They do. They have the cool stuff. Belters rocks. Yeah, well, that works too under the right circumstances.That's right. And cargo containers with engines.
You could have people hiding, pretending they're an Earther, when they're actually a Belter . You can have extreme Belters , who are looked down on. You have Earthers slumming it, wanting to pretend they're Belters .
If you were to pick a faction for yourselves, would you be Earthers, Martians, or Belters ? I think the Belters are really what the books are about, ultimately. I feel like definitely, because that's where all the drama is going on, and that's where all of the passion in the story is.
We have already colonized Mars and the solar system. We have colonized Belters with all due respect to the chief of the Belters here today. But we're still afraid of them.
We want .. And our training comes into play, because as a belter , being cinched for the gods-- sinched, sinched, sinched. And like, I think we can make it tighter, right?
In essence, the poorer you were, the more difficult your economic upbringing, you're on zero G ships, you're way out in the system. The more difficult your economic situation is, the more Belter you would be, because you'd be in harder conditions. And we did the full spectrum, so you could have race traitors.
because her motivations on the surface for what she does and what she said seem good and seem pure, but as anybody in that position of power would be, there's a level of ruthlessness that is pretty high, like when she has the Belter strung up on the wall, and is just letting gravity basically take him down.
And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. - Ford tried relocating the project to a town downstream, Belterra, planting another 16,000 acres with rubber trees but these too all died.
And then we had talked about it earlier too. There's things that are on the page, like Belters are tall and light because reduced gravity changes the cartilage, changes the bone structure, changes the physicality, which we love, because it's essentially technology leads to us going out into space.
You can have extreme Belters , who are looked down on. You have Earthers slumming it, wanting to pretend they're Belters . You have a whole range of stuff now.
Is there any technological or spiritual way out of that endless cycle? So to make a short answer to the question, it's Belters . I think I wandered from the-- which I will do.
So thank you for that. So you touched on this a little bit, talking about the Belters height and stuff and having to change a little bit from the books. But I had a question about doing practical effects for the low gravity areas, like Ceres.
I promise you, I would save Earth for you. I would not allow Mars nor Sirius, nor the Belters to come and take our resources. That's what my character, Chrisjen Avasarala, is afraid of, and she has the right to be afraid of, of Martians.
Otherwise, you know, well, you can imagine, that makes for some very tense shooting days. Yes, well, so they invented the language, the Belter language.
Otherwise, you know, well, you can imagine, that makes for some very tense shooting days. People can choose. And I said, well, I'm supposed to be the sort of original Belter , so I'll go for the hardest, the most extreme version of that accent.
And we did the full spectrum, so you could have race traitors. You could have people hiding, pretending they're an Earther, when they're actually a Belter . You can have extreme Belters , who are looked down on.
And so we figure out a different way around it. And also at times, we'll be looking for, well, gee, can we do something in this episode that illuminates a part of Belter culture? It's like, if only we had something, and Ty will say, well, what if you did this thing that I've got three books down the line?
So they adopted some very broad signaling, gestural signaling, with their hands so they could look at each other in space and understand it. And over time, that concept had boiled down into a very expressive hand gestures along with Belter . And so that was part of it as well, and it's lovely when you can pull details like that into a show, because it just grounds the world.
sociologists and anthropologists can teach us about how humans have lived together in small groups and harsh environments in the past and what works well and what doesn't; and I But they handle a lot of things like labor rights and the fact that there's an oppressed group in that show based on the Belters , the people who live in the asteroid belt,
Otherwise, you know, well, you can imagine, that makes for some very tense shooting days. And then they had a dialect coach, who-- when I joined it, they said, we have an accent for the Belters .
Unless we're an animated film, we have to do this in a smart way. So it ended up becoming a great opportunity to say, yes, there are extreme belters with the full range of physicality. In essence, the poorer you were, the more difficult your economic upbringing, you're on zero G ships, you're way out in the system.
Yeah. Just a light hearted question. If you were to pick a faction for yourselves, would you be Earthers, Martians, or Belters ? I think the Belters are really what the books are about, ultimately.
to stay as tribes, to survive out there in a new environment. You've got the empires, fighting over who's going to be the top dog, and of course, the Belters are at the shit end of that, usually. The people who built the apparatus for the empires to exist out in the solar system then become exiles out in space, and they're forgotten.
That's right. And cargo containers with engines. Exactly. Spoiler alert. I'm a little partial to the Belters myself. Understandably. You made the language.
I mean, I would go in there, and I would just mess up my own language. That was fun. Mark did a lot of that with the voice acting and the coaching of the Belters . Yeah, well, I worked for an entire year on a show, where Nick created an entire language for the Belters .
That was fun. Mark did a lot of that with the voice acting and the coaching of the Belters . Yeah, well, I worked for an entire year on a show, where Nick created an entire language for the Belters . And we probably would have worked countless hours.