Rob
Names: RobRob TanneBobDoc RobertsRobby boy
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 11 (TEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 11Rob is one of the infiltrators inside the gateway control room, working to a compartmentalized plan he cannot fully see.
- Ch 11Rob and his team realize the SI is breaking through their defenses and begin shooting the room's cameras and sensors.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 7Rob openly tells Cat he distrusts her, calling her a psycho and unprofessional, and sides with Morton.
- Ch 7Rob is assigned to place a backup nuke on the lakebed, working alone because sensors and comrelays fail underwater.
- Ch 7Rob gives Morton until the nuke is detonated for Mellanie to justify withholding Bose from the navy, then reluctantly goes along.
- Ch 12Rob wants the navy to take them home and grant him a release and clean record, and is anxious about the Bose motile secret.
- Ch 13Rob had wanted to shoot the Bose motile and pretend the episode never happened; he is puzzled by what Mellanie sees in Dudley.
- Ch 14Rob wears state-of-the-art navy armor and received a two-hundred-year life suspension after a previous operation involving Adam.
- Ch 14Rob took Adam's job without knowing who he worked for, because he owed dangerous people a lot of money.
- Ch 15Rob's hyper-rifle cuts through Starflyer agents' force fields and armor.
- Ch 19Rob sacrificed himself by shorting out all his power cells, blowing up the pursuing soldier motiles and himself so the others could escape.
Connections
- related toWormhole gatewayis guarding its control room, trying to hold it for the operation
- member ofCat's Claws
- ally ofMorton
- member ofParis team
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 11The SI breaches the raiders' fireshields
The SI flushes out the kaos and starts cracking the gateway control room's fireshields; Rob's team realizes they are being watched and shoots the cameras.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Landing on the Prime-held planet
Cat's Claws are fired through a wormhole in bubbles above the Highmarsh Valley during a massive assault. Aerobots fight off Prime flyers while the squad hides, then they travel through the mountains.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Base camp and sensor placement
The squad establishes a base camp in a saddle in the Regents, plants sensors overlooking the Trine'ba and Randtown, and observes heavy Prime activity.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Squad splits to scout
After arguing over Cat's reliability, Morton and Rob scout east of Randtown while Cat, Parker and the Doc go toward Blackwater Crag, avoiding engagement.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Reconnaissance of Randtown
Morton and Rob scout the Prime-occupied town, seeing huge numbers of aliens, a lake bioforming station, and force field generators under construction.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Ravine ambush and battle
Locals ambush a Prime patrol; Morton and Rob kill the remaining aliens, but Doc's HVvixen use brings many flyers.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Escape downstream and rescue of Simon Rand
After the nuclear blast, Morton and Rob escape down the stream with the survivor, who identifies himself as Simon Rand, founder of Randtown.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Meeting in the cave and new plan
In the survivors' cave, Cat's Claws treats David and feeds the group. They plan to evacuate them and, following the Cat's idea, plant a nuke at the future force field boundary.
- 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 12Morton scouts Prime activity
Morton, Rob and the Cat scout Prime activity near the Regents, noting farmland preparation and a new chemical plant.
- 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 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 14Teams advance to Half Way gateway
The train is halted by broken rails. Teams transfer to armored cars and trucks; Vic stays to hunt Tarlo while the others attack the Half Way gateway defenses.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Battle of Port Evergreen
Morton's ten armored fighters jump in, destroy Port Evergreen, the Carbon Gooses and a weapons truck, but several trucks, probably with the Starflyer, escape through the wormhole.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Armored cars charge and meet soldier motiles
Bradley orders the armored cars to ram the MANN truck, but hundreds of soldier motiles block the way. Morton kills one in close combat and the Paris team ends up nearly surrounded.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Rob's sacrifice and the dash to the valley
Soldier motiles pin Rob, who detonates his power cells to cover the others. Morton, Cat and Alic ride the armored car to the Institute valley, but the second car is destroyed and the MANN truck reaches the starship first.