Her investigation turns up a relative of Duarte who runs a girls' boarding school on one of the colony worlds, and decides to investigate it as a likely location for Teresa to be sent.Įlvi is investigating the Adro Diamond aboard the Falcon with a full science team, Xan, and Cara. She decides the best way to find him is to use Teresa as a lure, so she sets out to find her. Tanaka determines that Duarte left in some sort of small ship he could be anywhere in any of the systems in the Ring network. She goes further into the cave network and discovers a place where the repair drones bring things to pools of some sort where they are repaired. She investigates the area on Laconia where Teresa took her walks, and tracks Duarte to the cave Amos Burton lived in. Trejo dispatches Colonel Aliana Tanaka to find him, giving her the highest level of clearance, second only to his own. Duarte then vanishes from Trejo perspective and orders his ship to do a hard burn back to the Laconia system.īy the time Trejo returns, Duarte had already then left the state building on Laconia. Duarte thanks Trejo for holding the Empire together but tells him they were thinking too small with their attentions. After his recovery, he projects himself into Trejo's mind, who is in the Sol system reconquering it for the Laconian Empire.

He overcomes the effects through his sheer will to protect his daughter Teresa Duarte. On Laconia, Winston Duarte is slowly recovering from his conscious mind being turned off from a time skip event. “This is how it ends” - Spoilers for ' Leviathan Falls' follow. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.Īs nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.īut the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte.

Leviathan falls