Prologue BOBBIE!!!!
SHE'S marveling at the news of the portals to ten thousand solar systems. Pictures are coming in of some of the solar systems. A better tells her he's veteran, her response: find another story. I could imagine her clapping along with each word. Bobbie is pissed off at this guy's attempt at stolen valer because she works with vets getting them jobs and what not. she's going to her brother's house for dinner. The streets are.emptier than usual. People are leaving mars for the portals to unknown solar systems. When she gets to her brother's he's having a bit of an argument with his son (bobbies nephew) about whether it's better to stick around and terrafor m Mars or go to some other system. There's already a colony they're calling new Terra that people are all excited about. Breaking news: tragedy on New Terra.
Ch 1 Basia pg 7
This is Prax's friend from Ganymede who bailed when Prax was still fighting tooth and nail to find Mei. He's gotten a little radicalized since we last saw him. He's making bombs and he's gonna blow up the big corporations landing pad here on Ilus (which he refuses to call.New Terra) so they can't take over. Problem, said ships are coming NOW. Nontime.to finish setting up properly. They blow the bomb and one of the shuttles gets impacted by the blast. Now they won't just come, they're gonna come guns blazing.
Chapter Two: Elvi pg 17
Elvi is a lady. A biologist. She's on a shuttle down to new Terra. She's with the big corporations come to take over. The new governor is on the shuttle with her. A Mr Trying. He seems like a good guy. There is a loud noise and the shuttle shakes a bit. The captain tells them there is a problem with the landing pad and they are going to find another place to.land. Elvi isn't buying it. Something is really wrong. The guy in the seat next to her is named Eric. They crash. Eric dies. So does governor Trying.
Chapter Three: Havelock pg 28
Havelock's back. Miller's partner from book 1 is back. Awesome. He's served my on the ship sent by the big corporations to take over New Terra.
He must be high in the ranks cause he's having private conversation with the captain about their plans to react to the bombing. Their request for latitude in how they treat the initial settlers (they call them squaters) has been denied. They have to be friendly.
Interlude: The Investigator pg 37
This is cool, it's talking about the inner workings of the protomolecule structures. How it's not really thinking. Not really capable.of thought. It's just capable of its ET phone home programming. But no one is there to answer. So it keeps generating power and phone home. There are fragments of the people it absorbed in that station I can't remember the name of. Flipping through memories. Closer to thinking, but not really so the station doesn't use them. But it has Miller, he was the last one to be absorbed and is the most intact. The protomolecule used him to reach out and communicate. He found Holden and that served some sort of purpose. But that doesn't change any of the core of what it is and does. Get power, phone home repeat.
Ch 4 Holden pg 40
Miller is there he's talking to Holden as he makes his way to Fred's office on the Medina, which used to be called the Behemoth and before that was called the navu. They are really trying to make a run at it being a sustainable place to.live. Planting plants and what not.
Fred shows him a video of Avasarala saying she wants Holden to go to New Terra and be a mediator between the belters that settled the planet and the big corporation that has the pass from the U.N. To.legally settle.The planet. Holden doesn't love the idea.
Miller says he should do it. That makes Holden very nervous because he doesn't trust the protomolecule. Miller says he just wants to find the aliens that created the protomolecule. Doesn't seem that threatening, but that's also what it was doing when it killed thousands of people in the last book when they committed the crime of curiosity and went into the ring.
Avasarala is offering them double their normal rate so the crew is all for it. They talk about other plusses and minuses. But when it comes down to it, the money is good.
Ch 5 basia pg 55
Basis is talking to some of the folks that were in on the bombing about what to do next. They talk about James Holden coming to moderate between the.locals and the corporation. The basic idea is money is what matters most. So they're gonna redouble their efforts to mine the lithium so they can send a full ship back ASAP. Basia's daughter wants to go back to Earth 🌎 solar system to go to college. He is adamantly against it. They all stay here on New Terra, which he refuses to call New Terra.
Ch 6 elvi pg 61
Elvi is watching a "lizard" hunt a "bird" in the jungle. These words are approximations because we are on an alien world and the animals are very different from earth animals. To show how different it is, the lizard kind of turns itself inside out to eat the bird and then turns itself right side in again to digest it. I think some squids do that.
They are having a meeting between the locals and the corporation people. Talking about doing what needs to be done for science. Don't contaminate yourself too much with the stuff you ingest from the planet. Don't contaminate the environment of the planet too much with your shit. Basia loses his cool at this cause he doesn't like being told what to do. They leave and as they do Basia's daughter wants to talk to Elvi. She asks what it's like to go to college.
Ch 7 Holden pg 71
They go through the ring and over to another solar syste m with no fanfare. Almost to Ilus. New Terra. Bering Survey Four. RCE charter 24771912-F23. Only 73 days at high burn to get there from the portal.
Holden is getting messages from everyone on Ilus and they are all equally annoying. They still have seventy days to go and he has no intention of making any decisions until he gets there and has a good look around. Naomi isn't going down to the planet with Holden. It's a little sad.
Holden has a talk with Miller. He wants to know how he's able to communicate with him. Miller explains that there's some protomolecule on the ship from the monster that was on the ship. So that's why Miller can always talk to Holden on the Ricante. He also wants to know what Miller wants on Ilus. He repeats that he's trying to figure out who killed the sender's of the protomolecule.
Chapter Eight: Elvi pg 80
There's a sandstorm. They regularly have sandstorm in the afternoon that last til dusk. Elvi is talking to Basia's daughter. Mostly about how fake this planet is. From the purity of the.lithium to the flatness of the plain, this planet was made this way. Like the terrafor Ming on Mars but WAY more advanced. Basia's daughter abruptly asks for a recommendation letter for.university. Elvi is a little unsure, she doesn't have any idea of her academic background. The other scientist poo poos this saying they faked their recommendation.letters and if Elvi doesn't write the letter he will.
Elvi sees that there are people in the alien 👽 ruins and it's pissing her off. So she's gonna go find these people and give them the riot act. But she doesn't find.people, what she finds is a stockpile of explosives.
Chapter Nine: Basia pg 88
Basia is full of guilt over the shuttle explosion. He's working hard in the mine because it keeps his mind off of it.
The locals saw Elvi go into the ruins. Coop says they gotta get down there and get rid of the evidence. Instead, an RCE Security team shows up and they kill them all and bury the m out back.
Chapter Ten: Havelock pg 97
Things down on the planet are bad. havlock is talking to one of the science people donw there. They're super scared. They think the locals are minutes away from blowing up their building. They're going down to do a rescue. No holds bared. The people down there aren't just scared, they're hungry. so the rescue team is also gonna bring some sandwhiches
ch 11 holden
The rocinante is targeting the beth isrela ( the earth comapny RCE ship) with their weapons holden makes some lame excuse holden tells Alex to cut that out They land and there's nobody there to great them They make their way into town and the cononists and the RCE folks are facing off A cononist makes some threats at an RCE guy and the RCE guy shoots him in the head Holden is not having it with the RCE guy. That guy's going to jail. Holden is gonna make sure of it. The RCE guy doesn't care. He's already lost twenty people. He needs to make sure that those people stay alive long enough to end up in jail. Amos and the RCE guy have a bit of a stare down. It's very good. Interlude, the investigator the protomolecule (if that's what we're still calling it) is still reaching out unhaltingly. it doesn't think, it just does
Ch 12 Basia
They might have already gone too far. Like the RCE guy said, 20 already dead. There might not be coming back from that. But Holden's here. Holden saved all the children on Ganamyde. Maybe he can save them. Royal Charter Energy has landed, not Holden. They've been given shoot first authorization. Carol is all pissed. This is our world. You can't just land and tell us it's ok for you to shoot us. The guy that got shot in the head was Coop. Basia doesn't feel bad about it. Basia's wife tells him he's totally screwed. They're gonna take him away and lock him up and she'll never forgive him for it. The colony people are meeting. They're all pissed about Coop. They're getting all riled up. Basia's sick of it. He stands up and tells everyone else to shutup. Everyone needs to sit down and shutup and let Holden do his job. Right now, they look like the victims cause HOlden saw an RCE guy shoot a colonist in cold blood. The plan is Basia's gonna talk to Holden about his dead son from Ganamyde. Basia sees someone running around his house. He's a little scared. But it's his daughter. She's going up on the next shuttle. She's gonna go to Luna join the premed program. Basia says she's not.
ch 13 elvi
Elvi is talking to one of the RCE Security guys. Holden wants to talk to Elvi and the RCE guy makes it clear that her job is to make sure Holden knows the colonists are terrorists. There aren't two sides to this thing. There's just RCE creating a society.The locals are just terrorists that need to be taken away.
Elvi is talking to Holden. Lots of scientific talk about how their earth experience mithe not work with the biosphere here. She's pissed off that the locals are contaminate the new planet already. And it's likely the planet is also contaminating them. But because we're so busy killing each other we aren't doing the proper science to know how much.
Ch 14 Holden
Holden is holding talks between the colonists and the RCE people. Lots of blaiming for who's responsible for the violence. Coo p was behind the murdered RCE employees. He was the right guy to kill. But there's no proof of that. So it's hard to know what's what.
Carol says if they can't ship the lithium back to Earth and get paid they're done. So as long as RCE stalls they win. Holden says they're allowed to keep mining. But the ship doesn't go anywhere until mining rights have been agreed on by the UN.
Amos looks like a big baby.
Holden goes for a walk. Miller shows up. All doom and gloom about Holden's chances of brokering peace. This thing is gonna end bloody. This place was already a crime scene before any people got here. The protomolecule people were here and just disappeared. Whatever killed them might come back and kill everyone. Miller's still looking for the.protomolecule aliens just like he.looked for.Julie.
Basia is waiting for Holden at the edge of town. Tells him about his kid. He is friend with Prax. Or used to be. Probably haven't talked since. Basia says he came here to keep his family safe.Holden tells him it's an alien world.They don't understand. There's probably nowhere lepse.less safe.
Ch 15 Havelock
he's looking at the planet and there's sooooo much lan d. But They're fighting over this one spot in the high desert cause that's where the lithium mine is.
why not set up a different colony somewhere warm and nice. By the beach.
The RCE guy in charge Mercer isn't interested. He's a jackbooted thug and now he's super psyched that he has the chance to violently take over and I guess become a fascist dictator. He tells Havelock to organize some zero g strike teams. He wants to take over the rocinante and the colony ship with the lithium.
Havelock is talking to the capitain. The captain is thinking long term. If this thing gets further out of control, Fred Johnson might send through ships with missles and the captain doesn't wanna be thought of as a target.
Ch 16 Elvi
something large is moving around and creating energy. HOlden wants her to come along to check it out. Thinking it might be protomolecule related. They find a big protomolecule bug. Looks like it's terraforming. Wei, one of the RCE people, shoots at it with her gun. She Looks to have been successful.
Ch 17 Basia
The colonists are talking about further violence. Basia is thinking he's in the wrong team. They are just gonna keep killing RCE people until it becomes too costly and RCE gives up. Basia mentions that if RCE strikes back it'll be their children that are dead and pictures of their dead children that might win the PR war. Basia's a bit worried that he might be collateral damage. Kate would be happy to kill him.
Lucia, Basia's wife tells him their daughter is leaving to go to bed school. She says he's got to let her go. He runs to the shuttle. He has to say good bye. Let her know he loves her and supports her. Mostly cause she will be much safer on Luna than here.
Basia goes to find Holden. He warns him about the colonists terrorists that are planning to kill more RCE people and Holden. They are angry about the explosives. Holden says we're leaving the planet. Holden tells Basia that the alien 👽 shit is waking up and Holden wants to get out before it kills him.
Ch 18 Holden
He tells RCE and the colonists that it's time to go. He's got the only war ship so what he says goes. Holden isn't here to take sides.
the RCE guy Mertree basically tells him to fuck off. Holden is thinking he's gonna have to kill Mertree while Carol tries to skootch out of the room. Mertree has the whole town bugged. So he knows all about the colonists terrorists attack plan. RCE people are firing at a house. People inside are shootIng back. The house is on fire now.
Basia is arrested for his part in the planning and the landing pad bombing. Holden says he will take Basia because Mertree will try to kill Basia. So Basia is Holden's problem now. Alex has found more activity of protomolecule activity but it's a ways away from the site. Holden tells Naomi to be prepared for all out war with the RCE ship.
Ch 19 Havelock
They are training for zero g combat. He thinks they might be useful in a week or so. They talk a lot of mess.
The hot spots on the planet are worrisome. There's an engineer that's a better is having his stuff pissed on. It's obviously anti belter racism. but Havelock doesn't wanna admit that. He puts a monitor on the locker.
Havelock writes the memo and then rewrites it to call out the anti belter activity.
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