What really happened on Ganymede Station? The Expanse Season 2 episode 6, “Paradigm Shift,” spoilers ahead.
There’s a lot to talk about from last night’s episode of The Expanse, but right now let’s focus on that crazy ending scene. Bobbie Draper’s team of Martian Marines arrive on the farming moon, Ganymede, which seems to be a joint UN and MCRN facility. The Martians think Earth may and try to take the station, which is critical to the solar system, but Draper’s team believes it’s going to be a boring assignment. That is, until they see a mysterious drone, notice six UN marines charging at them and their Martian backup ship flies into Ganymede’s shadow, has a communication blackout and is blasted into pieces. Then, a zombie (glowing blue with protomolecule veins) approaches Draper’s body, the only Martian left alive, and we see a terrified look on her eyes through her bloody, cracked space helmet.
This whole thing doesn’t seem to make sense. Why would UN forces willingly charge across the border knowing they would be attacked on the other side? It seemed more like they were running away from something because their bullets didn’t appear to the the ones that hit Draper’s MCRN squad. We didn’t get to see that part. We also didn’t get to see who destroyed the Martian ship hovering in space. Considering the creature who approached Draper at the end, the battle may have been the protomolecule’s doing. But in that case, it seems odd Draper just so happened to survive. Maybe that one person who hovered over her was one of the good guys?
Whoever attacked the MCRN on Ganymede, it’s clear the operations of Mao and Protogen’s experiments are also housed on this agricultural moon in one of their many huge farming domes. After all that’s happened, it could be Mao’s company or Protogen, which is developing the protomolecule-human hybrids on Ganymede, that stepped in and killed all the UN and Martian soldiers to cover their tracks. Both Earth and Mars will probably think the other is responsible for the attack, since they have no idea what the protomolecule actually is. This mishap is only going to make political tension worse.
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