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The Expanse Hypeweek Day 02: Martians

ROBERTA "BOBBIE" DRAPER

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The Expanse Season 4 HypeWeek

Season 4 is right around the corner! We are hosting a hype week leading up to the season's premiere. We hope fans will participate and that their enthusiasm will encourage people to check out this amazing show we fought so hard to save. 

The event will occur in the week leading up to the Premiere on Dec 13th 2019

We have different prompts for each day pulled from book titles, themes, and factions. Fans can participate by creating gifs, edits, fanfic and fanart, metas and everything in between. 

Here are the prompts :

12-07-2019 - DAY o1: Earthers // Wake

12-08-2019 - DAY o2: Martians // War 

12-09-2019 - DAY o3: Belters // Gate

12-10-2019 - DAY o4: Games // Churn 

12-11-2019 - DAY o5: Found Family // Ashes 

12-12-2019 - DAY o6: Endings // Wrath

12-13-2019 - DAY o7: Beginnings //  Rising

Send us a message if you have any questions concerning the week itself, the prompts, etc.

We’ll follow the tags #ExpanseEvents and #ExpanseHypeweek, and we’ll be reblogging your creations. Have fun and get hype Screaming Firehawks!

[tinykings]

You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,

And unafraid of toil. 

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Mars and military technology

Thinking about technology on The Expanse today and something struck me: Earth, Mars and the Belt’s technological “culture”, if you will, differ a lot. The kind of technology we’ve seen so far, how people use it, and especially what military/weapons technology they have is completely different, and I was wondering why.

I think it was mentioned in one of the novellas/short stories that Mars was first settled by scientists (which... makes sense, for obvious reasons), and since it was still a colony back then, with nothing to shoot at except the occasional meteorite, but lots of life support problems to solve, the kind of technology that was used and invented there was probably very similar to what we see in the Belt now - makeshift, creative, problem-oriented, low use of resources, durable. That’s so different both from Martian and Earther technology now. Earth has a lot of stuff, but it’s all just a little shabby and one or two generations out of date, which makes sense since Earth would have by far the biggest industrial base plus access to resources mined in/stolen from the Belt (= high output), but also enormous domestic consumption.

At a guess, most of Earth’s creative energy in engineering goes toward fixing the damage that previous generations wrought, or at least not making things worse, which is why their military equipment is “off the rack”: they know that their strength lies in quantity, so they concentrate on making a lot of the same product (ships, weapons, whatever) and get back to more pressing problems. Belters generally also have more pressing problems, but they lack the kind of resources that Earth has access to because they don’t get to keep them. So their creative energy generally goes toward making their rocks livable and keeping ships together that would have ended up on a scrapyard decades ago had they been used anywhere else. Naomi is obviously special, but remember when she told Melissa of the Weeping Somnambulist that her specialty was improvisation? I don’t think that’s a coincidence, and I also don’t think it’s because she used to be more radical back in the day. I think it’s got something to do with the environment in which Belters learn engineering, which teaches people how to improvise, how to work with what they’ve got and how to prioritise what needs fixing first. In terms of military stuff, the Behemoth fits neatly into that: it’s been repurposed again and again, and since weapons are generally not the most vital thing on a ship, they didn’t get around to really fixing it before they needed it. It’s also why Earth and Mars are scared of Belters throwing rocks - they’re literally everywhere, they’re low technology and they don’t come out of easily detected weapons factories. They’re not as fancy as Earth and Mars’ torpedoes, but they get the job done.

Mars, on the other hand, seems to have poured all its creative energy into weapons technology, and all its population into its army via conscription, which is why they’ve ended up with the military-industrial complex to rule them all. Being the baddest ones out there has even taken precedence over terraforming their planet because considering the backstory of the Earth-Mars conflict, they’ll have to gain dominance over Earth first before they can get around to terraforming - otherwise Earth will threaten to attack them again. Alex was probably right when he said that if anyone knows how to figure out the protomolecule, it’s Martian scientists because they’re the best in the solar system, but the problem is that they’re that good because they get all the equipment and funding that they need, and they get that because in the end, whatever they find will be fed back into the military in order to push forward the great patriotic cause. That’s what happened with the Epstein drive that gave the Martian navy the edge over Earth for a while, and it’s what probably happened to lots of other inventions that weren’t even made by military people. Mars still doesn’t have Earth’s industrial base or population, so they couldn’t produce for quantity even if they wanted to, but what they can do is quality, so that’s what they’re aiming for. If you follow a Doylist explanation, one could also say that this perception that all Martian technology is military is a result of the show only showing members of the Martian navy so far, which is one reason why I’m looking forward to season 4 - I wanna see more of Martian civilian life. But from a Watsonian perspective, I think it makes a lot of sense that most scientific progress on Mars would somehow benefit its military because of their backstory and their general driven-ness. It’s a sad thought that so many inventions can, and possibly will, be turned into a weapon, but it’s also a very relevant commentary on our situation today, where science is progressing a lot faster than ethics or regulation.

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A Very Lucky Man

Summary: There are some things one learns to tolerate

Pairings: Chrisjen/Arjun, Chrisjen/others (including implied Chrisjen/Michael Iturbi, Chrisjen/Cotyar Ghazi)

Notes: I wanted to finish and post this today for hype week, but I’m holding off till after I’ve seen season four, so I can use anything we learn about Chrisjen and her family to expand the story. HOWEVER I thought the intro would be a fun teaser, as well as an exploration of Earth and Chrisjen and Chrisjen’s position. 

The history of the human race is one of constant change. From scattered tribes gathering berries, to the first small agricultural towns, to cities, the industrial revolution, the technological revolution, and the colonization of space, humans have pushed ceaselessly forward. In the last two hundred years, humans have spread across the solar system, colonizing Mars, and the Belt, the Jovian moons. Humans survived on the edge, pushing into places long assumed utterly inhospitable.I can’t wait to see more of these characters!!!

But just as humans have pushed to the edges of the solar system while dreaming of recreating the Earth they had left behind, some things don’t really change.

Mumbai was still overcrowded, and humid as fuck. And powerful people still got to play by different rules.

Chrisjen Avasarala looked out over the bay from the comfort of her climate controlled office and smiled. The voice of her aide coming in over the intercom pulled her gaze and made her frown. “Madame Governor? Your husband is on the line.”

Chrisjen cleared her throat. “Tell him I’m in a meeting. I’ll call him back when I’m finished. And next time when I tell you not to interrupt me, don’t fucking interrupt me!”

“Yes ma’am,” her aide replied, contrite but unperturbed. The voice of one well accustomed to Chrisjen’s manner.  

The intercom now mercifully silent, Chrisjen’s attention shifted again, gazing fondly at the head between her thighs and biting her lip. She ran her fingers through his hair, perfectly manicured nails scraping against his scalp. Hands clutched at her thighs, shoving the folds of her dress higher.

“Chrisjen… “ he whispered.

Her fingers tugged on his hair, pushing him back against her cunt. “Don’t stop,” she hissed.

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Expanse Hype Week - DAY o1: Earthers // Wake

AMOS BURTON

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Expanse Hype Week Day 03: Belters

This is my favorite moment of the show. I want pieces of this speech tattooed on my body. For me its one of the most powerful moments of the show and Cara Gee delivers it with such authority and ferocity and passion. Its :chefs kiss: so good.

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Expanse Hype Week - DAY o1: Earthers // Wake

We stan a boss bitch.