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…
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The Meerkat Muse – 17/11/21
Let’s kick this Muse off with a little dash of outrage. Kids I don’t know, maybe I’m being overly harsh here, but when you have two small children (one of…
Video Writing Musings
It’s that rare occasion where I make a video!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Protectorate of Grayson
For many years the single-system star nation of Grayson was a minor, virtually unknown player in galactic affairs. Following encounters with both the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People’s…