Sometimes all it takes is one stolen legitimately salvaged ship to alter historical past. We break down the Rocinante.

Throughout the Expanse, no ship is as notorious, or as pivotal, because the Rocinante. Formerly a Martian Congressional Republic Navy Corvette-class frigate, designed for a number of fight roles, the Rocinante owes a lot of its status to her captain, James Holden.

Holden and his crew of heroes and/or villains, relying on which facet you’re on, completed legendary feats of piloting within the Rocinante. But whether or not you view Roci and her crew as heroes or a nuisance in the best way of your plans, there’s no denying that the Rocinante saved the Solar System.

The Rocinante – Design

Per her origins as a army ship, this mild frigate was outfitted with a stunning quantity of firepower. As Holden typically famous, the Rocinante may very well be stuffed with surprises.

Before Holden and his crew received ahold of her, the Rocinante was armed as most mild freighters have been: with six totally different Nariman Dynamics 40mm level protection cannons and a pair of torpedo launchers, every able to mounting 10 torpedos at a time.

In a transfer attribute of her captain and crew, the Rocinante was later outfitted with a keel-mounted rail gun. This considerably upgraded her firepower, because the railgun might hearth 1-kilogram MCRN-issue tungsten rounds at round 9,9800 m/sec.

At 46 meters in size, Roci was not essentially the most luxurious ship, however snug sufficient for her crew. Features like carbon silicate lace plating ensured her defenses have been stable. On prime of her defenses, Roci additionally carried three reconnaissance drones.

The Eros Incident

Originally the Rocinante was commissioned because the MCRN Tachi, one of many escorts assigned to the Donnager Battleship. And there she might need continued to serve, if not for the daring escape of Holden and a crew of survivors escaping the destruction of the battleship throughout the Eros incident.

In the aftermath of the incident, the survivors got secure harbor by Fred Johnson of the Outer Planets Alliance, who might supply them a hiding place and refitted transponder codes, enabling the Martian army vessel to maneuver across the Solar System with out drawing consideration till it was too late.

Solar System in Peril

The Rocinante and her crew have been concerned in a few of the most important occasions of the Free Navy Conflict. But maybe its most necessary position was within the battle on the Sol gate.

During this combat, the Rocinante efficiently transited via the Ring gate, discovering its darkish secrets and techniques with time sufficient to cease the Ring’s defensive methods from destroying fleets of ships and probably the Solar System.

Without the actions of the Rocinante and her crew, humanity would have suffered a dire destiny certainly.

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and once in a while eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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