"The Expanse" New Show on SyFy
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:51 pm
Well, I've recently caught up with the new TV show on SyFy called The Expanse (That is, seen up to Episode 4) and thought I'd like to discuss it. It certainly seems to be the hardest sci fi show I've seen, at least as far as Space Opera-type shows go.
Space travel seems highly Newtonian, and their ships are oriented internally so that the bow is up, and the stern is down. This gives them a sort of acceleration-based gravity; the rest of the time they use mag boots to keep their feet on the ground. I don't know how they keep gravity on the Ceres station (though I think I read that in the books they use rotating sections).
Humanity has colonized Mars and the asteroid belt, and one of the series' main conflicts seems to be the growing tensions between Earth, Mars and the inhabitants of the belt, called Belters. Said Belters suffer from physical deformities as a result of growing up in low gravity, such as underdeveloped muscles and improperly formed skeletons.
Thus far, my favorite part has been the space combat in Episode 4. The ships first launched torpedoes at each other, coincidentally I'd like to point out that said torpedoes did not have contrails, like a lot of missile weapons seem to inexplicably have these days, then use railguns when they close in.
Space travel seems highly Newtonian, and their ships are oriented internally so that the bow is up, and the stern is down. This gives them a sort of acceleration-based gravity; the rest of the time they use mag boots to keep their feet on the ground. I don't know how they keep gravity on the Ceres station (though I think I read that in the books they use rotating sections).
Humanity has colonized Mars and the asteroid belt, and one of the series' main conflicts seems to be the growing tensions between Earth, Mars and the inhabitants of the belt, called Belters. Said Belters suffer from physical deformities as a result of growing up in low gravity, such as underdeveloped muscles and improperly formed skeletons.
Thus far, my favorite part has been the space combat in Episode 4. The ships first launched torpedoes at each other, coincidentally I'd like to point out that said torpedoes did not have contrails, like a lot of missile weapons seem to inexplicably have these days, then use railguns when they close in.