Persepolis Rising is here with lots of new information.

This is the sixth in a series of lists on topics that need articles. This is a list of articles in the "Technology" or "Devices" category.  The full list of categories for Persepolis Rising can be found here.

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In the category of technology, there was

• Laconian Power Armor
• USM field projector also described as ultra high magnetic field projector
• Laconian wrist monitor
• Laconian orbital platforms
• protomolecule stem cell grafts used to immortalize Duarte

Is there something missing? Is there a more precise and accurate name/description?

Although James S.A. Corey / Daniel Abraham tweeted a link to hachette group books' website to announce the release of a couple of chapters, it is the overdrive site that offers us more!!

Four and a half chapters as well as the Prologue and the Table of Contents.

From this we learn the viewpoint characters but more surprisingly, we discover the over 30 year time leap!

Sample Chapters on Overdrive
https://www.overdrive.com/media/3198887/persepolis-rising

The seventh book in the series, Persepolis Rising is here!

We're very excited about this.  If you've been following the news you know there were some shocking revelations.

With all the new ships, new characters, new events, and new locations, there is a lot of information to keep track of.  That's why we come to the wiki after all! Help the community add all those facts, details and bits of trivia to new articles!

Check out these lists of new topics broken down by category:

• Spaceships
• Locations
• Organizations
• Characters
• Battles and Events
• Technology and Devices

If you haven't gotten your copy, what are you waiting for?

Sample Preview Chapters are still available

I'll keep it short:

I had an idea for a restructuration of TV-Books sister articles. Instead of linking them through the {{tabs}} template, we could turn the related disambiguation page into the actual page documenting the two incarnations by summoning the two subpages within a tabber (see Jim Holden).

Of course, I'm going to need your opinion on this. So, what do you think? Should we stick to our current way of separation and linking, or should we use a tabber instead?

Hello, everyone! Not-so-recently, the new type of galleries was switched on. Now, because no complaints were made by anyone, the change endured. But now, after arguments against the new galleries were cast, I ask you to pick your preferred type of galleries through this poll:

Reddit sister-post here

Hi, everyone! Many of you here took part in the Season Two Favorites survey, which concluded roughly three months ago. Among many, only three characters and scenes reached the podium, while only one was declared the victor (for each section). The experiment was fun, and it will return next year after the conclusion of Season 3.

Now, how about a similar survey for the novels? Tell me here the best 50 (maximum) scenes and characters that appear between novels one (Leviathan Wakes) and six (Babylon's Ashes) that you think would deserve to compete against each other for the title of the best scene/character in the whole written series so far. Entries will be displayed below and will close when the number fifty is reached or when no more appropriate entries are possible.

Entries:

Scenes

Leviathan Wakes

1) Holden and Miller fight their way out of Eros;

2) Miller searches for and finds protomolecule-infected Julie;

3) Octavia Muss explains to Miller about him considered a washup by everyone else;

4) The protomolecule is released on Eros;

5) Miller laughs at Holden threatening Fred, whith Amos getting the *Roci* off Tycho by any means so that Fred doesn't get the protomolecule;

6) Eros evades the Nauvoo;

7) Dresden's speech.

Caliban's War

1) Re-emergence of Miller as the Investigator;

2) Bobbie takes over the Guanshiyin;

3) Bobbie fights human-protomolecule hybrid on Io;

4) Prax accidentally starts a gunfight;

5) Alex tells Basia his story in a heart to heart;

6) Bobbie is terrified at the sight of the sky;

7) Avasarala threatens to destroy Jules-Pierre Mao;

8) Ganymede incident;

9) Bobbie tells Avasarala, "Get me a gun, and I'm a soldier, get me that power armor, and I'm a superhero;"

Abaddon's Gate

1) Holden witnesses the dissolution of the Ring Builder interstellar empire;

2) The attack on the Behemoth's engineering room;

3) Anna and Father Hank duel etymologies;

4) Clarissa fights Anna and Naomi;

5) Hector Cortez lets Anna know the election results, with Anna asking who Avasarala is;

6) Bull and Pa's mutiny;

7) Ring station opens for Holden to get in;

8) The *Rocinante* enters the Sol Ring;

9) Alien Ring station entities kill Martian marines;

10) Holden is imprisoned by the Martians.

Cibola Burn

1) Havelock battles to make sure Basia and Naomi survive the *Israel* and all of the makeshift security;

2) The resolution to Elvi's crush on Holden;

3) Elvi and Holden's conversation during the trip out into the desert on Ilus;

4) The Investigator connects to Ilus' internal network;

5) Ilus colonists go blind except for Holden.

Nemesis Games

1) The Pella, Koto, and Shinsakuto vs. the Rocinante;

2) Bobbie Draper evades missiles inside the Razorback;

3) Naomi's unsuited space jump;

4) Naomi sends message out mid-battle;

5) Naomi, post-spacewalk, alters the second message, "I am in control;"

6) Alex's speech on why they have to save Naomi. "Because that's why we're out here, and if we don't help each other, no one will;"

7) Amos rockets off Earth;

8) Naomi's son is revealed;

9) The attack on the Callisto shipyards;

10) The coup attempt against Fred on Tycho.

11) Naomi crushes the battle armor wearing OPA people with the backup elevator.

12) Amos calls Chrisjen Avasarala Chrissie;

Babylon's Ashes

1) Battle of Medina station;

2) Prax's defiant confession to the Free Navy;

3) Alex and Bobbie sit down with the Prime Minister. "That's right, I call him Nate now, don't be jealous;"

4) Formation of the Consolidated Fleet;

5) Battle of Titan;

6) Government of Laconia's permanent interstellar message that the Laconia system is under the administration of Duarte;

7) The Free Navy vanishes while attempting interstellar transit;

8) Anderson Dawes interrogates Fred Johnson.

Characters

1. Miller
2. Holden
3. Naomi
4. Amos
5. Alex
6. Avasarala
7. Bobbie
8. Havelock
9. Praxidike "Prax" Meng
10. Anderson Dawes
11. Fred Johnson
12. Michio Pa
13. Monica Stuart
14. Annushka Volovodov
15. Carlos "Bull" c de Baca
16. Sam Rosenberg
17. Toulouse Marwick
18. Adolphus Murtry
19. Soren Cottwald
20. Sadavir Errinwright
21. Souther
22. Augusto Nguyen
23. Strickland
24. Cotyar
25. Clarissa Mao
26. Jules-Pierre Mao
27. Julie Mao
28. Winston Duarte
29. Marco Inaros
30. Filip Inaros
31. Basia Merton
32. Thorsson
33. Martens
34. Sandra Ip
35. Kelly
36. Lopez
37. Gomez
38. Theresa Yao
39. Dookie
40. Mole
41. Tev Hillman
42. Travis
43. Gourab
44. Sa'id
45. Wendell
46. Elvi Okoye
47. Erich
48. Tilly Fagan
49. Hector Cortez
50. Ashford
51. Shaddid
52. Octavia Muss
53. Antony Dresden
54. Mei Meng
55. Ganymede Hacker AKA Roma
56. Diogo
57. Marama Brown
58. Hinekiri Brown
59. Michael-Jon de Uturbe
60. Santichai Supitayaporn
61. Melissa Supitayaporn

References

More big news on SyFy's upcoming The Expanse TV series: American actor Steven Strait will star as Holden, and Iranian American actor Shohreh Aghdashloo will play Avasarala![1] This comes in addition to last month's reveal of Thomas Jane starring as Miller.

Steven Strait starred in the two-season TV series Magic City, and has also starred in the 2012 sci-fi thriller After. Aghdashloo was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in House of Sand and Fog (2003) and won a Primetime Emmy for the HBO miniseries House of Saddam (2008), both awarded for her work as supporting actress; in the sci-fi department she had a minor role in X-Men: The Last Stand.

All three cast members are slightly younger than their book counterparts – Strait (28) plays Holden (30), Aghdashloo (62) plays Avasarala (in her seventies) and Jane (45) plays Miller (49) – but not much.

More interesting is the fact that the cast for the 10 episode series so far includes characters from the two first books, Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War, which suggests that we will not get a full season treatment for each book.

The Expanse TV series is finally taking shape in a big way: It was just announced that Thomas Jane will star as Detective Miller in the upcoming show! The actor has received three Golden Globe nominations for his role on HBO series Hung, and is known from films such as Stephen King's The Mist, Dreamcatcher, Thin Red Line and many more, as well as several indie films.

As this is the first casting to be announced, it allows us to assess how true to their book looks we can expect the cast members to be. The answer so far: Not terribly. Miller is, of course, a Belter; unsurprisingly, Jane is visibly missing the giant head and thin, elongated body. Maybe they'll add it in post-production. Apart from that detail, the Miller of the books is described as having a sad, basset hound face, although I can totally see Jane sporting his signature porkpie hat. The actor is also five years shy of Miller's upcoming 50th birthday – and, might I say, doesn't even look that old! He could've played Holden and I wouldn't wince.

On the other hand, Thomas Jane is a great and funny actor, and I'm sure he can put some weight behind Miller's dry, dreary humor. What do you think? And who do you want for the other roles? Check out our casting thread!