The Expanse Season 5: Earth, Mars or Belters – Who the Real Villain Is – Screen Rant

With Earth, Mars and the Belt still at odds, The Expanse season 5 has many potential villains. As usual, however, the situation is more complex.

Who might the real villain be inThe Expanse season 5? The political climate of the Sol system inThe Expanse's science fiction worldis far from simple.Withhumankind spread across Earth's neighbors, deep divisions have formed between the blueplanet and the powerful new force of Mars, who no longer see themselves asmere colonists.Away from the system's two big settlements, many reside on asteroids and other smaller celestial bodies. Known as Belters, these citizens have their own distinct culture but live very hard lives, taking a dim view of both Earth and Mars for exploiting their proud population.

Over the past 4 seasons ofThe Expanse, relations between these 3 sides haveimproved somewhat thanks to the efforts of James Holden's Rocinante crew, Earth's Chrisjen Avasarala, Mars' Bobbie Draper, and the Belt's Fred Johnson, among others. Officially, all 3 sides are now supposed to be on the same page, working together to investigate the mysterious Protomolecule. In reality, however, the wounds of division are yet to heal. A group of Belter extremists calling themselves the Free Navy have emerged, led by the cunning and charismatic Marco Inaros.Marco's actionswould seem to suggest Belters will be the villains inThe Expanse season 5, but the situation is more nuanced than that.

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The Expanse season 4 revealed that Marco was being armed by high-ranking figures on Mars, who were siphoning disused weapons to the Free Navy. Bobbie and Chrisjen will be exploring this conspiracy whenThe Expanse returns, but it's safe to assume that getting into bed withInaros isn't the official position of the Mars government. The smuggled weapons more likelycome from ahandful of disgruntled but powerful schemers in the Martian hierarchy. As such, are the villains ofThe Expanse season 5 a coalition between Belters and Martians? That statement sits closer to the truth, but doesn't quite represent what's truly happening inThe Expanse.

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