Holden ultimately agrees to take the job, partly because they'll be setting the template for everything that follows, and partly because the money is really good. The OPA has fundamental disagreements with the UN being in charge of handing out contracts for thousands of worlds, so Fred and Avasarala are back-channeling things to keep it from getting out of control. After they dock, Fred Johnson, leader of the OPA, tells Holden that he's received a video from Chrisjen Avasarala she wants him to mediate the situation on New Terra, since he's mostly impartial to the UN and the OPA. The Rocinante has been taking jobs escorting ships through the Sol Ring to Medina Station, formerly the Nauvoo and the Behemoth. Dimitri Havelock, Miller's old partner, works on the security force aboard the Edward Israel. Fayez Sarkis, geohydraulics, survives and pairs up with Elvi. Basia builds some makeshift IEDs and destroys the landing pad built so that the massive Royal Charter Energy (RCE) colony ship, the Edward Israel, would not be able to land and begin their mining operation however, a shuttle from the ship arrives much sooner than expected, and is downed in the explosion.Įlvi Okoye, an exozoologist, is injured in the shuttle crash, but she survives many of her crewmates, including the Governor, are killed. They created a colony on First Landing where the lithium reserves were closest to the planet's surface. Basia Merton, who previously lived on Ganymede until his son, Katoa, was used in the protomolecule experiment, was one of the first colonists on Ilus, christened “New Terra” by the United Nations. Both sides will stop at nothing to defend what's theirs, but soon a terrible disease strikes and only Holden – with help from the ghostly Detective Miller – can find the cure.Ĭolony ships have been going through the wormhole gates and colonizing the worlds within, expanding humanity's frontiers beyond the Sol system at a furious pace. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule.īut Holden and his crew must also contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company which owns the official claim to the planet. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Now, Captain Holden, was there something you wanted to add?" I'm the guy here with the most guns, and I say this planet is mine. And that something killed it.Īlternate blurb "You can call me a corporation. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.Īnd the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.
Settlers are looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. What you should do is tell everyone to leave. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy.
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