Pella
Marco's repaired flagship leads fourteen Free Navy warships through the Sol gate in overlapping formation, then disappears with the entire force.
Story so far
The Pella is Marco Inaros's flagship, damaged by the Roci and repaired at Callisto before becoming the command ship for Marco's Medina counterattack. Its crew rides a punishing high-g burn as Marco concentrates the remaining Free Navy ships around it, accepting exhaustion and strain for the chance to retake the slow zone before coalition reinforcements arrive.
On the final approach to the Sol gate, the Pella runs in a close formation with fourteen other warships. The overlapping drive plumes are intended to obscure individual ships from the Roci's sensors while leaving enough separation to prevent one lucky shot from damaging several vessels. Marco expects the formation to pass into a short, decisive battle and to seize the station. Instead, at the point of transit, the flagship's crew experiences a sudden break in ordinary perception and the entire formation vanishes. Nothing remains on Roci sensors where fifteen burning warships stood seconds before.
Appearance
A repaired but hard-driven Free Navy flagship under extreme deceleration, its crowded command spaces and crash couches packed with a crew enduring sustained high-g strain; other warships' plumes overlap around it near the Sol gate.
Role
Pella is the command vessel that carries Marco's last concentrated Free Navy force into the unknown consequence of the gate-transit trap.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Nemesis GamesBook 5
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
- Marco Inaros's captured Martian-built flagship carries the Free Navy's inner circle and its dangerous private secrets.
- Marco's flagship departs stripped Ceres as a closed world of plunder, anxiety, and carefully managed family loyalty.
- Hidden dark among Belt debris, the Pella becomes lead wolf in Marco's ambush of the Rocinante and Fred Johnson.
- Marco's flagship loses the ambush after Bobbie forces its practiced evasion directly into a cloud of Rocinante PDC fire.
- Damaged and overcrowded after the ambush, the Pella limps toward Pallas with the Koto's crew aboard and morale visibly frayed.
- Damaged by the Rocinante, the Pella reaches Callisto for repairs and briefly recovers its crew's confidence through the news of Fred Johnson's death.
- Marco's repaired flagship leads fourteen Free Navy warships through the Sol gate in overlapping formation, then disappears with the entire force.