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On basilisk station by david weber6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, her ship’s missiles are disposed of so that a politician, Sonja Hemphill, can test her pet new technology-the gravlance. Because of her good grades (except in math), she lands a coveted position as captain of a small spaceship, the HMS Fearless. When we join her story, Honor Harrington is a fresh graduate of the RMS Naval Academy. What follows is an intricate political and military drama with a sprinkling of action scenes. The situation that the prologue sets up is that the Manticoran Monarchy holds possession of a few key locations that bring in a lot of money from trade, and their rival political system, the Republic of Haven, has spent itself broke supporting a welfare state. The book starts off a little slow with a prologue that doesn’t click into place until more than half-way through, but picks up quickly after that. It’s a classic space opera written in 1993 that follows the eponymous heroine, Honor Harrington, as she rises through the ranks of the Royal Manticoran Navy (RMS). ![]() ![]() On Basilisk Station is the first book in David Weber’s Honor Harrington series. ![]()
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