![]() He's showing the ropes to a new recruit, Dmitri Havelock, with their first stop being at a brothel. Here we meet Joe Miller, a hard-boiled, hard-drinking, hat-wearing detective for Star Helix Security - and, according to the preacher, a welwala - a traitor to his people. The preacher rails against the slave-like conditions of the Belters who work the docks, living in a world where their air and water are rationed … and warns of an impending war between Mars and Earth, with Ceres caught in the middle. As we learn from an angry street preacher, Ceres was once covered in ice … until Mars and Earth stole it all. Now we're on Ceres, an asteroid that's been transformed into the most vital port in The Belt. A deformed figure cries out as it's sucked into this vortex, and the woman screams … Miller gets a new assignment She makes her way to the Engineering Bay, which is enveloped in what looks like unstable blue lightning. She stifles a shriek as a spacesuit floats past her … was there anybody inside it? She explores her seemingly deserted environment, noticing what looks like blood by the airlock door and an S.O.S. As we will soon learn, this woman's name is Julie Mao. She puts on magnetic boots that allow her to move about in the gravity-free environment. She guides them to her lips and swallows.įinally, she manages to break free of the room, donning a space suit labeled with the name JULIE and the word SCOPULI. She checks her water supply: two drops float in front of her face. We hear the sounds of some sort of commotion from outside her room, then silence. We begin, rather ominously, with a young woman, floating in tight metal quarters in zero gravity. For decades, tensions have been rising - Earth, Mars and the Belt are now on the brink of war. In the Belt, air and water are more precious than gold. The inner planets depend on the resources of the asteroid belt. In the 23rd century, humans have colonized the Solar System. On Ceres Station, Detective Miller begins an off-the-books investigation of a missing heiress, Julie Mao. In the asteroid belt near Saturn, James Holden and the crew of the ice freighter Canterbury investigate a distress call from a mysterious derelict ship, the Scopuli. 4.4 Life aboard a space station has its perils.4.2 Things work differently around here. ![]() 2.5 Life aboard a space station has its perils.
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