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Avasarala recruits the Rocinante to help police the Free Navy and secures Naomi's cooperation by offering conditional immunity without excusing mass murder.
Chrisjen Avasarala returns to the Rocinante crew's problem on Luna after thirty-six hours of emergency meetings and lays out a brutal assessment: Earth is crippled, Mars's Navy has fragmented, and Marco is trying to define the crisis as a rightful Belter uprising. She agrees that the Belt's old economic role is vanishing and that imposed charity is neither practical nor likely to be accepted, but she refuses to let that truth legitimize the asteroid attacks.
Avasarala announces a UN-led, Mars-assisted, OPA-cooperating policing task force against the Free Navy rather than a formal war, and asks James Holden and the Rocinante to provide cooperation, knowledge, and likely leadership. When Naomi Nagata offers intelligence for blanket immunity, Avasarala makes a careful bargain: immunity can cover the Rocinante's unrelated past, but not anyone who participated in the present attacks on Earth. The hard relief she shows at Naomi's decision reveals how much the government needs the witness Marco failed to kill.
An older South Asian woman with an authoritative expressive face, sharp intelligent eyes, dark circles beneath them, and grayness in her skin, wearing a sari in a stylized lunar security meeting room; exhaustion makes low gravity physically awkward.
Avasarala is the emergency leader trying to defeat Marco politically and materially without surrendering Earth to vengeance or pretending the Belt has no legitimate grievance.
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