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Protagonist Honor Harrington is a citizen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore which is, during the first 20 or so works of the series, the key rival and the main stellar protagonist against the star-conquering (People's) Republic of Haven; these two nations are consciously based on Imperial Britain and Napoleonic France, although Haven also seems ...
Honor Harrington's maternal uncle. A resident of Beowulf and a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. An old time powder weapon "gun nut" who taught his niece much about the handling of obsolete hand weapons such as the M1911: Mentioned in Honor Among Enemies: Doctor Jennifer Chou – Honor Harrington's maternal grandmother
On Basilisk Station is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, [1] first published in 1993. It is the first book in his Honor Harrington series, and follows Commander Honor Harrington and Her Majesty’s light cruiser Fearless during their assignment to the Basilisk system.
Most of the action takes place simultaneously with the events of The Shadow of Saganami.In addition to Manticore, Haven, and Grayson, front stage players (even those lurking in the wings of the stage) now include the Andermani, who have entered the Manticorian Alliance; the genetic slavers of Mesa, secretly striving to keep Manticore and Haven shooting at each other as long as possible; non ...
The events of the novel are simultaneous with those of the novel At All Costs, which belongs to the main novel series of the Honorverse.. The story focuses on the shakedown cruise of the Edward Saganami-C-class heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma (nicknamed Nasty Kitty), commanded by Captain Aivars Terekhov, a war veteran and former prisoner of war who has only recently been cleared for return to ...
Changer of Worlds, published in 2001, was the third anthology of stories set in the Honor Harrington universe or Honorverse.The stories in the anthologies serve to introduce characters, provide deeper more complete backstory and flesh out the universe, so claim the same canonical relevance as exposition in the main series.
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The Star Kingdom's navy bides time, waiting for the opportune moment to strike. Chaos breaks up in the Havenite ranks, and the ambitious Admiral McQueen stages a coup that succeeds in killing Rob S. Pierre and almost all the members of the Havenite Committee of Public Safety, except for Oscar Saint-Just who manages to crush the coup by ...