r/TheExpanse

11h ago

u/AdjectiveDashNoun123

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How did they survive for so long?

The Builders' empire survived for 2 billion years when everything they did pissed off the Ring Entities. Meanwhile, humans woke them up within a decade and pushed the Entities so far that they were about to get extincted in about forty years? The Builders were seemingly defenseless against the Ring Entities' primary weapons, while humans were much less susceptible, too.

The summary the Investigator gives on Ilos makes it sound like the Entities killed the Builders in one shot, too, so when did the Builders have time to try to cut off systems like Holden saw in his vision?

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OhGodImOnRedditAgain

11h ago

Well, the humans escalated that fight and likely sped the timeline up when Duarte sent the anti-matter bombs through to run his Game Theory / Dog Training expirment.

AdjectiveDashNoun123

11h ago

The Entities were already eating ships within just a few years of the…