Please note I haven't yet finished BA, so tag your spoilers. 3 years ago. Both of these names have Latin and Greek origins, which I stumbled upon today. Ship names and meanings in The Expanse: Pella and Scopuli. And we often read references to what the thrusters are doing on ships. Why not name a ship after the very first colonist. Spoilers All. level 1. Expanse S01 Ship Scales. 392. Give it an interesting but common name. That's the line that officially places the universe of The Martian as the same universe as The Expanse (as confirmed by all three authors, I believe), so in-story, it would be named after the actual astronaut Mark Watney; which makes sense for a Martian ship, as he would've been the first person to spend a significant amount of time on Mars (though not the first to return to Mars ;p ). Or have the ship named after someone's ex. Ship names and meanings in The Expanse: Pella and Scopuli. The Expanse has me addicted beltalowda! 2 years ago. Spaceship Design Spaceship Concept Concept Ships The Expanse Ships The Expanse Tv Arte Sci Fi Sci Fi Art Sci Fi Spaceships Sci Fi Ships. Ships of the Expanse is available as a hardcover book for $39.95 (with an estimated shipping date of the first quarter of 2021) and a PDF for $19.95. Report Save. This is all good. Nauvoo, Canterbury, Tycho, Donnager, Anderson, Nathan Hale, and more. In the Expanse the one thing that the show has been praised about is its realism. Posted by. But the ships don’t really move the way real spacecraft move. Spaceships from The Expanse. The complete series was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. Enjoy! Archived. Share. Close. It also gives me hope that there will be a Watney now that The Martian is Expanse canon. Article by Thomas Vickers. As such, I combined and linked many appearances of the vessel to the Munroe- class of the books, and have re-created the vessel as accurately as possible. Like in "The Expanse" a cargo ship was called the "Weeping Somnambulist". I love the variety of names the MCRN ships, and that several are named after famous astronauts. The Way Ships Move. In the Expanse universe, spaceships are flipping around all the time to vector their engines in the correct direction to change their velocity. Nothing I can do now but just sit back and let the Protomolecule take me. 36. 11. Or something stupid that wears on people like "The Job" so the crew is always "on 'the job'". Authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck — who are writing "The Expanse" books under the pseudonym James S.A. Corey and are also writers/producers on the TV series — created a tomorrow in which humans have colonized the solar system, but have no faster-than-light ships. The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. March 2021. A work in progress for several weeks, this ship is based off of a background model present throughout the series that has no name mentioned to it. Spoilers All.