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With The Expanse having ended its run on Amazon Prime, it’s up to Telltale to fill the void with their prequel game and include what fans want.
The hit Amazon Prime show, The Expanse, recently ended with its sixth and final season, leaving a vacuum in sci-fi fans’ viewing schedules. Luckily for gamers, though, there’s still more story to enjoy in the franchise’s universe, as the newly restored Telltale Games has announced The Expanse: A Telltale Series. This will be an episodic series of adventures that take place before the events of the show.
The prequel will feature fan-favorite character, Camina Drummer, as the stalwart and fierce XO of the Belter Scavenger ship, The Artemis. Not much is known about the game’s plot as of yet, but it will center on a mutiny aboard the spacecraft, in which the player, acting as Drummer, will need to make difficult moral choices that will ultimately decide the fates of The Artemis and her crew. With so few details given about Telltale’s The Expanse, there’s plenty of room for speculation as to what other elements from the show might be included in the proceedings. Here are some things fans would most like to see in the game.
The Protomolecule
The protomolecule is one of the driving forces behind The Expanse‘s story. It is a dangerous, infectious substance created by an extraterrestrial race billions of years ago. The primary purpose of the protomolecule is to create wormholes called Ring Gates to other solar systems containing habitable planets. However, this only happens in the final stages of its transformative evolution. Before that occurs, it is highly corrosive and capable of turning life forms (including humans) into violent, zombie-like husks with superior strength and durability.
Humanity discovered the protomolecule eight years before the events of The Expanse. It acted as the primary source of the protagonists’ troubles on the show for many seasons. Since Telltale’s game will be a prequel, there’s no reason the troublesome substance — and mankind’s initial abuse of it via scientific study — can’t be explored in the game.
The Ring Builders and the Ring Entities
The Ring Builders are the ultra-advanced alien species that invented the protomolecule, and as a result, the Ring Gates that allow instant interstellar travel to other solar systems. They also built a number of large, monolith-type structures on various planets, seemingly for the purpose of generating energy. They once ruled a vast empire spanning the galaxy and operated as a hive mind. Unfortunately for them, the energy they were using for their technology was being syphoned from the realm of another, even more highly developed species known as Ring Entities.
As a countermeasure, the Ring Entities wiped out the entire Ring Builder civilization. Additionally, once the Ring Gates were opened again on The Expanse, they started to attack ships passing through them. This took the form of bright red energy seemingly deatomizing the entire ship along with its crew and anything else on board. However, the entities only attacked if a massive amount of energy attempted to enter a Ring Gate, so most ships were able to travel through the rings unharmed.
Expanse viewers were treated to appearances by the Ring Entities, although their forms were hard to distinguish. However, the Ring Builders went extinct prior to the time of the series, meaning they were never shown. While the inclusion of Camina Drummer precludes the events of the game from taking place too far back in the past, it would certainly be a treat if players got to at least learn a bit more about these two ancient races of extraterrestrial life and the war between them.
Detective Joe Miller
Joe Miller, played by Thomas Jane, was a major character on the show during its first two seasons, often taking up more screen time than Steven Strait’s James Holden and crew. He was arguably one of the most interesting characters on the show — a cynical, hardened private eye working to solve the disappearance of Julie Mao, the show’s first big mystery. Joe wasn’t all grit and grimace though, as he actually developed feelings for Julie while investigating the case.
Miller eventually teamed up with Holden and company when they learned that the protomolecule was responsible for Julie’s disappearance. He eventually found her merged with the horrific substance on a large asteroid named Eros. The protomolecule somehow gave Julie control of Eros’ flightpath, and she intended to send it on a collision course with Earth. However, Miller’s love for Julie snapped her out of her vengeful attitude, and she sent Eros into Venus instead. While Miller was a casualty of the incident, he died a hero, saving everyone on Earth.
While a protomolecule-created “ghost” version of Miller popped up a few times during seasons three and four to help Holden work out some of his troubles, the character was sorely missed by fans during the rest of the proceedings. Since Miller was a Belter like Drummer, and he worked on the Belter station on Ceres, it’s not at all impossible for the two to cross paths during the events of the game.
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