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Refugee ships from the Belt and overcrowded Earth are stopped at the gateway. Through Holden, a projection of Miller tries to shut off the defenses of the ring and convince the protomolecule that humanity is not a threat.Ī land rush to other star systems with habitable worlds begins, with thousands of planets accessible via the Ring's wormholes. After a Belter racing ship slingshots through the Ring at high speed, the ring believes the high speed humans and objects to be dangerous and activates defenses that threaten humanity. The protomolecule forms the Ring, a structure which takes an orbital position beyond Uranus, and all three governments race to send their ships through. Political tensions soar as the OPA is recognized as the government of the Belters and Prax is reunited with his daughter. The UN declares war, as Earth and Mars send science vessels to investigate what is happening on Venus. A research ship, sent to Venus to investigate the crash of Eros into the planet, is stopped dead in the atmosphere and dismantled by the protomolecule. In the process, they encounter and kill a figure akin to the one that Draper fought, now known as a 'protomolecule hybrid', developed by Jules-Pierre Mao.

The crew tries to help a father, Prax, find his daughter. Martian Marine Bobbie Draper fights an inhuman figure on Ganymede and later, during peace talks between Earth and Mars, becomes a protégé of Avasarala. Miller becomes trapped there and dies when it crashes into Venus. Learning that it is an extra-solar bio-weapon known as the protomolecule, they attempt to destroy Eros. The crew of the Rocinante, along with members of the OPA, attack the station responsible for the biohazard on Eros. The crew of the Rocinante, with Miller's help, investigates and eventually discovers a biohazard that kills off most of the humans on the asteroid Eros, including Julie. They rename the ship Rocinante, which becomes the main setting of the series. James Holden, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal and Amos Burton survive both attacks and escape in the Tachi, a Martian gunship. The space-freighter Canterbury and the Martian Navy flagship Donnager are destroyed by unknown stealth ships. Ceres police detective Joe Miller is sent to find a missing young woman, Julie Mao. The three largest powers are the United Nations of Earth and Luna, the Martian Congressional Republic on Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a loose confederation of the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.Ĭhrisjen Avasarala, a United Nations executive, works to prevent war between Earth and Mars. Hundreds of years in the future, humanity has colonized the Solar System. Amazon later acquired the series, producing three more seasons, with the sixth and final season premiering on December 10, 2021.

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Syfy cancelled the series after three seasons. It received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and three Saturn Award nominations for Best Science Fiction Television Series. The Expanse has received a positive critical response, with particular praise for its visuals, character development and political narrative. It follows a disparate band of protagonists- United Nations Security Council member Chrisjen Avasarala ( Shohreh Aghdashloo), police detective Josephus Miller ( Thomas Jane), ship's officer James Holden ( Steven Strait) and his crew-as they unwittingly unravel and place themselves at the center of a conspiracy that threatens the system's fragile state of cold war, while dealing with existential crises brought forth by newly discovered alien technology. The series is set in a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System. The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for the Syfy network, and is based on the series of novels of the same name by James S.

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