Davenport tries to shake boarders and return the Storm to dock, then yields to Bobbie's guarantee rather than sacrifice his undercrewed command.
Davenport served as Singh's executive officer on the outward journey and takes command of the Gathering Storm when the governor orders the short-crewed destroyer to pursue the Rocinante. Once boarders are detected, he drives back toward Medina and uses repeated high-g microburns to slow their climb until station reinforcements can become available.
Bobbie Draper reaches his command deck before docking. Davenport orders his pilot onward and initially treats surrender as certain murder by honorless insurgents. Bobbie invokes her Martian Marine identity and offers every Laconian safety in suits if he yields. Confronted with his crew's deaths and the lack of reinforcements, he accepts. He leaves the captured ship tethered to the other prisoners, sealed into a suit with air and a beacon, watching Bobbie with concentrated resentment and future revenge.
An older-looking but still youthful Laconian officer with a defiant chin and disciplined posture, wearing a blue command uniform and later a sealed environment suit.
Davenport is the officer whose pragmatic surrender preserves Laconian lives and hands the resistance its most valuable captured weapon.