Discover Top Posts Tagged with #the protomolecule

I love how when we first meet the doctor in charge of the protomolecule project he explicitly says it’s not airborne, but when Miller is on Eros he gets infected by breathing it in

It’s such a subtle way to show how it evolves and I love it so much

#this show is so good #lowkey haven’t watched anything this good and aware since Andor #god I love space shows #the expanse #the protomolecule

The Protomolecule from The Expanse series

Eat or Fuck: The Protomolecule (The Expanse)

Eat

Fuck

Voting ended onJun 17, 2025

The protomolecule is an infectious agent of extra-terrestrial origin... It has the ability to radically alter infected life forms and utilize their biomass in various ways.

Not a life-form in itself, the protomolecule... "a set of free-floating instructions designed to adapt to and guide other replicating systems". It is able to maintain and adapt its primary structure in a wide variety of conditions, and it has an affinity for carbon and silicon structures, but is likely anaerobic and will not degrade upon exposure to oxygen. Naomi Nagata identified the substance aboard the Anubis as a "nano-fluid"... some form of nanotechnology, essentially functioning as a pseudo-biological "computers". As molecular nanomachines, the protomolecule uses ionizing radiation as an energy source. Its growth significantly accelerates if it is exposed to high doses of ionizing radiation, and it depends only on the abundance of such energy.

#eat or fuck #submissions #the protomolecule #protomolecule #the expanse

Fives’s vision suddenly glitched. Echo looked to his right, and saw Camina’s still, quiet face, staring back at him.

“Do not tell me that’s the thing on your head talking, clonemang .”

To Guard Against Titans

——————-

It feels weird posting this on OC Sunday. Fives is not an OC. Neither is Camina Drummer.

And Fives sure as hell shows up in this second crossover longfic.

But he's blue. And screaming. And in pain. And...probably not Fives?

Echo wonders if it's his brain, his trauma, or something else. He's in the world of The Expanse after all....is it the Protomolecule? And if that isn't Fives, who is it?

(We'll call him The Dead Soldier, and, like The Kind Man in Far Past the Ring and The Investigator in The Expanse, he is indeed, part of the Protomolecule)