The Expanse

They finished them all? No more books? Every time I used to look in the past they were always writing more :cry:
Yep they are all out now. Now you just have 5694 pages of reading to do :D .

They were releasing a book every year (bar the final book but that was probably delayed because of COVID), so fair play to them. At leasy the story is finished unlike another popular IP :D


Is this still on Amazon prime?
Yes it is.
 
I'll probably start over, watch a few seasons, forget about it again, and repeat, never getting to see the end. Maybe i should get the books and a pack of bookmarks :p

Haha. Will leave this here in return then :p

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"Range" isn't just "how far they'll go", a thrown rock in space will continue going potentially forever.

However effective and usable range is very much a thing, for example you have to take into account the communications time for a round trip a controlled rocket, or the sort of engines it has and if they can be shut down and restarted, which means if you're firing at something a long way off you are going to be fighting:
How far the target can move in that time and how that compares to how you expected them to move, which means:
Does your missile have enough smarts to compensate?
Does your missile have enough "sight" to see that change? (especially active sensors that can and will give it away)
If no to either of those how good are the launch platform sensors and can they get that updated information to the missiles in time.


Then you've got "how soon is your missile seen" which means that the further away you fire from, or the faster your missiles bring up their active sensors the longer the target has in which to spot them and take avoiding action or to use counter measures.

The last thing is, your missile might have a specific maximum speed it can reach which will be affected by the launch platforms bearing relative to the target and if it can give it a boost on it's way, the enemy might be moving at a speed that means even at maximum power your missiles might run out of juice before they can reach attack range.

Space combat with non warp speed engines, and light speed comms is very much about positioning and relative bearings and velocities, you can have a super best ever missile, but if you launch it too soon it could perform worse than a rock thrown closer in or a mine left in the likely path.

One of the best examples of this I've found is the Honor Harrington books, where the author goes in (at times extreme) detail about the performance of the missiles, and key points of multiple story lines are based specifically on the relative performance of different weapon systems and the sort of advantage having even really basic FTL comms can give in fights across something the size of a planetary system, and how even "low tech" systems can beat the higher performance ones if used in a smart manner/if you're willing to lose them in high enough numbers (IE one side has really smart missiles that can go much further and faster under control, the other side counters with much bigger/dirtier counter missiles as they can't hit the incoming ones precisely so decide it's better to get a huge near miss that'll hopefully knock out a couple or at least blind the sensors).
This guy really space warfares!
 
So just finished season six, after someone introduced this to me a few weeks ago. Really enjoyed it all, but it sounds like there isn't likely to be a wrap up of the remaining threads. Whilst I'm not really a book person, I'd really like to find out how everything pans out with the remaining threads which were left open. Is the show aligned well enough with the books that I could potentially complete the series or is it too abstract? Is there a specific set of books I'd need to read? Thanks
 
So just finished season six, after someone introduced this to me a few weeks ago. Really enjoyed it all, but it sounds like there isn't likely to be a wrap up of the remaining threads. Whilst I'm not really a book person, I'd really like to find out how everything pans out with the remaining threads which were left open. Is the show aligned well enough with the books that I could potentially complete the series or is it too abstract? Is there a specific set of books I'd need to read? Thanks
To pick up where the TV show was cancelled and finish the story, you want to read (in order) :

Persepolis Rising
Tiamat's Wrath
Leviathan Falls

Properly wraps it up, worth doing if you liked the TV series. The TV show follows the books almost exactly to that point so it'll make sense.
 
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So just finished season six, after someone introduced this to me a few weeks ago. Really enjoyed it all, but it sounds like there isn't likely to be a wrap up of the remaining threads. Whilst I'm not really a book person, I'd really like to find out how everything pans out with the remaining threads which were left open. Is the show aligned well enough with the books that I could potentially complete the series or is it too abstract? Is there a specific set of books I'd need to read? Thanks

Kind of, most of the broad strokes are the same, but the specific routes the show took versus the books are very different in places. I'd personally recommend reading the whole series but you could probably get away with skipping to the last 3 books as long as you're prepared for a few "hang on, I thought they were dead" and "wait, this isn't what I expect this character to be like" issues, they'll be a few strange moments where show versions of characters being your mental image of them will contrast massively with what you're reading.
 
Has anyone signed up for the Graphica Novels on Kickstarter?

I did... Went for the "Inners Edition" (Red Metal box version) which is the 3 x Hardcover version (4 comics in each) and added the 12 x individual books, Origins SC and Expanse SC

So far I have received Wave 1 which is HC1, Origins, Expanse and Issues 1-4 of the comics.
Waves 2 (HC2 and comics 5-8) is due soon with Wave 3 (HC3, Comics 9-12 and any addons) to follow later this year.

Really excellent quality books. The HC version for the Inners is black with red foil detailing and page edge gilding.

The story fills in the 30 year gap between book 6 and book 7 and is near completion (issue 10 just released so 2 more to go)

Here's some images of what I received so far:

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Big fan of the show. Not read the books but plan to so went ahead and got these as well - https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-expanse-collectors-edition-bundle-deal

Hopefully they will continue the collector's editions for all the books as they really are good quality specials
 
I got an email today to back a Kickstarter for the action figures, anyone get in on that?

Yeah I seen it - LINKY... Just reached its pledge level as well so its going ahead. Decided not to get in on that one myself as not 100% sure on them.

I did start getting the EagleMoss ships before they went defunct and taken over by Master Replicas (Epstein's Yacht missing from this older pic):

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Yeah I seen it - LINKY... Just reached its pledge level as well so its going ahead. Decided not to get in on that one myself as not 100% sure on them.

I did start getting the EagleMoss ships before they went defunct and taken over by Master Replicas (Epstein's Yacht missing from this older pic):

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Damn I want a rocinante so bad....
I pledged for the miller figure as I met him in real life about 6 years ago just after he'd finished filming a season so his hair was the same and he dressed like his character, he told me to watch the expanse.. So I did.
 
Damn I want a rocinante so bad....

Ask and you shall receive:

Rocinante XL

They have all the others on there as well albeit the standard size Roci has run out (you can see both in my image for sizing).

I got most of them from EagleMoss were running. Master Replicas took over their stock when EM went bust so it's the exact same lines
 
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Do they do a Donnager to the same scale? :p

All the current ones are from the EM collection, either previously released or unreleased when EM went bust.

MR are going to carry on with new models so hoping for Donnager and Canterbury at some point although I'd expect the Donnager to be same size as the rest.... I don't have the room for a "to scale" one :cry:
 
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