Falcon

The Falcon is the name of a spacecraft that belongs to a later age. She is a science vessel, an instrument of survey and research rather than a freighter or a ship of the line. Humanity starts out a long way from her, in a single crowded Solar System, its politics split among Earth under the United Nations, an independent military Mars, and the laboring stations of the Belt, with James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante pulled into the middle of every crisis. Whose flag the Falcon flies, what her instruments are turned toward, and what her crew finds all belong to that later age.