Story so far
With Holden gone to the Agatha King, Alex Kamal flies the Rocinante down to the Io surface to drop the assault team. He counts down the descent for Bobbie, Amos, and Prax in the airlock, sets the ship on the deck, and sends Bobbie off with a warm 'Good hunting, soldier' — a small line that makes her wonder whether they might have become friends given time. He keeps the ship ready on the surface amid Io's radiation and instability while the team goes in and Bobbie faces the monster.
Appearance
A Martian with dark skin and thinning black hair at the controls, steady and warm-voiced over the comm.
Role
Rocinante pilot who lands the ship on Io to deploy the assault team.
Relationships
Bobbie Draper — The Marine he drops with a warm 'good hunting,' a friendship he senses could have grown.
Holden — His captain, away on the King, whose ship he flies down to the surface in his absence.
Amos Burton — The crewmate he lands for the lab assault.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 12 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
- The Rocinante's cheerful, drawling Martian pilot, ex-Navy and utterly at home at the controls.
Chapter 22
- The Roci's pilot braves the Ganymede battle zone, unable to reach the port, and sets the ship down at the secret science base.
Chapter 23
- The Roci's pilot pulls off a suicidal Callisto slingshot to shake a whole fleet's missiles, saving the crew off Ganymede.
Chapter 25
- The Roci's pilot befriends Prax and troubleshoots the ship's battle damage — then traces the bloody trail to a monster in the cargo bay.
Chapter 27
- Sealed in the cockpit under a scuttle order, Alex holds the reactor overrides while the crew fights the monster below.
Chapter 32
- Alex flies the crippled Roci into Tycho with dancer's grace, sharing the wonder of the station with Prax, then quietly grieves Naomi's departure.
Chapter 33
- Alex confronts Holden about the crew's survival — they fly for belief, not pay — and names Naomi's loss as the thing that grounds them.
Chapter 34
- Alex builds Prax's crowdfunding broadcast on the Roci's gear, coaching him through the fear of going public — and warns it'll stir things up like last time.
Chapter 40
- Alex accepts Holden's apology, votes in the new company wanting only to fly, and later relays Avasarala's warning that a fleet is coming.
Chapter 44
- Alex flies the Roci through the destroyer battle — timing the burn to bring the Martians into range first — and marvels at Bobbie's gunnery.
Chapter 49
- Alex threads the Roci through a thirty-five-ship battle and a radar-dark monster swarm, keeping the Martians between his people and the guns.
Chapter 51
- Alex sets the Roci down on Io's surface to land the assault team, wishing Bobbie 'good hunting' as she goes to war.