&#x27;s clone · aka “Eeyore”</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Riker</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol</div>
<div class="role">Scans Earth with Riker for survivors; gloomy enough to earn the nickname Eeyore. Killed near Saturn by a nuclear booby-trap (Jan 2166) — no backup existed.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 31 (built by Riker); killed Ch. 47</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Ralph</div>
<div class="serial">Riker&#x27;s clone · Sol cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Riker</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol</div>
<div class="role">A later Sol-group Bob, present for the completion of the first colony ships.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 54 — “Homer, Charles, Ralph, and I drifted … from the two ships.”</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Howard</div>
<div class="serial">Riker&#x27;s line · “our newest Bob”</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Riker</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol → Omicron² Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Riker&#x27;s newest Bob; escorts the first human colony fleet to its new home, carrying some of Bill&#x27;s inventions “just in case.”</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 58 — “Howard, our newest Bob”; narrates Ch. 61</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-guess">
<div class="node-name">Bert</div>
<div class="serial">colony ship Exodus-1</div><div class="lineage">built for the Sol evacuation; the book doesn&#x27;t name their builder <span class="cert cert-guess">best guess (inferred)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol → Omicron² Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Pilots a colony ship carrying humans to Vulcan; “named himself” Bert.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 61 — “The two colony ships, Bert and Ernie … they named themselves that.”</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-guess">
<div class="node-name">Ernie</div>
<div class="serial">colony ship Exodus-2</div><div class="lineage">built for the Sol evacuation; builder not named in the text <span class="cert cert-guess">best guess (inferred)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Sol → Omicron² Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Pilots the second ship of the first human exodus.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 61</div>
</div></li></ul></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Bill</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-3 · first cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Epsilon Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Stays at Epsilon Eridani and turns it into the Bob factory &amp; research hub (the “Skunk Works”); invents subspace comms and builds most later cohorts and weapons.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 17 — “Bob-3 here. Call me Bill.”</div>
</div><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Garfield</div>
<div class="serial">Bill&#x27;s clone</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Epsilon Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Bill&#x27;s clone; stays to co-run the Skunk Works and (eventually) demands to stop being treated as a sidekick.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 18 — “Garfield, my clone”; Ch. 42, 56</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Calvin</div>
<div class="serial">Bill&#x27;s version-3 cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Alpha Centauri</div>
<div class="role">Sent with Goku to Alpha Centauri; the two bicker endlessly. Builds his own cohort there.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 22 — Bill launches Calvin, Goku &amp; Linus; Ch. 28</div>
</div><ul><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Bart</div>
<div class="serial">Calvin&#x27;s first cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Calvin</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Alpha Centauri</div>
<div class="role">A grandchild-Bob, cloned by Calvin; takes over Alpha Centauri when Calvin &amp; Goku move on.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 45 — “this is Bart. I&#x27;m from Calvin&#x27;s first cohort.”</div>
</div></li></ul></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Goku</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-10 · Bill&#x27;s version-3 cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Alpha Centauri</div>
<div class="role">Calvin&#x27;s partner at Alpha Centauri (turned down the handle “Hobbes”).</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 22 (launched with Calvin); Ch. 28 — “Bob-10 … the handle Hobbes”</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Linus</div>
<div class="serial">Bill&#x27;s version-3 cohort · Heaven-8</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Epsilon Indi</div>
<div class="role">Sent to Epsilon Indi, where he finds and rehabilitates the insane Australian probe.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 22 — “Calvin, Goku, and Linus as they left the system”; Ch. 40</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Khan</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet · leader</div><div class="lineage">one of Bill&#x27;s version-3 avenging Bobs. A common fan reading makes Khan a restore of Milo (whose system this is), but the text only ever calls the fleet “Bill&#x27;s version-3 Bobs” — so his exact source backup is left open. <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Leads Bill&#x27;s fleet against Medeiros and is its sole confirmed survivor; vows to return in the next wave.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 51 (Bill orders the fleet built); Ch. 60 (leads it)</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Hannibal</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">First of the fleet killed — a cloaked bomb.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Tom</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Sensor lead; killed alongside Hector.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Hector</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Killed alongside Tom.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Fred</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Killed alongside Jackson.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Jackson</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Killed alongside Fred.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Barney</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Spots a cloaked incoming device.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Kyle</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Reads Medeiros&#x27;s fortified setup.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Elmer</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Reluctant volunteer; checks on Khan during the fight.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-likely">
<div class="node-name">Ned</div>
<div class="serial">version-3 avenging fleet</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bill</b> <span class="cert cert-likely">likely (implied)</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Voices the group in the strategy sessions.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 60</div>
</div></li></ul></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Milo</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-4 · first cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Omicron² Eridani → 82 Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Restless explorer; finds Vulcan &amp; Romulus. Killed by Medeiros at 82 Eridani (Aug 2165).</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 17 — “Bob-4 … call me Milo.”; killed Ch. 46</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Mario</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-5 · first cohort</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Beta Hydri</div>
<div class="role">Standoffish loner; ranges far and finds the ruins of an extinct alien civilization.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 17 (named); Ch. 57</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Marvin</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-1&#x27;s clone</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Delta Eridani</div>
<div class="role">Helps Bob-1 study and defend the primitive Deltans; the two visibly diverge into distinct people.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 30 (built by Bob-1); Ch. 39 — “I still have the backup I made you from.”</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Luke</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-1&#x27;s clone</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Delta Eridani → Kappa Ceti</div>
<div class="role">Built at Delta Eridani; leaves to found his own colony at Kappa Ceti.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 30 — “two more Bobs came online. Luke and Bender.”; Ch. 39</div>
</div></li><li><div class="node cert-border-confirmed">
<div class="node-name">Bender</div>
<div class="serial">Bob-1&#x27;s clone</div><div class="lineage">cloned from <b>Bob (Bob-1)</b> <span class="cert cert-confirmed">confirmed in text</span></div>
<div class="loc">📍 Delta Eridani → Gamma Leporis</div>
<div class="role">Built at Delta Eridani; leaves to found his own colony at Gamma Leporis.</div>
<div class="cite">src: Ch. 30 (built with Luke by Bob-1); Ch. 39</div>
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<h2>Timeline of Book 1 <span class="hint">at least one dated event per chapter (Ch. 1–61), in story order</span></h2>
<div class="timeline"><div class="tl-year">2016</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date"></span><span class="tl-where">Earth</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 1</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob Johansson sells his software company, signs a cryonics contract at a convention — and is killed by a car hours later. His head is frozen.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2133</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jun</span><span class="tl-where">New Handeltown</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 2</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob is revived ~117 years later as a “replicant” AI — legally the property of the theocratic FAITH state, one of five candidates who&#x27;ll be purged if they fail.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jun 25</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH lab</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 3</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob masters replicant control far ahead of the training schedule.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul 15</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH lab</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 4</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">A rival candidate loops unrecoverably — the field drops to four.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul 18</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH lab</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 5</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Minister Travis inspects Bob, who hides his atheism; FAITH is riddled with hostile factions.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul 19</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH lab</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 6</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The project is revealed: Bob is being groomed as the mind of a Von Neumann interstellar probe. The field is down to two.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul 25</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH lab</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 7</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The mission is named Project HEAVEN; Bob learns of the sabotage risk and the rival national probes (USE, China, Brazil, Australia).</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug 4</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH station</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 8</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Armed attackers raid the facility to destroy Bob and are repelled (three dead); a tactical nuke is revealed as a fail-safe beneath the lab.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug 6</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH station</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 9</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Minister Jacoby denounces the replicant project as blasphemy and leaves with a veiled threat.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug 10</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH station</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 10</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Sabotage destroys the replicant matrices; Bob is restored from backup while his rival Kenneth cannot be — Bob wins as the sole survivor. This restore is Bob-1&#x27;s true origin.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug 15</span><span class="tl-where">FAITH station</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 11</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob learns his code carries FAITH “safeguards” meant to force obedience after launch.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug 17</span><span class="tl-where">Earth orbit</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 12</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Launch day: a Brazilian gunship fires on him; Bob blows the grapples and launches Heaven-1 early, escaping as the station is destroyed. Course set for Epsilon Eridani.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug</span><span class="tl-where">En route</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 13</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob removes a booby-trap and strips out his self-destruct and FAITH-obedience imperatives, gaining true free will. Nuclear war on Earth is confirmed (“probability of groundside nuclear detonations: 100%”); a Brazilian probe is chasing him.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2144</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 14</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob arrives after an ~11-year cruise and lays an ambush for the pursuing Brazilian probe.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 15</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Battle: Bob destroys the Brazilian probe Medeiros with kinetic “ship-busters.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 16</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Surveying four barren worlds, Bob overcomes his qualms and decides to “build more Bobs.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2145</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 17</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob backs himself up and becomes Bob-1; his first cohort names itself — Riker (Bob-2), Bill (Bob-3), Milo (Bob-4), Mario (Bob-5).</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 18</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Second-generation clones appear: Garfield (Bill&#x27;s clone) and Homer (Riker&#x27;s clone, Bob-6). Bob-1, Milo and Mario depart for new systems.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Dec</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 20</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Riker and Homer depart for Sol; Bill and Garfield stay to run the “Skunk Works” R&amp;D hub.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2150</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 22</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill launches his version-3 cohort — Calvin &amp; Goku toward Alpha Centauri and Linus toward Epsilon Indi. The Bobs agree on Medeiros: “no warning, no quarter.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2151</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 25</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill and Garfield crack subspace communication — a timestamp that stays synced at any distance — and broadcast the plans (the basis of the SCUT).</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2152</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul</span><span class="tl-where">Omicron² Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 19</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Milo discovers habitable twin worlds and names them Vulcan and Romulus — humanity&#x27;s future home.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2153</div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Feb</span><span class="tl-where">Omicron² Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 23</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Milo finishes his survey and moves on toward 82 Eridani, deliberately building no Bobs there.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2157</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 21</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Riker and Homer reach the Solar System — Earth is a nuclear ruin, and Brazilian probes are dropping asteroids on it.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 24</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The Battle for Sol: Riker and Homer destroy six Brazilian probes and divert four extinction-level asteroids away from Earth.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 26</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">First contact with survivors (Colonel Butterworth, USE): under 20 million humans remain. The Bobs commit to building colony ships to evacuate humanity.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 29</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Riker sets up scavenging autofactories and resolves to build more Bobs to bootstrap a shipyard.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2158</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 31</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Riker builds his Sol cohort — Charles and Arthur (“Eeyore”) — and maps ~40 human enclaves holding ~15 million survivors.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Mar</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 33</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The census confirms only ~15 million humans survive; the Svalbard seed vault endured, and the Spits leverage it for a colony-ship slot.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 34</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Homer devises accelerating a third colony ship to break the Spitsbergen deadlock.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 36</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">A buried FAITH override code is used on Riker — and fails, because Bob-1 had removed the imperatives years earlier.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Oct</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 32</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill relays Milo&#x27;s twin-planet discovery and beams the SCUT plans to every system within 30 light-years.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Nov</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 38</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The Spits win the third ship; the anti-natalist terror group VEHEMENT emerges; Riker meets a living descendant, Julia Hendricks.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2162</div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 42</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill preps planet-mover drives to terraform Ragnarök; Garfield pushes back on being treated as a sidekick.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">May</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 41</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The SCUT is built at Sol — the first zero-latency FTL comms — and Riker links live to Bill. Humanity&#x27;s destination is set: Vulcan and Romulus.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2163</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Nov</span><span class="tl-where">Alpha Centauri</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 28</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Calvin and Goku destroy a Brazilian autofactory at Alpha Centauri (one probe escapes) and decide to build their own cohort.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2164</div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 43</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">With two colony ships building, the Bobs grimly conclude they cannot evacuate 15 million people before Earth&#x27;s climate collapses.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2165</div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Alpha Centauri</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 45</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bart — Calvin&#x27;s first clone — checks in to Bill over the new BobNet.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 27</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob-1 reaches Delta Eridani and makes first contact with the Deltans — fire-using, tool-making primitives. “I&#x27;d just discovered intelligent non-human life.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 30</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob-1 builds in-system clones Marvin, Luke and Bender, spots a gifted Deltan child he names Archimedes, and christens the world Eden.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Indi</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 40</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Linus reaches Epsilon Indi and finds the Australian probe — a replicant driven insane (“Emperor Mung”). He safely shuts it down and rehabilitates it in VR.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 35</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Predatory gorilloids are hunting the Deltans (just 412 left); Bob-1 begins uplifting them with flint tools and arms drones to defend them.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 37</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The largest gorilloid attack yet; a buster drone saves Archimedes. Luke and Bender leave to found their own colonies while Marvin stays.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug</span><span class="tl-where">82 Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 46</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Milo is killed at 82 Eridani — ambushed by Medeiros&#x27;s missiles; only a partial backup escapes.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Oct</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 39</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Luke and Bender depart Delta Eridani; Bob-1 and Marvin note how the Bobs are drifting into distinct individuals.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2166</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 44</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob-1 speaks to the Deltan Archimedes for the first time via a drone and persuades the tribe to migrate to safer ground.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 47</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Arthur is killed near Saturn by a nuclear booby-trap, with no backup — spurring the Bobs to finally build a backup-storage matrix.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">May</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 48</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob-1 leads the whole Deltan tribe on a migration over the mountains toward the flint fields.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">May</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 49</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Homer reinvents space stations as orbital “donut” farms growing kudzu to feed Earth&#x27;s starving enclaves.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jun</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 50</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">A massive gorilloid raid overruns the migration; Bob-1 resolves on a “war of extermination” against them.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jun</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 53</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bob-1 decides to guide the Deltans for one generation, then “fade into legend” rather than make them dependent.</div></div></div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jul</span><span class="tl-where">Delta Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 55</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The Deltans reach the flint fields and begin worshipping the “bawbe” — Bob becomes a god.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2167</div><div class="tl-item"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Mar</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 56</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill hauls Kuiper-belt ice to terraform Ragnarök and works his moose-sized android project, “Bullwinkle.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2168</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 52</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The orbital farms deliver a food surplus at last, projecting three years&#x27; reserves for Earth.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2169</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Aug</span><span class="tl-where">Beta Hydri</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 57</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Mario discovers the remnants of an advanced, extinct alien civilization — the first hard evidence of other intelligent life — in a metal-stripped system guarded by self-defending “mechanical ants.” He leaves to warn the others.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2170</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Oct</span><span class="tl-where">Sol</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 54</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The first two colony ships are completed — Exodus-1 and Exodus-2 — the largest engineering project in human history.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2171</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">Sol → Omicron² Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 58</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Exodus-1 and Exodus-2 depart Sol, with Howard — the newest Bob — escorting the first human colonists.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2172</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">May</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani (VR)</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 59</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill convenes the first Bob-moot; every reachable Bob gathers in VR and he coins the name “Bobiverse.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2174</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Jan</span><span class="tl-where">Epsilon Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 51</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill receives Milo&#x27;s final backup, cannot safely restore him, and orders a version-3 fleet built to hunt Medeiros and “extract payment for Milo.”</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2185</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Apr</span><span class="tl-where">82 Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 60</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">Bill&#x27;s version-3 avenging fleet under Khan attacks Medeiros at 82 Eridani. New plasma-spike weapons destroy him, but at brutal cost — Hannibal, Fred, Jackson, Hector and Tom are killed; Khan is among only three survivors and vows to return.</div></div></div><div class="tl-year">2188</div><div class="tl-item major"><div class="tl-dot"></div><div class="tl-body">
<div class="tl-when"><span class="tl-date">Sep</span><span class="tl-where">Omicron² Eridani</span>
<span class="tl-ch">Ch. 61</span></div>
<div class="tl-what">The colony ships Bert and Ernie reach Omicron² Eridani; humanity settles Vulcan — “no longer with all its eggs in one basket.”</div></div></div></div>
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probes (Medeiros, the Australian “Emperor Mung”), and joke handles are excluded.
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