![]() The next book, Tiamat’s Wrath, jumps forward another four years and shows how humanity is dealing with Laconian rule. By the time the dust settles, Laconia basically rules all of humanity, though pockets of underground resistance remain. The authoritarian Laconian Empire comes back through the Ring, captures the Ring Space and Medina Station, and then goes on to conquer our solar system. Cara and Xan play an important role in the overall series, but to understand it we have to discuss the broader future of Laconia.īy book seven, Persepolis Rising, Laconia has become a powerful and self-sustaining nation with a huge technological advantage over the rest of humanity because of their protomolecule research, which is bolstered by having things like that orbital platform we kept getting ominous shots of in season 6. We primarily saw Laconia through the eyes of Cara and her brother Xan, two kids who live on the planet and come into contact with small dog-like aliens that can “repair” dead things by infusing them with the protomolecule. ![]() Most all of the lingering plot threads from season 6 tie back to this colony world in one way or another. If you want to talk about the future of The Expanse, it really comes down to one word: Laconia. We won’t be going over every detail of the last three books go read them if you want that! But we will be analyzing what the show set up in its sixth season, and where it leads. ![]() As such, we’ll be getting into MEGA SPOILERS for The Expanse book series. We’re going to discuss some of the plot threads that season 6 left hanging, and what they were setting up. Or, for the optimists out there (I’m with you), what will happen when The Expanse makes its eventual return to adapt the final three books? So all that considered, we have to wonder what would have happened if The Expanse had gotten to do season 7 and beyond. This is perhaps even more true in the show, which incorporated elements from the Strange Dogs novella to let viewers know what was happening on Laconia during the sixth season. But there are lots of other, lingering threads. Babylon’s Ashes wraps up many of the plotlines that had been brewing during the preceding books, including the solar system-wide war sparked by the Free Navy’s asteroid bombardment of Earth. The off-ramp he’s referring to is the fact that after book six, the story jumps forward almost 30 years into the future. “his is actually something that Ty and Daniel and I have been talking about for quite some time is how might we end the show if we had to end the show before the end of the full run of books? And there is this kind of an off-ramp at the end of book six.” Showrunner Naren Shankar has spoken about the decision to end the show before they’d run out of source material. The season 6 finale adapted the end of the sixth book, Babylon’s Ashes, which marks a pivot point in the tale. ![]() Corey (a pseudonym for authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) spans nine novels, the last of which was only released in November 2021. “Babylon’s Ashes” was the sort of powerful send-off that the show deserved…but of course, it’s not the final ending of the story. Like the crew of the Rocinante itself, the show defied the odds time and again, overcoming a cancellation, a behind-the-scenes scandal, and more to make it to the end of its sixth season. It was a sad day when the series finale of The Expanseaired on Prime Video last month. ![]()
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