War Drums Are Sounding in the Solar System... Bryan Cairns Is on Set for the Incendiary Second Season of the Expanse.
Prepare yourselves for war. Yes, intergalactic conflict appears imminent in season two of The Expanse, Syfy’s future-set saga based on the novels by James SA Corey. By the end of the first season, rogue ship’s captain James Holden, his crew and disgruntled detective Joe Miller found themselves swept up in a massive conspiracy that could pit Earth against Mars.
The finale found Holden and Miller discovering a horrific secret that was clearly worth killing for. Protogen, a security firm from Earth, had unleashed an infectious, sentient alien agent, known as the proto-molecule, onto the Eros Station, one of the first staging posts of mankind’s colonisation of the solar system. That little experiment resulted in the death of over a million people on board. The proto-molecule continued to grow, with the deceased reanimated as infected, zombie-like monsters. Hit by a dose of radiation, Holden and Miller barely escaped the station alive…
“They are still being treated for the radiation poisoning they got on Eros,” executive producer Naren Shankar tells SFX. “The gang is opening the safe they got from Anubis [the stealth torpedo ship owned by Protogen]. Then they realise they have a sample of the proto-molecule in their hands. What are they going to do with it? That’s where we start with our guys.”
This story is from the March 2017 edition of SFX.
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