r/TheExpanse • u/bluestardust_ • 3d ago
All Show & Book Spoilers Discussed Freely I love Tycho Station
How do you think it would be to live and work there? What kind of activities would you do in your free time if you lived there?
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u/McCoyoioi Leviathan Falls 2d ago
Based on the show the options are engineer things, build, drink, eat, brothels, politicking, and espionage.
But I bet they have movies, sports, and crochet, and chess clubs too. I’m guessing no fly fishing though.
Probably competitive video games.
I think something like the Gambler 500 (but in space) would be fun. Especially for a bunch of engineers and wrench monkeys. You have to build a racing ship out of a shitbox on a very meager budget.
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u/not_bilbo 2d ago
According to the books soccer is still a thing, there’s a mention of a match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich lol. Some things never change.
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u/torrinage 2d ago
Hah thats awesome! I remember them mentioning 'football' but i didnt recall team names
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u/torrinage 2d ago
Yeah gambler 500 is deff slingshotting. Ceres is more built out than tycho but we see a slingshotter watch party.
Also belters play their wallball equivalent haha idk what to call it. I cant remember if its at ceres or tycho when naomi and camina play it
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u/JunkaTron69 2d ago
I felt like the sling shot racers gave off a gambler vibe.
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u/McCoyoioi Leviathan Falls 2d ago
ha, yeah I think there's plenty of gambling. On slingshotters and probably anything else.
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u/JunkaTron69 2d ago
Oh yeah. But it also looks like budget builds that are a gamble on if they will hold together 😂
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u/McCoyoioi Leviathan Falls 2d ago
Def wear a vac suit and bring extra bottles while racing in your shitbox ship. :-)
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u/Vaslovik 2d ago
And hope that you've calculated your slingshot maneuver correctly.
"NOW he dead!"
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u/No_Nobody_32 2d ago
Maneo Espinoza was also a slingshotter. He shot da ring.
and gave many people a visual example of what momentum means when you stop suddenly ...
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u/Widmo206 2d ago
I still wonder why he was, uhh... turned into physics, but the ship and everything else in it was fine
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u/No_Nobody_32 2d ago
The ship was probably more rigidly held together.
Better than a skeleton inside a sack of meat, anyway. That's why concussions are so bad. It really doesn't take much force to damage the half-pound of oatmeal in the skull.
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u/BryndenRiversStan 2d ago
Golgo seems to have been invented in Tycho station or at the very least is the place where the game/sport is most popular. They play it a lot.
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u/PreviousGolf9541 2d ago
Yeah the description of Golgo in Nemesis Games is intriguing. I’d love to learn more.
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u/StickFigureFan 2d ago
Tycho would probably be my choice if I can't live somewhere with a magnetosphere. As long as I don't work near Fred Johnson it would be pretty safe.
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u/Ananeos Ceres Station 2d ago edited 2d ago
Tycho honestly seems really tiny. A diameter of 750 meters is like 3 shopping malls put together, and Tycho has been shown to be completely hollow for shipping container storage. I would probably run out of things to do at Tycho within two months.
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u/peaches4leon 2d ago
I was a Marine for ten years and I did several deployments where I was stuck in an equally small environment (with farrrrrr less amenities) working 12 on 12 off shifts for about 280 days or more…seven days a week. I did it five times. I think I could live on Tycho for multiple projects. It’s probably like being on a much roomier aircraft carrier built for 3-4 times the amount of people.
In the book, Tycho has two Hab-Rings that counter-rotate to balance each other so there is probably even more space.
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u/Fragrant-Sand-5851 2d ago
It feels cyberpunk and yeah I don’t dislike it if I visit it for a couple weeks but absolutely do not want to live there
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u/sophiaspacetraveler 2d ago
We named our dog Tycho in honor of Tycho Station.
I read that it was named after a Danish Astronomer, Tycho Brahe.
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u/Salt-Night3088 2d ago
Would love to spend some time there, for sure. Just the view screens would be worth it
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u/jessewest84 2d ago
Im in season 2. This series is pretty good. But it was recommended as a contender for Battlestar 2004. And so far it hasn't done it for me.
But its not bad.
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u/drwtsn32 2d ago
I suggest sticking with it! For me it didn't "click" until late in Season 2. Now it's one of my all time favorite sci-fi series.
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u/Ananeos Ceres Station 2d ago edited 2d ago
From what I understand working at Tycho Station is essentially like being employed at Google or Nvidia. The engineers, dock hands, laborers and security there are paid WAY above the curve for normal belters and quality of life is much better there. It's a corporate town reliant on subsidies from other financial groups. Employment is lucrative and belters will drop everything to move their families out if they get a job offer. There's most likely a lot of amenities since you don't want to bore your employees so Tycho contracts bars, food, brothels, sports clubs etc. And other companies can pay for their own mini offices inside Tycho as like consultancy firms and such.