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. Half-kilometer long vessels with a crew of over two thousand, including companies of marines. The Battlestar: Martian Donnager-class battleships are Type 1.And they can't be removed without killing the owner. They also degrade with age and start leaking into the bloodstream, causing terminal illness. except that they're also expensive, with aftereffects that cause the user to crash and spend a several minutes vomiting after use. They allow the user a few moments of heightened strength and reaction time, which would make them a formidable weapon. Awesome, but Impractical: Artificial gland implants like Clarissa's are widely seen as this in-universe.By the Distant Finale, everyone is dead except Amos. In Leviathan Falls, Tanaka and Duarte suffer a Mutual Kill, and Holden sacrifices himself to shut the ring station down permanently.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 Persepolis Rising, Santiago Singh and Clarissa Mao both end up dead.In Babylon's Ashes, there's Fred Johnson, the only character besides the Roci crew to appear in every single book to date.In Abaddon's Gate, there's Bull and Sam.At the end Miller, whom half the book focuses on, dies in a Heroic Sacrifice. In Leviathan Wakes, all but five of the Canturbury's crew is killed, and when the survivors are rescued, Shed dies.Thankfully Bobbie was wise enough to smuggle-in her Powered Armor. 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. 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 ship note They agree because refusing would completely ruin Avasarala's political power. 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.The Miller apparition was largely exempt, as it was made by the protomolecule to investigate the gate shutdown. As of Cibola Burn, it turns out they're still vaguely conscious in the protomolecule. And I Must Scream: The fate of anyone absorbed into the protomolecule, such as everyone on Eros station.

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.

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. Ambiguous Robots: The protomolecule civilization left behind mechanical drones that seem to be a little like insects and a little like robots.Alien Geometries: Anything the protomolecule creates, naturally, which includes the Ring Station and the ruins on Ilus/New Terra.'The Vital Abyss' depicts how CorГЎzar went from being an idealistic medical student to a sociopathic doctor.'The Butcher of Anderson Station' is about Fred Johnson and Anderson Dawes, their backgrounds, and their motivations.A Day in the Limelight: Many of the novellas shift the focus to characters who don't get many, if any, POV chapters:.

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