TEWSNBN and his Strange Mileage

It seems TEWSNBN is seeking to gain some rather big mileage from one offhand post I made during a patch where I was frustrated and annoyed. He’s extrapolated an awful lot from one small post, and in doing so, to use a term he uses a lot (albeit without explaining himself) he distorts what I […]

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The Solarian League Conflict

In the wake of the Yawata Strike and the League’s reaction to it, along with other flashpoints, a defacto state of war existed between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Solarian League, though no official declarations had been made. The League’s complex and murky bureaucracy and its sense of entitlement, not to mention its […]

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The Honoverse – Ships, Weapons and Combat

Within the Honorverse there exists many classes of ship. Some of these are hyper-capable and some, due to size or design, are restricted to local operations. There are huge merchant vessels and passenger liners, small courier boats, and enormous, powerful dreadnoughts. All hyper-capable ships share certain characteristics. They are all double-ended hulls, tubular in design, […]

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Hyperspace and the Impeller Drive

The advent of interstellar travel in the Post Diaspora era fundamentally changed the galaxy. For the first time humans could travel faster than light, and thus could connect to colonies founded by slow sleeper ships. With hyperdrive the galaxy was open to humanity, though the technology would need to be refined and adapted before true, […]

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The Yawata Stike

The Star Kingdom of Manticore (which through annexation of the Talbott Cluster and the agreed division of the Silesan Confederacy with the Andermani Empire had become the Star Empire of Manticore) and the Republic of Haven had begun peace talks following the devastating Battle of Manticore. Both sides had suffered tremendous casualties and both sides […]

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The 2nd Manticoran-Havenite War

Technically the 2nd Manticoran-Havenite War was a continuation of the first, which ended with a truce and not a formal peace treaty. Opinion is divided as to whether history should record the second war as actually being a second war. Nonetheless, following the conclusion of hostilities in 1915 PD, both Haven and Manticore had undergone […]

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The Manticoran-Havenite War

The Manticoran-Havenite War (sometimes referred to the First Manticoran-Havenite War) raged between 1905 PD and 1915 PD. It followed years of building tension and hostility between the two powers, dating back to 1857 PD and the foresight of Manticoran monarch King Roger III. King Roger’s assassination by Havenite agents (a fact kept from the public) […]

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The Republic of Haven

The history of the Republic of Haven should serve as a warning for a number of reasons. Well-meaning attempts at ending or mitigating poverty were mismanaged and handled by corrupt politicians, leading to a collapsed economy and a regime built upon conquest. It did not start out that way. Haven itself was settled a century […]

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