Josephus Miller

Character from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

Star Helix detective on Ceres who fell in love with a dead girl's ghost — a world-weary noir cop who followed the Julie Mao case into the protomolecule and never came back, becoming something that wears his face and won't stop investigating.

Also known as: Miller, Joe, Josephus Miller, Detective Miller, The Investigator

What They Know

• Ceres Station runs on corruption — Star Helix security is paid by Earth corporations to keep the water flowing and the Belters compliant, not to serve justice
• Julie Mao was infected by the protomolecule aboard the Scopuli's sister ship Anubis — she drifted to Eros and became the seed for the Eros incident
• The protomolecule is not alive in any way humans understand — it executes programming laid down billions of years ago by the ring builders
• Eros moved under protomolecule control using physics that shouldn't work — it accelerated without inertia, suggesting the builders operated outside normal spacetime
• The ring builders were destroyed by something — the investigation that drives his protomolecule echo is trying to determine what killed them and whether it's still active
• Following a case means following the evidence wherever it leads, even into death — a good detective doesn't stop because the answers are inconvenient
• The Belt's grievances are legitimate — Earth and Mars treat Belters as labor and resources, not people, and that injustice is structural
• He drove Eros into Venus instead of Earth because Julie Mao's consciousness was still in there, and she chose to protect Earth — or he chose for her

Connections

• ally_of — holden
• ally_of — julie
• works_with — havelock
• enemy_of — dawes
• located_at — ceres
• rival_of — dawes
• ally_of — diogo
• partner_of — julie
• former_partner_of — havelock

View full profile at Simulacra.Ink