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* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: Avasarala hears of a development involving the [[EldritchAbomination protomolecule]] and shouts, "Son of a whore!", apparently forgetting there's a five-year-old present. The kid turns to her dad and asks, "Daddy, what's a whore?" He tells her it's [[ExactWords a type of frost]].
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* SmokescreenCrime: The purpose of the Free Navy [[spoiler:dropping asteroids on Earth]] is to draw everyone's attention away from them also stealing the only known [[LostTechnology protomolecule sample]] and seizing control of the [[PortalNetwork Medina station]] [[spoiler:as part of the deal with a fleet of renegade Martians who called dibs on an alien planet possessing some ''interesting'' {{precursor|s}} technology]].
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* MeaningfulName: Invoked by Drummer, who plans to intercept the ''Heart of the Tempest'' and dubs the intercept point "Point Leuctra". Leuctra was an ancient Greek village where the Spartans lost a decisive battle, which destroyed their hold over the other Greek city-states. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].
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** "Laconia" is the name of a region in classical Greece that was centered on Sparta and part of the Spartan domain of influence. It's also the name of the system in which a very militant culture premised on discipline and martial superiority arise to enforce its will over its neighbors across human space.
** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Drummer, who plans to intercept the ''Heart of the Tempest'' and dubs the intercept point "Point Leuctra". Leuctra was an ancient Greek village where the Spartans lost a decisive battle, which destroyed their hold over the other Greek city-states. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].
** "Laconia" is the name of a region in classical Greece that was centered on Sparta and part of the Spartan domain of influence. It's also the name of the system in which a very militant culture premised on discipline and martial superiority arise to enforce its will over its neighbors across human space.
** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Drummer, who plans to intercept the ''Heart of the Tempest'' and dubs the intercept point "Point Leuctra". Leuctra was an ancient Greek village where the Spartans lost a decisive battle, which destroyed their hold over the other Greek city-states. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: When Miller is trying to find the ''Rocinante'' through data analysis, one of the ships he comes across is the freight hauler ''Badass Motherfucker'' owned by the Luna company "MYOFB Corporation" (the acronym likely means, judging by the name of the ship, "Mind Your Own Fucking Business").
** In the same breath, however, Miller notes that it's AwesomeButImpractical since a ship with a name like that simply begging for a bored port official to bust their chops for kicks.
** In the same breath, however, Miller notes that it's AwesomeButImpractical since a ship with a name like that simply begging for a bored port official to bust their chops for kicks.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: When Miller is trying to find the ''Rocinante'' through data analysis, one of the ships he comes across is the freight hauler ''Badass Motherfucker'' owned by the Luna company "MYOFB Corporation" (the acronym likely means, judging by the name of the ship, "Mind Your Own Fucking Business").
**Business"). In the same breath, however, Miller notes that it's AwesomeButImpractical since a ship with a name like that simply begging for a bored port official to bust their chops for kicks.
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* NuclearNasty: 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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* NuclearNasty: NuclearMutant: 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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** In a large open space (such as Behemoth's drum area), that acceleration still propels you forward at 60 m/s. Which is pretty much fatal unless you're lucky enough to be near the front bulkhead or can grab and hold to something.
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* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: 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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* ThemeNaming: Many of the Laconian warships, particularly their ''Storm''-class destroyers, are named after meteorological phenomena (''Gathering Storm'', ''Monsoon'', ''Mammatus'', ''Rising Shamal'', etc.).
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* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: 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 the home planet.
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* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: 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 home planet.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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* CrapsackWorld: 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 doesn’t prevent homelessness, and Earth is falling behind Mars technologically, because its wasting its potential talent.
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** 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 doesn’t prevent homelessness, and Earth is falling behind Mars technologically, both becauseits it's wasting its potential talent. talent and because a generations-long BrainDrain 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 [[spoiler: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.
** 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 doesn’t prevent homelessness, and Earth is falling behind Mars technologically, both because
** 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 [[spoiler: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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* DeadlyUpgrade: Holden deliberately infects himself with the protomolecule so that he can talk to Miller and convince him to give them a way into the Ring Station.
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* PerilousPowerSource: The [[WaveMotionGun magnetic beams]] on Laconia's ''Magnatar''-class battleships require an immense amount of energy to fire (understandably as their output is on-par with a small pulsar neutron star.) This energy is provided by a matter/anti-matter reaction, with the anti-matter produced in their Protomolocule-driven shipyards. [[spoiler:It would be a shame for them if the underground got their hands on some of it...]]
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* PerilousPowerSource: The [[WaveMotionGun magnetic beams]] on Laconia's ''Magnatar''-class ''Magnetar''-class battleships require an immense amount of energy to fire (understandably as their output is on-par with a small pulsar neutron star.) This energy is provided by a matter/anti-matter reaction, with the anti-matter produced in their Protomolocule-driven shipyards. [[spoiler:It would be a shame for them if the underground got their hands on some of it...]]
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* HumansAreCthulhu: Discussed. [[spoiler:The San Esteban system is completely killed off by one of the dark gods' experiments that interfered with the functions of neurons. Elvi and Fayez theorize that the only reason they didn't do this to every human world is that humans are as incomprehensible to them as they are to humans]].
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* HumansAreCthulhu: Discussed. [[spoiler:The San Esteban system is completely killed off by one of the dark gods' experiments that interfered with the functions of neurons. Elvi and Fayez theorize that the only reason they didn't do this to every human world is that humans are as incomprehensible to them as they are to humans]].humans. Unlike the builders who came before them, killing the San Esteban system didn't stop humans from continuing to use the gate, which from the perspective of the dark gods means what they tried didn't change anything.]]
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* BookEnds: On the immediate level, the first and last book being called ''Leviathan Rises'' and ''Leviathan Falls'', respectively. [[spoiler:''Leviathan Rises'' explores humanity's first contact with alien technology whose consequences it barely understands, while ''Leviathan Rises'' 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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* BookEnds: On the immediate level, the first and last book being called ''Leviathan Rises'' and ''Leviathan Falls'', respectively. [[spoiler:''Leviathan Rises'' explores humanity's first contact with alien technology whose consequences it barely understands, while ''Leviathan Rises'' 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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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Holden and his crew continually get caught up in larger historical events, frequently influencing the outcome.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: 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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* AdultFear: The kidnapping of Prax's daughter Mei.
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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The Freehold Colony. Three-hundred gun nuts with delusions of personal sovereignty. [[TakeThat They're given exactly the characterisation one would expect]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, they actually become a safe haven for the heroes once an actual totalitarian government with an overwhelming monopoly on force takes over.]]
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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The Freehold Colony. Three-hundred gun nuts with delusions of personal sovereignty. [[TakeThat They're given firearms enthusiasts who aren't big on unelected, supergovernmental bodies like the Transport Union, and don't feel obligated to follow their rules. They don't get a very charitable treatment [[spoiler:until the end, when it turns out they're exactly the characterisation one would expect]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, they actually become a safe haven for sort of people willing to hide the heroes once an actual totalitarian government with an overwhelming monopoly on force takes over.]]''Rocinante'' from the Laconians]].
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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, ''[[http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/drive/ 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.
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The novellas ''The Butcher of Anderson Station'', ''Gods of Risk'', ''The Vital Abyss'', ''The Churn'', ''Strange Dogs'', ''Auberon'', and ''The Sins of Our Fathers" Fathers'' also take place in the same universe and serve to tie the novels together. A short story, ''[[http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/drive/ 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.
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The novellas ''The Butcher of Anderson Station'', ''Gods of Risk'', ''The Vital Abyss'', ''The Churn'', ''Strange Dogs'', and ''Auberon'' also take place in the same universe and serve to tie the novels together. A short story, ''[[http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/drive/ Drive]]'', is a prequel concerning Solomon Epstein and the discovery of the Epstein Drive. A compilation of the short stories called ''Memory's Legion'', which includes the new novella "The Sins of Our Fathers" is set for a 2022 release.
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The novellas ''The Butcher of Anderson Station'', ''Gods of Risk'', ''The Vital Abyss'', ''The Churn'', ''Strange Dogs'', ''Auberon'', and ''Auberon'' ''The Sins of Our Fathers" also take place in the same universe and serve to tie the novels together. A short story, ''[[http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/drive/ Drive]]'', is a prequel concerning Solomon Epstein and the discovery of the Epstein Drive. A compilation of the short stories called ''Memory's Legion'', which includes the new novella "The Sins of Our Fathers" is set for a 2022 release.
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%% * BatmanGambit: Clarissa's plan for revenge. [[spoiler:That would have worked if not for a malfunctioning ship and Holden's decision to enter the ring.]]
%% * BecomingTheMask: Clarissa/Melba.
%% * BioAugmentation: Clarissa's glands.
%% * BatmanGambit: Clarissa's plan for revenge. [[spoiler:That would have worked if not for a malfunctioning ship and Holden's decision to enter the ring.]]
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%% * InvisibleAliens: The civilization responsible for the protomolecule disappeared billions of years ago.
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* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Duarte decides to turn all of humanity into a hive mind controlled by him so he can become capable of operating the weapons the ring builders created to keep their enemies out of the universe. It's ambiguous whether he came up with the idea himself and was trying to make a truly human hivemind, or if the Protomolecule was manipulating him into rebuilding the Ringbuilder hivemind using humans as its host.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Duarte is dead, and his AssimilationPlot is foiled, but Holden is forced to destroy the ring network to stop the dark gods, and dies in the process. Everyone in the slow zone is able to evacuate, but any colonies that aren't self sufficient ''will'' die of starvation. Alex leaves to be with his son's family in the Nieuwestad system, but the aging ''Rocinante'' starts having reactor trouble as he transits, and it's unclear if he reaches his destination. Naomi and Amos return to Earth and watch the rings disintegrate, with Naomi thinking that one day, humanity will return to the stars]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Duarte is dead, and his AssimilationPlot is foiled, but Holden is forced to destroy the ring network to stop the dark gods, and dies in the process. Everyone in the slow zone is able to evacuate, but any colonies that aren't self sufficient ''will'' die of starvation. Alex leaves to be with his son's family in the Nieuwestad system, but the aging ''Rocinante'' starts having reactor trouble as he transits, and it's unclear if he reaches his destination. Naomi Naomi, Amos, Elvi, and Amos Teresa return to Earth aboard the ''Falcon'' and watch the rings disintegrate, with Naomi thinking that one day, humanity will return to the stars]].
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The OPA dreadnought ''Behemoth'' - formerly the generation ship ''Nauvoo''. The biggest spaceship ever built, turned into a giant battleship bristling with weapons ("the biggest, baddest weapons platform in the solar system"). Unfortunately, since she wasn't designed from the start to be a battleship, just firing one of its [[RailGun rail guns]] would probably tear the ship apart.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The OPA dreadnought ''Behemoth'' - formerly the generation ship ''Nauvoo''. The biggest spaceship ever built, turned into a giant battleship bristling with weapons ("the biggest, baddest weapons platform in the solar system"). Unfortunately, since she wasn't designed from the start to be a battleship, just firing one frame of its [[RailGun rail guns]] would probably tear the ship apart.is too fragile to support the rail guns, and firing ''one torpedo'' causes a shipwide blackout.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The Ilus "Dead Zone," described by Elvi as "the eye of an angry god." Whatever it is, it cannot be detected by (and is instantly fatal to) anything related to the protomolecule, but to naked human eyes it appears as a small area of space with infinite depth and fractals of darkness. The one and only person who witnesses it is deeply unsettled. And that's not even mentioning her reaction to ''passing through it!''
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The Ilus "Dead Zone," Zone", described by Elvi as "the eye of an angry god." Whatever To humans, it is, appears as a small dark area in space with seemingly infinite depth, surrounded by a halo of 'light' that illuminates nothing. Protomolecule constructs, such as [[spoiler:Miller's robot body]], can't even perceive it, and can only deduce its existence by the effect it cannot be detected by (and has on them. [[spoiler:It is instantly immediately fatal to) anything related to the protomolecule, but to naked human eyes it appears as a small area of space with infinite depth and fractals of darkness. The one and humans only person who witnesses it is deeply unsettled. And that's not even mentioning her reaction suffer altered consciousness when they touch it. Miller exploits this to ''passing through it!''shut down Ilus' defense systems and free the people trapped by the protomolecule]].
