![]() ![]() The crew of the Rocinante work best as an ensemble and as a family, but season five deliberately splits them up. And Earth is losing its influence, as anyone with a craft that can hold atmosphere is striking out for the ring gates to seek their fortune light years away. Mars is falling into crisis, as Martians, too, are less invested in the long-term terraforming project to make Mars a proper home when, again, there are literally thousands of other planets out there. This, then, is where we begin season 5: Belters don't want to put up with living on crappy asteroids, making Earthers rich at their own expense, when there are literally thousands of habitable planets out there for the taking, wild-west style. ![]() ![]() The Rocinante crew, our main characters, survived a series of disasters throughout that season and at the end of it headed home, exhausted. Not only were opposing factions from the Belt and Earth shooting at each other over resources, but also the planet turned out to have massive alien artifacts on it related to the protomolecule. Season 4 dealt with the messy colonization of one planet, Ilus. Mars is a smaller power, but during its centuries of terraforming and independence from Earth, it developed a strong military with advanced stealth technology.įurther Reading Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The ExpanseĮveryone wants access to the newly available planets on the far side of the ring gate, but perhaps no one wants it more than Belters. Earth is the dominant political center, with the United Nations serving as a global government. During the first few seasons, the politics of the Solar System break down into three core factions. The sudden appearance of the ring gates wrought havoc on an already unstable political situation. Surprise! Suddenly humans can access and colonize space outside of our Solar System. Go through the ring, and you end up in a weird massive null space that basically serves as a transit hub where more than 1,300 wormholes connect-each with access to a different star system. Long story incredibly short, the discovery of the protomolecule led to the construction of a weird and mysterious ring at the far reaches of the Solar System. That all changed at the end of season three thanks to the alien protomolecule, an artifact of a long gone alien civilization that apparently sent some of it toward the Sol system in days gone by. The moons of Jupiter and Saturn might be accessible, but not so much the stars beyond. In its vision of the 24th century, we have fairly widespread access to spacefaring technology, just all at sublight speeds. ( Warning: Spoilers ahead for the first four seasons of The Expanse, but no major spoilers for season 5.) The setupįor the first few seasons, The Expanse was concerned entirely with our own solar system. ![]()
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