Dudley Bose
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First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 2 (ONE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 2Dudley is a ninety-two-year-old astronomy professor in his second life, nearing another rejuvenation, with a reputation that is none too high and a timid, cautious nature.
- Ch 2Dudley watched Dyson Alpha vanish from his telescope in under a heartbeat after fourteen months of observing it, but his sensors were not recording.
- Ch 2Dudley needs eight more years of employment to fill his R&R pension, which he needs to pay for rejuvenation; a discredited reputation would end this.
- Ch 2Dudley secretly travels to Tanyata to confirm the envelopment speed, telling his wife it is a university-sanctioned trip, and he stalled his students' observing project with endless maintenance tasks.
- Ch 2Dudley has been married five times; his current marriage to Wendy has lasted eleven years.
- Ch 2Dudley is a professor from Gralmond who traveled through wormhole gateways to Tanyata to observe the Dyson Pair, keeping the purpose secret from LionWalker.
- Ch 2Dudley spent holiday savings on a datavault store and legal verification of the observation without telling his wife; he has been married several times.
- Ch 2Dudley observed something about the Dyson Pair five months earlier and wanted authenticated proof that it would happen again.
- Ch 4Academic astronomer who discovered the Dyson Alpha barrier using an old telescope, embarrassing CST in the media.
- Ch 8Astronomer who discovered the Dyson Pair envelopment; receives a full professorship at Gralmond and lobbies relentlessly for a berth on the Second Chance.
- Ch 8Relishes success and fame, and expects unlimited achievement after returning from the Dyson Pair.
- Ch 8His house array was dumped by burglars who bypassed security while he was at the ceremony; nothing visible was stolen.
- Ch 10Astronomer who saw the envelopment; applied to join the mission, has many sponsors and is a skilled self-publicist with the media.
- Ch 13Bose's discovery started the Second Chance mission; he is undergoing a rushed two-month rejuvenation so he can join the starship crew.
- Ch 13Bose is the Commonwealth's greatest expert on the Dyson Pair and the mission's navigator, though he skipped most testing and training.
- Ch 13Bose's partial rejuvenation on Augusta took about fifteen years off him, but his body has not yet adjusted.
- Ch 15Dudley is the Commonwealth's astrophysics expert on the Dyson Pair, with an engineering degree, and the ship's oldest, unrejuvenated member.
- Ch 15Dudley records dumbed-down commentary for Gralmond WebNews and resents being upstaged by Mac as first to make contact.
- Ch 15Dudley is nervous in space and clumsy with the maneuvering pack but ends up exhilarated, and relies on Oscar's calm voice for reassurance.
- Ch 15Dudley and Emmanuelle explore a spiral shaft below level seven of the Watchtower, placing comrelays as they go, and lose contact.
- Ch 15Dudley believes the shaft has a purpose and could be the key to decrypting alien culture; he eagerly presses on.
- Ch 16Dudley Bose, a respected astronomer, was left behind at Dyson Alpha; his recorded explanations of the data enthralled Mark.
- Ch 16Bose and Verbeke were left behind; CSI authorized re-life for them, their memory stores having been updated before they went over to the Watchtower.
- Ch 17Bose spent time in a rejuve tank before launch and received less training and assessment than other Second Chance crew.
- Ch 17Bose and Verbeke are possibly held by the Dyson aliens.
- Ch 19Dudley Bose was a scientist who struggled with university bureaucracy and ruthlessly maneuvered to get a place on the Second Chance crew.
- Ch 19Dudley Bose was captured and cut by Prime soldiers; his memories were stored in an implanted device and later replayed to MorningLightMountain.
- Ch 19Dudley Bose's suit processor was on the edge of resolution of the amplifier; his information store was nearly full when he died.
- Ch 19Dudley Bose was a Gralmond university astronomer whose remnants of knowledge MorningLightMountain holds; they include the name, spectral type and coordinates of every Commonwealth star.
- Ch 19Bose's knowledge says he does not know the technical details of creating exotic matter, though the wormhole equations are fundamental.
- Ch 21His memories were used to impersonate him on a call to the scoutships, but they broke through and shouted a warning that the aliens killed them and will kill all.
- Ch 22Sacrificed what remained of himself to warn humanity of the Primes' intent; he and Verbeke are undergoing re-life.
- Ch 22Re-lifed after being killed by the Primes, his personality is intact but more edgy; he suspects his original self survives, and his wife is divorcing him.
- Ch 24Dudley Bose is a lanky adolescent re-life of a former Second Chance crewmember, known for his thumbs-up interview trademark.
- Ch 24Dudley publicly accused the Second Chance crew of abandoning him, and says the real Dudley Bose is still out there, kept alive by aliens.
- Ch 24Dudley is a re-lifed copy living in a new body; he is sexually inexperienced in it and deeply bitter about the abandonment.
- Ch 25Dudley is emotionally fragile, obsessed with whether he is still alive at Dyson Alpha, and resentful of Wilson Kime; he depends on Mellanie.
- Ch 25Dudley says Paula Myo pulled him out of partial rejuvenation to question him and his wife Wendy about a break-in after the Second Chance attack.
- Ch 25Dudley's home was burgled and all files copied from the house array; Myo suspected the Guardians' Bradley Johansson was involved.
- Ch 25Dudley Bose is deeply attached to Mellanie and panics at the thought of her leaving him; he tells her he loves her.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 4Dudley is pitiful, clingy and paranoid, in love with Mellanie, and dreads her taking TSI roles; at times he is lucid.
- Ch 4Dudley and Mellanie share a bond from surviving the Prime attack on Elan.
- Ch 4Dudley is terrified of going to Far Away, fearing capture again, and Mellanie placates him with the prospect of seeing a neutron star.
- Ch 4Dudley is a knowledgeable, lecturing companion of Mellanie who explains the neutron star and low gravity of Far Away.
- Ch 4Dudley is a re-lifed astronomer who is physically unsteady and sometimes shows his old confident self; he feels guilt over what has happened.
- Ch 4Dudley reflects that after five rejuvenations he can understand the appeal of emigrating to Far Away without a safety net.
- Ch 4Dudley is in a new, youthful body, is ill with the local food and sunlight, and is helpless and dependent on Mellanie.
- Ch 4Dudley is unstable and miserable; he says he was captured and used by the Starflyer, and he angrily rejects being credited with starting events.
- Ch 5Dudley Bose's mind escaped MorningLightMountain by copying himself from an isolated immotile into a motile through joined nerve receptor stalks.
- Ch 5Dudley, now in a motile body, ignores MorningLightMountain's orders; he has lost some memories but considers himself still existing.
- Ch 5Dudley lives inside a stolen Prime motile body, uses a communications device to listen to MorningLightMountain's main thought routines, and feels few emotions in this brain.
- Ch 5Dudley traveled for weeks through Dyson Alpha settlements and the staging post to reach the wormhole to Randtown, wanting to meet the human saboteurs there.
- Ch 5Dudley noticed small glitches on Elan and concluded the SI had some obscure interest there.
- Ch 6Dudley is sulking in the motel chalet and resentfully asks if Mellanie is off to see Paul again.
- Ch 6Dudley sulks over Mellanie's old lover and proposes they run away to the forest resort and marry; Mellanie firmly refuses.
- Ch 7Dudley Bose, with his memories downloaded into an alien immotile unit, surrenders to Morton's team and asks to return to the Commonwealth with them.
- Ch 7Bose says he was captured with Verbeke in the Watchtower, imprisoned and killed, then had his personal store downloaded into an immotile unit.
- Ch 7Bose chose Randtown as his return point because the SI had some presence there.
- Ch 7Bose's memories were animated by MorningLightMountain, giving it insight into human thinking; it had assumed Bose was an inferior specimen.
- Ch 8Dudley, insecure and jealous, is obsessed with meeting the alien motile and proposes hiring an inter-orbit tug from Augusta to reach Ozzie's habitat at Regulus's outer gas giant.
- Ch 8Dudley got a cheap, infected, unlicensed OCtattoo sense booster; Mellanie examined it and found no hidden code.
- Ch 10Dudley is needy and devoted to Mellanie, hates the Murderous Seduction recording, and is computing transfer orbits for a trip to a habitat asteroid.
- Ch 12The Bose motile is kept isolated from Prime communications because no one is sure MorningLightMountain couldn't control it like its other puppets.
- Ch 12The Bose motile's story about MorningLightMountain cannot be confirmed, though Morton suspects it is true.
- Ch 13Dudley clings to Mellanie possessively and is petulant; Nigel recalls him from the notorious welcome-back ceremony.
- Ch 13The motile holds Dudley's downloaded memories, warned the Conway, escaped and made its way to Elan; Mellanie's friends were guarding it.
- Ch 13Dudley, a re-lifed astronomer, demands his memories back from the motile, learns his original body was killed at Dyson Alpha, and screams at Mellanie to leave him alone.
- Ch 13The motile says it is one with Dudley and agrees to transfer his memories; its body is built around memory transfer.
- Ch 13Re-lifed after memory transfer, Dudley is calm and confident; he demands a lifeboat berth for himself and the Bose motile in exchange for information.
- Ch 13Dudley says MorningLightMountain shot him and dissected him to extract his memorycell, leaving him some of its memories.
- Ch 13Dudley explains the origin of the Starflyer as a Prime immotile cluster that crashed on Far Away after the barriers appeared.
- Ch 14Dudley, now calm, confident and fully remembering his past, dumps Mellanie, saying he'll step aside since Morton returned.
- Ch 14The alien Bose motile now speaks via a handheld array in Dudley's voice and admits it dumped Mellanie because it is a complete asshole.
- Ch 14The Bose motile says it should be able to translate the Far Away flare signal for the Commonwealth.
- Ch 14Deciphered the Far Away flare signal as MorningLightMountain17,735 identifying itself and calling surviving Primes to contact or fly to it.
- Ch 14Has regained his memories and accuses Oscar and the navy of deliberately abandoning him near the Watchtower.
- Ch 18Accused Oscar Monroe of deliberately letting him and Emmanuelle Verbeke stay in the Watchtower so MorningLightMountain captured them; he made the claim after regaining his memories.
- Ch 20The Bose motile is a MorningLightMountain motile with Dudley Bose's memories, speaking through a bioneural array and needing little sleep, accompanying Ozzie.
Connections
- family ofWendyhusband and wife
- ally ofLionWalker Eyrehosts and assists his observation
- friend ofProfessor Trutencolleague representing him
- member ofSecond Chancecrew member
- ally ofEmmanuelle Verbekepartners in contact team A
- member ofcontact team A
- enemy ofOscar Monroe
- partner ofMellanie Rescoraihe loves her; she manipulates him
- related toMellanie Rescoraimanipulates him sexually for information
- ally ofMellanie Rescoraishe has brought him along and looks after him
- friend ofMellanie Rescorai
- enemy ofMorningLightMountainsecretly defies it
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Dyson Alpha vanishes
Dudley Bose watches Dyson Alpha vanish from his telescope in under a heartbeat, but sensors were not active. Sensors later show only an infrared signature, implying instantaneous envelopment.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Dudley departs for Tanyata
Five months later, after stalling his students with maintenance, Dudley secretly leaves for Tanyata via the CST station to confirm the envelopment speed, boarding the Verona train toward the gateway.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Journey to Tanyata
Dudley travels by train through the Verona gateway, changes at the huge junction station, and reaches the frontier planet Tanyata, where LionWalker meets him.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Dudley made full professor
At a rainy ceremony in Leonida City Dudley receives his professorship and publicly hopes to join the Second Chance crew; the Vice President promises to help.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Burglary of the Bose house
Police find the Boses' house array was wiped and its memory taken by skilled intruders, though nothing else appears missing.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Inspection of the Second Chance
Wilson and Nigel tour the ship's assembly platform, discussing tanks, plasma rockets, funding, crew selection, and Nigel's pressure to consider Dr. Bose.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Farewell gala at the Regency Palace
On the eve of departure, Wilson, Anna and Oscar attend the First Speaker's gala, where Council members debate the mission, weapons, funding and defense, and the Second Chance is saluted with fireworks.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Exploration of the Watchtower
Mac's team enters the abandoned station and finds it stripped and long dead; Dudley's team A follows, descending the tunnels to level seven and preparing to explore a shaft into the rock.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Contact team loses comms
Dudley and Emmanuelle are deep in the Watchtower's spiral shaft when they drop out of communication; Mac and Francis try to go after them.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Two crew left behind
CST reveals Bose and Verbeke were abandoned. Kime justifies leaving them to bring back vital information, while Burnelli criticizes him and calls for another ship.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Dissection and processor analysis
MorningLightMountain scans the two captured humans, extracts and analyzes their embedded processors, and learns to operate a transceiver, but the larger human sends a shutdown sequence disabling its device.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Second human killed for his memory store
After the second human's defiance, a soldier shoots him, and the intact full information store is extracted and read over weeks into MorningLightMountain's memory.
- Book 1 · Ch 19MorningLightMountain relives Bose's memories
Replaying the recording through one isolated immotile, MorningLightMountain experiences pain for the first time and learns about human society, the SI, Silfen, barriers and the Commonwealth's worlds.
- Book 1 · Ch 19MorningLightMountain probes human knowledge
MorningLightMountain draws on Dudley Bose's remnant knowledge to learn about wormholes, then retrieves the location of every Commonwealth star, seeing wormholes as a route to galactic dominance.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Fake Dudley call and flight
MorningLightMountain impersonates Dudley Bose to lure the humans, but the Bose memories break out and shout a warning. Kime orders the scoutships to scatter and flee.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Doi announces the Commonwealth Navy
Doi addresses the Senate, honors Kime, Bose and Verbeke, signs decree 1081 creating the Commonwealth Navy, and promotes Kime to admiral. The speech is received with applause and high approval.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Dauntless launched and welcome-back ceremony
Dauntless leaves High Angel and Oscar is offered Defender. The next day Oscar, hungover, attends a media welcome-back ceremony for Bose and Verbeke at the Nadsis Hotel.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Dudley's outburst and Oscar's gaffe
At the welcome-back event Dudley denounces the Second Chance crew for abandoning him. Pressed by Baron, Oscar angrily says Bose screwed up and nobody wanted him aboard, causing a media uproar.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Mellanie approaches Dudley
Dudley flees to a hotel kitchen, where Mellanie praises his courage and offers to take him upstairs or to a Silent World.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Mellanie learns of Myo's interview and the Cox charity
After hours of Dudley's rambling, Mellanie gets him to reveal Myo's interview and the Cox Educational charity, then asks the SI about it and finds suspicious funding.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Mellanie pitches the Starflyer story
Mellanie calls Alessandra with her Starflyer story, but the SI warns of the attack and she dives behind the bed.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mellanie returns with job offers
Mellanie returns to the Greentree chalet, tells Dudley she took a Bravoweb job that will take her to Far Away to find allies against the Starflyer.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mellanie and Dudley depart for Far Away
Mellanie and Dudley push through the crowds at Boongate, get cleared by inspectors with Niall's help, and board a train through the Half Way gateway.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Flight across Half Way
Mellanie and Dudley take a ten-hour Carbon Goose flight from Shackleton to Port Evergreen, seeing whurwals along the way.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Passage through the Far Away wormhole
When the stormrider powers the gateway, the passengers step through to Armstrong City; Mellanie stumbles in the low gravity.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Arrivals watched
Stig McSobel and Olwen McOnna watch Halgarth and Alwon arrive and plan to alert the raiders.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mellanie and Dudley arrive
Stig and Olwen watch Mellanie and Dudley arrive through the gateway and identify them. The two check into the Langford Towers.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mellanie investigates Guardian links
Mellanie researches court cases at the grand courthouse, finding that a few lawyers represent paid punks who attacked the Institute, and realizes two groups are watching her.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Cheyne Street car attack
Institute troopers threaten Mellanie; the SIsubroutine hijacks cars, killing both troopers and blocking the Cruisers. Mellanie and Dudley escape in a taken-over car.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mellanie meets the Guardians
At Franico's, Mellanie and Dudley meet Stig and Dr. Friland, seeking Guardian cooperation against the Starflyer. Stig gives her a onetime contact address and they depart for the Commonwealth.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Dudley Bose hijacks a motile
Dudley copied his mind into a motile by linking nerve stalks, escaping MorningLightMountain's control, and now walks through Randtown.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Dudley reaches Randtown
After months among the Primes, Dudley travels to Randtown, watches the poisoned water pumped into the Trine'ba, and hopes to meet the human saboteurs.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Bose surrenders
An alien in the ruined house contacts Morton's team electronically, surrenders and identifies itself as Dudley Bose in a Prime motile body, offering information against MorningLightMountain.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Debate over informing the navy
On the mountain saddle, Morton persuades the group to delay telling the navy about Bose. Mellanie's message confirms the secrecy and promises extraction from Elan.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Mellanie reports to Adam Elvin
On a beach near Santa Monica, Mellanie tells Adam she can't trace the lawyers and mentions Morton's contact with Bose's memories; Adam names more Starflyer agents.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Mellanie and Dudley discuss the habitat plan
After talking with Adam, Mellanie hears Dudley's plan to hire an inter-orbit tug to find Ozzie's habitat and its wormhole, and tentatively agrees to consider it.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Nova of the staging post star
A Commonwealth ship triggers a nova in MorningLightMountain's staging post star, destroying its wormhole generators, halting the invasion and freezing local Prime motiles temporarily.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Aftermath debate over the Bose motile
Rob expects rescue and release, but the Cat points out they still hold the Bose motile; Rob pressures Morton to hide it from the navy.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Meeting at Newark station
Paula, Justine and Mellanie tell Nigel and Nelson the Starflyer is real and has infiltrated the navy and Halgarths. Nigel orders a secret strike on Dyson Alpha, and Paula deduces the Starflyer travels in a train wagon.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Wormhole rescue from the Trine'ba mountains
Morton's team receives Mellanie's message, verifies her, and passes through a wormhole to Augusta with survivors and the Bose motile.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Dudley meets his motile
Dudley demands his memories from the Bose motile, learns he was killed at Dyson Alpha, and rebuffs Mellanie before both go to a treatment room for the transfer.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Breakfast confrontation and Dudley's demand
Morton confronts Paula Myo at breakfast. At the meeting, Dudley demands lifeboat berths and reveals the Second Chance's message to the Primes.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Origin of the Starflyer revealed
Dudley explains the Dyson Beta alienPrimes and that the Starflyer is a MorningLightMountain subsidiary that fled to Far Away; the group infers the Starflyer's plan to pit humans against the Primes.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Dudley dumps Mellanie
Dudley Bose coolly ends his relationship with Mellanie, with the Bose motile agreeing it is because he is an asshole; she leaves and later bargains with Hoshe.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Oscar and Dudley clash
Dudley confronts Oscar over being abandoned; the argument turns into a shoving match before Wilson, Anna and the Bose motile separate them.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Ozzie parts from Orion, Mellanie and Tochee
Ozzie says goodbye to his friends, who go on to Tochee's world. Ozzie and the Bose motile take a Silfen path to MorningLightMountain's home.