Phoebe

Location from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

Saturn's captured moon where the protomolecule was first discovered by Protogen researchers. A billion-year-old delivery system — an alien weapon aimed at Earth's solar system before complex life existed. Destroyed by the MCRN to prevent recovery.

Also known as: Phoebe, Phoebe Station, Phoebe Research Station

What They Know

• Phoebe was an extrasolar object — a delivery system launched at Earth's solar system 2.3 billion years ago by the Ring Builders
• The protomolecule was preserved in Phoebe's ice cores for billions of years, waiting to reach its intended target
• Protogen researchers discovered the protomolecule in Phoebe and chose to weaponize it rather than disclose the discovery
• The MCRN destroyed Phoebe with nuclear weapons to prevent further protomolecule recovery after the conspiracy was exposed
• Phoebe's retrograde orbit around Saturn was the first clue that it was a captured object, not a natural satellite

Connections

• controlled_by — mao
• part_of — sol_system

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