Miller becomes trapped there and dies when it crashes into Venus. Learning that it is an extra-solar bio-weapon known as the protomolecule, they attempt to destroy Eros. The crew of the Rocinante, along with members of the OPA, attack the station responsible for the biohazard on Eros. Chrisjen sends her family away after realizing that a faction within the UN is responsible for the demise of both ships. The crew of the Rocinante, with Miller's help, investigate and eventually discover a biohazard that kills off most of the humans on the asteroid spaceport Eros, including Julie. They rename the ship Rocinante, which becomes the main setting of the series. James Holden, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal, and Amos Burton survive both attacks and escape in the Tachi, a Martian gunship. The Canterbury, an industrial ice-harvesting ship, and the Martian Navy flagship Donnager are destroyed by unknown stealth ships. Ceres police investigator Josephus "Joe" Miller is tasked with finding a missing young woman, Julie Mao, who has ties to the OPA. UN Deputy Undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala works to prevent simmering tensions between the United Nations and Mars from erupting into all-out war. Both ruthlessly exploit and oppress the alien "Belter" populations of the OPA to gain control of their valuable natural resources. The United Nations are a militaristic, ultra-capitalist society with authoritarian undertones, while the Martians have evolved into a corporatist culture. The three largest powers are the United Nations of Earth and Luna, the Martian Congressional Republic on Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a loose political confederation of colonies scattered across the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Hundreds of years in the future, humanity has colonized the Solar System. Amazon later acquired the series, producing three more seasons, with the sixth and final season premiering on December 10, 2021. Syfy cancelled the series after three seasons. It received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and three Saturn Award nominations for Best Science Fiction Television Series. The Expanse has received a positive critical response, with particular praise for its visuals, character development and political narrative. Set in a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System, it follows a disparate band of protagonists - United Nations Security Council member Chrisjen Avasarala ( Shohreh Aghdashloo), cynical detective Josephus Miller ( Thomas Jane), and ship's officer James Holden ( Steven Strait) and his crew - as they unwittingly unravel and place themselves at the center of a conspiracy that threatens the system's fragile peace, while dealing with existential crises brought forth by newly discovered alien technology. The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for the Syfy network and is based on the series of novels of the same name by James S.
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