Basically a station was striking and demanding better worker rights, the UN Earth Government sent a spaceship, tried to jam their surrender call, then blew up the entire station for “being hostile and refusing to surrender”. They had children on the station.
We’re on path to The Expanse timeline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6722NAzNXck (spoiler, obviously)
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Basically a station was striking and demanding better worker rights, the UN Earth Government sent a spaceship, tried to jam their surrender call, then blew up the entire station for “being hostile and refusing to surrender”. They had children on the station.