Jazz fails her EVA Guild certification test after Bob rules her secondhand suit inspection inadequate.

Trond Landvik offers Jazz one million slugs to sabotage four Sanchez Aluminum harvesters, and she accepts.

Jazz disguises herself as a tourist and joins a lunar moonwalk to plant her HIB on the surface.

Jazz sabotages the first harvester but discovers the remaining harvesters have surrounded her and are filming.

Jazz blows up three of the four harvesters but cannot reach the last one before being forced to flee.

Dale catches Jazz reentering the airlock and demands weekly pub meetups as his price for silence.

Jazz arrives at Trond's apartment to find the door forced open and blood on the wall.

Jazz fights off an attacker in Jin Chu's hotel room and steals the ZAFO cable from the safe.

Rudy reveals to Jazz that Sanchez Aluminum is a money-laundering front for Brazilian crime syndicate O Palácio.

Jin Chu betrays Jazz by bringing an assassin to the welding shop; Jazz floods the room with neon gas.

Svoboda reveals the ZAFO cable achieves zero attenuation, making it worth trillions in global telecommunications.

Administrator Ngugi confesses she deliberately fed Jazz's location to O Palácio, using Jazz as bait.

Jazz assembles a crew at Hartnell's Pub and presents a plan to destroy the Sanchez Aluminum smelter.

Jazz sabotages the smelter's controls and the resulting explosion releases toxic gas that chloroforms all of Artemis.

Jazz punctures her tourist hamster ball to use a pipe as leverage on the final oxygen valve.

Jazz begins as a cash-strapped smuggler who fails her EVA Guild certification, then accepts a dangerous million-slug contract from billionaire Trond Landvik to sabotage the harvesters of Sanchez Aluminum. Her mission only partially succeeds, and Trond's subsequent murder pulls Jazz into a deadly conflict with O Palácio, a powerful Brazilian crime syndicate that secretly controls Sanchez. After surviving an assassin and piecing together the enormous value of ZAFO fiber optic cable, Jazz discovers that Artemis's own administrator has been manipulating her as a pawn all along. Determined to protect her hometown, Jazz assembles a crew and launches a daring assault on the Sanchez smelter, but the resulting explosion accidentally poisons the entire population with toxic gas. Jazz sacrifices herself to restore the colony's oxygen supply and emerges from near-death as the unlikely hero who saved Artemis.

The main arc: from struggling smuggler to savior of Artemis.

Rudy confronts a wife-beater in the industrial facility and replicates the man's exact injuries on the abuser.

Jazz helps evacuate fourteen people from an unexpected fire inside the Queensland Glass Factory.

Jazz commissions Svoboda to build an alibi device, agreeing to test his reusable condom prototype as payment.

Jazz lies to Ammar about needing welding equipment, claiming she is building an air shelter for a friend.

Jazz obtains a new Gizmo under an Arabic disguise at a hotel to support her cover story.

Jazz clings to the outside of a departing train to escape EVA Guild members blocking Artemis's entrances.

Jazz calls Kelvin for a loan and help establishing a new identity after fleeing Trond's murder scene.

Jazz uses her compact mirror to read a hotel computer screen and locate Jin Chu's room number.

Jazz plants her Gizmo as bait in the Arcade District and watches from a window as the killer locates it.

Rudy spots the assassin from a restaurant window and leaps out in pursuit, catching Jazz completely off guard.

Jin Chu contacts Jazz requesting a meeting; Jazz arranges the encounter at her father's welding shop.

Jazz visits Lene Landvik after Trond's murder and resizes Trond's engraved watch to fit Lene's wrist.

Jazz and Ammar work together to modify an air shelter with the equipment needed for the smelter mission.

Jazz abandons her escape route to go back and save Loretta Sanchez as the sabotaged smelter overheats.

Jazz wakes in the medical bay and immediately asks Rudy about the health of the Artemis population.

Before Jazz's main heist unfolds, she witnesses Artemis's rough brand of vigilante justice and participates in a dramatic factory fire evacuation that underscores the life-or-death stakes of lunar living. She recruits Svoboda through an awkward barter, lies to her father to obtain welding equipment, and arranges a digital alibi for herself before stepping onto the surface. When Trond is murdered, Jazz shifts into survival mode — calling on Kelvin for help, using creative tricks to navigate hostile hotel corridors, and piecing together the conspiracy through careful observation of her enemies' movements. As the smelter mission approaches, Jazz reunites with her father to build essential equipment, and her crew's plan is only partially successful, forcing her to race back and save a woman who moments earlier had been her adversary. She ultimately wakes in a hospital bed, her first instinct being concern not for herself but for every life in Artemis.

The supporting moments and decisions that shaped Jazz's mission.

Jazz notices a mysterious ZAFO-labeled box during her first delivery visit to Trond Landvik's apartment.

Jazz visits Trond's private warehouse to inspect his own harvesters and works out her sabotage plan.

Another harvester destroys Jazz's spare oxygen tanks on the lunar surface, compressing her timeline dangerously.

Jazz decides to blow up the harvesters with improvised explosions rather than use her original surgical method.

Jazz refuses Rudy's offer of official protection in exchange for admitting her role in the harvester sabotage.

Jazz discovers news reports confirming Trond and Irina's murders and realizes she herself is now a target.

Jazz calls Ammar from her maintenance hideout to warn him to leave home, but refuses his plea to join him.

Jazz tricks a hotel guest into escorting her past hotel security to access Jin Chu's floor.

Administrator Ngugi releases Jazz from custody and orders Jin deported to Hong Kong and the assassin extradited.

Jazz confronts Administrator Ngugi with a knife, demanding to know who revealed her Gizmo location to O Palácio.

Ngugi explains that ZAFO cable production could transform Artemis from a stagnant economy into a thriving exporter.

Jazz retreats to Svoboda's apartment in despair, sleeps for fourteen hours, and wakes resolved to destroy the smelter.

Kelvin retrieves and sends Jazz the confidential building plans for the Sanchez Aluminum smelting facility.

The assassin attacks Jazz in Rudy's office with a pipe; Jazz escapes by knocking over his oxygen tank.

Administrator Ngugi fines Jazz 550,000 slugs and demands a signed confession, allowing her to remain on Artemis.

Every major shift in Artemis's plot begins with a small observation or a critical decision. Jazz's curiosity about a mysterious labeled box plants the seed of the novel's central mystery, while a warehouse inspection and a fateful negotiation set her dangerous mission in motion. When her plan unravels on the lunar surface, Jazz improvises under pressure, and when the consequences spiral into murder, she faces a chain of revelations that redefine who she is fighting and why. A knife-point confrontation with Administrator Ngugi exposes the full scope of the ZAFO conspiracy and the desperate financial reality driving Artemis's leadership. Jazz's final choices — to rest, to plan, and ultimately to pierce her own suit to save her neighbors — mark her transformation from a self-interested loner into the colony's protector, a journey confirmed when Artemis's leadership formally reckons with what she has done.