Prologue: Namono pg 11
Remember Anna, the Russian priest from book three that saved Naomi from peaches? Well, Namono is her wife. They are on earth 🌎and it sucks. They're getting rations of wheat and water recyclers so they can survive, but that's kinda it. They are just surviving. Making each day, hoping another rock 🎸 doesn't fall from the sky and kill a bunch more people and kick up ☝ a bunch more dust to block out the sky, which is just now starting to have some blue peek through.
Chapter One: Pa
Pa is a free navy captain. They find ships heading to the ring and confiscate their goods for the good of the OPA. They get a call from Marco Inaros. He says we're changing plans and having a free navy leaders meeting. So they need to head to Ceres. One of the crew is like, another change of plans. Seems like Marco has a lot of those.
Chapter Two: Filip
Filip thinks Naomi is dead. He hates James Holden. He and Marco are meeting with a guy in charge of some asteroid. They are packing up the supplies and launching them into space so that there's nothing of value there so earth doesn't destroy it. They are meeting with other higher ups in the free navy. One is an old man who has pretty good intel earth side. He tells Filip how a couple of the ships that they expected to blow up, the Roci included, didn't get blown up and in amongst other info, he tells Filip that Naomi is still alive. More than that, pretty much everyone else already knows it. This pisses Filip right off.
Chapter Three: Holden
Holden and the crew of the Roci have been getting interrogated for weeks. Naomi the most. There used to be thirty billion people on earth. We might be down to twenty now. Avasarala summons them in the middle of the night. She has identified a free navy ship that she wants them to destroy. There's a catch, they want to assign them a mission commander. Holden throws a fit at this. Everyone is quiet for a while. Bobbie breaks the tension by saying it's her. So it's all good. The people that were on the Roci at the end of the lasr book are going on a mission together.
Chapter Four: Salis
Salis is a belter. He's in the void on the other side of the ring. There's only two things in here. Medina station and the alien 👽 structure they also call a station. They have attached three rail guns to the alien station. They are super proud of it. They can shoot any of the ring gates with those rail guns. Now this place feels like home. A place they can finally live in and defend.
this got me a little emotional. I'm not saying the ends justify the means, but for the first time the belters can really feel good about their situation and that wouldn't have happened if it weren 't for Marco Inaros killing a dozen billion or so earthlings.
Chapter Five: Pa
The heads of the free navy are all together at last. Marco has a phase three of.his plan.
Chapter Six: Holden
They find the ship and take out its drive. They doc with it and things go bad. Bobbie is stuck on the bridge between the two ships and mechs are on the Roci trying to get inside. They are gonna have to go outside and fight sime bad guys. Clarissa Mao is all about it.
Chapter Seven: Clarissa
so we're back to calling her Clarissa huh? RSVP peaches.
Clarissa is outside the ship fighting bad guys with Amos. She is less about it in her own head than she appeared to be in Holden's chapter. But thats the guman condition for you, other people's perception of your outside is often more confident than your insides. And then it turns bad. She's been shot twice. She thinks she might die. At least it's an honorable death fighting and dying for your friends. Scream out into the heavens so stovokor knows a warrior is coming. But then the guy in the mech suit she was sure to be her doom goes limp and floats past her. She feels someone grab her by the arm that hasn't been shot and a voice says it's ok, i got you. It's Holden's voice. Inside the ship Holden tells her no more gun fighting in vac suit for her. She is part of his crew and his job is to protect her. So he won't be having her do anything she isn't trained to do. Vac suit gun 🔫 fighting is one of them.
Chapter Eight: Dawes
The free navy heads are meeting for fifteen hours a day to talk through their plans for the OPA. Drama ensues cause Philip shot a cop. Marco tries to smooth it over with Dawes, the governor of Ceres. Philip wont be procecuted, but his Ceres privileges have been revolked. He's gotta get gone and stay gone, or he'll be gone.
Chapter Nine: Holden
the g ym on the ship smells like a gym.
He tries to tall to bobbie but she just wants to.punch things.
So he goes and talks to alex about Bobbie. Alex explains that all Bobbie has wanted for a long time was an honest to goodness fight against obvious bad guys. They finally get one and she's stuck on the bridge between the ships. She needs time and space or a real fight she can feel good about winning. No amount of holden talking to her is gonna help.
Holden talks to Naomi about a variety of topics.
They all go to meet Avasarala and Holden is surprised by his family being there. So Naomi finally gets to meet Holden's family and it only took the apocalypse to make it happen.
Chapter Ten: Avasarala
She is sending a message to her presumably dead husband. She is getting ready for a meeting and it strikes her as ridiculous how much thought and energy she is putting into picking out an outfit. Half of earth is dead and all she can focus on at this moment is which pair of earrings gives the best image of strength or compasion or whatever. Shhes meeting with the mars prume miniatwr ir whatever he is. He's being replaced. Avasarala says if he gives them all thw intel he has on marco inares and the mars navy defectors she'll give him asylum. Shhe mets with whats left of the earth government. They decide its time to take back Ceres.
Chapter Eleven: Pa
Pa was the XO of the behemoth and she hated Bull, the earther third in command. Shhe had a relationship with the main mechanic Sam and it was real brutal for Pa when Sam went along woth Bull's plan. She felt betrayal amd she let sam know it. Then Ashford killed Sam. That was the end of Pa wanting to be in the OPA. Any time Pa got involved in big OPA plans it went bad. So she went off on her own. She got married to a man and a woman and now they thrupple. She meets with the other Free Navy folks. Marco knows earth is coming to Ceres. His plan is to abandon Ceres. He gives this big speach about how the Afghanis were never concurred as a people because people.is what they. Valued. Not land, ot property, people. So when their cities were attacked the people headed to the hills and survived. This is the plan for the Free Navy. No one place is that important. They can move on to another place. And if all the places are destroyed they still have ships.
Pa hates this. She goes back to her husband and wife and she sobs uncontrollably for a while. They are gonna take their ships and set put on their own and keep trying to fulfill the promise of the free navy by providing for the belt. Making sure the belters have the food and water and air they need to live.
Chapter Twelve: Holden
Holden is trying to watch tv, but there's no mindless entertainment. It's all disaster news.
Plagues and wars and disasters weren’t supposed to impinge on the manufactured world of entertainment, but of course they did
reminds me of the fall of 2020 when we didn't have new scripted tv cause of covid.
they are getting ready to head out to ceres. They got a big crew of folks for.this deal. Holden is worrieed about whos gon a want to stick around for the next mission. Hes talking about bobbie. Dooes he pay her a salary, do they make her a part owner? But he's not really talking about Bobbie. If it were just Bobbie, she'd be welcomed with open arms and theyð give her whatever she wanted. The real conversation is about Clarissa Mao. She will never cal this ship home if its up to holden. They hang with holdens family amd one of his dads say to give tjose skinnies hell and naomi is very offended.
Chapter Thirteen: Prax
Prax is doing science on Ganamede. Hes got a new wife and step daughter. They have some new yeast theyre psyched about. One of the science ladies is like lets skip animal trials so we cam start feeding the starving people on earth with our yeast. She wants prax to come.to a meeting of like minded scientists. He is not interested. The.cops come to prax late at night. Theres been a murder and they want him to identify the body. It's science lady. The cops ask if he knows who might want her dead. Prax knows in his soul it's the work of the free navy. They kill anyone in the outer planets tjat steps out of line. But he doesnt say anything to the cops. For all we know they are in with the free navy. He's got a wife and two daughters to support. He's not gonna say the wrong thing to the wrong person and end up dead.
Chapter Fourteen: Filip
They're stripping Ceres and he's not allowed to take part cause of the guy he shot. You shoot a guy on Ceres and you don't get to go back. Shoulda been spaced, but he's Marcos kid so he gets special treatment. So he's still alive but he's on the ship all alone. He's sad. Wings comes back an d gives him a real earth leather jacket. He's happy for a little bit.
what is belter clothing made of?
He talks to Marco, t they talk about what a good move this Ceres plan is. He expects Marco to ask him about the shooting. He doesnt and for a second he gets that momentary excitement of getting away scott free.
Someone should have kept that from happening, his mother whispered in his memory.
Chapter Fifteen: Pa
Pa and her small army of ships are breaking away from the free navy. She has major beef with fred johnson. One of her captains says they should go to Ceres and work tfred to save the six million marco abandoned there. Pa says fuck that my enemy's enemy is my friend BS. she has one captain shes not sure of. She tells the captain the whole deal. He wants to stick with Marco and offers to go back to pallas station alone. Not tell anyone what pa has done. Pa tells him to surrender or shell blow up hia ship.
Chapter Sixteen: Alex
Alex is gonna have sex with Sandra Ip. They are on Ceres. Everyone is working super hard to stay alive.
Chapter Seventeen: Holden
They are making promo videos to humanize the belters that Marco left behind on Ceres. Fred johnson wants Bobbie to be his Mars representative.
Chapter Eighteen: Filip
Filip and Marco watch Pa's communication together. She says she's doing the right thing by taking all the supplies Marco has flung around and giving them to belters. Marco asks if Filip thinks it's the right thing or not. Filip is conflicted, but eventually says it doesnt matter. She disobeyed orders, period. She has to go down. Marco also seems conflicted as he locks himself in his room for three days. One of the other commanders Rosenfeld tells Philip either Marco starts giving orders or maybe he will take over and start giving orders. Filip goes and tells Marco about Pa and how Fred Johnson has taken over Ceres and how the belt was United not too long ago but now some people are splitting off to follow Pa and some people are starting to think they should go back to Ceres and join Fred Johnson. Marco gives the order declaring Pa and anyone following her as an enemy combatant. The way he says the order to Rosenfeld makes Filip think maybe Marco is gonna do something bad to Rosenfeld. Then Rosenfeld asks about Fred Johnson and Marco says he'll bleed when it's his turn, makimyg it clear dealing with Pa is the priority.
