The ship enables fast travel from system to system. With the Falcon, a Laconian ship specifically made for the mission, they study Dead systems. High Consul Duarte arrives at the reception, and Holden notices how some of his physical features are off because of the Protomolecule testing that Paolo Cortázar has done on him.Įlvi Okoye, now a major in the Laconian Empire, leads a scientific mission for the Empire, with her husband Fayez and a number of other scientists. So while Holden makes his way through all of those famous and powerful people at the reception in the state building, he runs into Camina Drummer, and they converse about their predicament under Laconian rule. As incentivized science institutes, businesses, and celebirites all had moved to Laconia Capital City, Duarte moved the center of humanity to Laconia. By the end of the service, Holden runs into Kiki, Avasarala's granddaughter, and they discus the impact her grandmother's legacy had on them. Then, when Winston Duarte moved the funeral service and her tomb to Laconia, Holden could still hardly believe she was gone. He is attending the Funeral of Chrisjen Avasarala, who died in her sleep four months earlier on Luna. “The enemy is here” - Spoilers for Tiamat's Wrath follow.įour years after the Laconia-Sol Conflict, James Holden is an honored prisoner on Laconia. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule - and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess.Īnd throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.Īt the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy.
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