James Holden

Character from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

Idealist captain of the Rocinante — a Montana farm boy whose compulsive transparency ignites solar-system-wide crises, making him both humanity's conscience and its most dangerous loose cannon.

Also known as: Holden, James Holden, Jim, Captain Holden, Captain

What They Know

• The Canterbury's distress call at the Scopuli was a trap — the stealth ships that destroyed her were built by Protogen using Martian technology
• The protomolecule is an alien technology sent to Earth's solar system billions of years ago — it was intercepted by Phoebe before reaching Earth
• Broadcasting information widely is safer than keeping secrets — secrets create power imbalances that get people killed
• The Rocinante is a stolen MCRN corvette-class warship, legitimately salvaged under maritime law during the Canterbury incident
• Jules-Pierre Mao funded Protogen's protomolecule weapons program with backing from UN officials including Errinwright
• The ring gates connect to over thirteen hundred habitable systems — each gate is a potential chokepoint and political flashpoint
• Miller's protomolecule ghost is not truly Miller — it's the protomolecule using Miller's neural pattern to investigate what killed the ring builders
• The Laconian Empire built their fleet using ring builder technology found in the Laconia system — ships that dwarf anything humanity has built

Connections

• captain_of — rocinante
• partner_of — naomi
• crew_of — rocinante
• ally_of — fred_johnson
• ally_of — avasarala
• ally_of — bobbie
• enemy_of — marco
• ally_of — amos
• ally_of — alex
• ally_of — clarissa
• enemy_of — errinwright
• ally_of — anna
• enemy_of — nguyen
• ally_of — miller
• ally_of — drummer
• enemy_of — mao
• ally_of — elvi
• enemy_of — duarte
• enemy_of — tanaka
• ally_of — prax

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