Salvage story
Rocinante arrives at the asteroid and the crew discover the Anubis, the stealth ship that had destroyed the Canterbury. It is empty and completely vented except for a mysterious organic substance that covers the ship's reactor and seems to respond to radiation. After taking the ship's safe, the crew blasts the Anubis with nuclear missiles, then head to Eros to find "Lionel Polanski", who escaped the Anubis on its shuttle. Errinwright informs Avasarala of his plan to have Holden and crew covertly assassinated on Eros. Avasarala receives word that her friend and colleague, Franklin DeGraaf, the former Ambassador to Mars that she used to gain information on Martian stealth tech, took his own life. Miller, who recognizes "Lionel Polanski" as Julie's code name, the Rocinante crew, and Kenzo converge on a hotel on Eros where Lionel/Julie are staying. Holden and his team are ambushed at the hotel by a UN black ops team (signaled by Kenzo and authorized by Errinwright) but are saved by Miller. Finally breaking into Julie's hotel room, they find her dead body in the bathroom covered in the same organic substance as the reactor on the Anubis.
11 total · 3 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Holden and the Rocinante crew discovered a mysterious organic substance while search the Anubis and promptly annihilated the ship with a nuclear missile. The story concluded with Miller finding Julie's blue crystal encrusted corpse in a cheap hotel room. |
| law enforcement | major | In one storyline, Miller flew to Eros to continue his, now private, investigation into the disappearance of Julie Mao. The story culminated with Miller finding Julie's blue crystal encrusted corpse in a cheap hotel room. |
| speculative stealth technology | major | In one storyline, Holden and the Rocinante crew arrived at an asteroid where they found and explored the Anubis, the stealth ship that had destroyed the Canterbury. |
| biological weapons | minor | It was implied that the mysterious substance might be some kind of organic weapon that no faction was apt to be trusted with. |
| Christianity | minor | Miller bandied words with a Mormon space missionary who, inspired by God, intended to go on a one-way trip to colonize Tau Ceti. |
| coping with the death of a friend | minor | It was reported to Avasarala that her old friend Franklin DeGraaf had taken his own life. |
| fear of flying | minor | Miller was visibly nervous as he awaited takeoff of the passenger spaceship that he'd boarded to take him to Eros. A Mormon passenger made an unsolicited attempt to comfort Miller, who was flying in space for the first time, but his words were not very well received. |
| human enhancement technology | minor | Kenzo had a secret ocular implant that functioned something like an Internet connected device and augmented his field of vision with informational overlays. |
| nuclear weapons | minor | The Anubis crew used a nuclear missile to destroy the Anubis mystery ship. |
| space colonization | minor | Miller bandied words with a Mormon space missionary who, inspired by God, intended to go on a one-way trip to colonize Tau Ceti. |