The Expanse
- Books vs Show
So I'm listening through the audiobooks, and am on book 5. Should I finish the series before watching the show?
- Tier 1 Operator vs Reckless Crazy Space Knight
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There's no way they're ready for this ambush after getting their ear drums blown out
- Light, as I’m sure you know, is a membrane phenomenon on the surface of time
“Light, as I’m sure you know, is a membrane phenomenon on the surface of time”
Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey
I don’t know what this means. For context, the side character explains it’s what allows the gate builders to act as a hive mind even though there is time delay in the speed of light.
- Just finished S01E02 - New viewers get in here for discussion.
No spoilers allowed. Only Ep 1 or 2 discussed here.
What are/were your impressions of the first 2 episodes?
I am liking the strong casting, plausible off-world conflicts and resource scarcity evaluations.
May require more hard science or physics for full immersion. Can someone explain the reason for Holden's wrench to go flying?
- Point defense lasers
I've read other posts on places like Quora or Reddit about how ineffective lasers would be as anti personal or anti ship weaponry, but what about for point defense? We see cases in the story of the PDCs running out of ammo/jamming/other mechanical failures. Theoretically, lasers would be less prone to such issues as there are fewer moving parts, right? Contemporary militaries have (sea/air) ship mounted lasers to destroy or jam incoming missiles, so why wouldn't this work in space? I understand people or ships could have ablative armor but would that be practical on a missile? PDLs would not be subject to running out of ammo, and if ships can power railguns they should be able to provide ample power for lasers capable of slagging or jamming incoming missiles.
- I get it now. Spoilers to S0310 and Abaddon's Gate.
Warning: the following contains spoilers for the following works:
The Expanse, S01E01-S03E10. Abaddon's Gate (Book 3), James S.A. Corey Three-Body Problem &The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
If you want to try it out, read 5 books and watch almost three seasons of television.
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!!The ring gates are a Dark Forest weapons system. If this was clear to others, and I'm catching up, well, I'm slow. But, I just found out about Brin (1983).!!
Then, I got it. It's such a well-structured Whatsit.
I feel pretty good about this realization. I'm glad that these works work so well together.
- Stunning Desktop Backgrounds from the Expanse
I've tried to upload pretty high quality, but you might be able to find higher quality from reverse image search. I've got some more too that I might post in the future.
- Books like the expanse?
I'm 75% of the way through the last book in the series. I've read all of the novellas. What would you recommend next?
Three only other series I can think of that's similar is the Three Body series from Cixin Liu.
- Next step... The game?
Hi All,
I have read all the books. I have watched the show. Is the game the next step?
- The Expanse props auction is livepropstoreauction.com The Expanse Online Auction ... Coming This Summer
Propstore presents an exclusive online auction of over 300 original costumes, props, and more from the production of The Expanse.
Props from the show are now taking bids
- The original Rocinante was down the gravity wellecoevo.social Warren Currie 🦠🦐 (@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social)
Attached: 1 image @IvanRManuel@mstdn.social excellent questions. The FLIP ship could have missions about a month long. The whole idea around FLIP was to have 300 ft (91 m) of the hull submerged, and sensors could be all along that depth (plus winches on the surface could deploy sensors much deeper)...
- "How it Unfolds" new book by James S.A. Corey
There's a new novel, "How it Unfolds" by James SA Corey, which is unrelated to The Expanse.
It looks like it's part of an Amazon exclusive book series "The Far Reaches". I hope it'll be available by other means in the future.
- Album of the Rocinante brick buildimgur.com The Rocinante Build. - Album on Imgur
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Title pretty much covers it, hit me with any questions, loved the build, but took about 6 months, wouldn’t touch it for stretches.
- The brick [non-oc-MOC] Rocinante that I built, design by brickgloria
Total pieces is around 6,000 pieces.
- [Season 2x08] [potential spoiler] regarding the belter
Its my first run and I'm currently in the middle of Season 2 (episode 8: Pyre) so if the situation changes after that please don't spoiler me.
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Am I wrong that I really don't like the Belter?
They are so unorganized and aggressive and only out for themselves.
After Fred Johnson acquired the 30 Nukes as a contingency to defend the Belt against Mars and Earth, why are the leaders of the belt so daft and actually want to use them against the inner planets? Then that stupid mutiny against him after they kidnapped the remaining doctor.
And then that atrocity after Ganymede, where the Freighter simply ejected people from the inner planets when they were told to move to a different freighter. That was truly gut-wrenching.
Also, I'm quite sad but also happy that Miller sacrificed himself in Eros and be with Julie Mao for their final journey to Venus.
Besides that I would say that I fell in love with the series, the setting, the people and everything.
- The Expanse Characters: Another behind the scenes clip from Chris Danelon
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Sorry if my posts to the community come off spammy, just want to build some content here for any new members looking for an Expanse community on Lemmy.
Chris Danelon, one of the VR designers from The Expanse television show has released another video with more very interesting content from Season 1 of The Expanse that I have not seen. The video includes interviews with the cast about their characters and their relationships.
He shows the hard to find clips from the Season 1 marketing material and then gives some additional commentary from his experience on the show.
- Has anyone read 'How It Unfolds' by James S.A. Corey from The Far Reaches Collection?
This is a short Sci-Fi story set outside the world of The Expanse by our beloved authors behind James S.A. Corey. I haven't picked up the next books in the series by various other Sci-Fi authors yet, but How It Unfolds was excellent and I am still thinking about the story many days later. The life lessons are valuable, especially for me at this time in my life.
Anyone read it? Opinions? Anyone read the next ones in the series yet?
- @TheExpanseVerse on Twitter: "There will be lots of cool Expanse content to come in the future so be sure to stay tuned!"
Whatever it is, I'm here for it. I still need to get my hands on the new comic books and I will be playing the Telltale game. I'm still holding onto hope we will see an end to the series in some video format in the future.
- The Expanse Future Worlds: A new video by Chris Danelon
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Chris Danelon, one of the VR designers from The Expanse television show has released his latest video with very interesting content from Season 1 of The Expanse that I have not seen. The video includes interviews with the cast about "future worlds" in The Expanse.
He shows the hard to find clips from the Season 1 marketing material and then gives some additional commentary from his experience on the show.
- Fediverse is exactly how I imagined the internet worked in the expanse
Title..., but also again this is kinda how I though that the internet was in the expanse where each station each planet and each ship kinda worked. Now we are the people traveling from one station to another and connecting the servers and the leaving for some other place, I really can't wait to see the fediverse grow to the scales of the expanse