Amos pegs him as Mr Righteous for a lot of good reasons. It all starts with being unable to completely walk away from a distress call, and snowballs.
THE EXPANSE SHIPS SERIES
Unfortunately, life has other plans and, as the series goes along, he bounces from incidence to incidence as he breaks out repeatedly with bouts of the syndrome.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: At the start, he's trying very hard to ignore his inbuilt instinct for doing this. The Captain: He becomes the de facto captain of the Rocinante and begins to be addressed as such by the rest of the crew. Age Lift: About a decade younger than his book incarnation and quite a bit rougher around the edges as a result. After being dishonorably discharged from the Navy, Holden took a contract with Pur'n'Kleen (owner of the Canterbury), looking to get as far from home as possible. In the UN Navy he served as a First Lieutenant until an ideological conflict turned into a physical confrontation, and Holden was made to face court martial. 
Holden's family is fighting to preserve one of the last undeveloped wildernesses in Montana a losing battle that Holden joined Earth's Navy to escape. At a time when Earth's population is over 30 billion, there are big incentives for people not to have children. This position offers him freedom and a minimum of responsibility.Ī Montana native, he is the only child born to eight parents as part of a genetic collective. Jim Holden is 2nd Officer of the ice trawler Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). The hostilities between Mars and Earth make this a moot point for the first two seasons, but after the Time Skip and truce in season 3, Mars sues the crew to have their property returned.
Vehicular Turnabout: Though the crew didn't strictly steal the Roci, they obtained it under dubious circumstances and have no intention of giving it back. Repainting the hull and gluing a bunch of freighter parts on her helped, but no one would mistake the ship as anything but a Martian Navy vessel if they actually got on board. Actually hiding isn't an option, so the ship needs to appear to be something else. Anyone who takes a close enough look will be able to tell that Rocinante is actually a heavily armed corvette bristling with weaponry and Alex eventually decides to simply dump the disguise. Paper-Thin Disguise: She's given a new coat of paint and has some fake gas tanks bolted to her exterior but this is only to fool the most passing of glances. This time they name her Pinus Contorta, after a species of pine tree that depends on wildfires for reproduction and survival. During the Earth/Mars war, the crew temporarily rechristens her again. Arguably "Beratnas Gas" is one of these, too - beratnas is a Belter Creole word meaning "brothers". Holden renames her the Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse, reflecting his own tendency to get caught up in situations he has no business being involved in. This Rocinante is instead a war vessel disguised as a freighter a.k.a. Ironic Name: 'Rocinante' in Spanish roughly translates into 'Previously a Workhorse', from Don Quixote's horse being repurposed from a broken-down nag to a knight's steed. Insistent Terminology: The ship was a legitimate salvage operation. She also comes equipped with black gold and sleek machines in which to use it: filter, espresso, macchiato. The occupants might die from the extended burn, but the ship would keep going on autopilot. Later on, she's shown to be able to easily speed up to 15 and 20- g with absolutely no problem. On his first day piloting her, Alex can't help but gush that she can easily cruise at 12- g while her engines purr. Cool Spaceship: She is a sleek gunboat designed for speed and maneuverability and is bristling with more than enough firepower to take on one of the stealth ships that destroyed the Canterbury, albeit at a disadvantage. Naomi worries about if the crew will be able to find someone willing to restock a salvaged Martian warship. 
The Roci is explicitly supposed to hold ten thousand PDC rounds in her magazines and Alex (very justifiably) spent around 2,800 while escaping from the Donnager. She's given a superficial makeover while at Tycho to look like a common gas hauler, but still retains her original arsenal of weapons. In the wake of the Donnager's destruction, the Canterbury survivors claimed the Tachi as their own and re-christened her as the Rocinante note Spanish for "Work Horse" as well as the name of Don Quixote's horse, see Jim Holden's entry below. The Rocinante began her life as the MCRN Tachi, a Martian Navy corvette that operated from the hangar of the battleship MCRN Donnager, the Martian Navy's flagship.
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