Web1 Canterbury 1.1 Thoth Spin Station 1.2 Guanshiyin 2 United Nations 2.1 Earth 2.2 Luna 2.3 Nathan Hale 2.4 Arboghast 2.5 Agatha King 2.6 Thomas Prince 2.7 Seung Un 2.8 Something went wrong. ago The Armpit of the Flatulence, 40 1 420binchicken 8 mo. Please note I haven't yet finished WebShip names and meanings in The Expanse: Pella and Scopuli Both of these names have Latin and Greek origins, which I stumbled upon today. The MCRN flagship picked up the Knight after the destruction of the Canterbury. ago Breathe of the Colon 19 ramtax666 8 mo. The Expanses equivalent of the Millennium Falcon, the Roci was one of the shows main design challenges. The Expanse, true to its name, ran for six seasons as one of the most sprawling space stories ever put on film. I just recently started reading the first novel, and the first ship ever in it doesn't even have a name! It just sounds so great. Pella bore Alexander the Great who later saw Persepolis, capitol of the once great Persian Empire, fall. Earth's moon: Lovell City, New Hague, Bush Shipyards, Armstrong Complex. WebNauvoo would be a very important name for the Mormons of the Expanse. They engage it in a short battle, with Holden in the pilot's seat, and he narrowly manage to destroy the skiff before it escapes. The Roci uses this to move directly past the battleship and fire two missiles into its engines sheering two of them clean off and disabling the UNN ship. Naomi asks Prax for a new name for the ship's transponder, renaming the ship Pinus Contorta, the name of a tree species. Agatha King - someone from our future (or Agatha Christie/Stephen King). Green Ronin Publishing, the team behind The Expanse tabletop role-playing game, has an exciting new book on the way. The remaining ships then surrender and the Roci goes to rendezvous with the Razorback to pick up Naomi. 34 Siggi_Starduust 8 mo. In exchange for stolen stealth technology from the Red Planet, Marco "acquired" the mutineers a Protomolecule sample. I still have a jar of my mothers original yeast right here. WebHere are my favorites: The Donnager (I mean come on, there isn't a stronger name for Mar's flagship) Agatha King Scirocco Arboghast Rocinante / Tachi Guy Molinari Eighteen months after the Ring Space incident, the Roci has gotten a new black and red paint job for its outer hull. Press J to jump to the feed. Before the crew is sent on a mission to Ilus, the Roci goes to Luna to undergo modifications, installing landing legs and a railgun to the ship's bow. The Canterbury A fitting name for a large corporate mining ship it doesn't sound fast or powerful but it sounds big and regal. 1 Epstein Drive The shipnames are good, but the Culture shipnames are better :-). Please note I haven't yet finished BA, so tag your spoilers. 158 (former) If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. Louise Banks Arrival - The linguist who assisted extraterrestrials in Press J to jump to the feed. Another might be "Roar of the Tornado". After this Drummer fires a barrage of missiles at the Koto which are promptly intercepted by the latter's PDCs, however the distracted Koto then is disabled by the Rocinante's railgun. Ive always been pushing to make the ships more and more cramped, make everything a little tighter, a little smaller, ceilings a little lower, said Breck Eisner, Anubis sounds deathly, fitting considering its payload and the fact it became a tomb. 2. Co-writer Will Sobel says that makes them uniquely suited to help Green Ronin bring these maps to life. Features In an defunct and repurposed Helium-3 mine, Protogen scientists established Prospero station. Thoth Station was owned and operated by Protogen, a subsidiary of Mao-Kwik Mercantile, a Luna-based conglomerate, controlled by Jules-Pierre Mao, Guanshiyin was owned and operated by Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile, a Luna-based conglomerate controlled by Jules-Pierre Mao. Following the attack by the hybrid, Holden, Alex and Amos are outside the ship burning off traces of the protomolecule from the hull. Fortunately, the ship and crew survive when entering into the Ring Space, becoming the first to do so. You hear the name Donnager and you respect it. Yeah, but I had to make up short nicknames for his human/AI character names lol. When Eros moves on its own, the Rocinante chased after it and eventually is used to target lock the asteroid for UN missiles to destroy it. Other Laconian ships are easier, pretty much any sort of meteorological term will fit the naming convention (Monsoon or Mammatus (after the cloud)) for example. 70k scale replica of the Rocinante corvette, Alternative source for the name comes from the song Cygnus X-1 Book 1 The Voyage by the band Rush on their 1977 release, A Farewell to Kings. Summary. Those movies are the root of my arachnophobia. Clarissa or Peaches, as she is affectionately called by Amos, is the daughter of Jules-Pierre Mao of Luna and the older sister of Julie Mao. My other favorite names from the series are - Screw Loose, Limiting Factor, Congenial Optimist, Very little Gravitas inedeed, Shoot them later, and What is the answer and why? Rocin means nag or work horse, and "ante" in this context means former. It is only identified on-screen by the branding on the back of the Surly Belter Crewman's jumpsuit. Marasmus was a rental out of Pallas Station carrying Aid Without Allegiance relief activists. This would my pick, too. The Expanse was always good at that. It wasn't just a Mormon town, it was supposed to be their Jerusalem. But maybe thats the Patrick obrien fan in me. Upon arrival, a brief hostility ensued as it turned out that Johnson planned to commandeer Rocinante for a mission, as he wanted a capable warship in case whatever happened to the Scopuli happened again, but Holden convinced him to hire them to undertake it. A moon of Jupiter with intense tectonic and volcanic activity while immersed in radiation. Hell, it still makes me giggle. What deck plans allowed us to do is basically say, Here are also a bunch of maps, Sobel said. Before combat is initiated, Captain Camina Drummer leads a mutiny aboard the Tynan, fires a missile which disables the Dewalt's engines and orders Mowteng to stand down (both ships belonging to her own faction). Not long after getting underway, the Rocinante is spotted by the MCRN Yangste, which then dispatches the Ambedkar, a Morrigan-class patrol destroyer to intercept. Johnson then had the ship disguised as a gas hauler to help them avoid detection and gave the Rocinante's crew their mission; to find Lionel Polanski, one of Fred's operatives from the Scopuli. Ooh, interesting. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. But even before that, authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham who write under the pen name S. A. Corey) explored the setting in their own homebrew RPG. You can get it straight from the publisher (hardcover and PDF), digitally via DriveThruRPG, on Amazon, and at local game stores. | The Expanse is a space opera, mystery-sci-fi drama television series based TV series When the crew of the Roci receives a distress signal from the Razorback which has Deputy undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala who and Martian Marine Bobbie Draper who are being chased to be assassinated by a UNN Leonidas-class battleship. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It would go on to become the primary setting for the next several novels, and also play a huge role in the television series. WebCategory:Ship Types | The Expanse Wiki | Fandom in: Spaceships Ship Types Category page Edit Trending pages Frigate Skiff Patrol Torpedo Boat Fleet support ship Breaching But you might not have guessed that if you only saw the shows sets. Class Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. For an extra layer of trivia fun, note that the Canterbury shares her name with The Canterbury Tales, a collection of short story poems from the 1300's which includes, among others, the KNIGHT'S Tale. A moon of Jupiter with a large terraformed crop area under domes. In the Assault on Thoth Station, the Rocinante was released from the OPA Guy Molinari to act as broken off cargo so it could float to the station. That corporation name for a giggle out of me when I first read it. The Rocinante It so does not sound like a Corvette Class, fast-attack torpedo bomber. SoldierOf4Chan Additional comment actions Security officers on Ceres station are under contract to Star Helix Security, an Earth-based corporation. In addition to the storm motif, the Magnetar-class all seem to posses a human-element to the metaphor (Eye, Heart, Voice). The following is a semi-complete pictorial catalog of the characters inThe Expanse TV series; they are grouped by location and roughly in order of their last appearance when they are dead in the current episode, or the location of their first appearance when alive. Rhaegar settled his eyes on the man before him- the one responsible for all of this. newsletter, The Mandalorian season 3 poochied Gina Carano, Marshal Dune was a key player, but controversys keeping her out of the galaxy, Marvel still doesnt know what to do with its most popular hero, Spider-Man, Spider-Man endures, almost in spite of many Spider-Man stories, Destiny 2 power level guide, all caps and Powerful and Pinnacle gear sources explained, The best way to increase your Power level in Destiny 2s new Lightfall expansion, All the big new games coming out in March, Soulslike and sports fans are in for a treat with Wo Long and Augusta National, Sign up for the The lawsuit from Mars has since been dropped thanks to Chrisjen Avasarala's help. The Rocinante then goes to Luna with the surviving crew to meet up with Avasarala and to pickup Amos and Clarissa Mao. I think PR would almost work best as a movie. Is it for "mind your own fucking business"? The exterior of the Rocinante. The Expanse, a wildly popular series of science fiction books and a beloved television series, was adapted into a role-playing game thanks to a crowdfunding campaign in 2018. Then they were driven out by armed vigilantes- starting the exodus that eventually led them to Utah and Idaho. Better versions of these names would be "Fist of the Hurricane" or "Howl of the Blizzard". Six months later, the Rocinante has joined in the fight against Free Navy. I mean who can keep a straight face when you see that a ship is named 'Yes sir, that's my baby'. There's a ship named after an Andy Weir "The Martian" character, too. They have designs generally oriented towards function rather than to be aesthetically pleasing. I only wish there were more actual naming conventions like how the Laconians named all their ships after things to do with storms (minor book 7 spoiler). They may also travel into the Ring network, and into many other planetary systems. They even reference that with the Miller, I believe, sections where he basically says how unoriginal some names can be. Alex enthusiastically suggested naming their new ship "Flamin' Alamo" or "Screamin' Firehawk" to which Holden refused, suggesting the name "Rocinante" instead. Owner/Navy It also gives me hope that there will be a Watney now that The Martian is Expanse canon. Maybe the arms of the hurricane. Please enter a valid email and try again. The Rocinante ("Roci") is a former MCRN (Martian Congressional Republic Navy)-turned-independent Corvette-class frigate capable of multiple combat roles. Once everyone is back onboard, the Rocinante weds back to the Sol system. WebThe single-pilot ships darted between black clouds and burning dreadnoughts, strafing across Rhaegar's doomed army with explosive shells. The Expanse Rocinante (Beratnas Gas) Space Engineers. The Hammurabi is a Scirocco-class military ship introduced during the Earth-Mars war which pursued the UNN Agatha King to Io. I think the Scopuli might be named after the Sirenum Scopuli. The Canterbury has a grandiose name not so fitting a rundown water hauler like it had become before its destruction, because before it was recycled by P'n'K as such it used to be a grandiose generation ship, one of those used to settle the Belt. I know the writers are gamers so that could easily be a nod to the games. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, General Discussion (All Show & Book Spoilers Must Be Tagged). Fortunately, Kenzo Gabriel (who had just been caught sending out a rogue signal) informed the Roci's crew that, being a Martian gunship, there would be secret codewords for when they were working in covert ops and needed to be left alone, which Alex confirmed as he recalled an incident he witnessed while serving in the Martian Navy, which involved an unidentifed ship. Light Frigate and a ship called the Tori Byron, as well as a location called "Savage Landing". With the Rocinante making it through the Ring, it escapes the OPA missile but both are captured and slowed by the Ring Station but are pulled to the center of the Slow Zone. Nauvoo is a Hebrew word meaning "beautiful place" or "city beautiful.". Mars sues Rocicorp in both Martian and Earth courts to get the Rocinante back from the Roci Crew. We debated organizing them by size class, but in the end, alphabetical seemed best for easy reference. WebOther Laconian ships are easier, pretty much any sort of meteorological term will fit the naming convention (Monsoon or Mammatus (after the cloud)) for example. Holden and Amos try to remove it from the ship but Holden is trapped by a cargo container. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, General Discussion (All Show & Book Spoilers Must Be Tagged). If you like memorable ship names, you should read John Scalzis Interdependency series. He also instructed them on how to change the Tachi's transponder codes to avoid long-range detection. . The Rocinante then docks to the Razorback to help its crew. They give us feedback and tweaks here and there, to make sure that were being true to their vision, while also giving us enough room to breathe.. UNS Arboghast was a scientific vessel commandeered and retrofitted to investigate protomolecule activities at the impact site on Venus. On July 27, 2019, Amazon renewed The Expanse for a fifth season, which is set to premiere on December 16, 2020. Hundreds of years in the future, the Solar System has been colonized by humanity. You forgot the best one: Scipio Africanus. Press J to jump to the feed. Marco Inaros' Free Navy is currently the dominant force in The Expanse 's Sol system - an achievement only possible thanks to his season 5 alliance with Martian rebels. Despite Alex's best efforts, the Martians still attempted to board, which would have meant grave consequences once they recognized the stolen warship. WebThe Expanse is an American science fiction television series that premiered on December 14, 2015, on Syfy. After Holden learns that Earth and Mars are at war, Holden wipes the name Rocinante, as well as the lady, off the hull. 198k in orbit The Xuesen is a Scirocco-class military ship introduced during the expedition to the Ring. 6 Nariman Dynamics 40mm Point Defense Cannons2 Torpedo launchers (each carrying 10 torpedoes for a total of 20))keel-mounted railgun (Season 4-6) With its new name, the Rocinante headed for Tycho Station. Oops. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Your names don't feel quite right. Robert Baratheon. Once the Donnager was boarded in a CQB scenario, Captain Yao ordered Lt. Lopez and some MCR Marines to escort Holden and the other survivors to the Tachi, hoping they would escape and testify that the Martians had nothing to do with the Canterbury's destruction. Rules will allow players to use the vessels for ship-to-ship combat and as the settings for their own adventures and encounters. I mean come on "Forward Unto Dawn"? 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