The Expanse: The Season-Long Procedural Goes to Outer Space
The Expanse on SyFy, developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on a series of novels by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (writing under the pseudonym
James S.A. Corey), is a futuristic thriller. It uses technology as a frame, not the focus of story—so it is important to note the following conditions of the story universe for context:
✴The Solar System has been colonized by Mars and the Kepler Asteroid Belt.
Certain moons of Saturn are being mined for Water. Water and Air are
commodities that Earth has in bulk. Mars and the Belt must either negotiate
with Earth or mine the belt, which is expensive…
✴People on Mars are called Martians. (Mars Independent). People living and
working in the Belt are Belters. They live on Ceres—a dwarf moon base in the
Belt. (By business proxy, Allied to Earth and the United Nations.)