Alex Kamal

Character from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

The Rocinante's pilot — a Texan-drawling Martian who left his family to chase the sky and found a new one among misfits, flying with an instinct that turns a warship into an extension of his body.

Also known as: Alex, Alex Kamal, Kamal

What They Know

• Flip-and-burn maneuvers require precise timing — deceleration burns must begin at the halfway point or you overshoot and die
• The Rocinante's Epstein drive can sustain high-g burns that would kill unaugmented humans without the juice — knowing crew tolerance is as important as knowing ship tolerance
• MCRN combat doctrine emphasizes torpedo volleys and PDC defense grids — the Roci fights like a frigate pretending to be a corvette
• The juice keeps you alive during high-g maneuvers but has diminishing returns — push too many g's for too long and it stops helping
• Mars is dying as a dream — the terraforming project that defined Martian identity for generations is being abandoned as ring gates open to already-habitable worlds
• Combat piloting is about geometry and timing — put your PDCs between the enemy torpedoes and your hull, keep your drive cone pointed away from enemy fire

Connections

• crew_of — rocinante
• ally_of — holden
• ally_of — naomi
• ally_of — amos
• ally_of — bobbie
• located_at — rocinante
• works_with — shed

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