Chapter Thirty-Five: Travel Plans

Will reviews his plans for leveraging Bill's wormhole research to maintain connection with the Bobiverse while traveling outward at 70% light speed. He devises a strategy to create a chain of wormhole endpoints back to UFS space and considers using the Fargo to extract descendants from Omicron 2 Eridani, while preparing a Bob seed for the return journey.

Will reflects on how Bill's wormhole breakthrough changes his previously isolated trajectory away from the core. Traveling at 70% C, he initially faced communication limitations, but now sees the possibility of establishing a wormhole network to maintain contact with the rest of the Bobiverse. His plan involves creating wormhole pairs that would connect sequentially back through WormNet to BSC-804 and eventually to UFS space, allowing him to visit whenever desired. He contemplates using a wormhole endpoint in Omicron 2 Eridani as an escape route for their descendants to avoid FAITH's reach, though he acknowledges his secretiveness about such plans troubles him—he's begun withholding information from other Bobs on a need-to-know basis, a habit he worries could alienate him. For immediate logistics, he decides the Fargo is preferable to physically returning himself, as it has a rotating section to avoid stasis for passengers. He begins preparing a Bob seed to make the deceleration journey back to zero relative velocity and then accelerate toward BSC-804. Will reflects on the smaller Nostromo's capabilities compared to the Bellerophon, and admits to himself that despite SCUT and VR capabilities, he misses the prospect of Bob-1 joining him physically, recognizing the psychological toll of isolation even with virtual connection.