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The Expanse

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The Expanse	comment	The Expanse is a series of Space Opera novels by "James S. A. Corey", the pen-name of authors Daniel Abraham (The Long Price Quartet) and Ty Franck. Set a few hundred years in the future, humanity has expanded into and colonized large parts of the Solar System.As of the beginning of the series, the three main political powers are Earth, Mars, and a rough coalition of "Belters" who inhabit the asteroid belt and many of the outer moons. These groups have been in economic dependence and conflict for almost as long as they've existed, but now shadowy conspiracies are pushing humanity to the brink of outright interplanetary war. As if that wasn't bad enough, in the midst of all this a virus-like alien "protomolecule" with horrifying capabilities has been unleashed and threatens the existence of all mankind.Against this backdrop, the series mostly focuses on Space Trucker James Holden and his crew as they try to navigate through the increasingly dire political/cultural/existential crises plaguing the solar system, all the while trying to make a quick buck. Each book features new protagonists and side-characters, with the one constant thread throughout the series being Holden and his crew.The technology featured in the series is relatively realistic but not described in detail. An unexplained breakthrough in fusion and drive technology (the Epstein Drive) has made interplanetary travel possible but there isn't any FTL travel and thus no interstellar voyages have been attempted yet.The series consists of the following novels: Leviathan Wakes (2011) Caliban's War (2012) Abaddon's Gate (2013) Cibola Burn (2014) Nemesis Games (2015) Babylon's Ashes (2016) Persepolis Rising (2017) Tiamat's Wrath (2019) Leviathan Falls (2021)The novellas The Butcher of Anderson Station, Gods of Risk, The Vital Abyss, The Churn, Strange Dogs, Auberon, and The Sins of Our Fathers also take place in the same universe and serve to tie the novels together. A short story, Drive, is a prequel concerning Solomon Epstein and the discovery of the Epstein Drive. A compilation of the short stories called Memory's Legion was released in 2022.A TV series, produced by Syfy, premiered on December 14, 2015. Syfy cancelled the series on May 2018 to much fan, media and celebrity backlash. During the 2018 ISDC, Jeff Bezos (himself a fan of the books and show), announced that Amazon Studios has picked the series up for additional seasons.The authors are currently at work on a new series with elements of Science Fantasy called The Captive's War. The first novel, The Mercy of Gods is set for release on August 6th, 2024.
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The Expanse / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Expanse / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: In Leviathan Wakes, all but five of the Canturbury's crew is killed, and when the survivors are rescued, Shed dies. At the end Miller, whom half the book focuses on, dies in a Heroic Sacrifice. In Abaddon's Gate, there's Bull and Sam. In Babylon's Ashes, there's Fred Johnson, the only character besides the Roci crew to appear in every single book to date. In Persepolis Rising, Santiago Singh and Clarissa Mao both end up dead. In Tiamat's Wrath, Avasarala dies of natural causes at the start of the book and Bobbie sacrifices herself to destroy the Heart of the Tempest. In Leviathan Falls, Tanaka and Duarte suffer a Mutual Kill, and Holden sacrifices himself to shut the ring station down permanently. By the Distant Finale, everyone is dead except Amos.
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The Expanse / int_1320e16a	type	Civil War vs. Armageddon
The Expanse / int_1320e16a	comment	Civil War vs. Armageddon: The Earth-Mars Coalition breaks down into interplanetary war and the Belters openly rebel against both planets due to the machinations of a MegaCorp experimenting with — and failing to control — the alien Protomolecule that threatens to consume all life in the solar system.
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The Expanse / int_15e76b62	type	WorfEffect
The Expanse / int_15e76b62	comment	Worf Effect: The Martian Congressional Republic Navy is constantly referenced as being the best there is. They get their asses kicked (curb-stomped, really) an awful lot.
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The Expanse / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
The Expanse / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Averted by the habitual exo-solar planets on the other side of the Protomolecule Civilization's ancient Portal Network. Physics being what they are, those planets are chemically similar to Earth and even have some similar evolutionary drivers resulting in Earth-analogous biospheres, but the biochemistry is incompatible. This limits the new colonies' growth and ability to survive independently since their food production can rarely be entirely self-supporting.
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The Expanse / int_18e33968	type	Earth Is the Center of the Universe
The Expanse / int_18e33968	comment	Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Mars is in some ways more technologically advanced and both Mars and the Belt view themselves as independent of the home planet, but more educated people are pretty sure that they couldn't survive without access to the resources of Earth. The core issue is that the artificial ecosystems that support human life in space are incredibly fragile; they cannot be started or maintained without biological material shipped up from Earth.
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The Expanse / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
The Expanse / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform: A project to terraform Mars is ongoing, but it is currently still reliant on imports from Earth. The creators of the protomolecule apparently intended to use it to "alienform" the then primitive Earth.
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The Expanse / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Expanse / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Inventor of the Epstein Drive discovers, to his detriment, that it works far better than he dreamed. Protogen's experiments with the protomolecule and their attempts to distract Earth and Mars all work FAR better than they planned, to their detriment.
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The Expanse / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Expanse / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The protomolecule was sent by precursors to terraform Earth when it had single-celled life, presumably to seed a colony of themselves. When it encounters multicellular life (ie, humans), it turns them into paste. Still-alive, still consious, still screaming paste. That or Plague Zombies.
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The Expanse / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Expanse / int_1df37537	comment	In Leviathan Falls, Tanaka and Duarte suffer a Mutual Kill, and Holden sacrifices himself to shut the ring station down permanently. By the Distant Finale, everyone is dead except Amos.
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The Expanse / int_1ed1bead	type	Domed Hometown
The Expanse / int_1ed1bead	comment	Domed Hometown: Martian cities are under domes because though the planet is being (slowly) terraformed, it is nowhere near habitable yet. Transparent domes are ubiquitous on the surface of Ganymede, but rather than housing cities they house farmland, where the transparency is necessary for the crops to get sunlight (which is further strengthened by orbital mirror arrays.) The actual habitation there is underground, carved out of the moon's thick surface ice.
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The Expanse / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Expanse / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Earth. The UN adopted a welfare state while also failing to provide sufficient educational programs for people who want to take on a trade. From the looks of it, the system drew a hard line between upper and lower classes. The welfare state doesnâ€™t prevent homelessness, and Earth is falling behind Mars technologically, both because it's wasting its potential talent and because a generations-long Brain Drain is pulling the best and brightest to Mars. Any Belter settlement, and the Belt in general at the start of the series. Vital services are provided by ruthless corporations that put profit far ahead of people, justice is laughably rare, and the inner planets manipulate economic conditions so that it's impossible for Belters to get ahead. Life expectancy in the Belt is abysmal compared to Earth and Mars. About the only nice places are those micro-managed by megacorporations, like Tycho Station and Ganymede. Later in the series, Mars. After the ring gates open up hundreds of planets for colonization, all of them more livable than Mars, millions of Martians decide their world is a dead end and abandon it. Mars increasingly becomes a ghost planet, with both its government and its people realizing its time has passed.
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The Expanse / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Expanse / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Razorback is first mentioned in Leviathan Wakes, only to play a critical role in Caliban's War and later again in Babylon's Ashes. In Nemesis Games, it's revealed that a large number of military and civilian ships have gone missing. The military ships were stolen by Marco Inaros and become the major threat through Babylon's Ashes. The civilian ships, however, just vanished, and the mystery of what happens to them becomes very relevant later in the series.
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The Expanse / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Expanse / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Laconia is named after the region of Greece that Sparta is in, but the title of Persepolis Rising implicitly compares them to the Persian Empire.
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The Expanse / int_25774afa	type	Generation Ships
The Expanse / int_25774afa	comment	Generation Ships: At the start of the series, the Nauvoo, a generation ship commissioned by the Mormons, is nearing completion at Tycho Station. It's later stolen to use as a ram to throw Eros into the sun, retrofitted into a warship and renamed Behemoth, then ends up as Medina Station, a waystation in the slow zone. Ultimately, the dark gods destroy it in Tiamat's Wrath.
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The Expanse / int_26b0a73	type	Legendary in the Sequel
The Expanse / int_26b0a73	comment	Legendary in the Sequel: Holden becomes increasingly more famous after each installment, and although he doesn't necessarily like the attention it does feed his ego and occasionally the rest of the crew and his employers have to bring him back to reality. In later volumes the leadership of the UN and OPA use Holden's fame to their advantage, hiring the crew to mediate conflicts and lead the combined UN/Mars/OPA task force seeking out the Belter Free Navy at the end of Nemesis Games because of Holden's high profile, general trustworthiness, and heroic public image.
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The Expanse / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Expanse / int_2a44899	comment	The crew of the Rocinante remains unchanged over five books — it's just Holden, Naomi, Amos and Alex. In Nemesis Games Naomi mentions that their Plot Armor might not hold out forever and it would probably be a good idea to get some extra crew aboard just in case someone needs to take over someone's position in a crisis. Independently of Naomi, Alex also notes that even a minor personality conflict amongst any two members of the crew is likely to doom the whole operation, and that a larger crew would help change the interpersonal dynamics and avoid disaster. By the end of the book it seems as if Bobbie Draper and Clarissa Mao might finally be permanent additions to the crew.
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The Expanse / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Expanse / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Artificial gland implants like Clarissa's are widely seen as this in-universe. They allow the user a few moments of heightened strength and reaction time, which would make them a formidable weapon... except that they're also expensive, with aftereffects that cause the user to crash and spend a several minutes vomiting after use. They also degrade with age and start leaking into the bloodstream, causing terminal illness. And they can't be removed without killing the owner.
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The Expanse / int_305bcbb9	type	Space Pirates
The Expanse / int_305bcbb9	comment	Space Pirates: Naturally. Mentioned a few times in the book but don't have much to do in the plot until the Belter radicals start seizing Martian Ships in Nemesis Games.
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The Expanse / int_31655611	type	Impeded Communication
The Expanse / int_31655611	comment	Impeded Communication: This is a major issue throughout the series, due to the simple physics of reality. Light cannot travel faster than c, and therefore neither can radio transmissions. So, light-delay must be accounted for when sending messages across the infinite void of space.
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The Expanse / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Expanse / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Averted with the Epstein Drive, which was recovered from plans kept by its inventor - who decided to test the first prototype with himself on boardnote Once he turns the drive on, it immediately accelerates at what has been worked out to 11.5g, which would have knocked him out almost immediately, and killed him within minutes - even had he remained conscious, he would have been utterly incapable of moving so much as a finger, let alone enough to turn the drive off. He accelerates for 37 hours, and ends up at 5% of c.
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The Expanse / int_39956254	type	Homosexual Reproduction
The Expanse / int_39956254	comment	Homosexual Reproduction: Medical technology in this setting involving gene splicing and surrogacy is reliable and inexpensive enough that it is commonly employed by same-sex couples who want to have biological children together.
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The Expanse / int_3cb3772f	type	Pocket Rocket Launcher
The Expanse / int_3cb3772f	comment	Pocket Rocket Launcher: Most weapons are recoilless (a typo in the first book labels them "reactionless") pistol-sized rocket launchers, usually mounted on the wrist of a suit of Powered Armor; sometimes in a three-barreled minigun configuration.
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The Expanse / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
The Expanse / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: Used by Space Marines in combat, though the Martian Congressional Republic Navy probably has the most cutting-edge variation, able to keep a marine fighting even after sustaining multiple hits from infantry-scale weaponry.
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The Expanse / int_400c4f6f	type	Anti-Interference Lock Up
The Expanse / int_400c4f6f	comment	Anti-Interference Lock Up: In Caliban's War, Chrisjen Avasarala and Bobby Draper get invited to board an incredibly luxurious spaceship Guanshiyin, together with its owner Jules-Pierre Mao, for a months-long humanitarian trip to disaster-struck Ganymede. Both suspect it's a Gilded Cage to keep them out of the political game for finding out that Errinwright was keeping them in the dark on what Admiral Nguyen was doing around Jupiter, and once they board the shipnote They agree because refusing would completely ruin Avasarala's political power. their suspicions get proven right when their communications become monitored, Jules departs prematurely on his private yacht and the staff aboard the ship becomes evasive about giving access to emergency communication systems. Thankfully Bobbie was wise enough to smuggle-in her Powered Armor.
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The Expanse / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Expanse / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: "The Sins of Our Fathers" ends without letting the reader know if Filip will survive his five-year exile or if the settlement itself will survive.
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The Expanse / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
The Expanse / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed by Martians, who find Earth-normal gravity uncomfortable and exhausting unless they go through a lot of muscle-therapy and training (as the Martian Congressional Republic Marine Corp habitually does.)
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The Expanse / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Expanse / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: As the author puts it in the afterword to Leviathan Wakes:
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The Expanse / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Expanse / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: On the immediate level, the first and last book being called Leviathan Wakes and Leviathan Falls, respectively. Leviathan Wakes explores humanity's first contact with alien technology whose consequences it barely understands, while Leviathan Falls brings its greater influence to a close as the ring space created by said technology is shut down by Holden to save mankind from extinction.
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The Expanse / int_585da3f0	type	Ambiguous Robots
The Expanse / int_585da3f0	comment	Ambiguous Robots: The protomolecule civilization left behind mechanical drones that seem to be a little like insects and a little like robots. Any structure built by the protomolecule seems to look both artificial and organic at the same time, with any moving mechanical components bending and pulsing rather than spinning or clicking.
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The Expanse / int_5b075cd7	type	Flooded Future World
The Expanse / int_5b075cd7	comment	Flooded Future World: Climate change has resulted in many coastal buildings getting lost in the water. While those in space are killing each other over water, Earth is practically drowning in it.
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The Expanse / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
The Expanse / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Happens at least twice and is mentioned numerous times as appropriate punishment for especially unpleasant people. Among the Belters, throwing someone out the airlock is a method of execution to make a statement, "This person endangered the environment we all live in." Belters take the maintenance of their artificial environments very seriously and violators are considered especially heinous.
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The Expanse / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
The Expanse / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Belter slang, which is a mix of various languages.
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The Expanse / int_6259dfa3	type	Grey Goo
The Expanse / int_6259dfa3	comment	Grey Goo: Averted. While the Protomolecule can and will render people down for more biomass, it doesn't eat inanimate objects. It tends to work said biomass into the decor..
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The Expanse / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Expanse / int_6439de78	comment	In Leviathan Wakes, all but five of the Canturbury's crew is killed, and when the survivors are rescued, Shed dies. At the end Miller, whom half the book focuses on, dies in a Heroic Sacrifice.
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The Expanse / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
The Expanse / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Roci's crew. Holden: Melancholic. Naomi: Phlegmatic. Amos: Choleric. Alex: Sanguine.
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The Expanse / int_65ce79f1	type	High-Speed Missile Dodge
The Expanse / int_65ce79f1	comment	High-Speed Missile Dodge: Played with. In space, no crewed ship can compete with an anti-ship missile for thrust-to-mass ratio and acceleration tolerances, so actual dodging is practically impossible. However, an Ace Pilot of smaller craft can still use their skills to jink and spin in just the right way to give their counter-measures a few critical fractions of a second more to down an incoming missile before it reaches critical distance from its target.
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The Expanse / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
The Expanse / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: In the short story "Strange Dogs", as Cara runs off into the woods at night, she records a feigned cry for help on her tablet and drops it to fool her parents as she runs in another direction.
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The Expanse / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
The Expanse / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Completely averted. Humanity is just as religious as it has ever been, with all of today's religions and some new ones featuring in the story. The Mormon Church in particular appears to have become quite wealthy and powerful, to the point that it can fund its own interstellar expedition.
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The Expanse / int_66ff4a54	type	We Will Wear Armor in the Future
The Expanse / int_66ff4a54	comment	We Will Wear Armor in the Future: Ballistic suits with rigid plating are common among all the militaries and sufficiently-funded private security. While military-grade weapons often pack armor piercing rounds sufficient to penetrate it, it does still provide reasonable protection against civilian-grade small arms or plastic low-penetration rounds commonly employed when depressurization is a serious hazard, such as on a space ship or space station. If that is not enough, many of the militaries also employ Powered Armor for when they really need an infantry-equipped force-multiplier, but such suits are expensive and take half a year of training to be fully qualified to operate, so their use tends to be limited to elite forces.
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The Expanse / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
The Expanse / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: "Dusters" for Martians, "skinnies" for Belters and "Squats" for Earthers.
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The Expanse / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
The Expanse / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: At the end of Abaddon's Gate, Holden shuts down the ring station's security protocol, which opens over a thousand gates to other worlds, many of which are habitable. The next few books deal with the consequences of this.
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The Expanse / int_79cce27b	type	Law Enforcement, Inc.
The Expanse / int_79cce27b	comment	Law Enforcement, Inc.: Private contractors have taken over most law enforcement functions, with varying results: while Star Helix attempts to be a legitimate police force on Ceres, other outfits like CPM a subsidiary of Protogen consisting mostly of former inmates and gang members recruited as muscle are only just barely better than the criminals themselves. See also MegaCorp below.
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The Expanse / int_7adc9fc6	type	Colonized Solar System
The Expanse / int_7adc9fc6	comment	Colonized Solar System: Early on there were only Lunar settlements and a colony on Mars, with anything further out too difficult to make permanently habitable or even reachable via anything crewed. Once the Epstein Drive was invented though, spreading further out suddenly became a lot more economically viable, and the subsequent "gold rush" to claim land and resources resulted in a mostly colonized solar system by the beginning of the series.
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The Expanse / int_7e472269	type	Obsolete Occupation
The Expanse / int_7e472269	comment	Obsolete Occupation: Most Belters make a living from mining asteroids, and the Martian Congressional Republic likewise keeps people together largely through the prospect of turning Mars into a garden world, so when a Portal Network shows up connecting the Solar System with over 1300 worlds —many of them hosting planets rich in resources and breathable atmosphere— those two groups suddenly find themselves in quite a bind.
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The Expanse / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
The Expanse / int_80b57bec	comment	It continues in Caliban's War with Mao-Kwikowski (of which Protogen was a subsidiary). In this case they try to weaponize the Protomolecule by creating Super Soldiers, reigniting hostilities between Earth and Mars.
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The Expanse / int_8252652c	type	All Planets Are Earth-Like
The Expanse / int_8252652c	comment	All Planets Are Earthlike: Averted. While many of the colony worlds superficially resemble Earth's environments in certain ways it's repeatedly stressed that humans are unable to safely eat the native flora and fauna and that many colonies are reliant on imported food and soil for their survival. Auberon, mentioned as one of the few that can easily support Earth crops without any intensive effort, quickly becomes one of the most populous and wealthy worlds after the time skip.
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The Expanse / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Expanse / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At the end of Babylonâ€™s Ashes, Filip abandons the Free Navy, gets a labourer job on Callisto and changes his surname to â€œNagataâ€�. He never shows up again, only getting a brief mention in Leviathan Falls, which reveals that Naomi still thinks he died with Marco. While his daughter plays a significant role in Tiamat's Wrath and Leviathan Falls, Payne Houston barely gets a mention after the Roci turns him over to the Transport Union.
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The Expanse / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Expanse / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Precursor Killers listed below definitely qualify. Whatever they are, they seem to exist largely outside of dimensional space, and attack either by firing anti-consciousness weaponry or erasing spaceships out of existence entirely. Elvi Okoye is a witness to the latter in Tiamat's Wrath.
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The Expanse / int_8a8882bd	type	United Nations Is a Superpower
The Expanse / int_8a8882bd	comment	United Nations Is A Super Power: The UN literally controls Earth and its armed forces.
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The Expanse / int_8eb0370f	type	Corporate Conspiracy
The Expanse / int_8eb0370f	comment	Corporate Conspiracy: A lot of people die in Leviathan Wakes thanks to Protogen's plan to test out the Protomolecule by unleashing it on the entire population of Eros. Just their distraction plan of starting a war between Earth, Mars and the Belt kills thousands, and then there's the population of Eros. It continues in Caliban's War with Mao-Kwikowski (of which Protogen was a subsidiary). In this case they try to weaponize the Protomolecule by creating Super Soldiers, reigniting hostilities between Earth and Mars.
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The Expanse / int_8f764e60	type	Magnetic Plot Device
The Expanse / int_8f764e60	comment	Magnetic Plot Device: Holden effectively becomes one due to his many experiences with the protomolecule. For example, if any other diplomat had been sent to Ilus they wouldn't have activated the planetary defense systems. Later, Holden gets special treatment by the Laconians after triggering alarms on the Medina because Holden was the only person to have interacted with the Ring Station and Duarte wanted information on it.
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The Expanse / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
The Expanse / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The creators of the protomolecule, who existed billions of years before humanity.
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The Expanse / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
The Expanse / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Extremely common. Mars and the Belt have no natural arable land, and all their food production is necessarily done in capital-intensive artificial environments using crops which are heavily genetically modified to yield maximum nutrient return for the organic and energy resources invested in growing them, with various soybean and fungi derivatives particularly common staples. Even Earth, with its vast biosphere, depends on similar technological means to feed its enormous population. This does not stop demand for variety, and many of these staples are combined and treated to give approximations of other foodstuffs ("steak" made from compressed fungus stalks for example.) For those with a little more wealth to spend on consumables, vat-grown meat is also available. Genuine organic food and animal products such as cheese are luxury goods, especially the further out one goes from Earth.
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The Expanse / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
The Expanse / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Holden and his crew continually get caught up in larger historical events, frequently influencing the outcome.
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The Expanse / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Expanse / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: In Leviathan Falls, it's revealed that the ring station and the slow zone exist in a different universe, with different fundamental laws. It draws power from the conflict between the laws of our universe and the next, and the Precursor Killers are not happy that it's being used again.
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The Expanse / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Expanse / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: In universe example - Belters, and Martians to a certain extent, who grew up under low or micro-gravity are tall and skinny and look slightly deformed to people who grew up on Earth. Belters also have their own dialect that can make it difficult for "Inners" (Earthers and Martians) to understand what they're saying even when theoretically speaking the same language. It is speculated that many Inners don't even view Belters as real humans anymore and that is part of the reason why conflict has developed between them.
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The Expanse / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Expanse / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Many of the novellas shift the focus to characters who don't get many, if any, POV chapters: "The Butcher of Anderson Station" is about Fred Johnson and Anderson Dawes, their backgrounds, and their motivations. "The Churn" is about Amos's backstory. "The Vital Abyss" depicts how CorÃ¡zar went from being an idealistic medical student to a sociopathic doctor.
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The Expanse / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
The Expanse / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: The Protomolecule seems to have the ability to metabolize radiation to fuel itself, not dissimilar from the way plants photosynthesize sunlight but at a far higher level of energy, and severe radiation rapidly accelerates its growth.
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The Expanse / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
The Expanse / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: Every major faction (Earth, Mars and the OPA) has access to nuclear weapons - and are willing to fire them in anger. Since the Colony Drop has become the new real weapon of mass destruction and nukes are mostly used for ship-to-ship combat, they're not as taboo as in real life.
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The Expanse / int_a16102d2	type	Meat Moss
The Expanse / int_a16102d2	comment	Meat Moss: Anywhere the protomolecule has had time to take over ends up looking like something from Dead Space. It's especially gross because it's still got bones and organs floating in it.
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The Expanse / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Expanse / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The crew of the Rocinante remains unchanged over five books — it's just Holden, Naomi, Amos and Alex. In Nemesis Games Naomi mentions that their Plot Armor might not hold out forever and it would probably be a good idea to get some extra crew aboard just in case someone needs to take over someone's position in a crisis. Independently of Naomi, Alex also notes that even a minor personality conflict amongst any two members of the crew is likely to doom the whole operation, and that a larger crew would help change the interpersonal dynamics and avoid disaster. By the end of the book it seems as if Bobbie Draper and Clarissa Mao might finally be permanent additions to the crew. Averted in Persepolis Rising. The book starts with Naomi and Holden deciding to finally retire and leave Bobbie as the new Captain of the Rocinante. By the end of the book, Clarissa is dead, Holden is a prisoner deep behind enemy lines on Laconia, and Bobbie and Amos are now crewing the stolen Laconian frigate Gathering Storm, leaving Naomi and Alex as the only crew left aboard the Rocinante. Played with in Tiamatâ€™s Wrath. While Naomi, Holden, Alex and Amos all end up back on the Roci by the end of the book, Bobbie is dead and Amos has been resurrected as some kind of part-alien construct.
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The Expanse / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Expanse / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The fate of anyone absorbed into the protomolecule, such as everyone on Eros station. As of Cibola Burn, it turns out they're still vaguely conscious in the protomolecule. The Miller apparition was largely exempt, as it was made by the protomolecule to investigate the gate shutdown.
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The Expanse / int_aa596c58	type	The War of Earthly Aggression
The Expanse / int_aa596c58	comment	The War of Earthly Aggression: This is one of the things that the Belters are worried about, although they're more immediately worried about a War Of Martian Aggression. Mars itself has also prepared for war with Earth, both in terms of military buildup and running elaborate battle simulations. In Nemesis Games, the Belters launch a devastating first strike against Earth, with the assistance of a Martian splinter group. Subverted, at least with respect to Mars, in that Mars has the upper hand—Earth may have more ships, but Mars has better ships, and its crews are better-trained than Earth's. Holden mentions that in every simulation the UN ran of an Earth-Mars war, Mars wins rather lopsidedly, unless Earth launches a devastating first strike.
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The Expanse / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
The Expanse / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Several of them exist, with as much or more power than the planetary governments. Some, like Protogen or Mao-Kwikowski, verge on N.G.O. Superpower until they run afoul of the real powers of Earth and Mars, and get dismantled. Others, like RCE, are somewhat more ethical although in RCE's case one sociopathic security chief makes life difficult for everyone—the company included—in Cibola Burn. The extent to which the corporations are in charge is so great that the setting's Miranda Rights includes a provision for a union representative as well as (or in place of) a lawyer for a suspect upon arrest.
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The Expanse / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Expanse / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Bull, a New Mexican, goes to the trouble and expense of having frozen Hatch green chiles shipped all the way out to the Belt. The authors, being from Albuquerque, know that this is Truth in Television — wherever New Mexicans go, they will take Hatch chile with them.
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The Expanse / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Expanse / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: For the Earth elites, being threatened with a life on Basic Assistance is considered this. Of course, to Belters, a life of guaranteed food and shelter sounds like paradise (ignoring the unsafe living conditions, the high crime rates, the lack of social mobility, and other mitigating factors).
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The Expanse / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
The Expanse / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Anything the protomolecule creates, naturally, which includes the Ring Station and the ruins on Ilus/New Terra.
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The Expanse / int_b6d4b44e	type	Lightworlder
The Expanse / int_b6d4b44e	comment	Lightworlder: Downplayed by Martians, who find Earth-normal gravity uncomfortable and exhausting unless they go through a lot of muscle-therapy and training (as the Martian Congressional Republic Marine Corp habitually does.) Played much straighter by the Belters, who often grow up with only a minor rotational gravity or thrust gravity and spend a significant portion of their life in zero-g. This results in them having low-density bones, with tall, thin frames, and it's legally considered torture to force them into a high-gravity environment without sufficient physical support. Some of them are capable of overcoming this limitation with lots of training and hormone treatments, but not all of them can afford that nor can some of their bodies support it.
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The Expanse / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Expanse / int_b983a56b	comment	Played with in Tiamatâ€™s Wrath. While Naomi, Holden, Alex and Amos all end up back on the Roci by the end of the book, Bobbie is dead and Amos has been resurrected as some kind of part-alien construct.
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The Expanse / int_c26fae5e	type	Casual Interplanetary Travel
The Expanse / int_c26fae5e	comment	Casual Interplanetary Travel: Acquiring a small ship capable of interplanetary travel seems to be about as difficult as acquiring a house is now. With all the attendant risks of defaulting on your loans and having it seized by the bank. It still requires weeks to months to get anywhere though.
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The Expanse / int_c58a2047	type	Brain Drain
The Expanse / int_c58a2047	comment	Earth. The UN adopted a welfare state while also failing to provide sufficient educational programs for people who want to take on a trade. From the looks of it, the system drew a hard line between upper and lower classes. The welfare state doesnâ€™t prevent homelessness, and Earth is falling behind Mars technologically, both because it's wasting its potential talent and because a generations-long Brain Drain is pulling the best and brightest to Mars.
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The Expanse / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
The Expanse / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: Both present and averted. It is noted that the lack of atmosphere to deal with, combined with efficient designs, has resulted in mostly ugly, blocky looking ships. Some of them are very large and impressive, but still look like a simple warty skyscraper laid on its side. Some of the ships however, as exemplified by the Rocinante, are very cool on the inside. The ultra-rich do have more idiosyncratic designs for their personal space yachts, as do some OPA captains with their flagships. The United Nations navy also includes stealth ships, which are described as being extremely sleek. This is both to minimize their radar profile and to minimize the total surface area that needs to be equipped with sensor absorption paneling. The result is something that is hard to find and hard to get a weapon lock on.
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The Expanse / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Expanse / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: The protomolecule, its creators, and the ones who destroyed them present a constant series of these. Just when everyone thinks they're starting to get a handle on how things work, a curve-ball gets thrown their way through some unexpected application or interaction with the technology that flips everything on its head. The Laconians end up causing these in rapid succession by repeatedly provoking the entities within the gate system, first causing them to collapse a neutron star into a black hole and unleashing the mother of all Wave Motion Guns, and later causing them to attack the slow zone directly and annihilating everything within.
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The Expanse / int_cfcabcf	type	Nuclear Torch Rocket
The Expanse / int_cfcabcf	comment	Nuclear Torch Rocket: the Epstein Drive, a kind of fusion rocket that can generate multiple G's of thrust. During which everyone sits on couches and takes drugs in order to survive the crushing force.
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The Expanse / int_d0b95b85	type	Used Future
The Expanse / int_d0b95b85	comment	Used Future: Many of the civilian spacecraft are described in such a way that you just know some crucial life-support system is being held together by duct tape.
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The Expanse / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
The Expanse / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: The authors describe the series as a renewal of old school Space Opera with both the science and the tropes updated for the 21st century.
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The Expanse / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Expanse / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Thoroughly averted. The inherent bigness of outer space is constantly referenced in multi-week-long travel times and the lag of message transmissions which take between tens of minutes to several hours to get from place to place even when travelling at the speed of light. Specifically in Cibola Burn, even with the contracted scale of orbiting a planet, the Roci has to zoom in its telescope to to 50X magnification just to have a thumbnail-sized view of another orbiting ship. The authors did not appear to be aware of how much water is in Ceres - it's estimated to be at least 25% water and have more water than Earth. Yet the inhabitants of Ceres need to import water (where is their water going? it should be a closed system and the only way water would be lost is it it was vented to space or broken down into hyrdroogen and oxygen)
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The Expanse / int_d5661a8c	type	The Dreaded Dreadnought
The Expanse / int_d5661a8c	comment	The Dreaded Dreadnought: Magnetar-class battleships, deployed by Laconia. They're huge, bristling with cutting-edge weapons, capable of self-repair, strong enough to tank nuclear weaponry, and pack a Wave-Motion Gun that can obliterate a city-sized ship at the atomic level in a second.
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The Expanse / int_db68b734	type	Precursor Killers
The Expanse / int_db68b734	comment	Precursor Killers: The thing that forced the original precursor aliens to lock down Ring Station. As of Nemesis Games they may be back because something is eating ships that go through the Ring. As of Tiamat's Wrath, they are definitely back. After the Laconians sent a bomb at them, they caused a neutron star to collapse into a black hole, wiped out every human ship and installation inside the Slow Zone and (if Elvi is correct) are trying to figure out how to switch off all human consciousness.
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The Expanse / int_e0ecb7b3	type	Space Station
The Expanse / int_e0ecb7b3	comment	Space Station: Tycho Station. By Nemesis Games Medina Station formerly the Nauvoo is positioned at the Ring Station, a strategic meeting place that all ships attempting to use the Ring network must use, not unlike a certain other space station.
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The Expanse / int_e6515b32	type	Security Blindspot
The Expanse / int_e6515b32	comment	Security Blindspot: In Tiamat's Wrath, La RÃ©sistance discovers the Laconian dreadnought occupying the Solar System has a blind spot in its sensor array and promptly plans an attack on that dreadnought using an antimatter core that was meant to power it.
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The Expanse / int_e8a6e896	type	The Battlestar
The Expanse / int_e8a6e896	comment	The Battlestar: Martian Donnager-class battleships are Type 1. Half-kilometer long vessels with a crew of over two thousand, including companies of marines. They are heavily armored, equipped with torpedo tubes with generous magazines of both plasma and nuclear warheads, point defense networks with multiple overlapping fields of coverage, and a pair of high-yield Gauss emplacements for slugging it out with other capital ships in a close-range battle. Add to that its interior docking berths are large enough to hold a few Corvette-class frigates which can be deployed to screen its flanks, detach for scouting, or run down targets which might otherwise try to outrun the battleship.
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