The Expanse - The MCRN Scirocco Destroys Phoebe Station

Aboard The MCRN Scirocco, Bobbie and her fireteam get ready to drop on Phoebe Moon. But once it becomes clear that The UNN Nathan Hale is going to reach Phoebe first, The Scirocco takes steps to make sure no evidence of The Protomolecule remains. Although this is not publicly disclosed.
At the U.N. those with knowledge of the secret Protomolecule research and those with none, equally start bricking themselves.

Clip uploaded by request - thanks to 'Codsworth the Fresh'

From Season 2 Episode 1 "Safe"

Retrieved From Amazon Prime U.K. 27 Sept 2020 & 15 July 2021

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[OceanHedgehog]

I love this scene also shows how different Souther and Nguyen are. Souther knows the credentials, qualifications, and capabilities of his captains, so he knew Yvgeny never went to the academy. Nguyen doesn't care to learn.

[nealarmstrong]

“Madame, by the time you see it on that display it will be too late.” “I know how the fucking thing works, answer my question.” Always makes me chuckle

[classifiedveteran]

2:41 I love how Admiral Souther looks at Avasarala, immediately catching onto her bluff. _(The intensity in his eyes is off the charts!)_ Then plays along becuase his goals aligned with Avasarala's. Later he lets Avasarala know, perhaps to soley inform her that he could see right through her. Superb acting by Martin Roach!

[Sky_Guy]

God _damn_ this show is so good! The shot at 4:24 is pure artistry. It starts with focus on the pensive Avasarala, then drifts down to show two important details: Phoebe Station was owned by Protogen, and Eros is still under quarantine. This means Avasarala is connecting two seemingly coincidental events: Protogen leaves Phoebe, then Phoebe is nuked by Mars. Protogen leaves Eros, now Eros is under quarantine. She's already making the connections that will lead to her exposing the entire conspiracy, and the show subtly tells us this with just one shot!

[ShawnChang]

Another detail I like is how erinwright looks so glad not because war was averted but because he can rest assure knowing everything on phoebe is destroyed.

[smnoy]

“Command must have forgot to check with us first, Private” is such a good line.

[pyroknight]

An interesting thing to note, LT. Sutton tells Bobbie later on that the Nathan Hale was carrying ten times their number. A standard Scirocco-class carries 120 marines, meaning that the Nathan Hale was carrying 1, 200 men. Regardless of the Force Recon Marines, I don't think the Martians would've won that ground battle, since they would be fighting an entire UNMC battalion

[Xnothen]

All i can say is that people who didn't give this series a chance is missing out, this is how to properly build suspense. overall this is one amazing series that i have read and watch multiple times. its still as good as it was the first time.

[brooklyn]

Looking back it’s kinda wild the captain of the Nathan Hale just allowed MCRN torpedos to get that close without using PDCs

[elvisibra]

Scirocco class is a troop carrier, invasion dedicated vessel, they fired ship's big launchers, launched big, slower, less nimble, ship to surface missiles that gain high velocities over long distances, cause ofc, they were going for Phoebe, the UNN Nathan Hale could've easily shot down those 5, if had been fired at them, but they obviously weren't, CAPT Yvgeny is a good Captain, and these were times of some of the best politics in the Expanse, and on TV overall..

[kummer]

The Expanse is an exception of exceptions. Everything with it was good. I want a sequel of this series or a continuation. I think this deserves more views. It was one of the best shows.

[oberonpanopticon]

Fun fact! If I’m remembering physics correctly, to destroy phoebe entirely they’d need to put in more energy than the gravitational binding energy holding it together. Assuming I did my math right, phoebe’s gravitational binding energy is roughly 7.196×10^22 joules, so they’d need a bomb equivalent to 17.2 trillion tons of TNT. For reference, the largest bomb ever detonated was equivalent to 50 million tons, the largest bomb ever designed but never built was equivalent to 10 billion tons, and the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs released anywhere between 70 and 120 trillion tons of TNT worth of energy.
Theoretically I think it should be possible to build a bomb that big, but it’d have to be building sized! Seems kind of like overkill if those are the same ones they use on enemy ships.
(In case anyone is wondering, to destroy Deimos you’d “only” need 9.6 million tons of TNT!)
Of course, since they’re not detonating these things at every point inside these moons at once, realistically you’d need even more power. Though probably not more than a dozen times more.

[ttrestle]

I’ve watched this series twice and I think I’m going to go back and watch again.

[thomaskositzki]

The acting, the visuals, the pacing, the depiction of space warfare - is sooo freaking brilliant! 😯😃🥰

[thedoctor]

Small detail but I like how the Martian Marine deployment is set up so that there’s a squad of “normal” Marines backing up Bobbie’s squad of Marines with power armor. Feels like a deployment you’d see in something like Halo 🙂

[AerielFerguson]

When d admiral looked at chrisjen when she said d captain went to the academy then secretly let her know that he knows she was making stuff up just to convinve everyone to stand down😂😂🤣

[chaff]

I miss being able to watch this show for the first time.

[brandonhamilton]

She was so level headed here. From the beginning she was in charge. Love this woman!!!

[grumpy-dad]

Only discovered this series a week ago.
Already on season 4
Absolutely love it.

[michaelstaengl]

I loved that the show tried its very best for the TV- and online streaming form factor we all watch this series on to show the vast distances in space, how speed looks like in space, no moving stars, no close distance combats like in Star Trek.

The detail about the time delay on the transmission from the UNN NATHAN HALE from when the message is sent to when the message is received adds another layser of realism of how mid boggling big even our solar system is compared to everything for what we humans grew up here on Earth.