
It’s a bit of a space pirate adventure, although the game does have a darker tone than that kind of description suggests. The story follows Carmina Drummer as she works with, and eventually takes control of, the scavenger crew on a ship called the Artemis. It’s a super cool way to experience this story, and I was totally on board as I wanted to make a thing where people could have that same experience with this story.”įrost tells Digital Trends this is something he did with new members of the development team. “I would get to a point, and I would have to make a choice, and it was really hard to make the choices, like perfectly agonizing. “Frost basically walked me through the story like we were playing D&D,” Gee tells Digital Trends. Gee was convinced to join the project after director Stephan Frost walked her through the story and asked her to make choices as if they were playing a game of Dungeons & Dragons. Drummer first appears in the show as the stoic assistant to OPA leader Fred Johnson on Tycho Station.Īs her character is an amalgamation of a few different characters in the books and her backstory was never delved into that much in the show, she was Deck Nine’s first choice for making a The Expanse game. It’s set before the first season of the TV show (Frost tells Digital Trends this is based on the show’s canon and not the books) and follows a character named Carmina Drummer, played by an actress named Cara Gee in both the show and the game. As the series progresses, it does learn harder and harder into the sci-fi elements with a powerful Protomolcule, aliens, and eventually Ring Gates that allow people to travel far around the galaxy.īut this The Expanse game comes before all that. While it’s not as popular as the likes of Star Wars or Star Trek, it has a passionate fanbase who adore its more realistic take on the physics and politics that would be more likely to play out if humanity ever managed to populate Mars and the Asteroid Belt.

The Expanse is a hit television show based on a series of sci-fi books.
