Why hasn't the MCRN done anything to get the Rocinante back?
If you were to "salvage" a U.S. Nuclear Submarine, the U.S. government would (without doubt) "seize" it back or destroy it, even if you were planning to use it to save the world.
How were James Holden & Crew able to salvage a Nuclear MCRN Frigate, with little to no consequences?
Isn't the Martian Government bothered that a Nuclear armed ship was commandeered by civilian foreigners?
Can't they do anything about it or don't they have the means to get it back?
Best Answer
It has been captured under the "law of salvage":
This has been addressed in the show and in the books - by the law of salvage, whoever claims abandoned vessel in space has the right to keep it. Of course, Mars wasn't too happy about it, but it cannot act with force, as this will further destabilise the political situation within the system.
In the book Mars sues Holden, but the case is dropped soon after. Or to be more precise: in the "Abaddon's Gate" Mars sues Holden asking for the return of the "stolen Tachi". The ship is impounded, but the "friendly" news company decides to step in and help Holden if he will allow journalists on board of the Rocinante and go to the Ring.
He paged through the summons, jumping past seven pages of legalese to get to the point: The Martians wanted their ship back. Official proceedings had been started against him in both Earth and Martian courts challenging the salvage claim to the Rocinante. Only they were calling it the Tachi. [...]
If they took the case before a magistrate, they might or might not lose the ship, but it would be expensive to find out. Accounts that Holden had thought of as comfortably full suddenly looked an order of magnitude too small. [...]
“You’re sure you can get the hold taken off the Roci?” Naomi asked.
“I am protected by the Freedom of Journalism Act. I have the right to the reasonable use of hired materials and personnel in the pursuit of a story. Otherwise, anyone could stop any story they didn’t like by malicious use of injunctions like the one on the Roci. I have a backdated contract that says I hired you a month ago, before I arrived at Ceres. I have a team of lawyers ten benches deep who can drown anyone that objects in enough paperwork to last a lifetime.”
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What happened to the Rocinante?
The Rocinante is freed from the Ring Space's speed limit thanks to Holden's plan to shut down every ship to make them not a threat to the Ring station. Once everyone is back onboard, the Rocinante weds back to the Sol system.How did the crew get the Rocinante?
When the Donnager was destroyed, Jim Holden and his former crew of the Knight used her as an escape vessel. Holden kept the ship, claiming it as salvage, giving it new transponder codes provided by Fred Johnson, and named her Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse.What was the Rocinante called before?
"Rocinante", then, follows Cervantes' pattern of using ambiguous, multivalent words, which is common throughout the novel. Rocinante's name, then, signifies his change in status from the "old nag" of before to the "foremost" steed.How long is the Mcrn Tachi?
This martian beauty, the corvette MCRN Tachi is made of 5'110 pieces and has a lenght of 87 centimeters. This is the MCRN Tachi from the series "The Expanse".Why Hasn't Russian Gained Air Superiority in Ukraine?
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