We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

How do pop culture references provide an ethical framework for the Bobs in the absence of traditional human society?

Why does the narrative juxtapose Riker’s large-scale project to save humanity with Bob’s small-scale intervention to protect the Deltans? What thematic concerns do these subplots address?

How does the novel present an engineering mindset as a philosophical worldview? Discuss how Bob and his clones approach existential crises, ethical dilemmas, and military conflicts as complex systems to be analyzed, contrasting this with the ideological rigidity of their antagonists.