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Anon reads Don Quixote (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One of my favorite fan theories is that the authors did not name the ship after the horse from don quixote directly. There is a Rush song called Cygnus X-1 that's basically a space opera and the ship in that song is called the Rocinate, and one of the authors of The Expanse is a huge rush fan. So in my mind that is where the ships name comes from.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I also learned it from Rush, hell yeah!

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wasn't the expanse loosely based on a play by post RPG game the author was running? Maybe the name came from that? Isn't that also why Shed was killed off, the player couldn't play anymore.