Duarte thanks Trejo for holding the Empire together but tells him they were thinking too small with their attentions. After his recovery, he projects himself into Trejo's mind, who is in the Sol system reconquering it for the Laconian Empire. He overcomes the effects through his sheer will to protect his daughter Teresa Duarte.

On Laconia, Winston Duarte is slowly recovering from his conscious mind being turned off from a time skip event. “This is how it ends” - Spoilers for ' Leviathan Falls' follow.

And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.Īs nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.īut the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter.

In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte.

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