![]() "In the first book, was all about, 'Give people the information and let them make their decisions. ![]() And he keeps doing that, but takes a … subtler tack. Unlike Prax, Holden has taken a very active role throughout the series, leaking information and trying to effect change across the solar system. ![]() "That's something that came up several times in the book, the way that people have effects on each other and never know, never get to find out what the effect of their work was." "Prax has this little line that goes through this that shows you part of the story that nobody else is seeing and informs the part of the war and the connections in it that no one person has their eyes on all the time," Abraham said. The authors also revisit Prax, the chief botanist on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, who searched for his daughter in the second novel, "Caliban's War." Abraham said that Prax proved one of the most difficult to write because of the way his story wove in with everyone else's. … And I think the end of her story is one of the things that's going to surprise the fans, too, where that all ends up." The pirates have only ever been bad guys. Unlike anyone that's been a point-of-view character before, she's a hard-core OPA freedom fighter. "Michio Pa is a character we've never written before, unlike any character we've written before," Franck said. Pa features in the third book in the series, "Abaddon's Gate," as well as the novella "The Vital Abyss." But although readers have seen her before, there's never been a character viewpoint quite like hers, the authors said. Not to mention the slightly OTT speech he gives the stealth ship and the crew pictures he sends, which could've provoked them to fire on the Knight."That's not something we've done before, and it's probably not a thing we're really likely to do again, but it was cool for this one," Abraham said.Īmong those viewpoints is a familiar character: Michio Pa, a member of the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), which purports to be a government for the people of the asteroid belt. Also, In the books, he sends the broadcast about the MCRN beacon pretty much unprompted, which is why P&K are so pissed off after he contacts them about where they should go, and why they tell him to fully cooperate when the Donnager comes to pick them up. So the most optimal outcome for their survival is broadcasting. If Mars didn't do it, they won't kill them regardless of whether he broadcasts. If Mars did blow up the Cant and he broadcasts, they might not kill them because it'll make them look guilty. His thinking is: if Mars did blow up the Cant and he doesn't broadcast, they're going to kill them (finish the job). If some other random ship picked them up, he likely wouldn't have done anything. ![]() He does it as a last resort specifically as a deterrent ("insurance"). I don't think he outright says Mars blew up the Cant - he says the distress beacon was MCRN, that they were about to get picked up by an MCRN ship, and if anything happened to them that would mean Mars was responsible. It's changed in the show to quickly establish Holden as someone with a strong moral center, not for empty drama.Īs for the Cant and Mars, I actually think what he does in the show is smarter. Sure, in hindsight it gets the Cant blown up, but "shadowy corporation with stealth tech itching to start a war" is not something anyone reasonably would've concluded from it (especially after he hears Julie's message). I don't think logging the distress call is necessarily dumb. ![]() That last line is not stating that Mars did indeed destroy the Cant, only that killing Holden and his crew would be the bit of confirming evidence needed to conclude that Mars killed the Cant. We are about to be taken aboard the MCRN Donnager." - there's a bit here where the others are speaking over him, can't make out his words - "We intend to cooperate and hope this means we won't be harmed." - Amos offers to kill Holden to Naomi, Holden says they're dead anyway, then continues the broadcast - "Any such action will only confirm that the Canterbury was destroyed by Mars." - broadcast ends We recovered a false beacon and identified it as Martian naval technology. Our ship was destroyed answering a bogus SOS from a ship called the Scopuli. "My name is James Holden, speaking for the five survivors of the Canterbury. I've quoted the transmission scene from the show below. Holden does not state that Mars destroyed the Cant in the show, instead he largely says what he said in the book, that Martian tech was found on board. E.g in the show he flat out says that martians destroyed the Canterbury, but in the books he simply says that there was martian tech involved in the incident. ![]()
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