In " Dulcinea", a small crew from the ice hauler Canterbury – Holden, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal, Shed Garvey and Amos Burton – respond to a distress call from a seemingly abandoned ship, the Scopuli. “We've gone too far” - Spoilers for " Season 1" follow. Raised to be moral and responsible, once he has taken on a cause, he feels honor-bound to see it through. Born on Earth, he left after being kicked out of Earth's Navy and has run to one of the most remote places in the solar system onboard the Canterbury.Īs events unfold he soon becomes the captain of the Rocinante. Holden was then given a general court-martial, convicted and discharged from service as a result.Īfter being discharged from the Navy, Holden took a contract with Pur'n'Kleen (owner of the Canterbury), looking to get as far from home and Earth and the UNN as possible.Īt the beginning of the series, Holden is presented as having been enjoying the relative lack of responsibility that comes with being the 2nd officer on a remote ice hauler. The officer dodged and Holden broke his hand on a bulkhead.
In the UN Navy he served as a First Lieutenant on board the UNN Zheng Fei until an ideological conflict turned into a physical confrontation where Holden tried to punch a superior officer. When he was 18, his closest parent, Elise, in a moment of guilt, told him he had been raised to fight a losing battle and that he should run away as far as possible. Holden is an only child of 8 parents whose DNA has been artificially combined to create an heir to his parents' fight to preserve one of the last undeveloped wildernesses in Montana. At a time when Earth's population is over 30 billion, there are big incentives for people not to have children and undeveloped land is a distant memory for most of Earth's population. A Montana native, he is the only child born to eight parents as part of a genetic collective.