Rocinante
The battered gunboat being restored at Tycho, close to flight-ready and still far tougher than its civilian repair yard expected.
Story so far
The Rocinante is in a Tycho repair berth after surviving Thoth's defensive fire with holes through its galley, damaged air and maneuvering systems, and a crushed false-freighter shell. Sam's repair crew welds in new bulkhead plates, restores systems, and expects the vessel to be close to perfect within days.
Naomi Nagata reports the work roughly ninety percent complete. The ship could fly sooner if its crew accepts unfinished cosmetic and nonessential work, which matters because James Holden is already refusing to imagine Tycho's safety as permanent. Its extreme resilience has impressed even a yard accustomed to heavy industrial vessels.
Appearance
The Rocinante is a compact Martian military torpedo bomber disguised as a crude civilian gas freighter. Repair crews are replacing scorched hull plates and smoothing the scars of its Thoth battle damage.
Role
The Rocinante is recovering its ability to act independently at the exact moment another Eros mission is becoming unavoidable.
Relationships
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
- A ready Martian torpedo bomber renamed Rocinante, the sole refuge of Holden’s four surviving crew members after the Donnager’s fall.
- Holden's renamed Martian gunboat, newly disguised as a civilian gas freighter and brought safely to Tycho Station.
- Holden's disguised gunboat, whose suspicious Tycho arrival is identified by Miller before it files a route for Eros.
- A Martian gunboat about to become a deliberately shabby gas freighter and take its first independent contract to Eros.
- An independent gunboat carrying an unopened protomolecule safe away from the war zone and back toward Tycho, its crew refusing to hand the prize to any immediate faction.
- A battered gunboat that drifts cold into Thoth's defenses, destroys the station's targeting array and two interceptors, and survives only after severe hull and maneuvering damage.
- The battered gunboat being restored at Tycho, close to flight-ready and still far tougher than its civilian repair yard expected.