The Expanse

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>>79985824
Shame that Miller died.

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>>79985842
no?

The Mormon church, who had originally commissioned the vessel, have continually sued the OPA over their commandeering of the vessel, and as such claim ownership of Medina Station. Because of the delicate political situation, no court has been willing to make a ruling on the case.

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How do you build such muscle mass in low g environments?

>>79986088
that bothers me too.

>>79986088

>That's not funny, Amos!
>Yes it is :3

>>79986088
train all day till your brain fries

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>she's like a sister to me
>but I'd do her if she let me

Is Amos our dude?

>>79986088
Exercise gel tanks.

>>79986088
Space Creatine™

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>>79986153

no brotomolecule scientist is.

>>79986153
Amos is based as fuck, he's everyone's guy

Why do they need to build agriculture colonies on Ganymede? Why not just have them on Mars

i'm fine with everyone in the crew except holden

that guy is the most generic 'good guy' ive ever seen on tv. doesn't help the guy can't act worth a shit either

>>79986511

Those supplies are meant for the belt I think.

>>79985824
>stein
D R O P P E D
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>>79985824
He's dead. Unless some ayy lmaos find him coasting out there in deep space and resurrect him or some shit.

How do you just accidentally build some magic engine that goes faster than anything has gone before while also being super fuel efficient

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>>79985824
these fucking sci fi space shows always trigger my autism

>g forces in space while traveling a single direction
>white lights in the helmet obscuring dark vision

that shit pisses me off to no end.

>>79986774

>g forces in space while traveling a single direction

I thought this only happened as long as the engines are still burning.

>>79985824
I think he was the first to make contact, whether alive or dead when he did. If alive, he's now one of them. Same for Miller.

>>79986774
>>79986813

What really triggered me was the size of Jupiter from Ganymede, it shouldn't be that big.

is there any such thing where you orbit a planet so fast that the centrifugal force of that orbit acts on you?

you would you just escape orbit before that happened?

>>79986774
>>g forces in space while traveling a single direction

Acceleration causes gs no matter the direction. You probably should have paid more attention in school.

>>79986774
>g forces in space while traveling a single direction

Ships accelerate until they're halfway, flip around and decelerate the rest of the way. That's how they get gravity for the whole trip.

>white lights in the helmet obscuring dark vision

This is a common thing in films and TV and it only serves to illuminate the actor's faces. Otherwise you wouldn't see who's who.

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>>79985824
He left his plans on his computer.

Bit like if you died today all your rare pepes would be discovered.

>>79987059
My family will be rich beyond compare, such are my rare pepes.

>>79986955
>Otherwise you wouldn't see who's who
It still pulls me out of the moment, even in a show with ayy lmaos that can "break" the rules of physics and a show set just 200 years in the future. BSG did the whole "light in the helmet" thing I and I thought it was stupid.

At least in season 1 they used red lights for the Martian Marine helmets

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>every scene with UN granny

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>>79987238

But BSG has the best helmets.

>>79986528
He emotes way more than in the books.
The actor is doing an incredible job playing Holden.

>>79985824
No he didn't.
As someone who works for a living he wanted Mars to inherit the belt, his whore wife decided to cash and sold the drive to everyone who had cash.

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(79986552)
(79987281)
>this much edge in /exp/ general
Get your You's somewhere else kiddo

Anyone still think Ep 4 of season 1 was the best so far?

>>79987578
Back then there was no Belt to inherit.
The Belt hadn't been colonized yet.
He literally say he's glad he left the plans for his drive on his computer at home so his wife could get rich off them because he wouldn't be able to provide for her anymore.
He hoped his drive would be used to colonize the Belt so Mars could become independent from Earth

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I recall the Protomolecule soldier being described as something way more beastly and inhuman in the books, with big eyes and enlarged limbs. Then again, we'll probably get a better look at it in the next ep.

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Probably just because the scene served it's purpose. I hope they will show better quality beasts next episode.

>>79986088
Probably because Amos is an earther?

>>79987925
To be fair, those eyes are anime sized, and we didn't even get to see it's limbs. We should certainly be getting better looks at it soon enough.

>>79986774
>g forces in space while traveling a single direction
HURR WHAT IS ACCELERATION HURR

>>79987925
Where'd these ayyys come from?

>>79988212
from children

>>79985899
what a pleb I can endure up to 20g in my shitty space trader

>>79988134
>To be fair, those eyes are anime sized
Not really.

>>79986955
>Ships accelerate until they're halfway, flip around and decelerate the rest of the way. That's how they get gravity for the whole trip.
dude we don't have that kind of fuel
even with sci-fi efficient fuels this is not a feasible method for long distance travel
ship accelerates till it consumes some fuel, then stops the acceleration, then decelerates
believe me I am a chemist

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What the fuck just happened? Give me the quick rundown

>>79985824
His wife could've started a company using his schematics, same surname obviously

>>79986752
well for example say you have your external combustion engine with a huge steam boiler to move the pistons, you decide one day to put the fire inside the engine for internal combustion, that is a massive increase in efficiency while doing without water for steam generation.

>>79986752
He was probably working as a propulsion engineer/mechanic of some sort, I doubt he had tinkering with old ships as some sort of hobby and just accidentally made groundbreaking super engine - even though it kind of sounded like that was the case

>>79988490
>believe me I am a chemist
The Epstein drive isn't a chemical rocket, but a type of fusion drive.

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>>79987925

But it is kinda huge - you can see it chase the other soldiers here.

>>79985824
>friend tells me this devolves into an interstellar fantasy series
Dropped it right then and there.

>>79988729
>dumb enough to believe friends

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>>79986774
>>79986813
Acceleration retards, if you're going to be traveling at super high velocity you have to keep accelerating rapidly or else it would take forever to attain desired velocity

>>79986088
amos used to be a hired thug on earth. now if you said how do you maintain muscle mass i would agree with you

>>79988729
Your friend is an imbecile and so are you for believing him.

>>79988729
It started pretty grounded.
Imaginary drive and imaginary anti-g fluid.
Then magic rocks started accelerating somehow and inertia was thrown out because magic molecules hate inertia or something,

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Anyone else really annoyed by UN grandma's accent? She ruins everything for me.
Also, pic related my waifu. Too bad she's disobeying Jim's orders, she'll probably end up breaking up BF+WM best relationship, but I smell a lesbian romance coming with the Belter chick.

>>79988675
yes it turns matter to energy with 200% efficiency
they tried the same in event horizon and found out where the rest of the energy comes from

>>79985824
So his ship kept accelerating and got picked up the proto-molecule, thereby alerting them to our solar system?

>hurr we have infinity amount of energy plus some magic tech

thats always such a stupid trope in sci-fi

>>79988880
probably

>>79988880
I hope they are irrelevant events...
I don't like spaghetti plots

That giant pentagon looking thing that got destroyed was the Martian ship? Why is it shaped like that

>>79988880
No, the protomolecule predates humans. It was sent here to build... well, you'll see soon enough.

>>79988929
It was a solar panel system designed to reflect light to certain agricultural area.

It was designed like it was because making an actual lens as big as it is pretty hard to maintain or make in the first place.

>>79988936
it is stupid though aliens create those
gates to destroy systems just because they don't want to be visited.
are they fucking autistic

>>79988698
>6 UN soldiers running away from a single alien

Ayy what a bunch of pussies those earthers

>>79989054
Well there's the little thing that the ayylien had already slaughtered like 30 of them

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>>79988490
>>79986955
That's literally what he said

The same amount of fuel would be required to slow down again, which means you're accelerating until halfway and then de-accelerate at the same rate which you were accelerating by turning the ship

What I don't get is how they turn the ship whilst at max fucking speed? What seems logical to me would be to have an engine of equal power on each side, but that doesn't seem to be the case with the ships in the show

>>79988853
>they tried the same in event horizon
No they didn't.
The engine on the Event Horizon folded space.
It didn't accelerate the ship, at all. The Event Horizon had conventional drives for acceleration.

>>79989128
>What I don't get is how they turn the ship whilst at max fucking speed?

Tires with really good treads. Oh wait, their in outer fucking space so it requires no effort at all.

>>79986752
n. Change the orientation of magnets in ion propulsion device.
n. Change propellant
n. Change cathode
n. Change the way of how electron meets Xe atoms
n. Reverse-engineer a new design for ion propulsion device
n. ...

>>79987925
>>79988026
>MUH SUPERIOR TRAINING
>MUH MARTIAN PRIDE
>MUH BEST SYSTEM MURINES
>MUH STRONK FEMALE SQUAD
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAH SAVE ME EARTH

>>79986774
>g forces in space while traveling a single direction

You are not only autist but also an ignorant cunt.

>>79988880
Was thinking something similar, the fact that the ship was just fucking careening off into the abyss seemed to have some sort of relevance based on how it shot - but apparently not

>>79988880
That's retarded. We've been pushing radio waves out into space for decades.

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>>79987925
It looked like the mass effect "husks" in that scene.

>>79989002
Was it autism? Maybe.But it was probably more like they thought they were the only intelligent life out there and so they decided to build some von Neumann probes and send them to distant star systems to build portals with the help of some indigenous biomass so that they can use them to colonize the whole galaxy.

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>>79989159
Would the fact that the ship is heading in one direction at such velocity not impact the amount of force needed to push it around, and would the change of direction not impact the crew?

Feel free to call me retarded

>>79988880
It's been already said in the show that the protomolecule was in Phoebe since millions of years ago, and discovered by protogene two years ago (in the series timeline).

>>79989128
>What I don't get is how they turn the ship whilst at max fucking speed?

What are gyroscopes ( CMGs)?

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>no ayy lmao gf

>>79989351
after the last episode someone on here said we get husks from mass effect next week

I thought they were joking

>>79988880
Fuck no. In the books they say that you can still see the ship with a big enough telescope

Dont act dumb

>>79989128
BECAUSE SPEED IS MEANINGLESS
ONLY ACCELERATION MATTERS

When they stop accelerating they are weightless and flipping around does not change the course since they're still flying in the direction they were accelerating earlier.

Then they fire the thrusters and start slowing down.

>>79989108

Why does it choose not to kill the Martian soldier lady?

>>79989643
Because then how is she going to nuke Earth and kill Jules-Pierre Mao in order to avenge her squad?

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>>79989505

>Julie Ayy L Mao

>>79989128
>What I don't get is how they turn the ship whilst at max fucking speed? What seems logical to me would be to have an engine of equal power on each side, but that doesn't seem to be the case with the ships in the show

You dense motherfucker!

Literally in the first 10 minutes of the series it's shown how they do it

Are you the same retard who wrote this?

>>79986774

In that case go to a doctor, your ADHD is showing.

>>79989643
In the books she fights it off and just when the ayylien is going for a finishing strike it blows up thanks to a failsafe that the creators implanted (basically an incendiary nade inside it)

>>79989643
Of course it's a movie plot, "strongest survives".
If I were the one occupying planets, I would like to know what I'm dealing with and how strong resistance will be.

>>79989718
creators? implanted?

>>79989717
No, I might be retarded but I understand how acceleration works

>Literally in the first 10 minutes of the series it's shown how they do it

I'll have to go back and watch it then, I don't remember it

>>79989717
>>79989770
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4EiW1bHwsQ

Okay okay

>>79989758
it was made in a lab by humans

>>79989832
aw nawwwww

>>79989441
You're retarded.

>>79989770
look this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4EiW1bHwsQ

>>79989878
Yes after thinking it through I realize this

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Oooohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Mirror in the sky
What is love

>>79985824
No he didn't you retard, he said his wife had the Epstein Drive plans.

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What's his endgame?

>>79990033
Prison sentence

>>79990033
Crashing this solar system

No one is retarded here.
Man asks questions.
Man gets answers.
Right answers.
Anyway, I re watched last week's episode like 20 times already. maybe more. Specifically - last few minutes.
That music.. Those lights... that magic....
That music man...

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>>79989505

>You belong with me

>HEY GUYS WE HAVE THESE MAGIC SPACE DRIVES THAT CAN PRODUCE 1 MILLION TIMES THE ENERGY OF EXISTING DRIVES
>But our weapons are shit that could be made today
>But our technology is actually worse in most ways
>But its all brown people in space despite the fact that their countries are shitholes

When you have effectively infinite cheap sources of power, you have to think about how this will change ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY
Not just as a gimmick to make spaceships faster

>>79989441
You can't do a turn like that. The inertia from changing velocity direction would probably kill the crew.
Either you make a huge turn radius, go really slow, or most likely since you deaccelerate, turn around and accelerate, since only time you would do something that drastic is an emergency..

>>79990318
wtf are you talking about

>>79990249
>>But its all brown people in space despite the fact that their countries are shitholes
The majority of belters shown have been white, though.
And why wouldn't you ship poor brown people to space to work on asteroid mines while you stayed behind on Earth and reap all the benefits?
It's not India/Mexico/Middle-Eastern countries that colonized the Belt, it's the United Nations.

>>79990318
You're even dumber than the poster you replied to. Does anyone here actually watch this show?

>>79989813
>>79989885
REMEMBAH DA CANT

>>79990377
why would you not just use robots to mine? I guess 3rd worlders might be cheaper?

>>79990377
Thats nonsense though
Just go send your infinity power engines to bring asteroids back to mars or wherever

Also: why are you colonizing the belt anyways, there is no shortage of materials on planets

>>79990249
>But our weapons are shit that could be made today
Purpose of weapons is to transmit as much energy in as tight package as possible over as big range as possible.
From a fucking spear to a goddamn nuke.
Fusion power is practically the most effective weapon in that sense, so it bloody well makes sense that they still use nukes.
As for railguns and gauss cannons and shit, nukes require precious minerals so obviously you're going to prefer to just lobbing tungsten pellets at high velocities instead.

>When you have effectively infinite cheap sources of power, you have to think about how this will change ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY
Easily acquired power does not mean that the minerals required are any more abundant. You gotta mine asteroids to supply branching out, and the engines just make that faster.
Not to mention that the series does answer to how it affects all levels of society, dipshit. Thats the entire premise of earth vs mars vs belt and shit

>>79990318
You're so fucking dense you make lead look like a feather.
Consider educating yourself before ever opening your gob again

>>79988853
for a chemist you are really fucking bad at paying attention and understanding basic mumbo jumbo scifi crap.
I hope you are not handling dangerous materials at work, unless it's burger and fries.

>>79988823
Nah man.
You can't start off as hardish sci fi then go full Clarke.
>and then the space goop made a wormhole to negative inertia space and...
Fuck off.

>>79990318
They're just giving the ship a kick using side thrusters in order to spin it, and then use thrusters on the other side to stabilize it again. The direction of velocity remains unaffected, sort of like how Earth flying through space orbiting the sun whilst also rotating around it's own axis

Or one end of a lengthy space-rock colliding with something, giving it spin

>>79990422
Slave tier labor is cheaper than buying robots and hiring engineers to install and manage them, people on the belt either work these shitty jobs or starve to death in an alleyway - you don't have to pay them more than what is required for them to feed themselves

I don't quite remember the backstory, are Belters descendents of criminals or something like that?

>>79990465
>Also: why are you colonizing the belt anyways, there is no shortage of materials on planets
?
Why are there companies considering mining asteroids with the current tech? Because its cheaper.

>>79990249
>But our weapons are shit that could be made today

They're way more advanced and supposedly use ammo that can be fired multiple times, massively increasing ammo capacity.

>But our technology is actually worse in most ways

Literally everything is better than what we have today.

>>79990552
Because they are scammers looking to pocket investor money and then disappear

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>>79989441
>stop the engines
>turn the ship around its center 180 degrees
>start them back

>>79990545
You lack imagination. Perhaps science fiction isn't for you.

>>79990551
I got it, from the picture I thought he meant do they turn like a car.

>>79990637
you need to balance the rotation, I draw it wrong but whatever

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>>79990637
I figured it out okay, for some reason I thought that in order to give the ship spin you'd have to apply force equivalent to the ship's forward momentum

Please stop bullying

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>>79986903
> it shouldn't be that big.
4 u

>>79990249
strange, I didn't know we hade railguns that didn't need battlecruies to carry them.

>>79990760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5wr-584WI

>>79988698

Was there really just one alien?

This is getting ridiculous.

>>79990924
how can he spin?

>>79991012
It's a VTOL. He activated the lift jets as he entered the tunnel, allowing him to do the spin.

>>79991053
oh yeah forgot you could do that.

Biggest disappointment with the show:

Lack of cussing for Avasarala.

/thread

No one posting images images of the belters girls in the bar? I thought you waifufags would be all over them.

>>79991113
Belters are literally worst girls in the show

>>79990249

They have missiles that can rip moons to pieces.

Firearms are simply a limited technology.

Look how much our firearms advanced in last 70 years. They are pretty much the same shit with fancier plastic.

>>79990465
>there is no shortage of materials on planets

For the starters our natural fuels are going to run out in 100-200 years.

Which means they already did in the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfJ6IqKEyI4
homeworld would make a better space sci-fi desu

>>79991207
way too much fantasy trash

>>79991189
A: no they aren't
B: you don't find those in the fricking asteroid belt

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>its another /pol/ doesn't realize The Expanse takes place in a post apocalyptic world where Hitler never won WW2 thread

>>79991419

There is a point when they become way too hard to mine on Earth.

And there are even better fuels out there. Like Helium-3.

>>79991495

Literally every single leader or ship captain in series is either white or asian.

The only exception are belters.

>>79991419
dude there are literally companies today planning the best ways to mine the moon and close orbiting asteroids

(((Epstein)))

>>79991561
helium 3 is a meme, and its far easier to mine oceans/deep underground on Earth than it is to go to space

>>79991611
>kickstarter scams are reality

>>79991189
>dead dinosaurs
>in space

really m8?

>>79991678
>helium 3 is a meme
No it isn't.

>>79991749
yea it is...
fusion is of hydrogen isotopes, not helium

>>79991740
>he doesn't know

>>79991678

Fuels on Earth are going to run out. Our consumption is skyrocketing.

This happens when Earth population is like 40 billion.

>>79991207
I like the fact that everyone in the Homeworld universe is human. No xenos muddying up the story. Just pure bred intergalactic colonists who forgot about the Milky Way.

>>79991785
the mass of the earth is MANY TIMES that of the entire asteroid belt
Solar power would be ample for the whole planet
And non-whites will die off in their billions when the easy gibs run out

>>79991817
>And non-whites will die off in their billions when the easy gibs run out
AHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>79991884
must be funny because it's true

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>>79991771
Anon-kun, you can stop with the baiting

>>79991817

And the vast majority of that is many kilometers under the surface and literally impossible to mine.

>>79992098
no
It's just that it isn't WORTH IT because there is easier accessed shit now

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>>79991884
:^)

>>79992131
>one dumb nigger who can't run a country means muslims and mexicans don't breed like rabbits, even in literal shitholes with absolutely no money

>>79992131

You lack imagination, good job at copy and pasting though.

>>79992218

Legitimate salvage.

>>79992218
this is so fucking stupid
>HEY GUYS LETS JUST USE A NET
>IN SPACE

>>79992218
Dude, let's just like, catch them, with a big net. A big fucking space net, between space ships.

>>79992249
Big space nets are in abundance because they use it to grab ice and shit

>>79992249
>net commonly used to collect rocks floating through space for various reasons
>yo niggas we have this perfectly adequate tool for the job but some nigger on a korean propaganda board says its stupid so lets not use it

>>79992289
>>79992249

Seriously whats the problem?

>>79992180
>breed like rabbits
>rabbits eventually would kill themselves by over-consuming their food source

>>79992367

>Look Ma, no hands!

>>79992325
Nothing. It's just a really mundane solution for such a fantastic setting. They could have hacked the mainframe or something, but nope, a big fuggen net.

>>79992415
kys

>>79992367
>magic space drives

>>79992415
hack the nuclear missile mainframe?

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>>79992435
>boo hoo, he isn't taking my problem with the scene seriously, I better tell him to commit suicide to let everyone know I'm a raging edgelord

>>79992503
Just put on some sunglasses and message them a flashing skull gif. It'll work.

>>79992514

>when you let autismos in the party and they bring the party down

>>79992514
But that's not the anon having a problem with the net.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
Bet you feel pretty dumb, now, don't you?

>>79992514
>edgelord
tumblr pls go

I hate that indian woman. Her voice is terrible and she's a bad actor

>>79992572
Then maybe anon should get on his reading glasses because I literally said there was no problem with the scene.

>>79992586
If you are feeling bad about the internet calling a horse a horse then maybe you can try cutting yourself again.

>>79992623
Well you've got shit taste.

>>79992641
Clearly you do think there's a problem, otherwise you wouldn't be this autistic about a bunch of ice miners using a net they use to haul ice to catch a bunch of nukes in space.
There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the net is used that completely makes sense if you actually think for a moment who is catching the nukes.
You're just upset because you didn't get a scene of Fred's OPA sidekick chick doing some "s1ck l33t hacking" on the nukes to bring them perfectly to Tycho Station.

>>79992623
Why didn't they do a retake of her yelling scene. The way she so halfheartedly gestures, the abysmal acting, it's hard to watch.

>>79992641
>you can try cutting yourself again.
wew dont be such an edgelord

>>79992623
I don't mind her character, but that hellfire rant this episode was cringey as fuck

>>79992415

They already had guidance control, no need to hack the missiles. Rockhoppers have these nets and when the only tool you have is a hammer you know the rest.

>>79992623
I turned off the latest Star Trek movie after she appeared. I heard it sucked anyways.

>>79992886
she doesn't even feel like a character in the show, it's like she's a fan interjecting oc in her favourite show

>>79993199
It is kinda weird every other character is either in uniform or utilitarian clothing while she's prancing around in silk dresses

>>79993313
they really doubled down with how "ethnic" she is

>>79992885
I just callz ez howz Iz seez sumz. I don't judge your hobbies.

>>79992730
>Clearly you do think there's a problem
Clearly I don't because I said I didn't. Calm your autism. I'm being as literal for your sake as I can be.

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nothing in the show has scared me on any level, nothing but the idea of being in the position of Avasarala's husband

So why the fuck did Naomi not launch the torpedo?

What the fuck does she plan on doing with it?

>>79993623
Destroying it was fucking stupid.

>>79993626

Can someone give me a quick rundown of what happened?

Ayylmaos jammed everyone and UN + MCRN started firing at each other? Or new ships arrived and started shooting both sides?

Jesus that newer episode was shit.
how did they managed to brush off Ganymede like that considering its a big fucking part of book 2.

>>79993792

I hope next episode will show more details.

>>79993787

I'm betting on stealth ships jamming everyone and dropping their experimental soldiers on the moon for test.

It looked like that one she saw at the end self destructed after drone got the data it wanted.

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>>79993787
They all got played like damn fiddle.

>>79993787
As far as i know in the book it was never clear who shot the first shot.

>>79993626
What happened to the crew of that ship? Suddenly they're all dead.

>>79993787
Secret research station accidentally let loose a motherfucking supersoldier who started wrecking earther's shit

Earther's obviously think its Mars fucking their shit up so they pre-emptively strike in orbit.

This causes a shootout on both sides.

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So what's the deal with the aliens? Are they supposed to be like the White Walkers?

>>79991800
there are AIs (were they also humans?)
and machines left by an unknown ancient civilization (probably humans too?)

I guess you can colonize whole space you know without even meeting a non human (not genetically related to humans)

what the fuck was that meeting at the border?
what was it with that person waving in the dome?
what was in the domes?
and what the fuck were those mirrors (???) on the orbit?

>>79993912
don't use your brain too hard anon-kun

>>79993856

Pretty sure those panels were exploding because of high speed projectiles shredding the ship and whoever is inside.

>>79993912
>what the fuck was that meeting at the border?
What?
>what was it with that person waving in the dome?
Asking for help, idiot. There's a protomolecule monster killing everyone inside.
>what was in the domes?
Agricultural zones. You know, growing beans and shit
>and what the fuck were those mirrors (???) on the orbit?
YOU NEED LIGHT TO GROW SHIT MATE. At that distance you need a lens to focus what little light there is on the growing area.

>>79993626

UN marines were getting buttfucked. Earth thought it was Mars so retaliated

>>79993970
>what?
why were both armies there?

didn't know that the monster was set loose before the un forces started running

does that all mean that the belt is left without food?

>>79993313
>>79993345
How is this a problem? The only scenes we've seen her in are ones on Earth, surrounded by military personnel and men in suits. Of course she's going to stand out a bit.

>>79994039
Ganymede is a joint operation between the UN and MCR, it was said in the show.

>>79994039
>didn't know that the monster was set loose before the un forces started running

Lets analyse shall we:
>there's someone waving like in panic.
This makes the viewer wonder what is going on
>like a minute later the marines start running away from a monster
Doesnt take much to make the conclusion that the monster was killing people where the guy was waving around.

>>79994134
yea i recall something that the squad wanted to fight earth but got sent to ganymede instead
what was the point of the operation if they couldn't even get close to the borders?

>>79994156
i really couldn't tell what the waving expression was trying to convey
maybe a blood splat would make that scene better

also the waving was like in half of the episode and the soldiers running in the last minutes so kinda not a minute after

>arrogant martian squad got fucked

Thank you based brotomolecule man

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>>79994285

Shoulda stayed away from te awkwa

>>79988851
i couldn't unhear hear gasping with every breath.I want to like her, i really do.

i'd say she would have killed the role 5 - 10 years ago.

>6 UN marines and 4 Mars marines got fucked by one alien thing

I'm not sure I like this. At all.

The moment sci-fi series start using unkillable monsters things usually go to shit.

>>79994477
or some might say 4.4 mars marines

>>79994417
Miller lives in death!
Miller lives in death!
Miller lives in death!

Miller lives!... Kind of.

>>79994544

Not dead, becoming.

>>79994417
this doesn't even look like him

>>79993787
Following the previous fuck ups, Ganymede is split down the middle between Earth and Mars
Stay on your side, make sure the grain keeps growing
ayy lmao - human hybrid supersoldiers
They eat radio waves, because reasons
One gets out, fucks with the UN Marines
The ships in orbit can't tell what is going on, because the ayys eat radio waves
Ships start shooting at each other, at Ganymede, at the Space mirrors
UN marines get btfo, so they lead the ayy over to the Martian line for some help
Martian Marines get btfo, best marine survives
Ganymede is in ruins, because of falling space mirrors used to help the plants
The belt will starve without Ganymede's food stuffs

The marines on the ground never shot at each other, just at the ayy. Both navies are a bunch of retards with exploding Star Trek Panels

>>79994059

It's not, powerful, gifted people are frequently eccentric and she has enormous pride in herself and no doubt her heritage. So she dresses flamboyantly because it's her prerogative as a member of the ruling class.

>>79994477

You would prefer the soldiers were unstoppable badasses who kill otherworldly technoaliens with ease? Where's the tension come from then?

For my part I find the idea of all these whizbang fancy super tech societies being totally unable to cope (or struggling hard to do so) much more interesting

also holden and naomi will have a fight and naomi will bang Fred Johnson's aide-de-camp.

>>79994628

Thanks, the MCRN ships are easily distinguishable but its hard to tell if its an UN or Any ship so at first I thought some one else arrived and shot at both sides.

>>79994628

yeah the fucking exploding panels was such a cliche cop-out

more hull penetrations that just hole people please. It's gruesome and appropriate

poor bald captain

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>>79994477
There's a reason for it:
The protomolecule monsters are very resilient in that you cant hit vulnerable spots. You need explosives and such to rip them apart, or incendiary to grill them. Normal bullets just pierce through with minimal tissue damage.

The marines meanwhile have been issued with weaponry to counter extremely armoured other marines. So they use armor piercing ammunition.

See the problem?

Later they realize this and actually take down one of those monsters mano a mano with incendiary bullets instead of AP.

>>79994417
His name is Robert Paulson.

>>79994588

I bet It was made by an OPA member who probably saw him once during that raid.

>>79994477
I like how it demonstrates exactly what Dresden was talking about when he said the Protomolecule would allow humans to survive naked in the vacuum and stuff. It's not indestructible though, it's just self-repairing and lacks weak points so guns don't do much to slow it down.

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best episode

I guess the Epstein drive episode was a slow burner.

>>79994628
As a trade off for the naval retardation, we got to see the Martian Marines in action.

Where they just stood in a line, shocked by jamming (don't they train for that?), and refused to take cover.

>>79987588
I'm torn as to whether the CQB fight or the Doors and Corners space battle was better.

>>79994932

He did it. The rock hopping son of a bitch finally did it!

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>>79994991

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>best speech so far
>no one is talking about how badass it was

wtf /tv/? Show some fucking respect for the Queen of the Expanse.

>>79995302
Sad!

>>79995302

Couldn't take it seriously because she sounded out of breath about halfway through it.

Not very threatening if it sounds like you're dying of throat cancer.

So bookfags, I take Miller's dead? Yeah, of course he is because he was on an asteroid that crashed into fucking Venus. Just asking because scifi/fantasy shows are no stranger to comic book deaths.

>>79995302
She can't act.

>>79995302
her voice is shit

>>79995396

We're talking about an asteroid that can dodge, move on its own and has glowy blue waifus inside.

>>79995302

Now that I think more about it, the entire thing was out of character for her. It would have been much more her style if she had just sat there and slowly, gently said how she was going to systematically tear apart that family and business...smiling the entire time. Instead it came off as desperate.

>>79995396
Miller is 100% dead.

However we will see his actor in another role later, and not talking about flashbacks

so many OPA terrorists and martian scums in this thread

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Are we gonna see anything more of the Protogen stealth ships and commandos? I know there's at least a few stealth ships left, and that's too big of a plot thread to just get dropped.

>>79995572
Are you sure you're just not projecting your power fantasy?

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fuaaark, my favorite character just died

>>79995788

Are you sure you're not just ignoring her past interactions?

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>>79995847
let us remember this fallen hero, the best character in The Expanse, that Bobbie girl should have died instead,
F

>>79995449
your face is shit

>>79995572

I think the idea was to show that she was so passionate in her determination to get Mao that her usually calm, catlike demeanour cracked and we saw some fire

happens to everyone sooner or later

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>>79995847
I don't get it. How the fuck did he die? We just see him falling over the console for no apparent reason? The fuck? Maybe he survived?

>>79995847

RiP Nick from l4d2.

The moment he yelled "God Dammit" I had flashbacks

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So how fast is that actually

>>79996127
336999 miles per second

>>79996127

>1.809c

Holy crap that's Supercruise speed.

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>>79996241

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>>79996101
a stray space bullet just went straight through his heart, man, what a sad end to a career

>>79996123
one of the few smart captains in the MCRN fleet,dead, two legends are down now(Captain Yao of the Donnager and Captain Sutton of the Scirocco)

>>79996127
Mach 991
753,800 mph
1,213,000 km/h
0.001 light speed

>>79996127
>>79996241
>>79996307
>>79996308
ok I think it is meters per second which is
753845 mph

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spooky

>>79986088
Gym full of resistance bands

>>79996313
no more like a railgun made a hole in his chest

>>79996319
how many Gs is that

i distinctly remember seeing on the screen he was only experiencing like 5gs or something and that just doesn't seem right

>>79996440
speed is not g ...

>>79996313
Why don't any of these battleships have better armor? Every fight they have bullets whizzing right through the bridge

Might as well go to war in an aluminum can

>>79996440
problem is not 5g, it is staying under 5g for too long

>>79991817
>he mass of the earth is MANY TIMES that of the entire asteroid belt
We can't use your mother as fuel anon

>>79996127
But that would be 1.8x the speed of light if miles per second

>>79996486
why don't tanks have better armor?

i love this show but the dialog in the last 2 episodes has been awful

>>79988698

Damn, that suit is THICC

>>79996486

Cost and speed.

They're using railguns. Figure out how much armor you would need to stop a shot moving at that speed with that much kinetic energy. The amount of armor you would need would be extremely detrimental to the speed of the ship as well as how much it would cost.

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Can the last episode of this series just be these two going at it uncensored for 40 minutes?

>>79996555
probably even america stopped using imperial measures by that time

>>79996739
that belter girls accent gives me a boner

i do not know why

>>79996739
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8yiCWyrqMA

>>79996783
This is basically Shadowrun

>>79996765
>tfw no sexy tycho security chief gf to dominate you

>>79995881
She's a multifaceted woman.

>>79996486

Donnager didn't.

This one was a knife fight between frigates. Frigates are not heavy armored.

>>79997007
Donnager had a honeycomb armor solution, thick outer armor, then multiple layers of inner armor,like a onion, so a railgun can pierce few layers but not all, frigates tend to have less as you said

>>79996486
>enemy builds ships with armor that can withstand your bullets
>you make better bullets to shoot through new armor
>enemy makes new armor that can withstand new bullets
>you make new new bullets that can withstand new armor

Do you begin to see?

>>79988851
I think she's doing a pretty great job. That raspy smokers voice from sucking down nicotine making stress filled UN decisions.

I think she's one of the better actors on the show.

>>79998646
>I think she's one of the better actors on the show.
True. Alex is the fucking worst.

>>79998794
>Holden overplays the idealist but it's acceptable
>Alex is most like his book character (beside being partially bald)
>Amos doesn't talk like big black thug like he does in the book
>Naomi is objectively the worst with her shitty accent and zero attempt to play anything other than a black liberal brit in space

>>79998883
They're not acting to the book, they're acting to the script and direction they're given. Criticising an actors faith to source material in an adaptation is retarded.

>>79999051
Not when the author of the book is the one practically writing the scrip

>>79999051
>half indian half texan talks with a convincing drawl
>afro asian hue sounds like she's fresh from cambridge

One of these is doing a good job acting like their character.

>>79999464
>convincing drawl
Not at all. He slips in and out of it and when he is doing it, it sounds like a cartoonish impression.

>>79998794

>tfw I like him

>>79995302
I cringed hard

>>79990033
Most of humanity enslaved via the protomolecule in a servile class under the control of a ruling elite.

>>79996241
>>79996555
METRIC SYSTEM, BITCHES

>>79988792
The Epstein drives allow ships to be constantly accelerating, whether its reaching peak travel speed or slowing down to match the orbit of the destination.

>>79992503
With a GUI written in Visual Basic

I liked the bits about the Epstein Drive.

F

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>>79985891
>Miller died.

>>79996486
Because in order to stop a railgun shot, you'd need a ridiculous amount of armor, which would increase the mass of your ship horribly, which would mean you couldn't accelerate or deccelerate compared to other ships, meaning you'd suck as a warship.

You'd be a sitting duck that couldn't maneuver properly and would get plinked to death from extreme range regardless of how much armour you had.

>>79995088
>Where they just stood in a line, shocked by jamming (don't they train for that?), and refused to take cover.

that is called pulling a Bradford

>>79995302
i started chanting "Drain the Swamp", also MEGA

>>79989191

It works a little better in the books, because getting her shit pushed in is actually her first scene there

We gonna make a new thread eh beratnas?