Scopuli

Story so far

The Scopuli's distress beacon draws the Canterbury into the attack that destroys it, and the ship's surviving evidence connects Julie Mao to the OPA and a frightening unknown presence aboard. Miller has treated its disappearance as the first thread in a larger conspiracy, while James Holden's crew knows it as the trap that took their home.

Fred Johnson now reveals that the courier's nominal owner is Lionel Polanski, an identity that exists only on paper and holds assets Bredon Tycho does not want visible under the company name. A person using Polanski's name has reportedly checked into a flophouse on Eros, where the Rocinante crew is being sent to investigate. The revelation does not explain who set the Scopuli adrift or why, but it ties the bait ship to a concealed Tycho operation and makes Eros the next place answers might surface.

Appearance

The Scopuli is a small courier or light freighter, encountered as an abandoned vessel with a manufactured Martian-marked distress beacon rather than as a functioning ship.

Role

The Scopuli is the original bait ship whose hidden ownership turns the Eros assignment into a direct continuation of the Canterbury disaster.

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