![]() They're then taken aboard a Martian ship called the Donnager, whose crew claims Mars had nothing to do with what happened to the Cant. The survivors on the Knight later send out a message to the whole Solar System, indicating Mars was responsible for the attack. Before they can return to the Cant, it's destroyed by an unknown ship that suddenly appeared, then after the attack, disappears. They include Holden, chief engineer Naomi Nagata, mechanic Amos Burton, pilot Alex Kamal, and medical technician Shed Garvey. They find a damaged ship, the Scopuli, and a few members of the crew go out on their shuttle, the Knight, to check it out. But the first officer, Jim Holden, logs the message with headquarters, which obligates the crew to investigate. They receive a distress signal, which most of the crew wants to ignore. Miller eventually finds evidence that Julie Mao was on a ship called the Scopuli.Įlsewhere, we see a space freighter called the Canterbury (or " Cant," for short). Miller will also occasionally get some help from his former partner, Octavia Muss (Athena Karkanis, whom I know from Manifest). Now that she's missing, a Belter cop named Detective Joe Miller is assigned to find her, along with his new partner, an Earther named Dimitri Havelock (Jay Hernandez, whom I know from Magnum P.I.). Julie spent some time on Ceres, in the Belt, and joined the OPA. She's an expert pilot, and the daughter of a wealthy businessman from Earth, named Jules-Pierre Mao ( François Chau). And that's about all I can tell you by way of backstory.Īt the start of the series, a young woman named Julie Mao goes missing. ![]() However, others view it in a more positive light, as it basically exists to fight for the rights of workers who live in the Asteroid Belt, which consists of several colonies, claimed by both Earth and Mars (both governments of which oppress the Belters). A lesser power is the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), which many people on both Earth and Mars view as a terrorist organization. Humanity has colonized the Solar System, but there is an uneasy peace between the system's two major powers, Earth (ruled by the United Nations) and Mars (the Martian Congressional Republic). But I may get some things out of order.)įirst of all, the show is set "hundreds of years in the future," but I have no idea of exactly when. (Note that pretty much everything I'm going to say about the events of the series is stuff I looked up on various online sources, partly to refresh my memory, and partly to help me make sense of stuff I didn't fully get while I was watching it. after watching the first season, it's hard for me to know what to say about it, except that I found it a bit hard to follow. I think the reason I started watching it was because I'd heard that when Syfy cancelled the series after three seasons, Amazon picked it up to produce their own fourth season of the show. However, I finally watched the first season on Amazon in 2019 (still not having read any of the books). Nor did I have a chance to watch the TV series, since I didn't get Syfy. By the time it was adapted into this TV series in 2015, I still hadn't read it. The first book, Leviathan Wakes, came out in 2011, and I probably first heard of it on the web show Sword & Laser, which made me add it to my list of books I wanted to read someday. This TV series is based on a series of books by a pair of writers collectively known as James S. Streaming sites: Amazon Google Play iTunes Vudu YouTube Club IMDb Syfy Templeton Gate TV Tango TV Tropes Wikia Wikipedia Correct me if I'm wrong, but in my opinion spinning up the asteroid would simply rip it to shreds.The Expanse, on Syfy (s1-3) / Amazon (s4-5)Ī.V. I'm a huge fan of hard science fiction, and I loved the fact that (artificial) gravity has been addressed by The Expanse so thorougly (an issue sorely missed in other sci-fi series), but I somehow don't think that spinning up an asteroid to create sufficient centrifugal force without ripping it apart would even work. 3 g on the surface means that the planet had to spin with a surface velocity of about 1.200 m/s and rotate once every 40 minutes or so. Some fiddling around with Google told me that in order to reach. 3 g Ceres Station apparently has) would more or less end Ceres as a planetoid. I think that suddenly applying tensile force (that is, in effect, several magnitudes greater than its original gravitational force, which is a mere tenth of the. Wich raises a follow-up question for me - wouldn't Ceres just sort of, you know, disintegrate? I'm no astrophysicist, but I'm pretty sure that this massive hunk of stone(s) that has been held together by its own gravity for millions of years wouldn't take kindly to suddenly 'reversing' its gravity. Think the spinning rings of Tycho station, or elsewhere in science fiction (2001, Interstellar.). As pointed out already, it's been done by centrifugal force that stems from speeding up the spin of the asteroid.
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