Expanse's Final Battle Pays Homage To The Roci Crew's Season 1 Origins
The Expanse's final battle remembers the Rocinante crew's origins, bringing a poignant sense of closure to their live-action journey. Babylon's Ashes may not be where James S.A. Corey's novels end, but The Expanse season 6's finale of the same name draws a line under Amazon's TV adaptation… for now. Celebrating the end, The Expanse's last episode drops a series of callbacks to earlier points in the story. The Rocinante crew share one last proper meal, Xan becomes a Protomolecule hybrid (of sorts), and James Holden upsets lots of people by doing the right thing — just as he did in The Expanse's very first episode.
Even the final battle contains a cute throwback to the early days. The Expanse's series finale sends the Rocinante on one final mission — penetrate the Ring's Slow Zone and send a ground assault team to seize control of the Free Navy's railguns. In order to avoid getting hit by said railgun, the Roci takes a second ship, the Giambattista, with it. The assault squad are packed into individual pods alongside a ton of empty crates and tipped out of the Giambattista's hold like LEGO bricks, confusing the railguns' targeting systems. The Giambattista comes in handy again during the climactic confrontation with Marco Inaros. Naomi overloads the ship's reactor to help generate the energy required to summon the Ring entities that'll destroy Marco's flagship.
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A random, unmanned ship with no prior relevance to The Expanse may seem an out of place addition for the TV show's final battle, but there's a secret significance behind the Giambattista assisting the Rocinante. As explained by Holden during the introductory briefing sequence, the Giambattista is an ice
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