Once at the massive metal cones on the southern end of Rama, Jimmy detects magnetic and electric fields coming from the cones, which increase, resulting in lightning. One of the crew members, Jimmy Pak, who has experience with low gravity skybikes, rides a smuggled skybike along Rama's axis to the far end, otherwise inaccessible due to the cylindrical sea and the 500m high cliff on the opposite shore. They also find that Rama's atmosphere is breathable. Massive spires, which are theorised to be part of Rama's propulsion system, stand at its "southern" end. A band of water, dubbed the Cylindrical Sea, stretches around Rama's central circumference. Rama's inner surfaces hold "cities" of geometric structures that resemble buildings and are separated by streets with shallow trenches.
The crew, led by Commander Bill Norton, enters Rama through a safety system consisting of triple airlocks, and explores the 16-km wide by 50-km long cylindrical world of its interior, but the nature and purpose of the starship and its creators remain enigmatic throughout the book. Endeavour manages to rendezvous with Rama one month after it first comes to Earth's attention, when the alien ship is already inside Venus's orbit. The solar survey vessel Endeavour is sent to study Rama, as it is the only ship close enough to do so in the brief period Rama will spend in the Solar System. The resulting images reveal that Rama is a perfect cylinder, 20 kilometres (12 mi) in diameter and 50 kilometres (31 mi) long, and almost completely featureless, making this humankind's first encounter with an alien spacecraft. It is named Rama after the Hindu god, and an uncrewed space probe dubbed Sita is launched from the Mars moon Phobos to intercept and photograph it. The astronomers' interest is further piqued when they realise the asteroid has an extremely rapid rotation period of four minutes and is exceptionally large. Its speed (100,000 km/h – 62,150 m/h) and the angle of its trajectory clearly indicate it is not on a long orbit around the sun, but is an interstellar object.
It is detected by astronomers in the year 2131 while it is still outside the orbit of Jupiter. The "Rama" of the title is an alien starship weighing at least ten trillion tons, initially mistaken for an asteroid categorised as "31/439". Their program was in fact canceled by SyFy in 2018 after just three seasons, before being picked up by Amazon.After an asteroid falls in Northeast Italy on 11 September 2077, creating a major disaster, the government of Earth sets up the Spaceguard system as an early warning of arrivals from deep space. While it might seem delusional to hear the idea of a “pause point” from anyone else, they’ve seemingly earned the right to be optimistic. The pair have been on a wild ride over the past six years.
#Will there be a season 6 of the expanse series#
Show writers Abraham and Franck also write the novels which the series is based on, under the pen name James S.A. I think one of the things that is sort of an outmoded idea is the idea of being canceled.” Founder and president of Green Ronin Publishing Chris Pramas, authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and lead designer Steve Kenson at Gen Con in 2018 to celebrate the launch of a tabletop role-playing game based on The Expanse. “It’ll feel like a satisfying end to the story we’ve been building over the first five seasons. “We have what we think is a very natural pause point for the story after season 6,” Franck told Polygon during a press event for the new season.
Instead, they prefer to think of it as a pause. Speaking with Polygon on Tuesday, writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck declined to call it a cancellation. The move meant that content from several of the novels that the show is based were basically guaranteed to be left out entirely. Unfortunately, that sixth season would also be its last. That’s when Amazon announced that it had ordered a sixth season of the popular science fiction show. Fans of The Expanse got some mixed messages last month just before Thanksgiving.
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