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Since the Laconian railguns served him so well, Marco Inaros requests further armaments from his ex-Martian friend, Admiral Duarte. The Pella, Marco, and everything else onboard are decimated without a trace. That's enough to summon the angry entities, who afford Marco Inaros the same welcome they gave the Barkeith. As the Pella approaches, the Rocinante fires its entire payload through the Ring, detonating the Giambattista for added wallop.

They don't appreciate humanity traveling through the Ring Gates, and when the mass energy threshold of transit hits a certain level (the amount of ships, the energy mass they produce, etc), Ring entities will appear. As explained by Elvi Okoye previously, the Barkeith's disappearance in The Expanse season 5 was caused by the Dark Gods who wiped out the Protomolecule builders millions of years prior. This leaves only the Rocinante standing between Marco Inaros and total victory, and Naomi proposes using the Ring entities. Related: How The Expanse’s Book Changes Hurt The Roci vs Pella Battle Drummer's Belters are incapacitated, while Earth and Mars are too far away to stop the real Pella reaching the Ring Gate in time. His deception works - the UN and MCRN destroy a useless decoy, while Drummer's weaker Belter ships are forced into a one-sided fight against Marco's mighty flagship instead of the freighter they were expecting. In true Belter style, Marco conceals the Pella's drive signature to appear as a standard freighter, while simultaneously sending a decoy ship mimicking the Pella to join another fleet. The Consolidated Fleet's efforts to prevent Marco Inaros reaching the Ring goes spectacularly wrong. Because Bobbie and Amos' ground team meet tougher resistance than anticipated, however the decision is taken to destroy the weapons instead. The Rocinante initially intends to take control of the Ring Stations railguns, then point them toward Marco Inaros should he reach the Slow Zone. Railguns can't tell these pods apart, allowing most of the strike team to land safely on the Ring Station's surface, while the Rocinante buzzes around taking out Medina's targeting and communication systems with its own railgun. To avoid being mowed down by railgun shots straight away, the Giambattista ice hauler (a neat nod to The Expanse season 1's Canterbury) is packed with 2000 pods - some containing soldiers, others empty. The Rocinante's role in The Expanse's final episode is to seize the Ring Gate (and its new railguns) - just in case the Consolidated Fleet can't blow Marco up before he arrives. These cutting-edge weapons already wiped out a Martian fleet, and would swing any battle for the Ring Gate wildly in Marco's favor. Working in Marco's favor are the six railguns he acquired from Laconia previously in The Expanse season 6. The message is clear - Duarte, Laconia, and this giant shipyard will become a major force in The Expanse's future.

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He's shown eagerly eyeing up the Protomolecule warship station from season 5's finale, and the vessel is now powering into life after Paolo Cortázar proudly declared in episode 4 that the Protomolecule sample ( stolen from Fred Johnson by the Free Navy and traded to Laconia) had begun responding. The Expanse season 6 continues to foreshadow Dylan Taylor's Winston Duarte as a major future villain. if I die, the dogs will fix me' - another sign pointing toward her and Xan becoming Duarte test subjects. Sending soldiers after Laconia's runaway kids knocks over the first domino toward that future. In the Expanse book series, Admiral Winston Duarte experiments on Cara and Xan to further his own connection to the Protomolecule.

Terrified of the dark-eyed boy claiming to be his son, Xan's father calls Laconia's military - a decision that could have dire consequences down the line. Xan seems more advanced compared to those Project Caliban proto(molecule)types - unsurprising, since Laconia's dogs know their onions more than Mao's Protogen scientists. Xan is reminiscent of The Expanse's Protomolecule hybrids (artificially created by Jules-Pierre Mao), which were extremely difficult to kill and possessed inhuman abilities. Xan is now one with the Protomolecule - as evidenced by the bright blue POV shot as he looks toward Cara - and any physical wounds are stitched together instantaneously. The slash he leaves upon Xan's hand heals immediately, confirming the dogs didn't just bring Cara's brother back, they've improved him. Instead, Cara's father grabs a knife and locks his zombie son in a closet. Each entry in The Expanse season 6 begins with a sequence set on Laconia, following young sibling colonists Cara and Xan. Having previously called upon the strange Protomolecule dogs for help, Cara proudly presents her resurrected brother to their parents, expecting delighted reactions all around.