

But her position of leadership becomes far more important to the solar system than perhaps Avasarala or Holden could have possibly anticipated, and it’s a glorious thing to behold.
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The Expanse Series Finale Easter Eggs: The Sci-Fi Heroes Who Helped By Michael Ahr The Transport Union and the Gatesĭrummer was put in charge of the new independent Transport Union at the end of The Expanse season 6, and that’s exactly where she ends up in the books, too. Considering the hardiness of Martian efforts to terraform their own planet back home, it should come as no surprise that this same discipline will become the central tenet of a new political force bent on doing what’s best for the survival of the human species… at least from Duarte’s point of view. Needless to say, Duarte has his own discoveries to make about what this more stable form of protomolecule can do for the dominance of his new empire. Without Cara and Xan’s involvement in the later books as a result of these changes, humanity would have little hope of understanding the alien forces around them. After Xan is brought back to life with black eyes and increased perception, it’s clear that the repair creatures made modifications less destructive than but certainly just as radical as what happened on Eros in the opening season. If you look closely, however, you’ll see that the “strange dogs” in The Expanse season 6 make changes to the drone and the mama bird which leave a soft blue glow, such as we see with anything protomolecule related. It lay frozen and unused until Protogen dug it up. Miller (as an eventual spokesman for the protomolecule) informed Holden that it was designed to modify anything in its path to the specification of the alien race that created it.

Remember, the protomolecule was discovered in season one on Phoebe, one of Saturn’s moons.

Let the fireworks begin! The Strange Dogs, Cara, and Xanīut that’s not all the protomolecule can do! We’ve also seen that Laconia has some unusual wildlife that appears to be modifying “broken” things in a semblance of repair. In The Expanse season 6, we hear the obsessive scientist Cortazar telling Duarte that they have been able to use the stolen sample to activate the orbital station, the same way phantom-Miller was able to activate the artifacts on Ilus in season four. It was all a distraction to allow Duarte and his loyalists to set up a colony on Laconia, a planet with an unusual alien artifact in orbit around it: a construction platform that can create space vessels with advanced capabilities based on protomolecule technology.
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If it weren’t for this deal, millions on Earth would still be alive, and the Free Navy would have been completely impotent without ships or rail guns to attach to the ring station. Given that he traded MCRN military equipment to Marco Inaros in exchange for the protomolecule sample the rogue Belters stole from Fred Johnson, it’s clear that he felt that the devastating price he paid for the final bit of blue goo was worth it. It’s probably obvious given the events of The Expanse series finale that Admiral Duarte is the main antagonist of the final story arc in the books. That’s not the recommended path, of course (read the whole thing!), but here’s what’s in store for anyone who takes that shortcut. The good news is that Persepolis Rising can be a starting point, skipping the first five books with only minor catching up to do.

But the floodgates likely opened after the series finale aired for those looking to answer the questions left unresolved by the show’s untimely cancelation with books seven through nine still unadapted.įor those still on the fence, we’ll attempt to outline the plot of the remaining story without spoiling the big moments that should be experienced firsthand. Corey novels upon which the series is based probably have at least thought about checking out the books at some point. Many fans of The Expanse on Prime Video who haven’t already read the James S. This article contains The Expanse spoilers.
