I guess because it made no sense with the Expenses depiction of hard physics. Even in a low grav environment like Io, everything that wasnt bolted on would even eventually slip to the side and the crew would have basically climb in and out of their seats (not to mention being completely unable to use any accomodations on board ^^) My guess is, this must have been very early in the concept phase when the showrunners were still going with a classic horizontal decklayout, before bringing physics into the mix with the vertical one.
@@LtCWest No, actually even in the books (which stick to hard physics as much as the show does), the Roci lands horizontally, even though its decks are still stacked vertically, like in the show. It's just that everything gimbals, and the walls are designed to become floors. It was likely just too cumbersome and expensive to do that for the show Roci..
@@RocketToTheMoose It never made sense to me that the Roci would land horizontally. I read the books after seeing the show, so I was surprised they did it that way in the book. You need a considerable amount of thrust to get the ship off the ground, and you wouldn't be able to use the main drive to do that until you got it oriented upright. Which means you'd need really powerful thrusters or dedicated VTOL engines.
1:21 Going by this, we have a definite start year for the events of the Expanse as 2350. Interesting. Both the show and the books are deliberately vague on what year it is.
The WETA concepts look as if they didn't even read the basic description of ship designs from the novel's. It's literally explained early in the first book that the spacecraft are designed like skyscrapers with an engine at the base and the rooms distributed as floors of the skyscraper and people stand in those rooms just like a skyscraper. I can't imagine how they got the idea that the ships should be designed as if they land like a plane/traditional sci fi spaceship.
Until I saw this, I didn’t realize how much the Rocinante resembled the Mark IX Hawk from Space: 1999. The scale is different, of course, but the the overall shape and use of orange kinda matches up.
It’s a wonderful book. But a geek like me needs a coffee table tome on all ships from the six seasons. Internal layout, specs, blueprints and the creative artistic process. I mean look at Mao’s yacht! How did that gaudy beauty get born? Makes me want to try and design something on 3D Google sketchup
im looking at the first sketches of the roci, and i have to say, why id some of the sketches get designed almost like the ship was oriented horizontally instead of vertically? i mean, seeing the roci land like a more conventional sci-fi ship (that may have gravity panels is cool, but i wonder the the vfx team did it for funsies or if they didn't know artificial gravity was not a thing, at least not yet
Think of the early sketches as a visual exploration rather than "how does gravity work in these ships". Trying to establish a visual language for the show was the purpose of those early renditions.
