History Characters / TheExpanseTVShips

[[folder:The Investigator]]
!!The Investigator
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->''"Go in too fast... and the room eats you."''
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ThomasJane

A mental construct generated by a cluster of the Protomolecule left behind on the ''Rocinante'' following the battle with the Hybrid. It has taken the form and consciousness of Joe Miller and appears only to Holden as a hallucination, guiding him towards an unknown purpose.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He never remembers his previous sessions with Holden, since each iteration is a new construct, repeated until the desired result is achieved.
* NiceHat: Wears Miller's trademark fedora.
* SpiritAdvisor: The simplest way of explaining it. The Investigator seems to be the disembodied consciousness of Miller after he and Julie smashed Eros into Venus, repurposed by the Protomolecule to guide Holden towards an unknown end. He appears and disappears without warning.
* TheUnintelligible: The first few times he appears to Holden, he is distressed and incoherent, babbling random things Miller has previously said. He does get a few moments of lucidity, but these tend to be brief.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to discuss the Investigator without spoiling Miller's fate. Hell, it's impossible to even ''look'' at him without doing that.
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[[folder:Executive Officer]]
!!Executive Officer
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonathanBanks

The Executive Officer of the ''Canterbury''.

[[folder:'''SPOILER CHARACTER''']]

* TheUnintelligible: The first few times he appears to Holden, he is distressed and incoherent, babbling random things Miller has previously said.

[[folder:''Rocinante / Pinus Contorta'']]

[[folder:Prax]]
!!Praxidike "Prax" Meng
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->''"I thought patching up a bullet wound was gonna be the strangest thing I did today."''
->'''Played by:''' Creator/TerryChen

A Belter botanist on Ganymede Station. When Ganymede is caught in the crossfire of a Earth and Mars battle, he finds himself taken to Tycho station and begins a search to find his daughter, Mei.
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* AdultFear: His daughter is being held by a group of people with dubious morals that likely want to experiment on her with a dangerous virus.
* TheChewToy: Life is not kind to him. His daughter contracts a rare disease, he's taken millions of miles away during an attack, leaving Mei alone [[spoiler: with a doctor who may have been using her for his own experiments. Then he watches a group of Inners get shoved out the airlock.]] And that's ''before'' he encounters the crew of the ''Rocinante''.
* FireForgedFriends: He initially sees the Roci crew as dangerous thugs who dragged him on a half-baked mission that he nonetheless needs to find Mei. In return, they consider him spineless [[TheLoad deadweight]] that they're helping in order to find TheConspiracy. After saving Holden [[spoiler: from the Hybrid]], they've warmed up to each other considerably.
* {{Foil}}: To Jules-Pierre Mao. Both are scientists desperately searching for their daughters after a tragic incident, hoping for their safe return. However, Prax is a Belter without any power who nonetheless holds more of an ethical backbone than the manipulative Mao.
* GenderBlenderName: In some sense. He's probably named after the moon Praxidike, which naturally has no biological sex; however, its namesake is a Greek goddess (or in some accounts, a facet of Persephone) of vengeance and judicial punishment.
* GreenThumb: As a botanist, his job was to help develop new plant strains to grow in Ganymede's agricultural domes. He says that he is better with plants than with people. Aboard the ''Rocinante'', he cobbles together a plant-based air-filtration system to ease the burden on the ship's limited air scrubber supply.
* NiceGuy: Is nothing less than polite to everyone he meets. And even when he knows his daughter could be brutally tortured and experimented on, he makes the call to save Draper and Avasarala first.
* PapaWolf: When he finds his daughter's backpack, he opens fire on a room full of armed people.
* PutOnABus: After the TimeSkip in "Delta-V", [[spoiler:he and his daughter leave for Ganymede Station to aid in the rebuilding effort]].
* ScienceHero: Slowly evolving into this. [[spoiler: He's the one who masterminds a plan to lure the Hybrid out of the ''Roci'' by comparing it to his plants.]] He similarly uses his science know-how to improve the Roci's air filtration system.
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[[folder:McDowell]]

** In season 3, the outbreak of war between Earth and Mars forces the crew to rechristen her again. This time they name her ''Pinus Contorta'', after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_contorta a species of pine tree]] that depends on wildfires for reproduction and survival.

%%[[folder:The Investigator]]
%%!!The Investigator
%%[[quoteright:204:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/investigator_5.png]]

%%->''"There's no laws on Ceres. Just cops."''
%%->'''Played by:''' Creator/ThomasJane

%%A mental construct generated by a cluster of the Protomolecule left behind on the ''Rocinante'' following the battle with the Hybrid. It has taken the form and consciousness of Joe Miller and appears only to Holden as a hallucination, guiding him towards an unknown purpose.

%%* NiceHat: Wears Miller's trademark fedora.
%%* SpiritAdvisor: The simplest way of explaining it. The Investigator is the disembodied consciousness of Miller after he and Julie smashed Eros into Venus, repurposed by the Protomolecule to guide Holden towards an unknown end. He appears and disappears without warning.
%%* TheUnintelligible: The first time he appears to Holden, he is distressed and incoherent, babbling random things Miller has previously said.
%%* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to discuss the Investigator without spoiling Miller's fate. Hell, it's impossible to even ''look'' at him without doing that.
%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Investigator]]
!!The Investigator
[[quoteright:204:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/investigator_5.png]]

->''"There's no laws on Ceres. Just cops."''
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ThomasJane

A mental construct generated by a cluster of the Protomolecule left behind on the ''Rocinante'' following the battle with the Hybrid. It has taken the form and consciousness of Joe Miller and appears only to Holden as a hallucination, guiding him towards an unknown purpose.

* NiceHat: Wears Miller's trademark fedora.
* SpiritAdvisor: The simplest way of explaining it. The Investigator is the disembodied consciousness of Miller after he and Julie smashed Eros into Venus, repurposed by the Protomolecule to guide Holden towards an unknown end. He appears and disappears without warning.
* TheUnintelligible: The first time he appears to Holden, he is distressed and incoherent, babbling random things Miller has previously said.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to discuss the Investigator without spoiling Miller's fate. Hell, it's impossible to even ''look'' at him without doing that.

!Crew of ''The Canterbury''

[[folder:Garvey]]
!!Shed Garvey
[[quoteright:204:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garvey.png]]

->'''Played By:''' Paulo Costanzo

Shed Garvey the med-tech aboard the Pur'N'Kleen ice hauler, the Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). Even though he's closer to an EMT than a doctor, Shed is all the crew has got as he's called upon for everything from social diseases to life-or-death surgeries. When the Canterbury was gutted to clear the way for cargo, the medical bay was removed, so Shed now has to operate at a dining table in the galley. In addition to his official medical duties aboard the ship, Shed also provides more 'recreational' supplies to the crew.

* ActorAllusion: to ''Series/RoyalPains'', being affiliated with medicine.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Joined the ''Canterbury'' crew to get away from a drug dealer he owed money to.
* HeroicSacrifice: Non-fatally. When Alex's vac-suit starts crapping out, he shares his own oxygen with him. He nearly dies as a result of it.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Gets his head blown off during the attack on the ''Donnager'', in the middle of trying to calm down Alex.]]
* TheMedic: Responsible for patching treating the ''Canterbury'' crew's various injuries no matter how big or small.
* MotorMouth: When he gets a little nervous... words happen. He gets nervous quite a few times.
* PhonyDegree: Faked his MD so he can work on a ship as ''far'' away from a drug dealer as possible. That said, he ''does'' seem to know enough to be a competent medic and trauma surgeon.
* PluckyComicRelief: Much goofier than the rest of the characters, even after the ''Canterbury'' incident.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Seriously, who names their kid "Shed?"

[[folder:McDowell]]
!!Captain [=McDowell=]
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->'''Played By:''' Joe Pingue

The Captain of the ''Canterbury''.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's a competent and respectable captain, but he has a weird fondness for tiny ceramic kittens. He has ''dozens'' of them lined up in a shelf in his quarters. Jim could never figure out what the deal was with them.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a good guy, but he has shit to get done. When he sees the distress call, he promptly orders his crew to ignore it and wipe it from their records. It's a reasonable move given that the area was rife with pirates, and he had ice to deliver to Ceres - a political powder keg.
* TheGoodCaptain: Reasonable and good to his crew. Pretty much everyone likes him.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He appears only once in the first episode from dying in the destruction of the ''Canterbury''.]]
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A mental construct generated by a cluster of the Protomolecule left behind on the ''Rocinante'' following the battle of Io. It has taken the form and consciousness of Joe Miller and appears only to Holden as a hallucination, guiding him towards an unknown purpose.

A mental construct of the Protomolecule left behind on the ''Rocinante'' following the battle of Io. It has taken the form and consciousness of Joe Miller and appears only to Holden as a hallucination, guiding him towards an unknown purpose.

* TheGhost: The simplest way of explaining it. The Investigator is the disembodied consciousness of Miller after he and Julie smashed Eros into Venus, repurposed by the Protomolecule towards an unknown end. He appears and disappears without warning.

* TheUnintelligible: The first time he appears to Jim, he is distressed and incoherent, babbling random things Miller has previously said.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to discuss the Investigator without spoiling Miller's fate. Hell, it's impossible to even LOOK at him without doing that.

* AmbiguouslyBi: A female reporter offers sex for info, he turns her down because he "doesn't shit where he eats". That reporter's male co-worker asks if he has a shot, Amos tells him the same thing. He never says "im not interested".

* MeaningfulReName:

* DarkAndTroubledPast: What it is hasn't been confirmed yet, but she's believed to be a former OPA agent, who got sick of the death brought about by following causes. In "Here There Be Dragons", she tells Prax that [[spoiler:she had a child who was taken from her and she never managed to find him]].

* DisappearedDad: To his son.

* GreenThumb: As a botanist, his job was to help develop new plant strains to grow in Ganymede's agricultural domes. He says that he is better with plants than with people.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He says that he grew up rough and more or less admits that he used to be a hooker (or at the very least [[SonOfAWhore was raised by one]]. Subverted in that he isn't that ashamed of this and claims that it isn't a bad way to live as long as all those involved look out for one another.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He says that he grew up rough and more or less admits that he used to be a hooker. Subverted in that he isn't that ashamed of this and claims that it isn't a bad way to live as long as all those involved look out for one another.

[[folder:''Rocinante'']]

* ScienceHero: Slowly evolving into this. [[spoiler: He's the one who masterminds a plan to lure the Hybrid out of the ''Roci'' by comparing it to his plants.]]

!Crew of ''The Canterbury''

[[folder:Garvey]]
!!Shed Garvey
[[quoteright:204:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garvey.png]]

->'''Played By:''' Paulo Costanzo

Shed Garvey the med-tech aboard the Pur'N'Kleen ice hauler, the Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). Even though he's closer to an EMT than a doctor, Shed is all the crew has got as he's called upon for everything from social diseases to life-or-death surgeries. When the Canterbury was gutted to clear the way for cargo, the medical bay was removed, so Shed now has to operate at a dining table in the galley. In addition to his official medical duties aboard the ship, Shed also provides more 'recreational' supplies to the crew.

* ActorAllusion: to ''Series/RoyalPains'', being affiliated with medicine.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Joined the ''Canterbury'' crew to get away from a drug dealer he owed money to.
* HeroicSacrifice: Non-fatally. When Alex's vac-suit starts crapping out, he shares his own oxygen with him. He nearly dies as a result of it.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Gets his head blown off during the attack on the ''Donnager'', in the middle of trying to calm down Alex.]]
* TheMedic: Responsible for patching treating the ''Canterbury'' crew's various injuries no matter how big or small.
* MotorMouth: When he gets a little nervous... words happen. He gets nervous quite a few times.
* PhonyDegree: Faked his MD so he can work on a ship as ''far'' away from a drug dealer as possible. That said, he ''does'' seem to know enough to be a competent medic and trauma surgeon.
* PluckyComicRelief: Much goofier than the rest of the characters, even after the ''Canterbury'' incident.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Seriously, who names their kid "Shed?"

[[folder:McDowell]]
!!Captain [=McDowell=]
[[quoteright:204:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_3.png]]

->'''Played By:''' Joe Pingue

The Captain of the ''Canterbury''.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's a competent and respectable captain, but he has a weird fondness for tiny ceramic kittens. He has ''dozens'' of them lined up in a shelf in his quarters. Jim could never figure out what the deal was with them.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a good guy, but he has shit to get done. When he sees the distress call, he promptly orders his crew to ignore it and wipe it from their records. It's a reasonable move given that the area was rife with pirates, and he had ice to deliver to Ceres - a political powder keg.
* TheGoodCaptain: Reasonable and good to his crew. Pretty much everyone likes him.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He appears only once in the first episode from dying in the destruction of the ''Canterbury''.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot."'']]

->''"You're either some kind of genius Mr. Holden, or you're the luckiest dipshit in the solar system."''
-->--'''Fred Johnson'''

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Every shitty thing we do makes the next one that much easier, doesn’t it?"'']]

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[[folder:Ade]]
!!Ade Nygaard
->'''Played By:''' Kristin Hagar

The Navigator of the ''Canterbury''.
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* OpenSecret: Her relationship with Holden isn't very well-concealed among the crew of the ''Canterbury''.
* ZeroGSpot: How she's introduced, along with Holden.
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