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-->'''Amos:''' What. The '''fuck.''' Is that?

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-->'''Amos:''' What.''What. The '''fuck.''' Is that?that?''
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* The very end of the episode, with the protomolecule Constructor Moon rising slowly out of Venus' atmosphere and heading into space, purpose unknown. Amos voices the thought that the entire audience is probably thinking:
-->'''Amos:''' What the '''fuck''' is that?
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* The Rocinante, pretending to be a loose cargo container, clumsily tumbles through space. The moment it's in position, Holden gives the order, and it deftly halts it's tumble and fires its main engine.

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* The Rocinante, ''Rocinante'', pretending to be a loose cargo container, clumsily tumbles through space. The moment it's in position, Holden gives the order, and it deftly halts it's tumble and fires its main engine.



* The stealth ship comes out of hiding from behind the ring station and fires off several torpedos to take out the Guy Molinari. The Rocinante quickly maneuvers into a defensive position and swats away the missiles with her PDCs.
* Shortly after intercepting the missiles, the Rocinante trades PDC fire with the stealth ship. Hundreds of rounds tear through the Roci's hull, nearly going through its crew, but despite this, the ship is functionally almost completely unharmed. Even the tactical display screens, a few of which have glowing holes in them, still work just fine. It's a reminder that this is exactly what the Rocinante, a Martian gunship, was built for - not just to dish out punishment, but to take it.
* The Guy Molinari launching FedEx containers as pods for boarding parties, showcasing Belter ingenuity and resourcefulness.
* The ''Rocinante'' taking out the much larger and better armed stealth gunship protecting Thoth Station is pretty awesome, especially given that most of the simulations both before and after suggested that it would easily destroy the Roci.

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* The stealth ship comes out of hiding from behind the ring station and fires off several torpedos torpedoes to take out the Guy Molinari. ''Guy Molinari''. The Rocinante ''Rocinante'' quickly maneuvers into a defensive position and swats away the missiles with her PDCs.
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* Shortly after intercepting the missiles, the Rocinante ''Rocinante'' trades PDC fire with the stealth ship. Hundreds of rounds tear through the Roci's ''Roci'''s hull, nearly going through its crew, but despite this, the ship is functionally almost completely unharmed. Even the tactical display screens, a few of which have glowing holes in them, still work just fine. It's a reminder that this is exactly what the Rocinante, ''Rocinante'', a Martian gunship, was built for - not just to dish out punishment, but to take it.
* The Guy Molinari ''Guy Molinari'' launching FedEx [=FedEx=] containers as pods for boarding parties, showcasing Belter ingenuity and resourcefulness.
* The ''Rocinante'' taking out the much larger and better armed stealth gunship protecting Thoth Station is pretty awesome, especially given that most of the simulations both before and after suggested that it would easily destroy the Roci.''Roci''.
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[[folder: Episode #7: "Delta-V"]]
* The subplot about Maneo Yung-Espinoza, a young hotshot racer who rocks out to a Belter version of Deep Purple's 'Highway Star' as he performs record-breaking gravity-assisted stunts. When his girlfriend, Evita, breaks up with him because she is tired of waiting for him, Maneo gets the crazy idea of flying through the ring in her name, and plots a course, going quiet to avoid detection. Once there, he learns that Evita is willing to get back with him if he pulls it off, and he gleefully commits to the idea. After telling the Martian warship guarding the ring to stuff it, he begins an epic speech about how he will make history, all in the name of his beloved... Just before the ring instantly halts his ship's velocity, but not Maneo's momentum, killing him instantly in a gory mess. He indeed made history, though perhaps not in the way he intended.

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* The ''Rocinante'' taking out the much larger and better armed stealth gunship protecting Thoth Station is pretty awesome, especially given that most of the simulations both before and after suggested that it would easily destroy the Roci.

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* The Rocinante, pretending to be a loose cargo container, clumsily tumbles through space. The moment it's in position, Holden gives the order, and it deftly halts it's tumble and fires its main engine.
-->'''Holden:''' Heat 'er up!
--> ''Amos chuckles giddily.''
* The stealth ship comes out of hiding from behind the ring station and fires off several torpedos to take out the Guy Molinari. The Rocinante quickly maneuvers into a defensive position and swats away the missiles with her PDCs.
* Shortly after intercepting the missiles, the Rocinante trades PDC fire with the stealth ship. Hundreds of rounds tear through the Roci's hull, nearly going through its crew, but despite this, the ship is functionally almost completely unharmed. Even the tactical display screens, a few of which have glowing holes in them, still work just fine. It's a reminder that this is exactly what the Rocinante, a Martian gunship, was built for - not just to dish out punishment, but to take it.
* The Guy Molinari launching FedEx containers as pods for boarding parties, showcasing Belter ingenuity and resourcefulness.
* The ''Rocinante'' taking out the much larger and better armed stealth gunship protecting Thoth Station is pretty awesome, especially given that most of the simulations both before and after suggested that it would easily destroy the Roci.

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* When the ''Rocinante'''s crew is ambushed by Tanaka and a bunch of power armoured soldiers, it seems that she might actually capture Teresa. It then fails after Alex pilots the ship in at them and proceeds to use the PDCs on the squad, almost literally mincing them.
* Immediately after, Tanaka, who survived the attack, sneaks ahead of Holden and Teresa to continue the kidnapping attempt. She realises too late that Amos isn't there as he lurches up behind her, pounds her into the ground, gets elbowed in the throat hard enough to kill a human, and pounds her into the ground again. He then gets shot through the chest with an explosive round that leaves a hole the size of two fists. [[NighInvulnerability He survives.]]
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* Errinwright is about to be HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee over his role in the protomolecule conspiracy. Just when it looks like he's going to lose everything, he turns it around with a few ruthless moves and one TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:

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* Errinwright is about to be HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee over his role in the protomolecule conspiracy. Just when it looks like he's going to lose everything, he turns it around the tables with a few ruthless moves and one TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
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* The team needs the Rocinante to evacuate them from Ganymede. The only problem is the two hostile fleets in the way, who would notice the second Alex lights up the main engine. So he sneaks in ''without'' the main engine: a scenic, gravity-assist trajectory around moon after moon!


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* Errinwright is about to be HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee over his role in the protomolecule conspiracy. Just when it looks like he's going to lose everything, he turns it around with a few ruthless moves and one TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
--> '''Errinwright''': Martian Defense Minister Korshunov suffered a fatal heart attack earlier this evening. Simultaneously, the MCRN Karakum, dispatched by Korshunov to take delivery of your protomolecule technology was destroyed over Ganymede. And I gave the order. And I can give the same order to end your life where you breathe, at the same coordinates I'm sending this message.
--> '''Errinwright''': Monsieur Mao, there were two men in the entire universe who could protect your protomolecule project, and now Korshunov is dead. I can assure you, I am the only friend you have left. And do not test my resolve on this.
--> '''Errinwright''': Chrisjen... you taught me, you drilled it into my head, that Earth must come first. And now you throw me to the wolves, for fulfilling my sacred oath. While you grovel at the foot of Mars, and Jules-Pierre Mao. And that is the real betrayal here.
--> '''Errinwright''': So Jules, you will clean up the mess you made for me, you will return to Earth alone, you will await my instructions, and you will ''get the fuck back to work''.

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!Meta
* The [[https://savetheexpanse.org/ Save The Expanse]] movement, launched after Creator/{{Syfy}} announced they weren't picking up the show for a fourth season. Over the course of two weeks fans (supported by many of the series's cast and crew) rallied behind it and [[UnCancelled successfully got the show renewed]] by Creator/AmazonStudios. Highlights from the campaign include:
** [[https://assets.change.org/photos/5/cd/wp/IpcDWpMVDaxaTVB-800x450-noPad.jpg?1526419054 Hiring an Airads plane]] to fly a "[=#SaveTheExpanse=]" banner around Amazon headquarters on May 15th.
** Sending a model of the ''Rocinante'' to near-space on a balloon.
** Boosting ratings for the show by a significant margin on May 16th's "Immolation" and May 23rd's "Delta-V", which is rare to see mid-season.
** Getting a total of [[https://www.change.org/p/amazon-or-netflix-please-buy-the-rights-to-the-expanse-savetheexpanse 138,976]] signatures on a petition to have Amazon or Creator/{{Netflix}} pick rescue the show.

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!Meta
* The [[https://savetheexpanse.org/ Save The Expanse]] movement, launched after Creator/{{Syfy}} announced they weren't picking up the show for a fourth season. Over the course of two weeks fans (supported by many of the series's cast and crew) rallied behind it and [[UnCancelled successfully got the show renewed]] by Creator/AmazonStudios. Highlights from the campaign include:
** [[https://assets.change.org/photos/5/cd/wp/IpcDWpMVDaxaTVB-800x450-noPad.jpg?1526419054 Hiring an Airads plane]] to fly a "[=#SaveTheExpanse=]" banner around Amazon headquarters on May 15th.
** Sending a model of the ''Rocinante'' to near-space on a balloon.
** Boosting ratings for the show by a significant margin on May 16th's "Immolation" and May 23rd's "Delta-V", which is rare to see mid-season.
** Getting a total of [[https://www.change.org/p/amazon-or-netflix-please-buy-the-rights-to-the-expanse-savetheexpanse 138,976]] signatures on a petition to have Amazon or Creator/{{Netflix}} pick rescue the show.
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* The Roci showing up for a very literal GunshipRescue to shoot down the torpedoes fired at the unarmed refugee ship ''Weeping Somnambulist''. Followed by Holden talking their way through the approaching UNN and MCRN battle fleets over Ganymede by ''threatening everyone'' and invoking MutualAssuredDestruction.

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* The Roci showing up for a very literal GunshipRescue to shoot down the torpedoes fired at the unarmed refugee ship ''Weeping Somnambulist''. Followed by Holden talking their way through the approaching UNN and MCRN battle fleets over Ganymede by ''threatening everyone'' and invoking MutualAssuredDestruction.MutuallyAssuredDestruction.
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* Even though they are ultimately unsuccessful at repelling boarders, the ''Donnager'' puts up a fight as it tears through several ships and missiles with its rail guns and PDCs.

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* Even though they are ultimately unsuccessful at repelling boarders, the ''Donnager'' puts up a fight as it tears through several ships and missiles with its rail guns and PDCs.[=PDCs=].
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* After the crew board the Tachi, the firefight turns into a CurbStompBattle as its PDCs shred through the boarding party and shrugs off their small arms fire.

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* Holden being nominated to the new position of Trade Union President, meant to be a mediator between The Belt, Earth and Mars, and monitor the Ring Gate. Holden goes off-script during his inaugural speech; after declaring Drummer his Vice-President, he immediately resigns, giving Drummer the presidency and making sure that the Belt is represented by someone who will fight for it.
--> '''Avasarala''': Don't you fucking do it.
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* As her fellow Martians cheer her on, Bobbie Draper shows off her strength and toughness as a marine when she arm-wrestles a suit of power armor. Not only does she defeat it, but she makes the servos within the armor ''smoke'' when they finally give out. Pretty impressive coming from someone who grew up on a planet with a third of Earth's gravity.

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* As her fellow Martians cheer her on, Bobbie Draper shows off her strength and toughness as a marine when she arm-wrestles a suit of power armor. Not only does she defeat it, but she makes the servos within the armor ''smoke'' ''spark and smoke'' when they finally give out. Pretty impressive coming from someone who grew up on a planet with a third of Earth's gravity.

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* Bobbie and Amos's last stand. After concluding that they are hopelessly outgunned, they decide to go out fighting. Bobbie goes out before Amos notices and holds her ground against a massive amount of gunfire until she's able to fire rockets to destroy the railguns's power generator. The Free Navy gunfire knocks her to the ground, but Amos shields her with his body. Before the two of them are seriously hurt, the ''Rocinante'' swoops in and takes out the Free Navy troops.
-->'''Amos''': Fuck yeah, ''Roci''.
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* Even though they are ultimately unsuccessful at repelling boarders, the Donnager puts up a fight as it tears through several ships and missiles with its rail guns and PDCs.

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* Even though they are ultimately unsuccessful at repelling boarders, the Donnager ''Donnager'' puts up a fight as it tears through several ships and missiles with its rail guns and PDCs.
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* The ''Rocinante'' crew has to turn off their grav boots to be fast enough to run through gunfire. When Holden and Naomi lose their grip on the catwalk, Holden does some quick thinking involving Newton's third law to get them back on track.

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* The ''Rocinante'' surviving ''Canterbury'' crew has to turn off their grav boots to be fast enough to run through gunfire. When Holden and Naomi lose their grip on the catwalk, Holden does some quick thinking involving Newton's third law to get them back on track.track.
* After the crew board the Tachi, the firefight turns into a CurbStompBattle as its PDCs shred through the boarding party and shrugs off their small arms fire.
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* As her fellow Martians cheer her on, Bobbie Draper shows off her strength and toughness as a marine when she arm-wrestles a suit of power armor. Not only does she defeat it, but she makes the servos within the armor ''smoke'' when they finally give out. Pretty impressive coming from someone who grew up on a planet with a third of Earth's gravity.

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