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Ver "Early Development of the Donnager" en YouTube

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Donnager Class Battleship

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3D-printing of the MCRN Donnager from The Expanse

Model from: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2060051

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It's all fun and games till someone shoots back.

James Holden (Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey)

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So I’ve been re-watching The Expanse, and I found an Alien (1979) reference!

In Episode 4 (“CQB”) when the MCRN captain is about to scuttle the Donnager, we briefly see this screen:

Alien fans will recognize this from the self-destruct instructions for the Nostromo:

...even down to some of the wording!

It’s not even a second long, but it’s a nice little homage.

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Not going to happen. This thing is unkillable.

James Holden (Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey)

Famous last words.

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So... a month or two ago, there was a Twitter contest relating to ‪‎The Expanse‬, with the prizes being a 3D printed model of a ship of one's choice from the show (and you get to pick the color). I may not have mentioned that I sort of won one of them, haha. And picked the MCRN Donnager, in black. And it arrived yesterday. She's pretty. I might need to acquire/make a display stand of some sort, if I don't just wanna have the model standing up on its four engines (although it is pretty stable like that).

I've always liked the Donnager's design, even going back to its "evil office tower" description in the books. The design they used in the show stays true to this, as seen when you stand the ship vertically.

Holden had seen pictures and videos of the old oceangoing navies of Earth, and even in the age of steel, there had always been something beautiful about them. Long and sleek, they had the appearance of something leaning into the wind, a creature barely held on the leash. The Donnager had none of that. Like all long-flight spacecraft, it was built in the “office tower” configuration: each deck one floor of the building, ladders or elevators running down the axis. Constant thrust took the place of gravity.

But the Donnager actually looked like an office building on its side. Square and blocky, with small bulbous projections in seemingly random places. At nearly five hundred meters long, it was the size of a 130-story building. Alex had said it was 250,000 tons dry weight, and it looked heavier. Holden reflected, not for the first time, on how so much of the human sense of aesthetics had been formed in a time when sleek objects cut through the air. The Donnager would never move through anything thicker than interstellar gas, so curves and angles were a waste of space. The result was ugly.