you were a useful distraction but i have gods to kill the ring to laconia is now closed you're on your own hoy dang about to load up hey guys pete here today i'm going to talk about the expanse character winston duarte duarte played a large role in the free navy conflict and now that season six has come to a close i've had a lot of questions about his motivations and his plans for laconia you probably know that there are three more novels in the expanse series that happen after the events of season six and i will be drawing on some things that become apparent about the character as the story goes on but i won't be explaining how his story ends in this video so for your spoiler warning i'll be focusing on what was in the show and in the first six books plus the novellas strange dogs and the vital abyss with light big picture spoilers for the final trilogy and with that out of the way let's get into it winston duarte makes his first appearance in the fifth expanse novel nemesis games alex is back on mars before the rocks hit earth and he's helping bobby look into some missing martian ships he goes looking for answers utilizing his connections from his time in the navy and he ends up in this guy duarte's office he is a commander working as an aide to an admiral and this mostly serves to introduce the character who seems insignificant at the time but turns out to be important much later he is working behind the scenes to put together the breakaway fleet while also providing ships to the free navy but he doesn't play an active role in the rest of the book in the show alex meets sobiter instead as a way to introduce that character so you know who he is when he disappears while transiting the ring at the end of the season it makes sense because you don't have to cast someone to play one scene as duarte in the show and in the book soviter just shows up in the epilogue to give you some details about what they're doing as the bar keith gets eaten by the ring they do tease duarte in bobby's storyline at the end of season NUMBER_TOKEN we see his name on her hand terminal and in season NUMBER_TOKEN she knows someone's above sovietaire but he isn't revealed as the leader of this movement until the very end in the season NUMBER_TOKEN finale soviter congratulates marco on his behalf for taking control of the ring space in medina station he refers to him as admiral duarte which is a rank he never achieved in the mcrn i don't think it's a spoiler to say that duarte is a bad guy and what i think makes him compelling in that role is the conditions that existed to allow him to set his plans in motion in season NUMBER_TOKEN episode NUMBER_TOKEN when he's talking to kara he says he lost the place and tells her he needs it to be a sacrifice so that the dream of mars still matters this dream is at the heart of the laconia story and a brief look at the history of mars highlights why mars started out as a colony a place where earthers who were unhappy on the planet could look to for the chance at a brighter future as
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