Ilus

Location from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

First colony world beyond the Ring Gates, officially designated New Terra by the UN. Ancient Ring Builder ruins lie beneath the surface. Where Cibola Burn takes place — a corporate-settler conflict on an alien world full of things humanity doesn't understand.

Also known as: Ilus, New Terra, Ilus IV

What They Know

• First colony world settled through the Ring Gates — Belter refugees arrived before any official UN authorization
• Ring Builder ruins beneath the surface contain active defense systems that respond to human presence and protomolecule signals
• Royal Charter Energy (RCE) was sent by the UN to exploit lithium deposits, creating a corporate-settler conflict
• Murtry served as RCE's security chief and escalated the conflict through lethal force against colonists
• Holden used the protomolecule's echo of Miller to interface with Ring Builder technology and deactivate planetary defense systems
• The alien ecosystem includes organisms and structures that predate human life by over a billion years

Connections

• home_of — elvi
• home_of — fayez
• home_of — murtry
• home_of — basia
• home_of — havelock

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