If there's one thing I loved about the space combat in The Expanse, it was the way they handled damage. Most series felt the need to have crippled or destroyed ships go up in gratuitous (and easy to animate) explosions so they didn't have to model damage to the hull. Just seeing a ship lose axial control and start to spin with a bunch of holes in it feels a lot more satisfying than seeing it disappear in a fireball.
But also ships in the Expanse often DO disappear in a gratuitous fireball, especially if the attacker wants it. Any damage to reactor leads to a nuclear explosion. Only top of the line military vessels like Roci have sensors to dump reactor plasma the moment a round hits the ship in a way that endangers the reactor.
@@Horesmi while it does happen when they do explode they do also tend to be a more detailed explosion. Bits of the ship exploding outwards rather then just an explosion. Just look at the destruction of the EMC fleet in S5 E10
Also wouldn't really work. The torpedo is moving faster than the ship that fired it - torpedo explodes - in a vacuum that explosion would be moving forward at the same pace as the torpedo, meaning the rocinante wouldn't catch up to it in time
Everybody! You never heard that command in Star Wars or several other IPs - but even still, just because you like what 'The Expanse' does doesn't mean what 'Star Trek' does is crap. It's different - and let's be honest, there's been some great writing in those five-plus decades of the franchise, as well. The real-world physics employed by one IP's universe doesn't render another's instantly invalid. They're just different but equally enjoyable.
@@brothergrimace3859 It doesn't, but I find that shields getting pounded for ages isn't anywhere near as tense. For example, in the stealth ship vs Rocinante fight, the Rocinante could be crippled or its crew killed by a single PDC round, there's absolutely no room for mistakes. It's like a knife fight in space.
Manik Your argument doesn't work. The same level of tenseness existed in Star Trek: TNG with the Borg (until they diluted them starting with the S4 premiere of Voyager). 'The Best Of Both Worlds' was incredibly tense, as there was nothing their technology could do to save them: the DS9 pilot 'Emissary' shows the Battle of Wolf 359, and how starships were getting one-shots by the Borg cube. Again, nothing against 'The Expanse', it is an amazing show and deserves all the plaudits it has and more - but people need to stop the zero-sum mentality of one show is So. Much. Better. than another. After all, if the Trek franchise has managed to stay around almost as the Doctor Who franchise, they've apparently managed to do something right.
@@alexandremagalhaes1774 More like practical thus beautiful It's beautiful for the world that it's made for. Kind of like how my computer is old and pretty basic but long lasting and reliable.
All those missed 40mm shells going into empty space will probably hit some poor fucking Belter miner minding his own business on the other side of space.
Well... let's just say that if The Expanse had been around in the Nineties, or Babylon 5 was on today... I'll definitely put it in the top ten, that's for certain.
@@brotheralaric7177 she has AI of a limited degree. You input what you need and the autopilot can do it for you. Fun fact that I want ti have in the show, is from the books. No spoilers. One time there was an event happening in couple of seconds, and in those seconds, multiple events happened because of Roci AI. Spoiler explanation from the book Babylon's ashes. When Roci escorts a freighter to the ring, two fast attack frigates crewed by Free Navy were about to intercept Rocinante near the ring. But they were going really fast, to try and take them out early, then circle back and finish it. In a span of a couple of seconds, Rocinante and the Frigates exchanged torpedo and PDC fire. The ships did the work for the humans in that moment
As much as I liked Star Wars and Mass effect style of space battle this is much better. Realistic movements and styles of combat in that empty space is just amazing.
I love how suspenseful the dogfights are in this show, really makes you think about spacebattle in a completely different light, in space initiative is everything and a single mistake spells doom.
My truck has 275,000 miles and I love the expanse so much that I have named my truck the rocinante, my beast still runs like it just came off the production line, it definitely deserves the epic name
I was struggling with a name for my Tesla. It is still a young blood, but the Rocinante has left such an impression on me, I could think of no better name. I hope my car earns its name, your truck certainly has!
I think the most realistic thing about the combat in this show is how little there actually is. With all the shows and movies out there revolving around space and space combat, way too many of them give the feel that it's almost a weekly occurrence for a ship to get shot to hell, fixed, and ready to fight again. Most people couldn't handle that kind of lifestyle, let alone expect the structural integrity of a ship to handle it.
The space battles in this series are in it's own league compared to all the other space battles. It's just such a shame it's not as popular as it deserves to be.
I don’t know how I just found out about this show but just started watching it yesterday and it’s fucking amazing. And the physics are the most accurate I’ve ever seen in sci fi.
Really neat edit however it might've been nice to add some crew scenes too maybe, hearing alex and the crew's responses feels like an essential part of the battles. Again, really nice edit.
Holden's speech at Ganymede about the "Warship Ratiocinate threatening to ram the sum total of it's state of the art martian arsenal up their asses" is a good example of that.
Yes, it also helps to clarify the weaponry sounds as you are not listening to it from the outside, but rather inside. It's mostly the vibration that echoes through the Roci and the other ships, the same with the engine. As those weapons, rockets, and damage sound off as if they were cheap sound effects, but they designed that way.
The MCRN *says* she's just a torpedo bomber or patrol ship. But we all *know* that two torpedo tubes and six PDCs makes her much more than that. I bet you its canon that some MCRN admirals would rather have an entire fleet of corvettes like her than a single Donnager class.
@@bmouch1018 Well I imagine during the whole court battle for the ship the MCRN finally got to see what one of their own ships could do under a competent captain and crew. At the same time the UNN is thinking that court marshaling Holden was a very big mistake. In the end I believe you would be right to an extent. Remember a Donnager class vessel took out what four, five of those ships so the battle cruiser is still worth the investment.
I love the fact there are so many B5 fans here, and I'm equally pleased to see they feel the same as I do about both shows. B5 will always be my favorite show, but The Expanse is as brilliant, and running neck and neck with Babylon 5.
Fortunateson1969 First Officer William T. Riker: "Tough little ship." Klingon Commander Worf: "Little?" (quote taken from "Star Trek: First Contact" 1996 film) LOL
THIS IS the best sci fi show ever created. We deserve a CONTINUATION of THE EXPANSE. It is a 10/10 show. A fair good ending of course but there is MUCH MORE TO TELL. This deserves an all out war and a biffed fat budget more than a James Cameron Movie Avatar. This deserves full support. The story and the writing are top of the line. Every time I watch this I cry because it ended and at the same time I smile because it happened.
This show has found all the proper elements, and has an uncanny knack of editing. transitioning from scene to scene before your attention wanes. Yes, I know consider it the best sci fi show I've seen.. You also made a great edit. Maybe they should give you a job there.
As a corvette the Roci is built with 6 PDCs the main advantage for Roci is in the close range where it can bring all its PDCs to yield. Based on the ship design the Roci is able to use 5 PDCs to cover every angle. Compared to the larger destroyer or even capital ships their PDCs are only built for defense and in close range only 1 PDC can cover an angle hence why Roci is able to punch above its weight class when the PDCs come into play.
Although the name Rocinante comes from Don Quixote I do wonder if the writers were Rush fan's as its the ship in the song's Cygnus X-1 and Hemispheres " On my ship, the 'Rocinante', Wheeling through the galaxies, headed for the heart of Cygnus, Headlong into mystery."
I honestly wish the external shots during the fights were silent, as space is a vacuum yadda yadda, you just see the turrets blasting away and missles chasing their targets silently through the inky black of deep space.
There will never be anything in science fiction like the combat in the Expanse. It's either an oppressive long range exchange of torpedoes with PDCs defending, or terrifying close quarters with so many variables it's like a savage bar room brawl thrown in between and around a graceful ballet team.
Anyone, that doesn’t understand that the “Roci” is in its self in fact it’s own character... well, to them I say, Dém no beltalowda. No kopeng. Da be BIG bosmang welwala! “Ohh.. Bosmang, Dédawang deting im ta showxa” Haha 🤣
That fight with the Amun-Ra at Thoth station is and remains absolutely epic. Showed just how much damage a heavily armed frigate could do, especially to a vessel not designed for close-quarter combat. The Amun-Ra was just plain not prepared for combat on an even keel, or to defend a stationary target. They held their own the first pass, but they were assassins, not brawlers. The Rocinante absolutely pasted them in the second pass, leaving their ship swiss cheese and Thoth station wide open to the boarding party.
Probably the wrong word. Some ships do seem to be designed to better take PDC rounds even if they can't deflect them. Rocinante got hit pretty hard by the Amun-Ra in the first pass but they stayed functional and in the fight - barely. Mars made that ship to brawl, to get in from medium to close range and wail on their target. That's why Guy Molinari had to hide them approaching Thoth - so they could get in close enough to unload on both the station and its defender. The second pass pretty much turned the Amun-Ra into a dead hulk - they were NOT made for CQB, but to sneak in, unleash a storm of long-range weaponry before their target had a chance to react, and disappear again. Station defense was not their design goal and it showed.
@@tearstoneactual9773 Those 40 mm PDCs were *nasty* and the Roci was bristling with them. It was far, far more heavily armed than any light frigate had a right to be. They took some fairly serious damage on the first engagement, but the second round, the crew was ready and whaled on the Amun Ra with everything she had. Straight knockout. It wa beautiful to see.
@@ArchTeryx00 - yes, yes it was. And Alex went into that fight expecting them to lose. *Badly.* He trained so hard for that fight, and it paid off big. :)
Since the ships in The Expanse travel always at brachistochrone trajectories, most of the travel happens with speeds above escape velocity. Which means the debris will leave the Solar System altogether in a few months or years, tops.
Damn the captain of that Leonidas must've felt bad. Imagine being so outclassed by the other side's tech that a single of their frigates can cripple your battleship with a little ingenuity.
Well the Leonids wasn’t beaten by just a frigate, in conventional engagement it would have won, but the Roci has Holden, the button pushing coffee fuelled ex UNN madman, only a insane or genius person would come up with the manuver undertaken by the Roci
I thought that it was explained that the decks of the Roci and other ships were stacked like in a silo (note the orientation when they escaped the Donniger) yet they always shoot the scenes as if the beam is horizontal to the decks?
The ships' orientation in relation to each other really does not matter since the only sense of "down" would be towards the drive. But, as Das said, its because that makes more sense to most viewers.
The thrust comes from the tail end, thus having to travel in a nose first orientation. Also I’d think that when closing the distance I’d want to show the smallest target profile possible. In other battles once in PDC range you see the ship flipping all over the place to bring more guns to bear almost like a broadside attack. That’s just my thoughts on it. I kinda stopped thinking too hard about it when I nerdgasmed over the whole missile escort part. That was so cool.
LOL. I got a clean recording of PDCs firing from when they were defending the Somnambulist from an incoming missile. I had it as the G-Mail "incoming mail" chime on my phone. Had to take it off. It's too jarring to suddenly hear PDCs firing right next to you.
Rocinante may not as good as those stealth ship, but hell, that ship and the crew is hell of fighter. With Rail gun upgrade in season 4, I actually hope there will be another new combat upgrade for Rosy in season 5
@@raphiontherocks1591 First, it would be very boring. Human brains love feedback, thats why you have small sound cues in game when you kill an ennemy for example. So, not having sound feedback would be pretty bad for us. Second, well, you don't hear that much sound. When the missiles (thermonuclear missiles!) explode, you don't hear anything. However, you hear missiles being launched and motors, because, if you were inside the ship, you would hear the engine roaring, and the vibration caused by launched the missiles/PDCs firing/etc... So my headcannon is that you hear the sounds from the POVs (or rather, POS, point of sound) of the characters inside the ship thats in the screen at this moment.
Almost. It's better than science fantasy. The only errors I could find are, the muzzle flare would in fact be red, there is no stealth in space, and the explosions are bright and dissipate immediately. Episode is accurate in the sense that shooting down missiles and drones with nuclear missiles can be the only effective point defense, however, with law as it stands, even having it aboard ship is a one-way ticket to prison for the crew. IANAL. Even the sound can be excused as being heard inside the ship or other object. For all intents and purposes, there is no sound in space.
@Setzer K that's a really mistaken thing to say. There's no way to dissipate heat in space other than by radiation or Flash coolers, which also radiate heat. Now I'm not disputing that radar could be very difficult in space, but stealth is not an option in space. The only way to hide anything in space is keeping the composition and purpose of the mass aboard the ships a secret, but once again the existence, velocity, and amount of mass and the characteristics of the engines that moving around are always obvious, the moment the engines come on. Credit is to Atomic Rockets, the project Rho Project.
@@allennelson1987 The stealth ships are only able to remain in stealth when using only thrusters or aren't moving altogether. The moment the engines fire up their positions are detected. This was explained over and over in the show. Stealth only means the hull plating can mask heat signatures when in idle or adrift, so they look like space rocks or debris and is strategic only when their propulsion systems are offline. The only case where magical stealth happened was with Eros due to the protomolecule
@@uadhlagash7280 if you can see it's position and movement at one time, that's enough to calculate its position and movement for all time. The only possible exception is secular variation, and it's very small.
@Setzer K if there's crew, there's waste heat coming from the crew's bodies. Where's there is waste heat, there is heat radiation, so that's detection, with or without windows.
So I need a question answered. In episode 6 season 3 when Alex is taking Bobbie into the Roccy's med bay, why is She earing a black UNN tank top t-shirt?
if its from after the events of the roci rescuing the under sec and bobby, prior to that bobby defected to the un and of course they would give her clothes and stuff.
@@Privatepain1234 so basically what you are saying is that she basically went through 3 episodes wearing her martian uniform for lord only knows how many days they spent on earth. Only to go visit Jue Pierre Mao on his private spaceship without taking any extra clothes except for her suit of armor. Get rescued by the roccy and some how miraculously get's UNN clothing from a martian ship that has been basically hiding on Tycho Station with a bunch of belters that hate both mars and earth.
@@fbi805 dude she defected from Mars with little more than the clothes on her back. Yes she is dedicated to her oath, its part of why she defected. But if your offered a fresh bit of clothing your telling me your not going to take it? This is science fiction not real life. Get over it.
As much as I like the show and the space scenes, editing it like this without some crew action context makes all this shit pretty boring. I wouldn't show this to people who don't know the show to try to convince them how great the show is.
@@AlternicityBlogspot *MCRN Karakum* - stealth coated, carried the PM sample from Ganymede before Errinwright blew it up and blackmailed Mao (and Chrisjen). We'll be seeing more of them in S05-6 (Book 5-6)
If there's one thing I loved about the space combat in The Expanse, it was the way they handled damage. Most series felt the need to have crippled or destroyed ships go up in gratuitous (and easy to animate) explosions so they didn't have to model damage to the hull. Just seeing a ship lose axial control and start to spin with a bunch of holes in it feels a lot more satisfying than seeing it disappear in a fireball.
But also ships in the Expanse often DO disappear in a gratuitous fireball, especially if the attacker wants it. Any damage to reactor leads to a nuclear explosion. Only top of the line military vessels like Roci have sensors to dump reactor plasma the moment a round hits the ship in a way that endangers the reactor.
@@Horesmi hmmmmm, no.
@@nicedayright4064 well, sometimes they use nukes in torpedos so ships DO disappear.
I also like how debris can actually be as dangerous as munitions.
@@Horesmi while it does happen when they do explode they do also tend to be a more detailed explosion. Bits of the ship exploding outwards rather then just an explosion. Just look at the destruction of the EMC fleet in S5 E10
Dude. Detonating torpedos ahead of the ship, bursting throw the explosion to then take out its engines was a stroke of genius AND looked awesome.
*Through
@aggiewoodie- Ninja mode.
U mean the Holden manuvere 😎
Also wouldn't really work. The torpedo is moving faster than the ship that fired it - torpedo explodes - in a vacuum that explosion would be moving forward at the same pace as the torpedo, meaning the rocinante wouldn't catch up to it in time
@@Furfire if you look at the story they almost never use the full power of the engines they ware capable of more than 20gs of accelerations
Who would have guessed that an accurate depiction of physics in a spacebattle would be way more entertaining and tense than "Shields up, red alert!".
The environment is an antagonist by itself and the greatest enemy.
Everybody! You never heard that command in Star Wars or several other IPs - but even still, just because you like what 'The Expanse' does doesn't mean what 'Star Trek' does is crap. It's different - and let's be honest, there's been some great writing in those five-plus decades of the franchise, as well. The real-world physics employed by one IP's universe doesn't render another's instantly invalid. They're just different but equally enjoyable.
@@brothergrimace3859 thank you
@@brothergrimace3859 It doesn't, but I find that shields getting pounded for ages isn't anywhere near as tense. For example, in the stealth ship vs Rocinante fight, the Rocinante could be crippled or its crew killed by a single PDC round, there's absolutely no room for mistakes. It's like a knife fight in space.
Manik Your argument doesn't work. The same level of tenseness existed in Star Trek: TNG with the Borg (until they diluted them starting with the S4 premiere of Voyager). 'The Best Of Both Worlds' was incredibly tense, as there was nothing their technology could do to save them: the DS9 pilot 'Emissary' shows the Battle of Wolf 359, and how starships were getting one-shots by the Borg cube. Again, nothing against 'The Expanse', it is an amazing show and deserves all the plaudits it has and more - but people need to stop the zero-sum mentality of one show is So. Much. Better. than another. After all, if the Trek franchise has managed to stay around almost as the Doctor Who franchise, they've apparently managed to do something right.
I love how these ships remind me, of all games, space engineers. It doesn't have to look pretty to tear a whole in you.
Are you sayin the rocinante isnt pretty?
@@alexandremagalhaes1774
More like practical thus beautiful
It's beautiful for the world that it's made for. Kind of like how my computer is old and pretty basic but long lasting and reliable.
DJ Programer ah yes I agree
Space Engineers 😍
There's actually a bunch of Expanse ships in spengies now and they are amazing
You can't spell 'Legitimate Salvage' without 'Legit Savage.'
or "Eat a Vag"
Roci is a MENACE to all that piss it off!
one thing i never noticed was how the cargo containers say "fedex" on them, thats hilarious
Oh, there is loads of little easter eggs like that. See if you can spot the signs that say "No Durians allowed" (A very smelly fruit)
It was the first thing I noticed. Then the shape of them
@@Outland9000 watch out, this may trigger some salty Malaysian
And to think Fedex probably paid a pretty sum to get that product placement.
Belter ingenuity at its finest...
Not gonna lie, the escorted by missiles part made me climax
💦
😐
😂
How vet und squvishy mein vikinger!
@@tobbvida5601 I mean they're not wrong.
All those missed 40mm shells going into empty space will probably hit some poor fucking Belter miner minding his own business on the other side of space.
cue random alien ship flying around and suddenly finding a 40mm shell lodged in it's hull
Arguably the best sci-fi show in history.
💯%
Without a doubt.
Well... let's just say that if The Expanse had been around in the Nineties, or Babylon 5 was on today... I'll definitely put it in the top ten, that's for certain.
It's great, but you must not have seen Babylon 5.
Nunsuch I would pay good money for that. Also, to see a Donnager-class and an Omega-class slug it out... ☺
That maneuver done on the Leonidas class gives me chills every time I watch it, damn its so good!
Not bad, for a glorified bus driver.
Well to be fair the roci has the mind of its own so he's like a cowboy and the roci the best horse
@@ynrikotowers4374 i wouldnt call roci a horse...its more like a bull (got horns) and even being a glorified bus driver...this isnt his first rodeo ;)
@@ynrikotowers4374 Well, i wouldn't be surprised fi the roci have and AI, a limited one but enough for doing all of those maneuvers and things.
@@galadballcrusher8182 Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse, so you can definitely call it one!
@@brotheralaric7177 she has AI of a limited degree. You input what you need and the autopilot can do it for you.
Fun fact that I want ti have in the show, is from the books.
No spoilers.
One time there was an event happening in couple of seconds, and in those seconds, multiple events happened because of Roci AI.
Spoiler explanation from the book Babylon's ashes.
When Roci escorts a freighter to the ring, two fast attack frigates crewed by Free Navy were about to intercept Rocinante near the ring. But they were going really fast, to try and take them out early, then circle back and finish it.
In a span of a couple of seconds, Rocinante and the Frigates exchanged torpedo and PDC fire. The ships did the work for the humans in that moment
This show is without a doubt one of the best sci fi shows of the past few decades. Your cut/edit was perfect.
Love how the engine bell is such a prominent feature of the Roci. Really emphasizes how propulsion is a key prt of the series
As much as I liked Star Wars and Mass effect style of space battle this is much better. Realistic movements and styles of combat in that empty space is just amazing.
while the movement of ships and stuff in Mass Effect is clearly scifi the weapons itself are basically just railguns (at least for earth).
@@nickdouglas736 well railguns that work more than once or twice ARE still scifi
I love how suspenseful the dogfights are in this show, really makes you think about spacebattle in a completely different light, in space initiative is everything and a single mistake spells doom.
Now that the Roci has her main gun, she's gonna be much more fun 😉
Much more fun at doing the thing it wasn’t meant to do
@@sidedace1512 Shut up, now is gonna be much more fun
Raul Galvez it’s gonna do the same thing as in the book XD
@@sidedace1512 360 no-scope railgun time!
Dacino Hoihe yessir
My truck has 275,000 miles and I love the expanse so much that I have named my truck the rocinante, my beast still runs like it just came off the production line, it definitely deserves the epic name
May it carry you to many good fortunes 😊
I've got a server named the Tachi, and it will be upgraded soon.... To the Rocinante
only 275k miles? unless you mean like a pickup truck, then ok.
@@xXCursedWorgenXx 2011 silverado 2500 6.0
I was struggling with a name for my Tesla. It is still a young blood, but the Rocinante has left such an impression on me, I could think of no better name. I hope my car earns its name, your truck certainly has!
Loved your edit. The Roci is constantly punching above her weight class.
That's because her captain is a tactical master mind.
You want punching above your wieght class wait untill they adapt tiamats wrath.
@@fbi805 not really a genius. But he willing to roll the dice where most naval commanders would hard pass on even trying.
I think the most realistic thing about the combat in this show is how little there actually is. With all the shows and movies out there revolving around space and space combat, way too many of them give the feel that it's almost a weekly occurrence for a ship to get shot to hell, fixed, and ready to fight again. Most people couldn't handle that kind of lifestyle, let alone expect the structural integrity of a ship to handle it.
The space battles in this series are in it's own league compared to all the other space battles. It's just such a shame it's not as popular as it deserves to be.
5:09 I dub thee, the Holden Maneuver.
Who knows? in a couple hundred years, maybe in a situation like that somebody will go "I have an idea, saw that one in an ancient tv show!" :D
Its the space equivalent of throwing sand in your opponents eyes and then sweeping the legs.
It is a real life aerial called Herbst maneuvering, or the J turn. Adapted for space combat.
I don’t know how I just found out about this show but just started watching it yesterday and it’s fucking amazing. And the physics are the most accurate I’ve ever seen in sci fi.
Really neat edit however it might've been nice to add some crew scenes too maybe, hearing alex and the crew's responses feels like an essential part of the battles.
Again, really nice edit.
Holden's speech at Ganymede about the "Warship Ratiocinate threatening to ram the sum total of it's state of the art martian arsenal up their asses" is a good example of that.
@@runningray personally one of my favorite scenes
Yes, it also helps to clarify the weaponry sounds as you are not listening to it from the outside, but rather inside. It's mostly the vibration that echoes through the Roci and the other ships, the same with the engine. As those weapons, rockets, and damage sound off as if they were cheap sound effects, but they designed that way.
Surprise, assholes!
MCRN : we built this ship as a orbital bomber or a boarding party transporter.
Canterbury crews : hold my beer, watch and learn......
The MCRN *says* she's just a torpedo bomber or patrol ship. But we all *know* that two torpedo tubes and six PDCs makes her much more than that. I bet you its canon that some MCRN admirals would rather have an entire fleet of corvettes like her than a single Donnager class.
@@bmouch1018 Well I imagine during the whole court battle for the ship the MCRN finally got to see what one of their own ships could do under a competent captain and crew. At the same time the UNN is thinking that court marshaling Holden was a very big mistake.
In the end I believe you would be right to an extent. Remember a Donnager class vessel took out what four, five of those ships so the battle cruiser is still worth the investment.
MCRN: This ship will need a crew of at least 12, with 6 extra marines just in case.
Rocinante crew: *_HA_*
@@iliketrains0pwned Amos equals 6 marines by himself.
@@morgatron4639 Tell that to Bobbie and see what happens
Its so easy to forget that the Roci's PDCs are still quad barrelled 40mm cannons
I loved the scene on the planet, I don't remember what it was called, you see how much oomph each PDC has.
They fired single rounds not full auto.
Full auto would’ve shredded the cliffside
6 barrels but yeah, and they're 'teflon coated' Tungsten, which somehow gives them better penetration.
I love the fact there are so many B5 fans here, and I'm equally pleased to see they feel the same as I do about both shows. B5 will always be my favorite show, but The Expanse is as brilliant, and running neck and neck with Babylon 5.
I love how the Roci just “dances” around the stealth ship lol
The rocinante puts the "legit" in "Legitimate Salvage"
Fortunateson1969 First Officer William T. Riker: "Tough little ship."
Klingon Commander Worf: "Little?" (quote taken from "Star Trek: First Contact" 1996 film) LOL
Unfortunately the sixth will be the last :-(
Got goosebumps watching this. Hats off to TE SFX team!
Once a workhorse, always a badass
Could you imagine an Expanse video game where you could fly and battle with the Roci throughout the system...
Ever tried Space Engineers?
nebulous fleet command
2:15 Almost missed the FedEx logo lmao
Tbh though, I was expecting an Amazon Space logo instead lol
THIS IS the best sci fi show ever created. We deserve a CONTINUATION of THE EXPANSE. It is a 10/10 show. A fair good ending of course but there is MUCH MORE TO TELL.
This deserves an all out war and a biffed fat budget more than a James Cameron Movie Avatar. This deserves full support. The story and the writing are top of the line. Every time I watch this I cry because it ended and at the same time I smile because it happened.
This is perfection, as is this show.
Thank you
This show has found all the proper elements, and has an uncanny knack of editing. transitioning from scene to scene before your attention wanes. Yes, I know consider it the best sci fi show I've seen.. You also made a great edit. Maybe they should give you a job there.
It is an amazing show alright, easily one of my top favorites. On another note, boy would I love a position working for them, one can dream!
That move with the razorback is just awesome
Alex is a certified badass
As a corvette the Roci is built with 6 PDCs the main advantage for Roci is in the close range where it can bring all its PDCs to yield. Based on the ship design the Roci is able to use 5 PDCs to cover every angle. Compared to the larger destroyer or even capital ships their PDCs are only built for defense and in close range only 1 PDC can cover an angle hence why Roci is able to punch above its weight class when the PDCs come into play.
Although the name Rocinante comes from Don Quixote I do wonder if the writers were Rush fan's as its the ship in the song's Cygnus X-1 and Hemispheres
" On my ship, the 'Rocinante', Wheeling through the galaxies,
headed for the heart of Cygnus, Headlong into mystery."
I honestly wish the external shots during the fights were silent, as space is a vacuum yadda yadda, you just see the turrets blasting away and missles chasing their targets silently through the inky black of deep space.
Can't wait for December
One of my favorite running jokes that got immortalized:
"Rocinate, Legitimate Salvage"
i think you mean "LEGIT SAVAGE"
This is a damn fine show.. Best space battles,characters and story.
Makes my top 3 of most awesome space ship's of all time!
3:58 Virgin galactic reference!
There will never be anything in science fiction like the combat in the Expanse. It's either an oppressive long range exchange of torpedoes with PDCs defending, or terrifying close quarters with so many variables it's like a savage bar room brawl thrown in between and around a graceful ballet team.
That's some fancy maneuvering, flyboy. You shall be missed. Excelsior!!!!!!
Anyone, that doesn’t understand that the “Roci” is in its self in fact it’s own character... well, to them I say,
Dém no beltalowda. No kopeng. Da be BIG bosmang welwala!
“Ohh.. Bosmang, Dédawang deting im ta showxa”
Haha 🤣
.. for the non belters out there..
“Ohh.. A$$#@@|, That’s what she said.”
😎
Sasa ke
shaddup long bone, we know yous a welwala,lol
Woah, that's trippy to speak aloud
get a fucking life you fucking nerd
Roci's CIWS is lit
Rocinante was the Don Quixote's horse... wonderful book
Ah the Glorious Dakka boat Now with The RAILGUN!!!
Gotta love Belter USE FedX Box to transport troop
That fight with the Amun-Ra at Thoth station is and remains absolutely epic. Showed just how much damage a heavily armed frigate could do, especially to a vessel not designed for close-quarter combat. The Amun-Ra was just plain not prepared for combat on an even keel, or to defend a stationary target. They held their own the first pass, but they were assassins, not brawlers. The Rocinante absolutely pasted them in the second pass, leaving their ship swiss cheese and Thoth station wide open to the boarding party.
I'm 99% sure ships aren't armored at all, because it would be pointless.
Probably the wrong word. Some ships do seem to be designed to better take PDC rounds even if they can't deflect them. Rocinante got hit pretty hard by the Amun-Ra in the first pass but they stayed functional and in the fight - barely. Mars made that ship to brawl, to get in from medium to close range and wail on their target. That's why Guy Molinari had to hide them approaching Thoth - so they could get in close enough to unload on both the station and its defender.
The second pass pretty much turned the Amun-Ra into a dead hulk - they were NOT made for CQB, but to sneak in, unleash a storm of long-range weaponry before their target had a chance to react, and disappear again. Station defense was not their design goal and it showed.
@@ArchTeryx00 - Knife fight in a phone booth and the Roci won. Hell yeah.
@@tearstoneactual9773 Those 40 mm PDCs were *nasty* and the Roci was bristling with them. It was far, far more heavily armed than any light frigate had a right to be. They took some fairly serious damage on the first engagement, but the second round, the crew was ready and whaled on the Amun Ra with everything she had. Straight knockout. It wa beautiful to see.
@@ArchTeryx00 - yes, yes it was. And Alex went into that fight expecting them to lose. *Badly.* He trained so hard for that fight, and it paid off big. :)
it's suprising that you don't need advance tech like most sci fi space battle to be more fun and tense also having accurate depiction of physics.
Have said it before, will say it again:
Expanse has the best scenes of space warcraft. Better than any other show or movie.
Great edits!
By thr time earth joined Starfleet, they found so much space debris that navigating in the solar system was impossible with out shields. Lol
Since the ships in The Expanse travel always at brachistochrone trajectories, most of the travel happens with speeds above escape velocity. Which means the debris will leave the Solar System altogether in a few months or years, tops.
I love the sound of machine guns.
Damn, those PDC's are awesome.....
The scene after 4:40 just makes me climax. That pointed hit after that badass maneuver makes me go woah!!!
You have to hand it to the MCRN- they make bloody good ships.
Is this from a show or what I'm lost?
Nevermind it's from the expanse.
I can get into this show.....and I love sci-fi, lol
just finished creating paper model of the Rocinante .. its super awesome!
Shout out to the sound design of The Expanse. I always thought the Epstein drives, the PDCs and the voice radio effects sound so great 😊
Simply amazing.
Rocinante, she is the best support role of the whole serie.
Wholesome ship.
Rocinante fighting at the spin-station- so, they're tilting at windmills then?
Damn the captain of that Leonidas must've felt bad. Imagine being so outclassed by the other side's tech that a single of their frigates can cripple your battleship with a little ingenuity.
to be fair a well aimed pile of sand can wipe out a fleet.
Well the Leonids wasn’t beaten by just a frigate, in conventional engagement it would have won, but the Roci has Holden, the button pushing coffee fuelled ex UNN madman, only a insane or genius person would come up with the manuver undertaken by the Roci
I thought that it was explained that the decks of the Roci and other ships were stacked like in a silo (note the orientation when they escaped the Donniger) yet they always shoot the scenes as if the beam is horizontal to the decks?
probably makes more sense to the viewer. Seems weird and unusual otherwise.
The ships' orientation in relation to each other really does not matter since the only sense of "down" would be towards the drive. But, as Das said, its because that makes more sense to most viewers.
The thrust comes from the tail end, thus having to travel in a nose first orientation. Also I’d think that when closing the distance I’d want to show the smallest target profile possible. In other battles once in PDC range you see the ship flipping all over the place to bring more guns to bear almost like a broadside attack.
That’s just my thoughts on it. I kinda stopped thinking too hard about it when I nerdgasmed over the whole missile escort part. That was so cool.
LOL. I got a clean recording of PDCs firing from when they were defending the Somnambulist from an incoming missile. I had it as the G-Mail "incoming mail" chime on my phone. Had to take it off. It's too jarring to suddenly hear PDCs firing right next to you.
Rocinante may not as good as those stealth ship, but hell, that ship and the crew is hell of fighter. With Rail gun upgrade in season 4, I actually hope there will be another new combat upgrade for Rosy in season 5
Best crew in the Solar System.
The fact that they are using real physics is awesome
yeah except that whole "no sound in space" thing lol
@@raphiontherocks1591 First, it would be very boring. Human brains love feedback, thats why you have small sound cues in game when you kill an ennemy for example. So, not having sound feedback would be pretty bad for us.
Second, well, you don't hear that much sound. When the missiles (thermonuclear missiles!) explode, you don't hear anything. However, you hear missiles being launched and motors, because, if you were inside the ship, you would hear the engine roaring, and the vibration caused by launched the missiles/PDCs firing/etc... So my headcannon is that you hear the sounds from the POVs (or rather, POS, point of sound) of the characters inside the ship thats in the screen at this moment.
...looking forward to season four!!
When your special effect team respect physics.
Can't wait to see the battle vs the pella from the 6th book.
So glad shields are not to be found in the ship combat!
best pilot in the system
A Legitimate salvage.
I wanna see a new version with all the battles after IFF
Almost. It's better than science fantasy. The only errors I could find are, the muzzle flare would in fact be red, there is no stealth in space, and the explosions are bright and dissipate immediately. Episode is accurate in the sense that shooting down missiles and drones with nuclear missiles can be the only effective point defense, however, with law as it stands, even having it aboard ship is a one-way ticket to prison for the crew. IANAL. Even the sound can be excused as being heard inside the ship or other object. For all intents and purposes, there is no sound in space.
@Setzer K that's a really mistaken thing to say. There's no way to dissipate heat in space other than by radiation or Flash coolers, which also radiate heat. Now I'm not disputing that radar could be very difficult in space, but stealth is not an option in space. The only way to hide anything in space is keeping the composition and purpose of the mass aboard the ships a secret, but once again the existence, velocity, and amount of mass and the characteristics of the engines that moving around are always obvious, the moment the engines come on. Credit is to Atomic Rockets, the project Rho Project.
@@allennelson1987 The stealth ships are only able to remain in stealth when using only thrusters or aren't moving altogether. The moment the engines fire up their positions are detected. This was explained over and over in the show. Stealth only means the hull plating can mask heat signatures when in idle or adrift, so they look like space rocks or debris and is strategic only when their propulsion systems are offline. The only case where magical stealth happened was with Eros due to the protomolecule
@Setzer K it is never enough to blend in in space, if there's crew, there's detection.
@@uadhlagash7280 if you can see it's position and movement at one time, that's enough to calculate its position and movement for all time. The only possible exception is secular variation, and it's very small.
@Setzer K if there's crew, there's waste heat coming from the crew's bodies. Where's there is waste heat, there is heat radiation, so that's detection, with or without windows.
So I need a question answered. In episode 6 season 3 when Alex is taking Bobbie into the Roccy's med bay, why is She earing a black UNN tank top t-shirt?
if its from after the events of the roci rescuing the under sec and bobby, prior to that bobby defected to the un and of course they would give her clothes and stuff.
@@Privatepain1234 so basically what you are saying is that she basically went through 3 episodes wearing her martian uniform for lord only knows how many days they spent on earth. Only to go visit Jue Pierre Mao on his private spaceship without taking any extra clothes except for her suit of armor. Get rescued by the roccy and some how miraculously get's UNN clothing from a martian ship that has been basically hiding on Tycho Station with a bunch of belters that hate both mars and earth.
@@fbi805 she could have been wearing it underneath the suit.
@@Privatepain1234 i guess you don't know much about the military and someone who is as dedicated to their oath as Bobbie Draper..
@@fbi805 dude she defected from Mars with little more than the clothes on her back. Yes she is dedicated to her oath, its part of why she defected. But if your offered a fresh bit of clothing your telling me your not going to take it? This is science fiction not real life. Get over it.
What game is this from?
Its from a TV show called The Expanse, you can watch it on Amazon Prime
@@FirstPassOfficial Thanks. Its interesting when you divource the CGI from live action how fake and Gamey it looks.
Rocinante > Serenity, btw Alex is one HELL of a pilot!
Oh that's not fair
Only the best show ever made.
What's this from?
Too many cuts, not enough context left in. Love those "FedEx" cargo pods, though.
Alex is the best pilot in sci-fi.
Beautiful
As much as I like the show and the space scenes, editing it like this without some crew action context makes all this shit pretty boring. I wouldn't show this to people who don't know the show to try to convince them how great the show is.
The sad think about the expanse is that there are far to less space battles
Fed ex was still there
Wish season 5 had more Roci battles.
Flight Assist Off.. All power to engines.. Hardpoints deployed..
Yes, I named my engineered Python Rocinante..
Roci did not get enough love this season. What a shame.
If they get up to book 6 next season, we are going to get BY FAR the coolest Roci scene in the entire series.
@@dtpiers6136 looking forward to it.
Do we ever see another ship of the same class?
MCRN Karakum, they wanted to escort the caliban project on ganymed ;)
@@Gothicraptor88 Thanks!
@@AlternicityBlogspot
*MCRN Karakum* - stealth coated, carried the PM sample from Ganymede before Errinwright blew it up and blackmailed Mao (and Chrisjen).
We'll be seeing more of them in S05-6 (Book 5-6)
Yay you did it! BTW what is the music you have playing in the background for most of your videos?
I usually use the Supreme Commander soundtrack. More recently I’m trying out the Deus Ex Human Revolution soundtrack.
@@FirstPassOfficial cheers
Nothing fancy about that ship.... Get ‘er done!
I named my Klingon cruiser this
Show..?
The Expanse, its on Amazon Prime. Hope it helps :)
Thank you. Guess it’s time to get amazon prime.
"SURPRISE... ASSHOLE!!!" - Alex
That and "donkey balls" are the best things ever spoken on television.