John Boone Timeline & Summary

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• While on the Ares, John agrees with Arkady's decision that they need to try to make a new society on Mars; he also starts a relationship with Maya.
• John and the First Hundred arrive on Mars and get to work settling in; John acts as a type of impromptu leader among the group.
• Colonists start colonizing the planet, and John works with Sax on the terraforming project.
• Sabotage incidents happen at major terraforming sites, so John decides to don his Sherlock cap and find out who's responsible.
• He travels all over Mars, talking with people and gathering clues.
• John receives the longevity treatment and the promises of many birthday presents to come.
• He continues to travel all over the planet. Like all over.
• One night, he bumps into the Coyote and some young kid that doesn't take a liking to John; unbeknownst to him, it's his son, Kasei.
• Someone tries to murder John. At the same time, UNOMA investigators turn up to figure out who's behind the sabotage incidents. They end up investigating John instead.
• John takes a vacation from traveling all over Mars and heads to Phobos to meet Arkady and travel all over Mars's moon instead.
• Back on Mars, John goes to Underhill, where the UNOMA investigators frame him for murder. John unframes himself for said murder.
• He convinces many of the First Hundred and various colonies to have a party on Olympus Mons, celebrating the passing of the dust storm and Sam's introduction of an ice meteor to the planet's atmosphere.
• At the party, Hiroko comes out of hiding. John tells her he knows about his son.
• John tells the First Hundred he knows the sabotage incidents were Hiroko's people—but not under orders from Hiroko. They came up with the plans on their own.
• John convinces many of the First Hundred there to join him in preventing the transnats from revising the Mars Treaty.
• Much later, at a festival in Nicosia, John Boone is killed by a young Arab named Selim—thanks to an assassination arranged by Frank.