Given Mars' initial lack of infrastructure and previous reliance on earth, I am very skeptical that Mars would be able to sustain the construction of even a single Manhatten island worth of city complex annually, especially after the UN stops sending them city building supplies.Īre these two points simply supposed to be imagined away via suspension of disbelief? The expanse tries to be a "hard" science fiction.(if you take away the protomolecule, and the fact that the "most well armored warships" have 1/8th the mass density of glass skyscrapers). However, even today, they are still a relative wimp in terms of absolute military power, and are easily eclipsed in terms of Naval Power, given that all warships in Israel exceeding 500 tonnes need to be built outside of the state of Israel.įurthermore, Mars' population reaching 9 billion in 250 years time (I assume that population growth/immigration started around the early 2100s) requires a population growth of 36 million annually on average, or the equivalent of 22 Manhatten island metropolises being built annually on mars. Hell, Mars becoming as powerful in the Sol System as it did in the Expanse is literally like saying that Israel will one day be able to manufacture the most powerful warship in the world, as they came into being under a similar predicament and circumstance as Mars. Even if the State of California had the most advanced technology, they still would not have any military equipment, or a significant number of trained soldiers to win a war of independence, against the vastly more combat experienced, and numerically advantaged US continental forces. If I may make an analogy, this is the equivalent of the US State of California getting fusion power (currently experimented upon in CalTech) to work practically, along with a new generation of SmartPhone/BendPhone/whatever tech pieces are used these days, and subsequently using it to leverage independence from the US so that it can be a socialist state. Given that the UN already has a space navy, and that at this point, Mars likely has few, if any warships, it is far more sensible, from a UN military perspective, to storm mars, and seize the Epstein Technology for themselves, as opposed to leaving themselves vulnerable for mars to break the deal after the UN satisfies their side of the Independence agreement.
Given that Mars was already a UN colony, it would likely mean that there was some UN military presence on Mars already, furthermore, the fact that the UN at this point in the Timeline already had interstellar ships, hints at a fact that they may already have a Space Navy operational.
This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. According to the Expanse' canon, they somehow use this to leverage independence from the United Nations. Suddenly, Mars manages to break through with the Epstein drive, which is a majestically powerful powerplant, but with it being a new piece of technology, it would still take a while for Mars to be able to mount them en masse onto ships. Furthermore, the population is at best a few hundred thousand to a few million. When Mars as a colony was established, presumably in the late 2100s, Mars has no industrial capacity, shipbuilding, or nuclear arms manufacturing capabilities, or any military industrial complex. We are told that Mars has a population of 4-9 Billion people (depends on source).įrom a strategic perspective, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Arguably, they also have a "better" navy than that of Earth's. In the Sci - Fi book/TV franchise, The Expanse, it is given that Mars apparently has better ships one on one that Earth.
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