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Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
1 of 7The point defense cannons (PDC) on the ships are based on modern systems used on seagoing naval ships. Because ships in The Expanse do not have energy shields, they are the only defense against guided weapons like torpedoes.
Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
2 of 7'Slingshotting' is an illegal extreme sport. The ships are homemade one-person craft that fly through space using only a single thrust of the engine and a carefully plotted course. They compete by 'slingshotting' around the gravity wells of planets and other celestial bodies. Glory awaits those who survive.
Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
3 of 7In the novels, 'slingshotting' wasn't introduced until the third book, Abaddon's Gate.
Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
4 of 7You may recognize Chad L. Coleman from his roles as Tyreese Williams on The Walking Dead and Dennis 'Cutty' Wise on The Wire.
Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
5 of 7The railguns fired by the Donnager and its attackers use a charged plasma to extend the effective length of the gun, increasing projectile velocity.
Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
6 of 7The Command Information Center (CIC) on the Donnager is a smaller compartment inside a much larger one. The idea is that critical ship functions are separated into self-sealing sections of the ship in case the ship is breached, allowing the ship to keep functioning even with large areas in vacuum.
Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 4
7 of 7Actors for the two lookalike characters, Bizi Betiko and the Data Broker, were found entirely by chance: both men had come to the show as background actors, where they were spotted by executive producer Naren Shankar.