With a cast that includes Steven Strait (James Holden), Dominique Tipper (Naomi Nagata), Wes Chatham (Amos Burton), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Chrisjen Avasarala), Cara Gee (Camina Drummer), Frankie Adams (Bobbie Draper), Keon Alexander (Marco Inaros), Nadine Nicole (Clarissa Mao), and Jasai Chase Owens (Filip Inaros), The Expanse season six debuts December 10 on Prime Video, with weekly episodes dropping until the January 14 series finale. The assistance and war in the game are all real-time.

And on a distant planet beyond the Rings, a new power begins to rise.” Join the alliance and find partners from all over the world To defeat the incoming enemy, you need to face aggression from players all over the world This is an RTS game at the same time. Meanwhile in the Belt, Drummer and what’s left of her family are on the run and hunted for betraying Marco. As the tensions of war and shared loss threaten to pull the crew of the Rocinante apart, Chrisjen Avasarala makes a bold move and sends former Martian Marine Bobbie Draper on a secret mission that could turn the tide. The official description: “This season of The Expanse picks up with the solar system at war, as Marco Inaros and his Free Navy continue to launch devastating asteroid attacks on Earth and Mars. We also get last season’s charismatic villain, Marco Inaros, picking up exactly where he left off (with what looks to be the help of a new character played by Kathleen Robertson) a clandestine new mission for Bobbie Draper that’ll reunite her with the Roci crew Drummer assembling an anti-Inaros squad of former OPA rivals some epic space battles (and the discovery of “the motherlode” … no spoilers in the comments, book readers!) and make sure you watch all the way to the end because OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?

So much to unpack here, starting with Chrisjen Avasarala setting the table with some very dire narration (“We wandered, broken, trying desperately to keep ourselves going by pretending we’re not”) over a montage of our heroes in various settings (a decimated Earth, the Rocinante, ships in the Belt) looking very weary indeed.

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