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The Expanse beated

Good finale. I do think that Drummer and the Belt got shafted in the battle though. Basically they were just there to act was warm bodies to make up the third group because they got completely blasted and ultimately whether they won, lost, or by how much either way was completely irrelevant to the outcome because even if Inaros's fleet made it to the Ring at full strength they just end up getting eaten up because of the Roci's actions so that kinda sucked. Like they got a bone thrown to them in the aftermath when Holden resigned immediately to put Drummer in charge of the new Union but still.

Also I imagine this was explained better in the book, if the battle even went down like this at all there, but not sure how the Roci plan even worked. So, triggering the Ring Entities, I get. But Avasalrala explicitly notes it isn't just Inaros and the Pella that will make it to the Ring, but that he's still got a chunk of his fleet. I know they were flying in a kinda close formation there but given the emphasis on timing all this out so Inaros couldn't hit the brakes when he realized what was happening and inertia would doom him to be carried into the Ring Entities... like wouldn't the rest of his fleet both have the time to veer off and/or miss the timing and therefore enter Ring Space safely? It's like the Pella gets eaten and the rest of Inaros's ships were ignored lol. Also I know the UNN and Mars couldn't catch them in time for the Ring but were they really so behind that they couldn't catch up before Inaros could repair the railguns? Because as long as those were down I think Inaros still loses? I'm more forgiving on that though because the distances/timescale isn't clear. Amos said they'd need weeks to repair it but Inaros would have way more resources and manpower so maybe they could have gotten them back online way faster and in time.

Also kinda weird to leave the Laconia stuff where they did! I still have questions!

But yeah, good finale, good show.