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Book seven is Persepolis Rising.

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Nearly thirty years have passed.

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The Transport Union,

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led by Camina Drummer,

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runs the gates.

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Holden and Naomi are getting ready

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to retire and hand the Rocinante to Bobbie.

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Then the hidden world

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of Laconia comes out of the dark.

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Three stories: the fall of Medina,

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Drummer's surrender, and the Rocinante underground.

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Spoilers ahead!

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Story one: Medina.

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Without warning, a ship comes through

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the Laconia gate.

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It is the Heart of the Tempest,

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a battleship built by alien machines.

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Its magnetic weapon tears Medina's rail guns

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apart from far away.

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The station that controls the Ring falls

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in hours, without a real fight.

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Duarte names Santiago Singh as the governor of Medina.

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Singh is a young Laconian officer

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who believes in order,

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and he wants to rule fairly.

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But when a bomb nearly kills him,

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he turns hard.

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Curfews, censorship, and public prisons follow.

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Every rule makes the people

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of Medina hate Laconia more.

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Singh hunts the underground,

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and he catches its most famous member: James Holden.

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Duarte orders Holden sent to Laconia

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as a prisoner.

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Singh hopes it will prove he can

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keep Medina under control.

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It doesn't.

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And in Laconia,

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failure has a price.

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Story two: Camina Drummer,

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president of the Transport Union.

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The Tempest goes through the Ring

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into the solar system.

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Earth, Mars, and the Union send everything

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they have against it.

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Even nuclear weapons barely scratch it.

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The combined fleet is wiped out.

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To save lives,

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Drummer surrenders, and Earth and Mars follow.

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Laconia lets her keep her job,

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so long as she does

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what she's told.

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Her husband Saba is still free,

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and he leads the resistance on Medina.

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Drummer has to smile for the cameras

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while secretly hoping he wins.

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Story three: the Rocinante.

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The crew is trapped on Medina

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when it falls,

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so they join Saba's resistance.

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They plan a raid

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to steal Laconian codes,

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using a staged bombing as cover.

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The raid works,

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but Holden is captured.

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Now the resistance has one goal:

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get as many ships out through

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the gates as they can.

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The breakout begins.

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Bobbie and her team capture

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a Laconian warship,

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the Gathering Storm.

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Clarissa uses the last

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of her old body modifications to stop

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an ambush, and it kills her.

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The Rocinante and a small fleet escape

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through the gates

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to a remote world called Freehold,

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and the resistance lives on.

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Book seven ends on Laconia.

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Singh is executed on Duarte's orders.

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Holden meets Duarte himself,

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who plans to use the protomolecule

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to rule humanity forever.

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Holden warns him about whatever killed

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the gate builders,

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but Duarte isn't listening.

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Next up: book eight, Tiamat's Wrath.