For We Are Many characters

Appears from the start

The original replicant continues watching over the Deltans from orbit. He and Marvin investigate the unexplained losses in their history while he cautiously offers practical help to their settlement.

Appears from the start

Bob's replicant colleague at Delta Eridani. He studies the Deltans' migration and the disturbing gap between their former population and the remains they left behind.

Appears from the start

Camelot's medicine woman, protective of her authority and initially resistant to outside interference. She accepts Bob's method of cleaning wounds with boiled water after a hunter is injured.

First appears in chapter 2

The replicant directing construction, food production, and defensive preparations for the human settlement on Vulcan. He must balance colonization schedules against a hostile native ecosystem.

First appears in chapter 2

Vulcan's security chief. After raptors attack the settlement perimeter, he asks Howard for wider surveillance coverage and helps shape the colony's response to local threats.

First appears in chapter 2

The leader of the USC colony effort on Vulcan. He keeps most passengers in stasis until farms and defenses are ready, putting settlement safety ahead of a rapid landing schedule.

First appears in chapter 3

A gifted young Deltan toolmaker and Bob's principal contact in Camelot. He studies flintknapping with Moses and shows an unusual ability to turn instruction into practical advances.

First appears in chapter 3

A Deltan closely associated with Archimedes. She distrusts Bob's hovering machines and reacts to them with open hostility.

First appears in chapter 3

An elder Deltan toolmaker whose health is declining. He continues teaching Archimedes the craft of flintknapping.

First appears in chapter 3

A Deltan warrior skilled in teaching the use of spears.

First appears in chapter 4

The replicant surveying Eta Cassiopeiae. He identifies a habitable ocean planet with floating ecosystems and begins assessing the demanding path toward a human colony there.

Appears from the start

One of Bob's earliest independent copies and a returning research partner.

Appears from the start

One of Bob's early independent copies and the coordinator of humanity's evacuation from Earth. He manages orbital infrastructure and the competing demands of threatened human communities.

Appears from the start

A returning Bob who works with Bill.

Appears from the start

A returning explorer operating far beyond the settled systems. His surveys place him in a position to detect threats before they reach the rest of the network.

First appears in chapter 7

A Sol-system replicant who supports Riker's security work. He tracks attacks on food and civilian infrastructure as the evacuation crisis worsens.

First appears in chapter 7

A radical organization attacking food production as part of a campaign to eliminate humanity.

Appears from the start

Riker's returning partner in orbital industry and food production. His work is central to keeping Earth's remaining population alive while colony ships are prepared.

First appears in chapter 8

The leader of the Faith settlement on Romulus. He rejects Howard's authority and resists sharing resources with the neighboring colonies.

First appears in chapter 10

An unknown civilization first evident through sterilized worlds, dismantled cities, and missing metals. Its systematic harvesting has already destroyed life across multiple star systems.

First appears in chapter 13

One of Mario’s newly created scout Bobs, assigned to search outward for the Others and report what he finds.

First appears in chapter 22

Archimedes and Diana's son. He is still young when Archimedes describes his early attempts to learn the family's toolmaking skills.

First appears in chapter 25

A Vulcan biologist working with Howard on the colony's ecological hazards. She looks for biological controls for an invasive poisonous vine and studies which native animals may be safe to eat.

First appears in chapter 29

The Vulcan biologist previously introduced as Dr. Sheehy. She develops a noninvasive way to detect the colony's dangerous parasite and works closely with Howard and Stéphane during another raptor breach.

Appears from the start

An associate from Bob's time on Eden who left to explore distant systems.

Appears from the start

An associate from Eden who left to explore distant systems.

First appears in chapter 24

A newly created replicant who follows Bender's route while sending continuing status reports.

Appears from the start

A returning Bob explorer operating beyond the established network.

First appears in chapter 32

A psychologically fragile Australian replicant recovered and supported by Linus. He joins a protected part of BobNet while continuing to struggle with panic and confinement-related fear.

First appears in chapter 38

An explorer testing the defenses around the hostile civilization's territory. He uses stealth, decoys, and deliberate transmissions to learn how its ships detect and pursue intruders.

First appears in chapter 43

The architect of the replicant technology and the director of Vehement's campaign against the Bobs. He presents his actions as retaliation for losing control of his invention.

First appears in chapter 43

Vickers's associate, implicated in the financial grievance behind the campaign against the Bobs. Riker leaves him alive under a direct warning against further action.

First appears in chapter 51

The replicant who takes over Howard's local responsibilities on Vulcan, maintaining support for the colony after Howard leaves to explore.

Appears from the start

A returning replicant with combat and engineering experience.

First appears in chapter 59

An explorer approaching Gamma Pavonis as the network tries to determine which systems the Others may target next.

First appears in chapter 59

An explorer bound for Delta Pavonis while Bill assesses the likely path of the Others' next expansion. He is the network's prospective presence in that threatened system.

First appears in chapter 61

A newly created, Bill-derived replicant at Alpha Centauri. He begins by multiplying printers and factories, with advanced warship production as his central objective.

First appears in chapter 62

The replicant left in charge of Poseidon's established floating colonies. He oversees the move toward permanent cities and tests an aerial settlement design.

First appears in chapter 62

A Poseidon associate returning toward Earth with biological samples.

First appears in chapter 63

An industrial-age intelligent people native to Delta Pavonis. Jacques begins observing their societies while preparing for the possibility that the advancing Others will reach them.

First appears in chapter 67

A prototype human-shaped android prepared on Vulcan for Howard to operate. Its purpose is to give a distant replicant direct physical senses and presence.

Also known as Robert

First appears in chapter 71

Bob's Deltan-form android, used to enter Camelot without revealing his identity.

First appears in chapter 73

One of two newly activated replicants assigned to carry out the emergency removal of Pav civilians before the Others reach their world.

First appears in chapter 73

One of two newly activated replicants assigned to collect Pav civilians for emergency evacuation ahead of the Others' arrival.