We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Book 5: Chapter 35: Travel Plans

Book 5: Chapter 35: Travel Plans

Will

December 2342

Interstellar space

Of course, there was no reason for me to physically travel back there. The Fargo would be fine for picking up our descendants. Preferable, in fact, since it had the rotating section, so we wouldn’t have to put everyone in stasis. And once the wormhole network was connected, Bob could use it to catch up with me. I didn’t even have to make a decision until things were in place.

No sooner was the plan worked out than I was setting up one of my inventory of Bob seeds for the trip back. It would have to decelerate from my velocity to zero relative, then accelerate back to BSC-804. But I had plenty of time.

I checked the status board. The Nostromo was a somewhat smaller version of the Bellerophon, without a lot of the weird tech that the Others had built into their cargo ships—also without the mover plates. That was a kludge forced on Herschel and Neil, which, thank the universe, they’d finally corrected. I shook my head in amusement. It was a Bob thing—if it ain’t broke, and we’ve got a workaround, screw it.

Then I sighed. Talking to myself again. I hadn’t said anything to Bob-1, but I really had been looking forward to him joining up on this voyage. SCUT and VR were great, but there was still some psychological issue with being physically isolated. Maybe that was why Herschel and Neil, Howard and Bridget, Bill and Garfield all hung together so well.