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Aboard the Gathering Storm, Captain Draper leads a team including Alex on a daring mission to intercept a Laconian transport ship. After a mostly successful mission, Bobbie's team capture five antimatter bombs but accidentally kill a political officer. Naomi does not participate in the transport intercept and heads out in search of more politically safe moves.
  
Aboard the Gathering Storm, Captain Draper leads a team including Alex on a daring mission to intercept a Laconian transport ship. After a mostly successful mission, Bobbie's team capture five antimatter bombs but accidentally kill a political officer. Naomi does not participate in the transport intercept and heads out in search of more politically safe moves.
   
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Elvi Akoye who leading a scientific mission for the Laconian Empire, on a ship specifically made for the mission, the Falcon, which has liquid g chambers, where crew a capable of sustaining 20g. The Falcon flies around with a person that was sent to Cortazar's lab, The Pens. The mission which Elvi is tasked to do is, fly around system to system doing scientific studies in the unexplored systems which may have Protomolecule Artifacts, which they will test using the person infected with Protomolecule, similar to how the ProtoMiller activated and disabled Protomolecule assets, just by being present. The mission that Elvi does not know about is the Laconian's Military objective of finding a relatively sparse and uninhabited system to conduct military weapons tests. During her travels, Elvi finds a system with a large diamond like structure that could be a Rosetta Stone of the Protomolecule creators but she is ordered to leave before she can do any serious studies. The next system they arrive in meets the military requirements of a sparse system. They soon conduct a weapons test by sending a Laconian bomb ship into the Protomolecule network and exploding the ship while it was phasing between the two gates, this test was conducted against Elvi advisement. The test resulted in a few unfortunate events, first the relatively sparse system which contained a neutron star begins an event that will release about 10 million years of Sol's energy in one pulsar. The Falcon attempts to escape the blast and retreats into The Laconian System. Right after, the neutron star pulsar destroys not only its own systems gate but also the gate on the opposite side of the game in the Slow Zone. The pulsar also causes a missing time skipping event throughout the gate network connected systems, similar to when Pallas Station was destroyed. The Falcon is nearly destroyed, but Elvi is capable of navigating the Falcon out of danger, unfortunately half the crew dies and the rest, including Elvi are injured, missing pieces of body parts or like pieces of Elvi's leg and then her hand. Everyone in the Slow Zone including Resistance Leader Saba are killed.
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Elvi Akoye who leading a scientific mission for the Laconian Empire, on a ship specifically made for the mission, the Falcon, which has liquid g chambers, where crew a capable of sustaining 20g. The Falcon flies around with a person that was sent to Cortazar's lab, The Pens. The mission which Elvi is tasked to do is, fly around system to system doing scientific studies in the unexplored systems which may have Protomolecule Artifacts, which they will test using the person infected with Protomolecule, similar to how the ProtoMiller activated and disabled Protomolecule assets, just by being present. The mission that Elvi does not know about is the Laconian's Military objective of finding a relatively sparse and uninhabited system to conduct military weapons tests. During her travels, Elvi finds a system with a large diamond like structure that could be a Rosetta Stone of the Protomolecule Creators but she is ordered to leave before she can do any serious studies. The next system they arrive in meets the military requirements of a sparse system. They soon conduct a weapons test by sending a Laconian bomb ship into the Protomolecule network and exploding the ship while it was phasing between the two gates, this test was conducted against Elvi advisement. The test resulted in a few unfortunate events, first the relatively sparse system which contained a neutron star begins an event that will release about 10 million years of Sol's energy in one pulsar. The Falcon attempts to escape the blast and retreats into The Laconian System. Right after, the neutron star pulsar destroys not only its own systems gate but also the gate on the opposite side of the game in the Slow Zone. The pulsar also causes a missing time skipping event throughout the gate network connected systems, similar to when Pallas Station was destroyed. The Falcon is nearly destroyed, but Elvi is capable of navigating the Falcon out of danger, unfortunately half the crew dies and the rest, including Elvi are injured, missing pieces of body parts or like pieces of Elvi's leg and then her hand. Everyone in the Slow Zone including Resistance Leader Saba are killed.
   
 
When Naomi finally arrives at her destination, she meets up with the local resistance who she flew with back in the Fred Johnson days. After learning of Saba's fate Naomi takes over as leader of the Laconian Resistance, she sends out her plans to everyone in the resistance she can contact.
 
When Naomi finally arrives at her destination, she meets up with the local resistance who she flew with back in the Fred Johnson days. After learning of Saba's fate Naomi takes over as leader of the Laconian Resistance, she sends out her plans to everyone in the resistance she can contact.
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On Laconia we follow most of the events through the point of view Teresa the daughter of High Consul Durate. She lives a busy life on Laconia and has little freedom. Her father begins to add more responsibilities to her day, grooming her to become the leader of Laconia if one day he no longer rule it. On what little free time Teresa has, she will escape the Consulate Governmental Building and go on walk with her dog. On one walk, Teresa meets a man named Timothy(Amos)who befriended her and is surviving by himself. Amos plans to nuke the Consulate but meeting Teresa "Tiny" complicates his plans. Later, when the time skip event occur, following the weapons test, Durarte is sent into a coma like state where he is no longer cognizant of the real world, swiping at the air sometimes. After this Teresa heads up to Timothy's cave, she inadvertently leads security to Timothy's cave who kill Timothy. After Teresa is taken back to Consulate, Timothy's body is taken away by the native Laconian repair drones.
  
On Laconia we follow most of the events through the point of view Teresa the daughter of High Consul Durate. She lives a busy life on Laconia and has little freedom. Her father begins to add more responsibilities to her day, grooming her to become the leader of Laconia if one day he no longer rule it. On what little free time Teresa has, she will escape the Consulate Governmental Building and go on walk with her dog. On one walk, Teresa meets a man named Timothy(Amos)who befriended her and is surviving by himself. Amos plans to nuke the Consulate but meeting Teresa "Tiny" complicates his plans. Later, when the time skip event occur, following the weapons test, Durarte is sent into a coma like state where he is no longer cognizant of the real world, swiping at the air sometimes. After this Teresa heads up to Timothy's cave, she inadvertently leads security to Timothy's cave who kill Timothy. After Teresa is taken back to Consulate, Timothy's body is taken away by the native Laconian repair drones.
   
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Elvi during this time has been given increasing responsibilities to help Duarte get better, looking over his work. Holden who has been in contact with Cortazar, Duarte and a little bit with Teresa has been playing a long term chess games, in order to drive a wedge between Cortazar and Duarte. Holden's plan comes to head when he tells Teresa to watch his conversations with Cortazar. Holden has been suggesting using as Teresa a subject to study to help Duarte get better. When Cortazars slightly mentions this on camera, Teresa become aware of the fact the Cortizar wants to kill her. She lets Elvi know of Cortazar's intentions and she lets Trejo know. Teresa also goes to her father and tells him about Cortazar, Durate seems to be unaffected by the news, still swiping at the air. Later in the meeting in Durate's room Elvi, Cortazar and Trejo discuss the future of the Empire. Durarte at one point gets up and mumbles to himself near Cortazar, the next second without a gun shot, Duarte causes Cortazar's head explodes, dying.
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Elvi during this time has been given increasing responsibilities to help Duarte recover, looking over his work. Holden who has been in contact with Cortazar, Duarte and a little bit with Teresa has been playing a long term chess games, in order to drive a wedge between Cortazar and Duarte. Holden's plan comes to head when he tells Teresa to watch his conversations with Cortazar. Holden has been suggesting using as Teresa a subject to study to help Duarte get better. When Cortazars slightly mentions this on camera, Teresa become aware of the fact the Cortizar wants to kill her. She lets Elvi know of Cortazar's intentions and she lets Trejo know. Teresa also goes to her father and tells him about Cortazar, Durate seems to be unaffected by the news, still swiping at the air. Later in the meeting in Durate's room Elvi, Cortazar and Trejo discuss the future of the Empire. Durarte at one point gets up and mumbles to himself near Cortazar, the next second without a gun shot, Duarte causes Cortazar's head explodes, dying.
   
 
Naomi's plan finally comes to head, over 400 ships arrive to resist Laconia, including three Donnager Class battleships. Naomi's plan to disable Laconia begins with baiting the Whirlwind and retreating away. When the Whirlwind gets far enough away from Laconia, a few ships of Naomi's fleet dive for the alien orbital construction yards. When the ships are close enough they fire rail guns into the orbital construction yards destroying them, all this while dodging rail guns from planetary defense systems. This accomplishes the goal of taking away Laconia's advantage of creating new alien ships and produce antimatter.
  
Naomi's plan finally comes to head, over 400 ships arrive to resist Laconia, including three Donnager Class battleships. Naomi's plan to disable Laconia begins with baiting the Whirlwind and retreating away. When the Whirlwind gets far enough away from Laconia, a few ships of Naomi's fleet dive for the alien orbital construction yards. When the ships are close enough they fire rail guns into the orbital construction yards destroying them, all this while dodging rail guns from planetary defense systems. This accomplishes the goal of taking away Laconia's advantage of creating new alien ships and produce antimatter.

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Tiamat's Wrath is the eighth novel in The Expanse series. It was originally projected to be released on December 4, 2018, a year after the preceding novel, Persepolis Rising; however, was postponed to March 26, 2019.[1][2]

Its title and cover were revealed on April 3, 2018.[3]

Blurb

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.

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 the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. 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.

And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. 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. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough...[4]

Plot

Spoiler-war“The enemy is here” —  Spoilers for Tiamat's Wrath follow.

A couple years after events of Persepolis Rising, the Rocinante is stowed away on Freehold to be saved for a later day and Avasarala is dead. The former crew of the Rocinante are spread across the vast Laconian Empire. Holden is a valued prisoner of the Laconian Consulate. Bobbie, Alex and Naomi are maintaining low profiles in Sol System. Amos is undercover on a covert mission on Laconia.

Aboard the Gathering Storm, Captain Draper leads a team including Alex on a daring mission to intercept a Laconian transport ship. After a mostly successful mission, Bobbie's team capture five antimatter bombs but accidentally kill a political officer. Naomi does not participate in the transport intercept and heads out in search of more politically safe moves.

Elvi Akoye who leading a scientific mission for the Laconian Empire, on a ship specifically made for the mission, the Falcon, which has liquid g chambers, where crew a capable of sustaining 20g. The Falcon flies around with a person that was sent to Cortazar's lab, The Pens. The mission which Elvi is tasked to do is, fly around system to system doing scientific studies in the unexplored systems which may have Protomolecule Artifacts, which they will test using the person infected with Protomolecule, similar to how the ProtoMiller activated and disabled Protomolecule assets, just by being present. The mission that Elvi does not know about is the Laconian's Military objective of finding a relatively sparse and uninhabited system to conduct military weapons tests. During her travels, Elvi finds a system with a large diamond like structure that could be a Rosetta Stone of the Protomolecule Creators but she is ordered to leave before she can do any serious studies. The next system they arrive in meets the military requirements of a sparse system. They soon conduct a weapons test by sending a Laconian bomb ship into the Protomolecule network and exploding the ship while it was phasing between the two gates, this test was conducted against Elvi advisement. The test resulted in a few unfortunate events, first the relatively sparse system which contained a neutron star begins an event that will release about 10 million years of Sol's energy in one pulsar. The Falcon attempts to escape the blast and retreats into The Laconian System. Right after, the neutron star pulsar destroys not only its own systems gate but also the gate on the opposite side of the game in the Slow Zone. The pulsar also causes a missing time skipping event throughout the gate network connected systems, similar to when Pallas Station was destroyed. The Falcon is nearly destroyed, but Elvi is capable of navigating the Falcon out of danger, unfortunately half the crew dies and the rest, including Elvi are injured, missing pieces of body parts or like pieces of Elvi's leg and then her hand. Everyone in the Slow Zone including Resistance Leader Saba are killed.

When Naomi finally arrives at her destination, she meets up with the local resistance who she flew with back in the Fred Johnson days. After learning of Saba's fate Naomi takes over as leader of the Laconian Resistance, she sends out her plans to everyone in the resistance she can contact.

After consulting with Naomi, Bobbie and Alex head out on a mission to destroy the Tempest, one of only two Magnetar Class Ships, since the Eye of the Typhoon was also destroyed when pulsar went through the Slow Zone. Using knowledge they gained from the transport ship intercept, they use a blind spot in the Tempest's sensor view, in order to get Bobbie and a copilot in a small tea kettle ship close enough so they can send a small rocket with a antimatter bomb attached to destroy the Tempest. Unfortunately Bobbie's ship takes pdc damage upon approach. Bobbie's copilot is dead but the antimatter bombs are untouched. Seeing that she will no longer be able to get the antimatter bombs close with the rockets they had, she takes a final measure of using her Laconian Power Armor thruster's to accelerate the antimatter bomb towards the Tempest. Bobbie realizing there is no chance she can be saved, uses the remaining amount of bullets she has to get into the sensor range of the Tempest which kills her with a rail gun strike. She does this to prevent Alex from making any dangerous rescue plans. As Storm retreats from the Tempest, the antimatter bombs explode destroying the Tempest, also destroying the remaining antimatter bombs. The crew of the Strom receive a large amount of radiation in the blast.

After receiving the sad news of Bobbies death, Alex reveals that he is heading back to Freehold to unwrap the Rocinante for the upcoming fight that Naomi is planning. Naomi who continues in as Saba's successor heads to Freehold to meet up with Alex who she assists in getting the Rocinante in ship shape for an atmosphere launch. Soon enough they are ready to head off into space to get "closer" to the Ring Gates for "better" communications. While in transit the Rocinante is hit with another time skip event. This event only affects three systems but last 20 minutes, longer than the previous events.

On Laconia we follow most of the events through the point of view Teresa the daughter of High Consul Durate. She lives a busy life on Laconia and has little freedom. Her father begins to add more responsibilities to her day, grooming her to become the leader of Laconia if one day he no longer rule it. On what little free time Teresa has, she will escape the Consulate Governmental Building and go on walk with her dog. On one walk, Teresa meets a man named Timothy(Amos)who befriended her and is surviving by himself. Amos plans to nuke the Consulate but meeting Teresa "Tiny" complicates his plans. Later, when the time skip event occur, following the weapons test, Durarte is sent into a coma like state where he is no longer cognizant of the real world, swiping at the air sometimes. After this Teresa heads up to Timothy's cave, she inadvertently leads security to Timothy's cave who kill Timothy. After Teresa is taken back to Consulate, Timothy's body is taken away by the native Laconian repair drones.

Elvi during this time has been given increasing responsibilities to help Duarte recover, looking over his work. Holden who has been in contact with Cortazar, Duarte and a little bit with Teresa has been playing a long term chess games, in order to drive a wedge between Cortazar and Duarte. Holden's plan comes to head when he tells Teresa to watch his conversations with Cortazar. Holden has been suggesting using as Teresa a subject to study to help Duarte get better. When Cortazars slightly mentions this on camera, Teresa become aware of the fact the Cortizar wants to kill her. She lets Elvi know of Cortazar's intentions and she lets Trejo know. Teresa also goes to her father and tells him about Cortazar, Durate seems to be unaffected by the news, still swiping at the air. Later in the meeting in Durate's room Elvi, Cortazar and Trejo discuss the future of the Empire. Durarte at one point gets up and mumbles to himself near Cortazar, the next second without a gun shot, Duarte causes Cortazar's head explodes, dying.

Naomi's plan finally comes to head, over 400 ships arrive to resist Laconia, including three Donnager Class battleships. Naomi's plan to disable Laconia begins with baiting the Whirlwind and retreating away. When the Whirlwind gets far enough away from Laconia, a few ships of Naomi's fleet dive for the alien orbital construction yards. When the ships are close enough they fire rail guns into the orbital construction yards destroying them, all this while dodging rail guns from planetary defense systems. This accomplishes the goal of taking away Laconia's advantage of creating new alien ships and produce antimatter.

During the engagement, the Rocinante receives Amos's codes for evacuation. The codes were sent from Teresa who has rescued Holden. When the two make an escape they are confronted by Teresa's handler and security threating to kill them. Out of no where a "repaired" Amos kills the three Laconians, getting permission from "Tiny" for the last one. Soon after, the group is evacuated by the Rocinante, not knowing who the new passenger with a dog was. When leaving Laconia, the Rocinante is threatened by the Whirlwind, who hesitates when Teresa gets on the comm and declares she is working on mission with the rebels straight from her father. The Whirlwind sends ten missiles at the Rocinante which it destroys with pdc's.

On Laconia, as Holdens last move in the chess game was, Elvi taking over the science directorate, from where Cortazar left off. Her first moves are to shut down Cortazar's Pens and release the two Laconian children who were also repaired by the Laconian Repair Drones. She declares to Trejo that the greatest potential of information is exploring the large Rosetta Stone Protomolecule diamond.

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Trivia

  • The title refers to Tiamat, a primordial goddess associated with creating the cosmos from chaos in ancient Babylonian mythology. The entity has been described as a serpent or dragon. According to the myth recorded on ancient cuneiform tablets, the deity Enki captured and killed Tiamat's partner, Abzû. As a display of her wrath, Tiamat created eleven monsters of her own offspring to wage war against the deities and avenge her mate's death.


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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://redd.it/9ap0b9
    https://twitter.com/AbrahamHanover/status/1034072354836504576
    https://www.orbitbooks.net/2018/08/27/tiamats-wrath-coming-in-spring-2019
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Original Scheduled Release: December 4, 2018 Authoritative Reference TBD
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/JamesSACorey/status/981269809986850817
    https://www.facebook.com/JamesSACorey/photos/a.530312317031385.1073741824.418647581531193/1831993770196560
  4. ↑ Tiamat's Wrath on Amazon


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