Novels:

On Basilisk Station                                          OBS

The Honor of the Queen                                 HOTQ

The Short Victorious War                               SVW

Field of Dishonor                                            FOD

Flag in Exile                                                   FIE

Honor Among Enemies                                   HAE

In Enemy Hands                                              IEH

Echoes of Honor                                             EOH

Ashes of Victory                                              AOV

War of Honor                                                  WOH

 

Crown of Slaves                                              COS

 

Short Story collections:

More Than Honor

            A Beautiful Friendship                        MTHb

            A Grand Tour                                     MTHg

            The Universe of Honor                       MTHu

            A Whiff of Grapeshot                          MTHw

Worlds of Honor (Worlds of Honor #2)

            Deck Load Strike                                WOHd

            The Hard Way Home                          WOHh

            Queen’s Gambit                                  WOHq

            The Stray                                             WOHs

            What Price Dreams                             WOHw

Changer of Worlds (Worlds of Honor #3)

            Changer of Worlds                              COWc

            From the Highlands                            COWf

            Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington          COWm

            Nightfall                                              COWn

The Service of the Sword (Worlds of Honor #4)

            Fanatic                                                SOTSf

            Let’s Go to Prague                             SOTSl

            Promised Land                                    SOTSh

            The Service of the Sword                    SOTSs

            A Ship Named Francis                         SOTSn

            With One Stone                                   SOTSw

 

 

A

 

Aaron’s Rod. Masadan armed merchantman owned by Ephraim Templeton, the flagship of his small privateer fleet. It is stolen by the Sisterhood of Barbara. [SOTSp]

 

Abbot. RMN lieutenant commander, assistant tactical officer in HMS Gauntlet. He is among those killed in the engagement against the Manpower ships. [SOTSs]

 

Abernathy, Lord Haskel. RMN commander nicknamed Hack, Vice Admiral Parks’ staff logistics officer. [SVW]

 

Abbot, Diego. PN citizen vice admiral, commander of Task Force 20 for the attack on the Minette System. [FIE]

 

Abraham. Masadan Navy light cruiser, flagship of the navy. She is destroyed by the GSN during the attack on Grayson orbital facilities. [HOTQ]

 

Abramowitz, Carla. RMN rating in HMS Minotaur. [EOH]

 

Abrams. RMN chief petty officer in HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Acedo. PSN lieutenant commander, tactical officer in PSN Annika. [COWm]

 

Achilles. Treecat, son of Nimitz and Samantha. [IEH]

 

Achilles, HMS. RMN BC, Commodore Banton’s flagship. She was in BatCruRon 15 and transferred to BatCruRon 5. She is destroyed during the Battle of Hancock. [SVW]

 

Achmed, PNS. PN BC commanded by Captain Stephen Holtz. When she attacks RMMS Artemis, HMAMC Wayfarer comes to Artemis’s support. Wayfarer leads Achmed away from Artemis and the two ships pound each other into wrecks. Achmed is abandoned by her survivors who become POWs when Artemis returns with Wayfarer’s LACs. [HAE]

            Crew. See Pacelot, Helen; Wicklow

 

Aciler System. Star system located close to the PRH. [EOH]

 

Ackenheil, Jason. RMN captain, captain of HMS LaFroye. [WOH]

 

Ackroyd, Justin. GSN commodore, head of the Office of Personnel. [IEH]

 

ACS. See Royal Manticoran Astro-Control Service

 

Act of Annexation. Law under which the Trevor’s Star System is admitted to the Star Kingdom of Manticore. It specifies that the House of Lords cannot be increased by more than ten percent by San Martino peers between any two general elections and none can be seated before the next general election. The High Ridge government refuses to call a new general election, fearing that a change in the House of Lords will result in their loss of control of the government. [WOH]

 

Act of Toleration. Law that legalized other faiths on Grayson, passed only a century earlier. [FOD]

 

Acuminata. PRH ambassador to Masada. [SOTSp]

 

Adam. Prisoner held on Hades, brother of a woman named Amy. He attempted to prevent her being taken as a slave and hit the SS man who tried. The pilot of the shuttle then killed him with a pulse rifle. [EOH]

 

Adamon. Female ACS commander assigned to Basilisk Station. [EOH]

 

Adams. Grayson councilman, the Minister of Agriculture. He opposes a treaty with the Star Kingdom of Manticore. [HOTQ]

 

Adams. PM major. Esther McQueen places him in command of coordinating her units with the Octagon’s defense grid during her attempted coup. [COWn]

 

Adams, Ludmilla. Klaus Hauptman’s personal chauffeur, bodyguard and security chief. [HAE]

 

Adamson. PRH SS citizen lieutenant, a member of Rob Pierre’s personal security detachment. [COWn]

 

Adcock. RMN Vice Admiral of the Green, the head of the Weapons Development Board, [IEH]; and Fourth Space Lord. [AOV] He is a native of Maslow and migrated to Manticore too late for prolong treatment. He graduated eighth in his academy class. At the age of one hundred fourteen, he is too old for a space-going command but his mind is still first-class. He often asks line officers for opinions on proposed weapons systems. [IEH] He sold Admiral Danvers on the idea of building HMS Minotaur to test the LAC carrier concept. [EOH]

 

Adderson. Queen’s Own Regiment captain of the Copperwalls Battalion, a member of the Salt Flats Detail since suffering a broken leg. He is a native of the Ice Gia Settlement on Sphinx. [WOHq]

 

Addison, Calvin. PRH people’s commissioner assigned to Citizen Captain Joanne Hall. He is killed when PNS Schaumberg is severely damaged. [EOH]

 

Address from the Throne. One of the very few occasions when full regalia is worn and displayed in the Star Kingdom of Manticore’s House of Lords. [FOD]

 

Adelaide System. Star system in the Silesian Confederacy. [WOH]

 

Adler, Battle of. The worst defeat in the history of the RMN. Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville’s task group virtually wipes out Commodore Yeargin’s picket. [IEH] The RMN Board of Inquiry determines that she was unprepared and lacked sufficient offensive-mindedness. [EOH]

 

Adib. Female RMN captain of HMS Hydra. She is a stickler for correct military etiquette. [AOV]

 

Adler System. Star system occupied by the PRH and conquered by the RMN’s Sixth Fleet. It has a G0 primary. It is selected as a target for the PRH to inflict a defeat on the RMN. A task group commanded by Rear Admiral Tourville wipes out the RMN force and reoccupies the system. HMS Prince Adrian is forced to surrender although her convoy escapes. [IEH]

 

Admiral Quinterra, PNS. PN BB, part of Task Force 12.3 in Operation Icarus, Citizen Rear Admiral Porter’s flagship. She is destroyed at the Second Battle of Barnett. [AOV]

 

Admiralty House. RMN headquarters. It is located in Landing and is slightly over one hundred stories in height. [AOV]

 

Adonai, HMS. RMN CL commanded by Commander Victor Ainspan. [EOH]

 

Adrian Bayside. Solarian League-registry passenger ship on which John Mullins, Charles Gonzalvez and Citizen Admiral Mládek leave Prague. [SOTSl]

 

Adrienne, Queen. Adrienne Michelle Aorianna Elizabeth Winton, the daughter of King Roger II and Queen Solange; Queen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. After her mother’s death, an assassination, she became estranged from her father and they had, at best, a distant relationship. As Crown Princess, she was adopted by a treecat named Seeker of Dreams on a state visit to Sphinx. He and several other treecats foiled an attempt to assassinate her. After that, her father’s attitude changed and they enjoyed a much closer relationship. [WOHw] She names Seeker of Dreams Dianchect. [COS] As Queen, she ensured that any person adopted by a treecat who entered Manticoran military service would not be parted from their treecat. [OBS]

 

Adrienne Cross. Manticoran military award designed by King Roger II to honor members of the Queen’s Own Regiment who risk or lose their lives defending the royal family. The Queen’s Own nicknamed it the Spitting Kitty because it bears the image of a snarling treecat. Eleven people have won it in the two hundred fifty years since it was created, nine of them posthumously. [COS]

 

adultery. On Grayson, the man is generally blamed. A man who engages in adultery violates his obligation to care for and love the women he has married and who bear his children. [FIE]

 

Advanced Tactical Course (ATC). RMN course for command officers known as the “Crusher.” When Honor Harrington took the course it was taught by Admiral Courvoisier. [OBS] She is asked to teach it while convalescing after returning from Hades. The ATC Center is located on Saganami Island. One of Harrington’s innovations is to introduce Allied navies’ technology. [AOV]

 

Agamemnon, HMS. RMN BC, part of BatCruRon 5 in a division with HMS Invincible and HMS Intolerant. She is destroyed in the Battle of Hancock. [SVW]

 

Agard. PN citizen lieutenant, a crewmember of the pinnace commanded by Citizen Lieutenant Commander Proxmire. [EOH]

 

Agnelli, Federico. PRH SSN citizen admiral. He is among those who attempt to break away from the newly established Republic of Haven after Oscar Saint-Just is killed. He is one of the last to be defeated. [WOH]

 

Agni, HMS. RMN CL commanded by Captain (j.g.) the Honorable Michelle Henke. [FOD] She is reassigned to Sixth Fleet before Honor Harrington returns to the RMN. [HAE]

Crew. See Robinet; Thurmond

 

Agursky, Anthony, 14^th Baron of Novaya Tyumen. RMN commander assigned to BuShips. He is in charge of Skyhawk evaluation program. During the evaluations, the Attica Avalanche hits. He takes control of the rescue operation much to Honor Harrington’s disgust until he is ordered to return to HMS Broadsword. He and Pavel Young are second cousins and he hates Harrington for what happened between her and Young at the Academy. [WOHh]

 

Aidan, Duke. Manticoran peer of the realm, an uncle of Elizabeth III. His wife is named Anna. [EOH]

 

Ainspan, Victor. RMN commander, the senior Manticoran prisoner aboard PNS Krashnark. He was captured when Vice Admiral Tourville’s task force hit the Zanzibar System. He formerly commanded HMS Adonai. [EOH]

 

Air. Inhabited planet in the Air System. Dawtry is its capital and largest town. [MTHg]

 

Air System. Star system in the Solarian League, originally settled by the Teutonic Order which named it Ehre. The League has a sub-regional headquarters on it. [MTHg]

 

Aitschuler, Karl. RMNA midshipman. His midshipman cruise is in HMS Gauntlet. He was in Honor Harrington Introductory Tactics class and earned three invitations to dinner at her house. [SOTSs]

 

Ajax, HMS. RMN ship to which Sir Hakon Nessler was to be assigned as sixth lieutenant. Before he took the assignment she was lost with all hands. [MTHg]

 

Ajax, HMS. When Sir Hakon Nessler “borrows” Colonel Arabi from Lord Orloff, he renames her HMS Ajax in honor of the RMN ship lost with all hands to which he was to be assigned. [MTHg]

 

Ajax. RMN lieutenant commanding a courier boat. [COS]

 

Akimoto, Joyce. RHN lieutenant commander, Admiral Kirkegard’s staff astrogator. [WOH]

 

Akimoto, Tsukie. Inhabitant of Sphinx, the daughter of First Shareholders. She is a reclusive artist best known for her portrait of Stephanie Harrington and Lionheart. She is adopted by a treecat. [WOHw]

 

Al Hijaz Mountains. Mountains on Sphinx where Samantha’s clan lives. [HAE]

 

Al-Nassir. Caliphate Navy ship commanded by Lieutenant Commander Ben-Fazal. She is destroyed by a PN cruiser. [SVW]

 

al-Salil, Louis. RMN captain, commander of the 1007^th LAC Group (Temporary). The levels of training and preparedness he tolerates are sadly deficient. [WOH]

 

Alant, IANS. IAN CL that disappears in Silesia. It is either captured or turned over to the PN, renamed Forerunner and placed under the command of PN Captain Vaccares. She is captured by HMS Fearless and IANS Neue Bayern. [SOTSw]

 

albatross, Sphinx. Extremely graceful sea bird native to Sphinx. [SVW]

 

Albertson. GSN captain who succeeds Captain Greentree in command of GSNS Benjamin the Great. As such, he becomes Admiral White Haven’s flag captain. [EOH]

 

Alcazar, PNS. PN DD, senior ship of Task Force 12.3’s destroyer screen. She is accidentally destroyed by PNS Tascosa. [EOH]

 

Alcerro, Marcy. Colonel of the Sphinx Forestry Service. She was adopted by a treecat she named Musashi. [WOHw]

 

alcohol catalyzer. Substance that, when ingested, prevents alcohol from affecting a person. [MTHg]

 

Alcott, Francine. RMN sensor tech first class in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Alexander, Lady Emily, Countess White Haven. Wife of Hamish Alexander, Earl White Haven, one of the most beautiful and beloved holo-drama performers. She is rendered a paraplegic in an aircar collision and her nerves fail to regenerate. [OBS] She remains one of Manticore’s leading producer/directors and a leading poet. [IEH] Before her accident she rode horses, played tennis and grav skied. Although it was never discussed, she knew about his liaison with Theodosia Kuzak. His other brief affairs hurt her, not for the betrayal, but for what had been taken from them. She has seventy-five percent use of one hand but that is her only motion below the neck. [EOH] She realizes that her husband and Honor Harrington love each other but do not act on it for fear of hurting her. When the High Ridge government begins the rumor campaign that they actually are lovers, she helps defuse it by publicly acknowledging Harrington as a dear friend. After her return from Sidemore Station, Lady Emily explains that she and Samantha have been having extensive discussions about how silly humans act. She gives her blessings to them acting on their love for each other. [WOH]

 

Alexander, Lord Hamish, 13^th Earl of White Haven, Admiral White Haven. RMN Admiral of the Green, brother of Lord William Alexander and husband of Lady Emily Alexander. [OBS] He and Admiral Kuzak have been friends since childhood. Shortly after his wife’s accident, he and Kuzak had a brief affair because she sensed he needed the strength and support. [FOD] He translated Gustav Anderman’s Sternkrieg. From his flagship HMS Reliant, he leads the task force from Manticore that comes to the assistance of Grayson and prevents the loss of HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ] He shifts his flag to HMS Sphinx. [SVW] He is named President of Captain Lord Pavel Young’s court martial. He commands Task Force 4, part of the Home Fleet. His flagship is HMS Queen Caitrin. At the time, only nine RMN active duty officers are senior to him. He makes orders Honor Harrington not to challenge Earl North Haven to a duel. After she defies him and kills North Haven, he regrets having given an illegal order and one he knew would be ignored even if legal. [FOD] He leads the primary thrust at the PRH after war is declared and is, for the first time, stopped in the Nightingale System. [FOD] He leads the primary offensive against the PN, being finally checked in the Nightingale System. [FIE] He continues his drive on Trevor’s Star and considers making a direct attack despite his reputation as a master of the indirect approach. He also manages to incorporate certain ideas of the jeune ecole despite his distaste for it. [HAE] He is given command of Eighth Fleet, to be activated in the Yeltsin’s Star System with GNS Benjamin the Great as flagship. At the time, he is ninety-three T-years old. He is deeply respected by the Graysons as the victor of the Third Battle of Yeltsin and the conqueror of Masada. At one time he served as Third Space Lord. While being chastised by Honor Harrington for narrow thinking, he has a brief realization of how attracted he is to her, an emotion that comes through to her through her link with Nimitz. As a result, when she is captured, he feels guilty that he may have driven her off Grayson. [IEH] By the time of her funeral, he is sure he is the reason. When word of the attack on the Basilisk System is received, he orders Eighth Fleet to re-deploy from Trevor’s Star to Basilisk via the Manticore Wormhole Junction. He arrives just in time to prevent further damage and to inflict severe casualties on the attackers. [EOH] When Honor Harrington returns to Trevor’s Star, he is glad she is wearing the uniform of a Grayson admiral so he can greet her as an equal. [AOV] Because of the mutual hatred between him and Sir Edward Janacek, he is placed on half-pay. He and Harrington realize they love each other but do nothing about it because of their mutual respect for Lady Emily. The High Ridge government, in an attempt to neutralize their influence, starts a rumor campaign that they are, indeed, lovers. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that Samantha adopts him. Acting on intelligence that she sends him directly, he travels to Grayson to arrange for the GSN to reinforce Trevor’s Star. Using the Manticoran Wormhole Junction on an emergency priority basis, they arrive just in time to discourage Admiral Giscard from pressing his attack. Following the fall of the High Ridge government, he is made First Lord of the Admiralty. Lady Emily, after extensive discussions with Samantha, gives her blessings to he and Harrington acting on their love for each other. [WOH]

 

Alexander, Wayne. Political prisoner of the PRH, the longest-held prisoner on Hades. He was imprisoned for criticizing the Technical Conservation Act of 1778 P.D. After spending over seventy years on Hades, he escapes with Honor Harrington. He goes to work for Harrington helping design and then as her flight engineer on Jamie Candless. He settles on Grayson and joins the Church of Humanity Unchained. [AOV]

 

Alexander, Lord William MacLeish. Younger brother of Admiral of the Green Lord Hamish Alexander, Lord of the Exchequer in the Cromarty Government. [OBS] After the fall of the High Ridge government, he becomes prime minister. [WOH]

 

Alexander, PNS. PN cruiser commanded by Commander Trent, one of the ships assigned to retrieve Operation Argus data. [SVW]

Crew. See Raven, Yasir

 

Alice in Wonderland. Book by LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898). Honor Harrington says she feels like Alice after returning to the Star Kingdom of Manticore from Sidemore Station after all the changes caused by the fall of the High Ridge government. [WOH]

 

Alizon, Princedom of. Star nation in the Alizon System, a member of the Manticoran Alliance. [AOV]

 

Alizon System. Star system allied with the Star Kingdom of Manticore. It is one of the PRH’s objectives in the first round of the war against Manticore. [SVW] They begin constructing shipbuilding facilities. These are destroyed by Operation Icarus. [EOH] Star system where Pottawatomie Creek is officially registered. [COS]

 

Allemaigne. One of the languages spoken by John Mullins. [SOTSl]

 

Allen. Andre Warnecke’s bodyguard, shot to death by Honor Harrington. [HAE]

 

Allen System. Star system in the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE]

 

Allenby. GSN commander, executive officer in GNS Terror. [FOD]

 

Allerton. RMN captain, captain of a ship at the same time Captain Bachfisch commands HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Allgood. RMN lieutenant, assistant chief engineer in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ]

 

Allman. Deacon of the Church of Humanity Unchained. [FIE]

 

Allman System. Star system located close to the PRH. [EOH]

 

Allworth. PN citizen lieutenant, tactical officer in PNS Katana. [IEH]

 

Alouette, Henri. PRH SSN gravitic array technician. He is a bully and shirker, loathed by almost everyone who knows him. He is to be arrested but escapes from the ship in a skinsuit. His SUT jams open, slamming him into a gravitic array, shredding the suit and killing him. [SOTSf]

 

Alp Arslan, PNS. PN BC, part of Rear Admiral Chin’s attack force. She is destroyed when they are lured into a Manticoran minefield. [SVW]

 

Alpha Station. Primary IAN base in orbit of Potsdam. [HAE]

 

Alphand, PNS. PRH SSN ship assigned to Twelfth Fleet. She is destroyed by computer command by Shannon Foraker when it seems that they are about to attack Twelfth Fleet ships. [AOV]

 

Alphanes. Ancient, long-dead space-faring civilization. They built in crystal and only shattered remains are left.  Much research was done on them by Kalpriades who wrote Survey of the Alphane Worlds. [MTHg]

 

Altamont, Lord. See Larabee, George, Lord Altamont

 

Alto Verde System. Star system conquered by the PRH. Members of the Alto Verde Navy are imprisoned on Hades. [EOH]

 

Alvarez Field. GSN new planetary base, the location of the Bernard Yanakov Tactical Simulation Center. It is only thirty minutes away from Harrington City by air car. [IEH]

 

Alvarez, Jason. RMN commander, captain of HMS Troubadour. He survives the ship’s destruction but is killed as a prisoner of war by the Masadans at Blackbird Base. [HOTQ]

 

Alveretti, Gina. RMN officer, communications officer in HMAMC Scheherezade. [HAE]

 

Alwyn. Petty officer, a prisoner on Hades. Once Honor Harrington captures Styx, he is assigned to communications. [EOH]

 

Amami, Basil. PSN commander, executive officer in PSN Annika. [COWm]

 

Amaterasu, HMS. RMN light cruiser. [HAE]

 

Amberson. RMN lieutenant commander, tactical officer in HMS Apollo. He is killed during the operation that captures Blackbird Base. [HOTQ]

 

Ambristen. RMMC general, the commanding officer at the time of the Attica Avalanche. [WOHh]

 

Ambuscade. Armed merchant ship owned by Thomas Bachfisch and commanded by CAPTAIN Laurel Malachi. She is, technically, an auxiliary of the Confederacy Navy. [WOH]

 

Ambush, HMS. RMN DD in the same division as HMS Arrowhead and HMS Attack. [SVW]

 

Amphitrite, HMS. RMN BC, part of the Elric System picket force. She is damaged during the PN attack on the system. [AOV]

 

Amy. Prisoner held on Hades, sister of a man named Adam. An SS man attempted to take her as his slave. Adam tried to stop him and was killed. To show her defiance, she slit her own throat rather than allow herself to be taken. [EOH]

 

Anderman, Baoyuan. Victor at the Battle of the Farnham System. [AOV]

 

Anderman, Chien-lu, Herzog von Rabenstrange. IAN Gross Admiral, [WOH]; a cousin of Emperor Gustav Anderman XI. His flagship is IANS Derfflinger. [HAE] He is fifth in line for the throne. He takes command in Silesia and after meeting with Honor Harrington, agrees to assist the Alliance against the RHN forces in Silesia. [WOH]

 

Anderman Empire. Empire founded by Gustav Anderman I. Its capital is Potsdam in the New Berlin System. Its language is German. Although they have an interest in the Silesian Confederacy, they recognize the Star Kingdom of Manticore’s interest in protecting its merchant traffic. The Imperial Charter mandates that the Crown pass to male heirs, only. [HAE] The Empire begins taking a more aggressive stance with RMN units in Silesia. After Admiral Honor Harrington and Admiral von Rabenstrange come to an understanding, the IAN helps Task Force Thirty-Four defeat the RNH’s Second Fleet. The Empire and Star Kingdom then agree to, basically, divide the Silesian Confederacy between them as spheres of interest. [WOH] See also

Erin

Gregor System

Imperial Anderman Navy

New Berlin System

Potsdam

Sligo System

 

Anderman, Gustav, I. Founder of the Anderman Empire. He is the author of Sternkrieg. [HOTQ] He pictured himself the reincarnation of FREDERICK the Great. His initial major capture was Kuan Yin (subsequently renamed Potsdam) in the New Berline System. The colonists welcomed his “conquest” and over the next twenty years, his microbiologists and genetic engineers solved the planet’s problems. As a result, the colonists became extremely loyal and formed the nucleus of his military forces. By the time of his death, the empire had steadily grown and consisted of six systems. [HAE] He is recognized as one of history’s great military thinkers. [AOV] He is among those to whom Admiral White Haven is compared. [WOH]

 

Anderman, Gustav, VI. Emperor of the Anderman Empire, a childless only son with three sisters. [HAE]

 

Anderman, Gustav, VII. Oldest sister of Gustav VI. She avoided the problem of the Imperial Charter by having herself legally declared a man. She ruled for thirty-eight T-years and was one of the best emperors of the line. [HAE]

 

Anderman, Gustav, XI. Emperor of the Anderman Empire. [OBS]

 

Anderman, Prince Huang. Younger brother of Emperor Gustav XI. He and his family were attacked by Lieutenant Colonel Gregor Hofschulte. The Prince and his wife survived but one of their children was killed. [WOH]

 

Anderman University. University located on New Berlin where Michael Mayhew earned his bachelor’s degree. [HOTQ]

 

Anders. Deacon of the Church of Humanity Unchained, the deacon of Mayhew Cathedral. [AOV]

 

Anders, William. RHN captain, a former petty officer with thirty-five T-years of service at the time of the Rob Pierre coup. He is a former Dolist who is self-taught. By the time of Saint-Just’s overthrow, he had been promoted to lieutenant commander. He became one of the best practical engineers in the PN/RHN. Vice Admiral Foraker pulled him out of R&D to become her staff “interpreter” for dealing with engineers in the Bolthole project. His nickname is “Five” although its origins are unknown. [WOH]

 

Anderson, Justin. PN citizen lieutenant, a crewmember of the courier boat commanded by Citizen Lieutenant Commander Heathrow. [EOH]

 

Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation. Company in New Glasgow. In 1502 P.D. they developed the first counter-grav generator. [MTHu]

 

Andreas Venizelos Academy. Orphanage and private school endowed by Honor Harrington for children of Manticoran and Grayson war dead. It has campuses in bothe the Star Kingdom and Grayson. [WOH]

 

Andrew, HMLAC. RMN LAC assigned to HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Andrews, Jason. GSN lieutenant, Admiral Yanakov’s flag lieutenant. [HOTQ]

 

Andromeda. Treecat, a daughter of Nimitz and Samantha. [IEH]

 

Andropov, Melissa. Captain of Icarus. [MTHu]

 

Androunaskis. RMN lieutenant, astrogator in HMS Apollo. He is killed during the operation that captures Blackbird Base. [HOTQ]

 

Angel. Masadan navy DD, severely damaged by HMS Madrigal. [HOTQ]

 

Angelique, Queen Mother. Mother of Queen Elizabeth III and Prince Michael, widow of King Roger III. [EOH] Her nickname, from Manticoran society gossip, was “poor little beggar maid.” [WOHq]

 

Animal Farm. Novel by GEORGE ORWELL (pseudonym of ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR, 1903-1950). Anton Zilwicki paraphrases from it about all animals being equal but that some are more equal than others in describing the “egalitarianism” of the PRH. [COWf]

 

animals. See

albatross, Sphinx

bekhnor

buffalo, Beowulf

chipmunk, Sphinxian

cragsheep

dolphin

elephant

finch, Sphinx

Gilgamesh River Devil

gremlin

golden retriever

hexapuma, Sphinxian

Irish setter

jehrn

Kodiak maximus, Gryphon

koi, Sphinxian

lake builder

lizard-gull

Masadan ferret

near-jay, Manticoran

near-turtle

near-weasel

neorat, Grayson

neoshark

neoshark, Sphinx

neoshark, Thalassian

near-pike, Sphinx

neo-shark, Sphinx

peak bear

prongbuck

pseudocroc

pseudogrizzly

rabbit

shrimp, Nagasaki

shuttlesquito

sabrepike, Sphinx

snow leopard, Sphinx

spider lizard, Sphinx

tree-hopper, Sphinxian

 

Annika, PSN. Prism Space Navy ship commanded by Commodore Anders Dunkecki. She engages HMS War Maiden and inflicts serious damage but is destroyed by War Maiden. [COWm]

            Crew.

Acedo

Amami, Basil

Quinn

 

Anthony. RMN lieutenant, engineering officer in HMS Troubadour. [HOTQ]

 

Anti-Slavery League. Organization founded in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Its avowed aim is the elimination of all genetic slavery. Lady Catherine Montaigne is one of its leaders and it maintains surreptitious contact with the Audubon Ballroom. [COWf]

 

Antrim. RMN commander, a repair and engineering officer on HMSS Hephaestus. [HOTQ]

 

Anubis, HMS. RMN CL. [SVW]

 

Anzio, Project. RMN development program that results in the construction and testing of HMS Minotaur and the advanced LACs. [EOH]

 

Aphid System. Star system neutral to the Star Kingdom of Manticore and PRH. [FOD]

 

Apollo-class. RMN CL class. They have a broadside of six launch tubes. [HAE]

 

Apollo, HMS. RMN Apollo-class CL commanded by Commander Alice Truman. She is seriously damaged with a loss of two hundred crewmember while defending Grayson against the Masadans. [HOTQ] After repairs are completed, Commander Andreas Venizelos succeeds Truman as captain. [FOD]

                Crew.

Amberson

Androunaskis

Gwynn, Wendy, Dr.

Hackmore, Charles

Prevost, Lady Ellen

 

Aprilists. PRH terrorist group opposed to the Legislaturists, part of the Citizens’ Rights Union. Their name was actually the April Tribunal and came from the so-called “April Massacre” of April 1861 P.D. when a group of Dolist protesters were killed. The killing was accidental and resulted from a botched attempt to control the situation. Where most CRU activity was aimed at civilian Legislaturists, the Aprilist aimed at InSec, the military and government members. [EOH]

 

AR-7(b). Standard PN search radar mounted on SDs and DNs. [FIE]

 

Ararat, GSNS. GSN DD. [HOTQ]

 

Ararat, GSNS. GSN Covington-class CLAC commanded by Captain Davis. [WOH]

 

Archangel. Masadan navy DD. She is pounded by HMS Madrigal and destroyed in the explosion of Madrigal. [HOTQ]

 

Archer. Chief petty officer yeoman in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Arellian caviar. Expensive food. [SOTSl]

 

Arenscheldt System. Star system in the Posnan Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. It has a G3 primary and the sole habitable planet is Central. [HAE] It is the location of the RMN’s Arenscheldt Station. [SOTSw]

 

Ares, PNS. PRH SSN CA, one of the ships captured by Honor Harrington and the former prisoners from Hades. Re-designated ENS Ares, she is commanded by Commander Victor Ainspan. [EOH]

 

Arethusa, HMS. RMN CL destroyed at the Battle of Hancock. [FOD]

 

Argonaut-class. Manticoran class of freighters. Grayson begins building them for the Hauptman Lines. [EOH]

 

Argus, Operation. PN secret surveillance operation using stealthed drones to keep an eye on the Hancock System. [SVW]

 

Arianna. Only habitable planet of the Melchor System. [COWm]

 

Ariel. Queen Elizabeth III’s treecat. He is younger and somewhat smaller than Nimitz. [FOD] His true name is Leaf Catcher. [AOV]

 

Arif, Adelina. Linguist who developed a method of communicating with Medusans. Honor Harrington retains her to develop a sign language for the treecats, a task in which she succeeds. [AOV]

 

Arlemont. Female RMN officer, engineering officer in HMS L’Imperieuse. [MTHg]

 

Arless. Commander in the Royal Manticore Astro-Control Service assigned to Basilisk Control. [OBS]

 

Arner, James. “Commodore” in Andrew Warnecke’s small “navy.” [HAE]

 

Arnold, Jonathan. Mesan Marine major stationed on Congo. [COS]

 

Arrowhead, HMS. RMN DD commanded by Commander Tribeca. She happens on PNS Alexander which is retrieving Operation Argus data. She is in the same division as HMS Attack and HMS Ambush. [SVW]

Crew. See Riceman

 

Artemis. Treecat, a member of Nimitz’s clan. She is the leader of the group that who migrates to Grayson. [IEH]

 

Artemis. Planet that suffered a severe plague. [WOHq]

 

Artemis, RMMS. Atlas-class luxury liner of the Hauptman Lines commanded by CAPTAIN Margaret Fuchien. Klaus and Stacey Hauptman travel on her through the Silesian Confederacy and she is saved from destruction by HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

            Crew. See

Cheney, Sid

Donovski

Ward, Annabelle

B

 

Babcock, Iris. RMMC sergeant major in HMS Fearless (CA-286). She is a native of Gryphon and is a black belt in coup de vitesse. [HOTQ] She is next assigned to HMS Prince Adrian and participates in the raid that secures a confession from the Honorable Denver Summervale. [FOD] To Honor Harrington’s great surprise, she marries Horace Harkness. [HAE]

 

Bacchante, PNS. PRH SSN “frigate-class” light cruiser commanded by Citizen Commander Vestichov. She is one of the first two ships captured by Honor Harrington at Hades. Command is initially given to Captain Harriet Benson and she is re-designated ENS Bacchante. Command is then given to Lieutenant Commander Roberta Ellis. [EOH]

 

Bachfisch, Thomas. RMN captain, captain of HMS War Maiden. He is wounded during the engagement against PSN Annika. [COWm] Following the engagement, he a court of inquiry finds him negligent for allowing Annika to get so close. He remains in the RMN, rising to flag rank and then leaves on half-pay. He commands an armed merchant, Pirate’s Bane in Silesia. He continues working for Admiral Givens, passing on intelligence as he finds it. He warns Honor Harrington that the IAN is becoming more powerful and provocative in Silesia. On a hunch, he shadows RHN Hecate, concluding that the RHN is operating in Silesia. In an engagement against another RHN DD, he is wounded, losing his legs, but survives to report the RHN presence to Harrington. Part of his motivation for taking the blame as captain of War Maiden was to safeguard Harrington’s career by preventing any blame from falling on her. [WOH]

 

Bad Penny, HMLAC. Shrike-B-class LAC in HMS Hydra. She is commanded by Commander Tremaine and is officially Hydra One. [AOV]

            Crew. See Nordbrandt; Gene; Pyne, Audrey

 

Bagration, Operation. PN offensive planned by Citizen Secretary McQueen to follow Operations Icarus and Scylla. Its primary target is the Grendelsbane System, the loss of which would be a serious blow to the Alliance. [AOV]

 

Bagwell, Frederick. GSN commander, Admiral Honor Harrington’s staff operations officer. [FIE] As a captain, captain of GSNS Honor Harrington, Vice Admiral Brentworth’s flag captain. [WOH]

 

Bailes. RMN flight ops rating in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Baird, Anthony. See Shackleton, James

 

Bajkusa, Obrad. Prism Space Navy commander, captain of PSN Javelin. [COWm]

 

Baker, Arthur. RMN commander, COLAC in HMS Cockatrice. [WOH]

 

Baker, Paulette. RHN lieutenant, Vice Admiral Foraker’s flag lieutenant. [WOH]

 

Bakersfield Cordillera. Geographical formation on Hope which Sir Hakon Nessler and Edith Mincio scaled on mule back searching for the Crystal Grotto. [MTHg]

 

Balladeer, HMS. RMN destroyer, one of the only three ships to survive the Battle of Adler. [IEH]

 

Ballon, Edouard. PRH SSN tactical officer in PNS Hector von Dragen. Citizen Sergeants Rolla and Pierce kill him at the same time they kill Citizen Captain Gallanti. [SOTSf]

 

Baltron-January 2479. Comet in the Tyler’s Star System on which the Sun Skater Holiday Resort is built. [SOTSw]

 

Bancroft. Masadan navy ship commanded by Commander Isaiah Danville. She is destroyed by HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ]

Crew. See Early

 

Bancroft, Barbara. Wife of Jeremiah Grayson, the most zealous member of the Faithful. She escaped from her husband to warn that the Faithful had produced a doomsday weapon to destroy the Moderates. Her betrayal of the Faithful is referred to by them as the Doctrine of the Second Fall and they refer to her as the Harlot of Satan. [HOTQ] The Sisterhood of Barbara is named in her honor. [SOTSp]

 

Bancroft, Jeremiah. One of the leaders of the Faithful in Grayson’s civil war. [FIE]

 

Bancroft, Steading of. One of the five original Grayson steadings. After the Faithful were defeated and exiled to Masada, it was confiscated by the Protecorate. [FIE] Benjamin the Great ordered that its standard be hung as a trophy over the Protector’s chair in the Great Hall of the Old Palace. [EOH]

 

Bank Shot. Code name for the nuclear device planted under the Octagon that Oscar Saint-Just orders detonated to end Esther McQueen’s coup. Citizen General Speer activates the detonation. [COWn]

 

Banshee. Treecat who adopted Commander Ornsdorff. He is a good bit younger than Nimitz but shares his low sense of humor. [WOH]

 

Banton, Isabella. RMN commodore, the senior division commander in BatCruRon 5. Her flagship is HMS Achilles. [SVW]

 

Bantu. Ethnic heritage of a majority of the original settlers of the Mfecane System.

 

Barbarosa, PNS. PN battlecruiser, [EOH]; in Commodore Yuranovich’s division, damaged in the raid on the Poicters System. [SVW] She is part of the group jointly commanded by Citizen Major General Thornegrave and Commodore Yang and is captured virtually undamaged by Honor Harrington. Re-designated ENS Barbarossa, she is commanded by Lieutenant Commander Metcalf. [EOH]

 

Bark Master. Treecat, second elder of the Bright Water Clan. [COWc]

 

Barloi, Henrietta. ROH Secretary of Technology in the Pritchart administration. [WOH]

 

Barnett, PNS. PN ship, Admiral Rollins’ flagship. She is destroyed early in Vice Admiral Parks’ attack on Seaford Nine. [SVW]

 

Barnett System. Star system in the PRH. The primary is a G9 star and the only inhabited planet is Enki, [AOV], the location of the PN’s DuQuesne Base. [SVW] Until the loss of Trevor’s Star, Barnett had been planned as the jumping-off point for offensive operations against the RMN. After the fall of Trevor’s Star, it is assumed that Barnett will also be conquered. Command is given to Citizen Admiral Theisman. [IEH] When he is recalled to Haven, command is given to Citizen Admiral Dimitri who is forced to surrender to Eighth Fleet during Operation Buttercup. [AOV] It is one of the systems that President Pritchart initially offers to cede on a permanent basis. [WOH]

 

Barregos, Oravil. Governor of the Maya Sector of the Solarian League. [COS]

 

Barriers Needed for Progress. Book written by Angelina Jutta. [COS]

 

Barstow, Linda. RMN senior chief petty officer, chief of the bay in HMS Prince Adrian. [EOH] She is among the prisoners on PNS Tepes who escape, [IEH]; and land on Hades. [EOH]

 

baseball. Sport played with great relish on Grayson. Austin Grayson had been a huge fan of the game. It is still played on Old Earth and at least five other planets. [WOH] Many steadings have teams in a professional league. It is unknown in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Andrew Lafollet explains it to Honor Harrington, [FIE]; and she attempts to explain it to Mike Henke. [WOH]

 

Basic Living Stipend (BLS). Welfare paid by the PRH to Dolists to meet their basic living needs without needing them to work. [SVW] At the time of Operation Icarus, it becomes necessary to decrease it while simultaneously deflating the currency. [EOH] Because the PRH believes that a drugged prole is a happy prole, there is a BLS entry for “pharmaceutical drug use.” [SOTSl]

 

Basilisk, Duchess of. Queen Elizabeth III’s title when she was Crown Princess. She was born the year Basilisk was annexed to the Star Kingdom of Manticore. [WOHq]

 

Basilisk, HMS. RMN SD, Admiral Trent’s flagship. [SOTSw]

            Crew. See Harrington, Duchess, Dame Honor Stephanie

 

Basilisk Station. Unofficial RMN station in the Basilisk System. It is considered the least desirable assignment, one to which “undesirable” officers are assigned. Honor Harrington’s HMS Fearless (CL-56) is assigned to it. [OBS] In the aftermath of the PN attempt to take control of it, the station is upgraded to an official one with a stronger force. [EOH] The PN destroys virtually the entire infrastructure as part of Operation Icarus. [WOH]

 

Basilisk System. Star system in the Star Kingdom of Manticore with a wormhole terminus. Basilisk-A is a G0 star. The only inhabited planet is Medusa. [EOH]

 

Bassingford Medical Center. Main RMN hospital on Manticore. Dr. Alfred Harrington had been Assistant Chief, [OBS]; then Chief of Neurosurgery before retiring from the Navy. [AOV]

 

Bastogne-class. PN class of DDs. [HAE]

 

BatCruRon. RMN acronym for Battle Cruiser Squadron. [SVW]

 

Batson. Protector Benjamin’s master chef. [WOH]

 

battleships (BB). Because they are too weak to lie in the wall of battle, the RMN does not build them. The PN uses them, primarily, for covering rear areas from raids by cruisers and battlecruisers. [HAE] Because they are designated as the workhorse class of the PN, they have a greater tractor capability, on a ton for ton basis, than other classes. This allows them to tractor eleven missile pods, more than a PN SD. [EOH]

 

Baumann. RMN ensign in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

BB. Shorthand designation for a battleship. [SVW]

 

BC. Shorthand designation for a battlecruiser. [SVW]

 

Beale, Eldridge. RMN ensign in the Grendelsbane System. [WOH]

 

Beasley, Theresa. RMN captain, Rear Admiral Sarnow’s staff communications officer. [SVW]

 

Bede, Gifford. Inhabitant of Sphinx at the time Stephanie Harrington lived. [WOHs]

 

bekhnor. Animal native to Medusa killed for the hide. [OBS]

 

Belisarius, HMS. RMN Medusa-class SD(P), part of BatDiv 62. [AOV]

 

Bellerophon-class. RMN dreadnought class. [SVW]

 

Bellerophon, HMS. RMN DN. While rotating home, she accidentally intercepts a PN incursion. [SVW] Ship to which Aubrey Wanderman was to be assigned before being reassigned to HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

            Crew. See Avshari; Wolversham, Arlene

 

Ben-Fazal, Mudhafer. Caliphate Navy lieutenant commander, captain of Al-Nassir. [SVW]

 

Benedict. RMN lieutenant, executive officer in HMLAC Switchblade. [WOH]

 

Benjamin the Great, GSNS. GSN ship, flagship of Admiral White Haven with Eighth Fleet, [IEH]; then GSN Admiral Niall MacDonnell. She is affectionately known as “Benjie.” At eight years old, having been superseded by the Harrington-class SD(P)s, the Office of Shipbuilding wants to designate her for disposal. MacDonnell hopes they will adopt a different plan to do a major refit to bring her up to modern standards. [WOH]

 

Bennington, Frederick. Chief of procurement of Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. [FIE]

 

Bensen. PM in Major Gricou’s strike team during Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. [COWn]

 

Benson-Dessouix, Henri. Lieutenant in the Gaston Marines in the Gaston Navy Ship Dague. He is a long-time prisoner on Hades. He was transferred to Camp Inferno where he and Harriet Benson became close friends. He is an expert tailor and crafts the uniforms for the freed prisoners. [EOH] As a member of the Elysian Space Navy, he is accepted into the Grayson Marines and promoted to brigadier. He and Harriet Benson marry each other and he changes his last name to Benson-Dessouix. [AOV]

 

Benson-Dessouix, Harriet. Captain of the Pegasus System Navy, a prisoner of war in Camp Inferno on Hades. She had been the senior officer in her former camp when she and Henri Dessouix helped prevent a prisoner named Amy from being taken by the SS. She becomes one of Honor Harrington’s senior officers and is given command of ENS (formerly PNS) Bacchante. [EOH] As part of the Elysian Space Navy, she is accepted into the GSN’s Protector’s Own and promoted to rear-admiral. She and Henri Dessouix marry each other. [AOV] She commands the Protector’s Own First CLAC Squadron. [WOH]

 

Beowulf. Planet in the Sigma Draconis System, [SVW]; the second oldest colony world. [AOV] Its government is a representative elective oligarchy governed by a Board of Directors. [EOH] It has a reputation of being somewhat licentious by the Star Kingdom’s standards. Homeworld of Honor Harrington’s mother Dr. Allison Chou Harrington. [HOTQ] Many of its settlers are of Oriental extraction. [SVW] It leads the galaxy in life sciences, genetic engineering and applied genetics. [FOD] It has an unrivaled reputation for advances in the life sciences. [IEH] The climate is dry and dusty. [AOV] Planet where, in 1246 P.D., the first impeller was designed. [MTHu] Beowulfans would laugh themselves silly over the notion that matters of the heart are the business of anyobe but the people involved. [WOH] See also buffalo, Beowulf; gremlin

 

Beowulf buffalo. See buffalo, Beowulf

 

Beowulf Life Sciences Code. Code to which the Star Kingdom of Manticore and Solarian League adhere. Among the things it bans is genetic manipulation to determine the sex of a child. [EOH]

 

Berczi, Csilla. History teacher and head chaperone of the ski trip to Gryphon on which Ranjit and Susan Hibson were caught in the Attica Avalanche. She is a former RMMC major who lost a leg. Because she does not respond to regen therapy, she has a prosthetic leg which caused her retirement from the RMMC. [WOHh]

 

Beresford. Sir Hakon Nessler’s servant. All his male ancestors had been servants of the Nesslers of Greatgap. [MTHg]

 

Bergren. PRH SS citizen sergeant, a ground force soldier in PNS Tepes. He is part of the brig detail and when he attempts to abuse Honor Harrington, she breaks his wrist and kicks him in the mouth. [IEH]

 

Bergren, Ronald. PRH secretary of foreign affairs under President Harris. [OBS] He survived the destruction of the Legislaturists because at the time of Rob Pierre’s coup d’état, he was in transit to Earth with his family. His mission was to explain why Manticore had started the war with the PRH. As a result, he had, effectively, become nothing but the PRH ambassador to the Solarian League after finding reasons not to return to the PRH. [IEH] Kevin Usher believes he is the real target of Raphael Durkheim’s convoluted plot involving the abduction of Helen Zilwicki. [COWf]

 

BERIA, LAVRENTI PAVLOVICH. (1899-1953) Last chief of the Soviet secret police under JOSEPH STALIN. After Citizen Admiral Theisman eliminates Oscar Saint-Just, it occurs to Yuri Radamacher that Beria did not last long after Stalin died. [SOTSf]

 

Bernard Yanakov Park. Park in Harrington City. The heart of it is the Yountz Center. [FIE]

 

Bernard Yanakov Tactical Simulation Center. GSN training facility located at Alvarez Field. [IEH]

 

BERRA, LAWRENCE PETER “Yogi”. (1925-) Major league baseball great. Honor Harrington is unable to recall that he was the person to whom the quote, “déja vu all over again,” is attributed. [WOH]

 

Berry. See Zilwicki, Berry

 

Beta Belt. Asteroid belt in the Manticore System, the RMN’s traditional gunnery range. [SVW]

 

beverages. See

cocoa

coffee

Copper Ridge

Delacourt

Musketoon

Old Tilman

retsina

Sun Plantation Green Tea No. 7

tea

 

Bexo, Loren. RMN master chief sick berth attendant, part of the Manticoran advisory group to the Canmore Republic. He is formerly an assault Marine. [WOHd]

 

Bhadresa, Ellen. PN citizen commander, Citizen Vice Admiral Groenwald’s chief of staff. [AOV]

 

Bible. The Faithful reject the New Testament. Among the Biblical quotations seen on signs mass transit trains on Masada are Psalms 1:4 and 2:12 and Proverbs 9:7 and 13:15. [SOTSp] Justin Karen believes the political thinking prevalent in the High Ridge government is the present-day heir of the same thinking that led to the Book of Job. [WOH]

 

Biddle. Captain of the factory ship Nautilus. [WOHd]

 

BioNeering. Company on Sphinx not long after its settlement. Its insignia is a double-helix tree. A research project into the biochemistry of picket wood by Dr. Muriel Ubel results in a biological catastrophe. To cover her tracks she murders several people who work for the company. [WOHs]

 

Bira, King. Monarch of the Kingdom of Chuiban. [WOHd]

 

bisexuality. Graysons strongly disapprove of it because of the population composition and the tradition of men’s responsibility to care for women. [EOH] Naomi Imbesi is well known in Erewhonese society for her bisecuality. [COS]

 

Bishop, Wylie. Inhabitant of Sphinx who lives in Twin Forks at the time Stephanie Harrington lived. [WOHs]

 

Black Legs. Derogatory nickname by which prisoners on Hades refer to the SS. [EOH]

 

Black Mountains. Mountain range on Gryphon that has ski areas. [WOHh]

 

Blackbird. Moon of Uriel, location of a secret base established by the Masadans. The base is captured by the Royal Manticoran Marines on Honor Harrington’s ships. [HOTQ] Harrington creates a shipbuilding yard there and convinces the Hauptman Cartel to make a sizeable investment in it. By Harrington’s express orders, a fixed percentage of jobs at the Blackbird Yard must be given to women. [EOH]

 

Blackburn. Female RMMC lieutenant, commander of Second Platoon in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Blacket, Luke. Harrington Steading armsman, the senior armsman assigned to James Harrington. [AOV]

 

Blanchard, Pablo. RHN commander, executive officer in RHNS Majestic. [WOH]

 

Blanding, Ariella. RMN lieutenant, supply officer in HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS]

 

Bledsoe, Gavin. Captain of the Masadan navy, commander of the ship that attempts to shoot down Grayson One. [AOV]

 

Blohm. IAN commodore. [HAE]

 

Blossom. Shuttle owned by Ephraim Templeton. [SOTSp]

 

BLS. See Basic Living Stipend

 

Blue Files. Most closely held Manticoran military data files. [WOHw]

 

Blue Hall. The official throne room of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. It is approximately the size of a soccer field. [FOD]

 

Blue Mountain Dancing Clan. Treecat clan, apparently one of the first to see humans. [MTHb]

 

Blue Temple Avenue. Street in Buwayjon. [WOHd]

 

Blumenthal, Joel. RMN commander, tactical officer in HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Board of Directors. Top level of government on Beowulf. [EOH]

 

Boardman, Leonard. PRH Second Deputy Director of Information. [IEH] He is responsible for creating the vid of Honor Harrington’s supposedly showing Honor Harrington’s execution. Once Cordelia Ransom is declared dead, he replaces her as Secretary of Public Information. [EOH] He was killed in the Octagon during Elizabeth McQueen’s abortive coup. It is unclear if he was a hostage or a conspirator. [AOV]

 

Bogdanovich, Yuri. PN citizen captain, Rear Admiral Tourville’s chief of staff. [IEH]

 

Bogota, Colombia. Location of the Harvard University campus where Benjamin Mayhew earned his bachelor’s degree. [HOTQ]

 

Bokusu, Simon. Member of the Logan Freedom Fighters who negotiated a cooperative agreement with the Zoraster Freemen. [SOTSw]

 

Bolgeo. RMN petty officer first class in HMS Hydra. He is the engineer in HMLAC Cutthroat. He is a native of Liberty Crossing on Gryphon where he was a friend of Lieutenant Commander Roden’s older brother. His record is almost as distinguished as Sir Horace Harkness’s. He is killed when Cutthroat is destroyed. [AOV]

 

Bolthole, Operation. Highly secret RHN research and development program commanded by Vice Admiral Foraker. In the four years following the cessation of hostilities with the Alliance, it succeeds in developing CLACs, LACs and SD(P)s, among other systems. Its existence is only revealed to prevent Arnold Giancola’s disclosure for personal, partisan advantage. [WOH]

 

Bonaventure, RMMS. Freighter of six million tons belonging to the Hauptman Lines and commanded by CAPTAIN Harold Sukowski. She is captured by pirates near the Telmach System after Sukowski orders the crew off the ship. [HAE] Crew. See Hurlman, Christina; Kuriko, Genda

 

Boniece, Abelard. RMN captain, captain of HMS Intransigent. [SOTSp]

 

Boniface. Frontier planet in the Solarian League where Captain Rozsak led a successful, but bloody assault on a rebel stronghold. [COS]

 

The Book of the New Way. Second most important text of the Church of Humanity Unchained. It is a collection of the works and quotations of Austin Grayson. One of the sections is named Meditations. [FIE]

 

books. Lady Catherine Montaigne insists on being surrounded by real books wherever she lives. [COWf]

 

books, periodicals, literature and plays. See

Bible

The Book of the New Way

Landing Guardian

Landing Tattler

Landing Times

Macbeth

The Royal Encyclopedia

Sternkrieg

Tenets of War

Yawata Crossing Times

 

Bordeaux Battalion. Battalion of the Queen’s Own Regiment composed of troopers from Gryphon. [WOHq]

 

Borderer, HMS. RMN DD assigned to Task Force Thirty-Four. [WOH]

 

Borderwijk, Alenka. RHN captain, Thomas Theisman’s senior military aide. [WOH]

 

Borkai, Jane. Solarian Marine corporal in Company Bravo, Second Battalion, 877^th Solarian Marines, part of the team that assaults Felicia III. [COS]

 

Bouchard. PRH SS citizen general, commander of the intervention battalion in Nouveau Paris. His units take heavy casualties assaulting Esther McQueen’s forces during her attempted coup. [COWn]

 

Bounty. Captain Yu’s codeword indicating that the Masadans on Thunder of God are taking control of the ship. It is, undoubtedly, a reference to the mutiny on HMS Bounty. [HOTQ]

 

bourbon. Kevin Usher’s favorite alcoholic beverage on Earth. It is still made in Tennessee. [COWf]

 

Bourdeaux, Henri. GSN lieutenant, tactical officer in GSNS Jason Alvarez. [SVW]

 

Bouret. PN citizen lieutenant, astrogator in Citizen Lieutenant Commander Heathrow’s crew. [EOH]

 

Bowen. RMN crewmember in HMS L’Imperieuse. [MTHg]

 

Boyar, PNS. PRH SSN ship, part of Citizen Rear Admiral Yearman’s force sent to Hades. She is destroyed in the Battle of Cerberus. [EOH]

 

Boyce. PRH SS ground force citizen staff sergeant in PNS Tepes. He runs most of the illicit activities on the ship. [IEH]

 

Bradlaugh, Audrey. RMNA midshipwoman. She does her midshipwoman cruise in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Branch Leaper. Treecat, a scout of the Bright Water Clan. [COWc]

 

Brancusi. RMN engineering rating in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Brancusi Tower. Five hundred story building in Landing where Regiano’s is located. [FOD]

 

Brannigan, Howard. GSN lieutenant commander, Admiral Honor Harrington’s staff communications officer. [FIE]

 

Branscombe, Ray. PM citizen captain in HMS Vaubon. [HAE]

 

Brantley, Harper. RMN lieutenant, Admiral Honor Harrington’s staff communications officer. [WOH]

 

Braun. RMN chief petty officer, quartermaster in HMS Fearless (CL-56). He is killed during the engagement against RHMS Sirius. [OBS]

 

Brennan System. Star system in the Silesian Confederacy. Heyerdahl is the system governor. [WOH]

 

Brentworth, Mark. GSN officer, the son of Walter Brentworth. As a commander, the Grayson liaison to Honor Harrington’s squadron. [HOTQ] Promoted to captain, [SVW]; then senior captain, [FOD]; he commands GSNS Jason Alvarez. [SVW; FOD] As a commodore, he commands the First Battlecruiser Squadron from GSNS Raoul Courvoisier. [FIE] Promoted to Vice Admiral, he commands the Protector’s Own Second Battle Squadron with GSNS Honor Harrington as his flagship. [WOH]

 

Brentworth, Walter. GSN commodore, the father of Mark Brentworth. [HOTQ] Promoted to rear admiral he commands the First Division of the First Battle Squadron. He is among the Grayson’s completely comfortable serving with female officers. [FIE]

 

Br’er Rabbit. When Eloise Pritchart seems to be leaning towards confrontation with the Star Kingdom of Manticore, Secretary of State Giancola is reminded of how Br’er Rabbit begged not to be thrown into the briar patch. [WOH]

 

Breslau-class. PN DD class. Their armament is missile-heavy. [HAE]

 

Breslau, PNS. See Principality

 

Breslau Sector. Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. It includes the Hume, Brinkman, Gosset, Telmach, Libau, Walther, [HAE]; and Sandhill Systems. [WOH]

 

Breslau System. Star system in the Breslau Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE]

 

Brewster. Xeno-veterinarian who works with Dr. Alfred Harrington to attempt to repair Nimitz’s damaged nerve tissue in an attempt to restore his telepathic communication ability. [AOV]

 

Brigham, Mercedes. RMN and Grayson officer. She is a native of Gryphon. [FOD] As a lieutenant, ship’s master in HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS] As a lieutenant commander, executive officer in HMS Troubadour. She survives the ship’s destruction and is captured by the Masadans. At Blackbird Base, she is repeatedly gang raped and severely beaten when she defends herself and suffers a number of broken bones and internal injuries. [HOTQ] After rehabilitation at Bassingford Medical Center she is promoted to commander. She volunteers for the Endicott occupation but finally finds the situation too difficult and request assignment to the GSN as a “loaner.” She is promoted to captain is assigned to Admiral Honor Harrington as chief-of-staff. [FIE] She is promoted to GSN rear-admiral, [AOV]; and RMN commodore. She accepts return to RMN service to serve as Admiral Honor Harrington’s chief of staff of Task Force Thirty-Four. [WOH]

 

Bright Claw. Treecat, senior hunter of the Bright Water Clan at the time of Stephanie Harrington’s adoption. [MTHb]

 

Bright Heart Clan. Treecat clan. [WOHs]

 

Bright Water Clan. Treecat clan whose territory is closest to the Harrington homestead. [MTHb]

 

Brilliance-class. PN CL class. [MTHg]

 

Brinkman System. Star system in the Breslau Sector of Silesian Confederacy, one of the hot spots for pirate activity. [HAE]

 

Broadhurst. Planet in the Silesian Confederacy, a transshipment point. [WOH]

 

Broadman Imports. Company in the Canmore Republic that deals in icefish. [WOHd]

 

Broadsword, HMS. RMN ship commanded by Captain Tammerlane. She participates in the test of the Skyhawk Mk. 26. [WOHh]

            Crew.

Freemantle

Harrington, Honor

Haverty

Hedges

Stimson, Frank

Wells

Zariello

C

 

C-17a/54-4/5. Virginia Usher’s Mesan slave designation. [COWf]

 

CA. Shorthand designation for a heavy cruiser. [SVW]

 

Cachat, Victor. PRH SS citizen lieutenant. He graduated third in his class at the SS academy, [SOTSf]; where he recorded the fourth highest pain threshold on record. [COS] Kevin Usher’s initial impression of him is that he is Durkheim’s wonder boy. Usher agrees to work with him on finding Helen Zilwicki after she is abducted. Although true to the PRH and SS, he is disgusted with Durkheim’s tactics and disapproves of him. During the rescue, he kills the entire unit of SS and Scrags who are supposedly there to assist him. [COWf] Oscar Saint-Just assigns him to investigate the murder of People’s Commissioner Jamka. After Admiral Theisman’s coup, he has himself placed under arrest pending the new government’s determination of his status. He is, initially, named governor of the La Martine Sector but he request reassignment back to Haven. Virginia Usher, having met him in Chicago, adores him. [SOTSf] Kevin Usher sends him to Erewhon with Ginny to represent the Republic of Haven at Hieronymous Stein’s funeral. He and Ginny maintain the fiction that they are lovers. He has come to understand that he is, for her, the family she never had. They become involved in the attempt to kidnap Princess Ruth. He and Lieutenant Palane discover that they are very attracted to each other. Aboard Felicia III, he cold-bloodedly shoots several Masadans just to prove he is serious about requiring information. Thanks to his efforts, the Erewhonese abrogate their treaty with the Alliance and ally with Haven. [COS]

 

cadmium. One of the poisonous heavy metals which is extremely prevalent on Grayson. [HOTQ]

 

Caermon. RMN crewmember in HMS Minotaur. [EOH]

 

Cage. Captain of the Solarian League Gendarmerie on Hope. [MTHg]

 

Caine. PRH SSN citizen commander, Citizen Major General Chernock’s chief of staff. [EOH]

 

Calgary. GSN commander, an officer on Admiral Garret’s staff. [HOTQ]

 

Caliphate Navy. See Zanzibar Navy

 

Callahan, Sylvester. RHN chief petty officer, Vice Admiral Foraker’s steward. [WOH]

 

Caminetti, Kevin. PN citizen lieutenant, the brother, Esther McQueen’s junior communications officer and younger brother of Sean Caminetti. [AOV]

 

Caminetti, Sean. Oscar Saint-Just’s private secretary, brother of Citizen Lieutenant Kevin Caminetti. He warns his brother to warn Esther McQueen that Saint-Just is ready to move against her. [AOV]

 

Camp Charon. PRH special prison located on the planet Hades. Its existence has been denied for seventy years by both the Legislaturists and the Committee for Public Safety. [IEH] Citizen Brigadier Dennis Tresca is the commander. It is not really one camp but a series of small prisoner settlements located all over the planet. The headquarters is on an island named Styx which has been terraformed to allow farming to feed the camps. Camp populations average about twenty-five hundred. A special prison for troublemakers is Camp Inferno. Food delivery is by shuttle and if a shuttle is attacked, that camp is simply left to starve. [EOH]

 

Camp Inferno. Special camp on Hades where troublemakers from all other camps are placed. It is the first camp with which Honor Harrington makes contact. [EOH]

 

Camp Justin. RMMC training facility located in the Duchy of High Sligo on Manticore. [FOD]

 

Camp Maastricht. RMMC training facility located in the Duchy of West Wind on Manticore. [FOD]

 

Campenhausen, IANS. IAN SD, Admiral von Rabenstrange’s flagship. [WOH]

 

cancer. Lung cancer is the third most common cause of death on Grayson. It had been cured after they left Earth by a vaccine perfected by Lao Than. [HOTQ]

 

Candice, HMS. RMN prototype repair ship. The personnel assigned to HMS Minotaur are given orders to Candice as a cover. [EOH]

 

Candleman, Hugh. PRH SS ground forces citizen private in PNS Tepes, one of the two men assigned to “baby-sit” Horace Harkness. Harkness kills him at the start of the breakout from Tepes. [IEH]

 

Candless, James. Harrington Steadholder’s Guard armsman. His father was killed on GSN Grayson at the Battle of Blackbird. [FOD] He is her number two armsman. [HAE] He is one of Honor Harrington’s “travel party” who accompany her everywhere. [FIE] He is among those captured on HMS Prince Adrian and Harrington disguises him as a Grayson marine lieutenant to ensure he is kept with them. During the breakout from PNS Tepes, he sacrifices himself to allow Harrington to escape. [IEH]

 

Candor System. System in the Manticoran Alliance, one of those in which the PN makes an incursion before the First Battle of Hancock. [SVW] It is captured by the PN as part of Operation Stalking Horse. [FIE]

 

Canmore Republic. One of the two nation-states on Silvestria. It was founded by colonists of the Conforming Wee Free Kirk. They are assisted by Manticore in their war against the Kingdom of Chuiban. [WOHd]

 

cannibalism. The SS documented examples of it in several camps on Hades that were allowed to starve as punishment. [EOH]

 

Canning Wallace. PRH consul on Medusa. [OBS] As a result of the failure of the operation, he was stripped of his position and reduced to being a Prole. He is a spy for InSec inside the Citizens’ Rights Party but becomes a double agent working for Rob Pierre. [SVW]

 

Cantor. Pollster on Grayson with the reputation of being in Lord Mueller’s pocket. [AOV]

 

Cantrip, HMS. RMN CL, one of the ships that help to evacuate personnel from Seaford Nine. [EOH]

 

Caparelli, Sir Thomas. RMN Admiral of the Green, First Space Lord who succeeds Admiral Webster. [SVW] He is a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of King Roger. As a young officer he was grievously wounded in Silesia and was treated by Dr. Alfred Harrington. Although not the intellectual or strategic equal of Admiral White Haven, he has a stolid personality and is more ideally suited to overall command of the RMN. [AOV] He is among the admirals put on half pay by the High Ridge government, allegedly because he “deserved a rest.” After the fall of the High Ridge government, he returns as First Space Lord. [WOH]

 

Cape St. Vincent, Battle of. Battle fought on February 14, 1797 in which the RoyalNavy defeated the Spanish. Midshipwoman Helen Zilwicki writes an analysis of it for Honor Harrington’s tactics class. [WOH]

 

Capital Field. Main space-to-ground facility in Landing. [FOD]

 

Capital Fleet. PN fleet that remains in the area of Haven. It is commanded by Citizen Admiral Esther McQueen before she is made Citizen Secretary of War. [IEH] She is succeeded by Citizen Admiral Amanda Graveson and Citizen Vice Admiral Lawrence MacAfee as her deputy. It contains over seventy ships of the wall. Oscar Saint-Just is suspicious of McQueen’s motives when she wants to transfer some of them to combat operations. Citizen Admiral Theisman is appointed to command it because of the belief in his complete disinterest in politics. He succeeds in preventing the executions of Graveson and MacAfee. [AOV]

 

Capra, Vincent. RMN commodore, Vice Admiral Parks’ chief-of-staff. [SVW] He heads the board of inquiry that recommends that Captain Lord Pavel Young be court martialed. [FOD]

 

Carabus. Denise Kawalec’s assistant. [MTHg]

 

Caravan-class. RMN standard class of freighters. As part of Project Trojan Horse, four are modified into Q-ships for anti-piracy operations in the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE] See

Gudrid, HMAMC

Parnassus, HMAMC

Scheherezade, HMAMC

Wayfarer, HMAMC

 

Cardones, Rafael. RMN officer. As a lieutenant (j.g.), assistant tactical officer in HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS] He was awarded the Order of Gallantry and the Monarch’s Thanks for his actions at Basilisk. As a lieutenant, the tactical officer in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ] He is temporarily detached to the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Tech Team Four to work on a new weapon that seems to be a super grav lance. To save Fearless, against orders, he brings up the wedge on their ship, an action against orders that actually succeeds as a tactical ploy. [SOTSw] As a lieutenant commander, the tactical officer in HMS Nike. [FOD] As a commander, he is the executive officer in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE] He is promoted to captain (j.g.). He marches at the head of the horses pulling the caisson in Honor Harrington’s funeral procession. [EOH] He commands a CLAC during Operation Buttercup. [AOV] As captain (senior grade), he commands HMS Werewolf as Admiral Honor Harrington’s flag captain. [WOH]

 

Carlson. Female SLN communications officer in SNS Horatius. [COS]

 

Carlton Sector. Sector in the Silesian Confederacy. It includes the Carlton and Sarah Systems. [HAE]

 

Carluchi, Cynthia. RMMC lieutenant, commander of the Marines at Basilisk Control. [EOH]

 

Carnarvon, RMMS. Manticoran merchant ship, among those in the convoy saved by the sacrifice of Captain Helen Zilwicki and her escort ships. [SVW]

 

Carras. RMMC corporal in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

CARROLL, LEWIS. (1832-1898) English author of Alice in Wonderland. Jacquelyn Harmon opines that Carroll must have met a treecat in an opium dream as the basis for the Cheshire Cat. [EOH]

 

carry net. Among the tools made and used by treecats. [MTHb]

 

Carson. PRH SS citizen officer, a shuttle pilot on Hades. [EOH]

 

Carson, Adrian. PRH SS citizen general, one of those who attempted to set up an independent fiefdom after Oscar Saint-Just’s death. The remnants of his forces are mopped up in the Montague System. [WOH]

 

Carson, Battle of. Battle in which the RMN’s original HMS Nike fought. [SVW]

 

Carson, Kit. PRH SSN officer, executive officer in PNS Hector von Dragen. [SOTSf]

 

Carstairs. RMN lieutenant, tactical officer in HMS Troubadour. [HOTQ]

 

Carswell. An inhabitant of Hope. [MTHg]

 

Carter, Jonathan. RMN rating in HMS Minotaur. [EOH]

 

Cartwright, Joseph. RMN commander, Rear Admiral Sarnow’s operations officer. [SVW]

 

Casablanca. Classic motion picture. Kevin Usher quotes from it to Victor Cachat. He and his wife Ginny introduce Cachat to it. [COWf]

 

Casca System. System twenty-two light years from Yeltsin’s Star. [HOTQ] It is neutral to the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the PRH. [FOD] It joins the Manticoran Alliance. [IEH]

 

Cascabel System. Frontier system, one of those that Admiral Caparelli feels would be a low-risk operation for the PRH shortly before Operation Buttercup. [AOV]

 

Casey Hall. Enormous cafeteria at the Royal Manticoran Naval Academy, located right off the Quadrangle. It can seat about one third of the entire student body in one sitting. [WOH]

 

Casimir. Planet where Honor Harrington, as a lieutenant commander, broke up a nest of slavers. [COWf]

 

Caslet, Warner. PN citizen commander, captain of PNS Vaubon. [FIE] He is a native of Danville in the Paroa System. [EOH] He firmly believes in the necessity of destroying particularly vicious pirates even though they might prey on Manticoran shipping. He orders Vaubon to assist what he believes is a freighter. When it turns out to be RMAMC Wayfarer, he is forced to surrender. Although a technically a POW, Honor Harrington treats him as an honored guest. [HAE] Because he was captured because he followed orders he could not be shot. He is assigned as Admiral Theisman’s ops officer, something Theisman interprets as another indication that he is expendable. He is ordered aboard PNS Tepes to be PN liaison with the RMN prisoners. He is visiting them when Harkness conducts his breakout. He is forced to accompany them and is among the group that escapes to Hades. [IEH] He realizes that because of the circumstances, he can never return to the PRH. This is reinforced after listening to Admiral Parnell. Although Honor Harrington wanted to give him command of one of the ships they captured but felt too many ex-prisoners would not want to serve under a former PN officer. She makes him executive officer in ENS (ex-PNS) Farnese. [EOH] He retains his PNS uniform until he reaches Manticore. His defection hurts Theisman but he understand why. As a member of the Elysian Space Navy he is accepted into the GSN Protector’s Own and promoted to captain. [AOV] He commands its First Battle Squadron. [WOH]

 

Cassander, PNS. PRH SSN BC, part of the force under the joint command of Citizen Major General Thornegrave and Citizen Commodore Yang. She is destroyed at the Battle of Cerberus. [EOH]

 

Cassandra. Female treecat, one of the daughters of Nimitz and Samantha. [IEH]

 

Cassandra, HMS. RMN BC. She was in BatCruRon 15 and transferred to BatCruRon 5. She is severely damaged in the Battle of Hancock when Captain Young orders his division to scatter against orders. [SVW]

 

Cassetti, Ingemar. Lieutenant governor of the Maya Sector of the Solarian League, Governor Barregos’ chief of staff and chief hatchet man. On Captain Rozsak’s orders, Lieutenant Palane holds him in place while a sniper assassinates him. [COS]

 

CASSIUS LONGINUS, GAIUS. (53-42 BC) Roman politician, prime mover of the assassination of JULIUS CAESAR. Rob Pierre characterizes Thomas Theisman as being a BRUTUS when they need a Cassius to be Secretary of War. [IEH]

 

Castellaño. Landing City Police lieutenant, Master of the Field at the duels between Honor Harrington and The Honorable Denver Summervale the Earl of North Hollow. [FOD]

 

Cates, Howard. “Marine sergeant” in Predator. He is killed on Refuge. [SOTSs]

 

CATHERINE II (the Great). (1729-1796) Tsarina of Russia. Jeremy X suggests that Berry Zilwicki will be a more tender-hearted although less colorful queen than Catherine. Princess Ruth regales Berry with tales of Catherine’s alleged sexual escapades. [COS]

 

Cavendish. RMN midshipman, a friend of Lord Pavel Young, one of the people who helped him after Honor Harrington beat him and who helped him concoct a story explaining his injuries. [SVW]

 

Cayen, Quentin. Manticoran Foreign Office official, Forbes Lawler’s assistant on the diplomatic mission to Masada. [SOTSp]

 

celery. Favorite food of treecats although they cannot entirely metabolize it. [OBS] The first contact between humans and treecats was caused by the ‘cats theft of celery once Earth plants began to be grown on Sphinx. [FOD] Stephanie Harrington managed to record Lionheart stealing some. It seems to have a positive effect on their telepathic and empathic abilities. [MTHb] Although treecats love the taste of celery from anywhere, only Sphinxian celery enhances their telepathic abilities. [WOH]

 

Centauri System. Star system in the Solarian League, one of the inner systems. [COS]

 

Central. Sole inhabited planet in the Arenscheldt System. [HAE]

 

Central Sea. Sea on Silvestria separating the Canmore Republic from the Kingdom of Chuiban. [WOHd]

 

Central War Room. Central control facility of the RMN better known as the Pit. [AOV]

 

Centrist Party. Manticoran political party, generally allied with the Crown Loyalists in the Cromarty government. [OBS] At the time of the FirstcBattle of Hancock, they hold a sixty seat majority in the House of Commons but only a plurality in the House of Lords. [FOD] They belief in gradualism and physical restraint and are committed to military preparedness against Havenite expansion. [MTHu]

 

Cerberus System. Star system in the PRH, the location of the prison planet Hades. Its location is a closely guarded secret. It has extensive unmanned fortifications. [IEH] It is a trinary system. Cerberus A is an F4 star, Cerberus-B is a G3 and Cerberus-C is a planet-less M9 star. [EOH]

 

CGM. See Conspicuous Gallantry Medal

 

Chabala, Solange. Commoner who married King Roger II, mother of Queen Adrienne. Although a plain-looking woman, she won the hearts of the people of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. She was killed when the internal compensator of HMS Queen Elizabeth I failed, the result of an act of sabotage. [WOHw]

 

Chakrabarti, Sir Simon. RMN admiral, Sir Thomas Caparelli’s replacement as First Space Lord under the High Ridge government. [SOTSs] His last active service was a as a lieutenant commander, the executive officer in the CA HMS Invincible operating against Silesian pirates. With the exception of a brief assignment with BuWeaps, he spent the remainder of his career to admin. When he attempts to induce Janacek to either reinforce Sidemore Station or expand Honor Harrington’s orders and is refused, he resigns. His brother-in-law is Adam Damakos and he is a cousin of Akahito Fitzpatrick, the Duke of Gray Water. [WOH]

 

the Chalice. Cluster in the Silesian Confederacy consisting of the Willis System, Hendrickson System and Jarmon System. Governance had been given to Andrew Warnecke. He then led a rebellion against the Confederacy that resulted in the deaths of three million people. After fourteen T-months of trying, the Confederacy Navy was finally able to move in and crush the rebellion.

 

Challot, Jessica. PN citizen lieutenant, Citizen Admiral Giscard’s, supply and logistics officer. She has a bean-counter mentality and seems to be wholly without initiative. [EOH]

 

Chalmers. Governor of the Zoraster System. He has a friendly relationship with slavers and is majority owner of an orbital “recreation” habitat in the New Hamburg System. [WOH]

 

Chandler, Evelyn. RMN commander, tactical officer in HMS Nike. [SVW] She replaces the Honorable Michelle Henke as executive officer. [FOD]

 

Changa. Lieutenant in President Warnecke. [HAE]

 

Chantal. RMMC private in HMS Gauntlet, killed as part of the landing party on Refuge. [SOTSs]

 

Chantilly, RMMS. Manticoran-flag freighter operating in the Silesian Confederacy. [WOH]

 

Charles. Citizen of the Solarian League attempting to convince the PRH and PN to purchase a weapon system he calls the Crippler. It seems to be a super grav lance that can take down a ship’s wedge. In reality, he knows it will only work against merchants ships and not naval ships. In essence, he is running a scam and receives half the money for it up front. He escapes in his own ship before the plan falls apart and PNS Vanguard is destroyed. [SOTSw]

 

Chartres, PNS. PN ship, Citizen Commodore Ogilve’s flagship. [SOTSf]

 

Chateau d’If. Cloister on Manticore where Berry Zilwicki suggests she and Princess Ruth will be confined when Anton Zilwicki and Queen Elizabeth III learn what the two have done regarding the establishment of the Kingdom of Torch. [COS]

 

Chatterji. Solarian Marine captain, commander of Bravo Company, Second Battalion, 877the Solarian Marines. [COS]

 

Chavez, Meredith. PN citizen rear admiral, commander of Task Group 14.3, part of Operation Dagger. [FIE]

 

Chelsea System. Star system with one of the ports where the ships of the Zanzibar Liberation Front find safe haven. [SVW] It is part of the Manticoran Alliance. [FOD] [Note. This latter point is based on the maps in The Short Victorious War (SVW) and Field of Dishonor (FOD). The fact that there is a port that supports the ZLF seems to conflict with the fact that Chelsea is allied with Manticore as is the Caliphate of Zanzibar.]

 

chemotracker. Detection and tracking device utilizing a person’s scent. [COS]

 

Cheney. RMN lieutenant commander, communications officer in HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Cheney, Sid. Chief of engineering in RMMS Artemis. [HAE]

 

Cheney, Teresa. RMN lieutenant, communications officer in HMS Gauntlet. [COS]

 

Chernock, Seth. PRH SS citizen major general, commander of the Shilo Sector. He had been a sociology professor with a tenured position as assistant department head at Rousseau Planetary University before Rob Pierre’s coup. He was opposed to the Harris government and secretly joined the Citizens’ Rights Union. After the coup, he became one of the leading intellectual supporters of the Committee of Public Safety. Oddly, he and Citizen Brigadier Tresca become friends and have a long-standing chess game. It is the absence of a new move in some message traffic that tips him to the fact that all is not right on Hades. He jointly commands the task group that is wiped out at the Battle of Cerberus. [EOH]

 

Chernov. PN citizen rear admiral, commander of Task Group 14.1, part of Operation Dagger. [FIE]

 

Cherubim. Masadan navy DD. [HOTQ]

 

Cherwell Convention. Interstellar treaty outlawing human slavery. The Star Kingdom of Manticore equates violation of it with piracy. [WOH] King Roger II proposed the “equipment clause” that establishes that any ship equipped with slave-holding gear is deemed to be a slaver. [COS]

 

chess. Citizen Major General Chernock and Citizen Brigadier Tresca play a long-distance game via message traffic between Hades and Shilo. The absence of a new move from Tresca in the traffic tips Chernock that all is not right on Hades and that something has happened to Tresca. [EOH]

 

Cheviot. RMN vice admiral, commander of HMSS Hephaestus. [FOD]

 

chewing gum. A habit of Susan Hibson. Scotty Tremaine considers it one of humanity’s more disgusting habits. [FOD] Her parents tried to break her of the habit when she was a child. [WOHh]

 

Chezno. Marine major, a former prisoner on Hades, the senior Marine in ENS (former PNS) Farnese. [AOV]

 

Chi. RMN commander, commander of the LACs in HMAMC Scheherezade. [HAE]

 

CHIANG KAI-SHEK. (1887-1975) Leader of the Kuomintang and Nationalist China. W.E.B. Du Havel mentions him as an example of how an idealistic organization can fall under the control of a warlord. [COS]

 

Chicago. It still has a public transportation train system. It is built in layers with a substantial underground. The Old Quarter is still called “the Loop” although the reason for it has been obscured. [COWf]

 

Chiem. RMN surgeon lieutenant, surgeon in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Childers, Clarise. One of the most respected attorneys in the Star Kingdom of Manticore, president and senior partner of the firm of Childers, Strauslund, Goldman and Wu. [WOH] She agrees to handle the negotiations with ski consortiums to develop resorts in the Duchy of Harrington on Gryphon. [AOV]

 

Childers, Strauslund, Goldman and Wu. Extremely prestigious law firm in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Clarise Childers is its president and senior partner. Their only clients are the Hauptman Cartel, the Hauptman family and, on occasion, Honor Harrington. [WOH]

 

Chin, Genevieve. PN rear admiral, commander of the initial attack at the First Battle of Hancock. Her flagship is PNS New Boston. She is forced to surrender the remnants of her command when Admiral Danislav’s force arrives. [SVW] She survives the defeat and rehabilitates herself and her reputation as PN commander in the La Martine Sector. After Admiral Theisman’s coup, she is promoted to vice admiral and is given a fleet command. [SOTSf]

 

Chinese. Language spoken on Ki-Rin. [EOH] Honor Harrington repeats to Maxwell the ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” [AOV]

 

chipmunk, Sphinxian. Small animal native to Sphinx that looks almost nothing like an Earth chipmunk. They are imported to Grayson for the gardens at Harrington House. They are among the animals on which treecats prey. [FIE]

 

Chong Chin-Ri. RHN admiral, commander of Task Force Eleven in Operation Thunderbolt. His flagship is RHNS New Republic. [WOH]

 

Chosan. Planet through which John Mullins and Charles Gonzalvez travel on their way to Prague. [SOTSl]

 

Chou, Daniel. Member of the Manticoran Security Ministry, chief investigator into the death of King Roger III. He and Justin Zyrr unmask the conspiracy behind the assassination. He then accepts the position of liaison to the Medusans. [WOHq]

 

Chou, Jacques. Honor Harrington’s mothers older brother. He lives on Beowulf and is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. He introduced her to weapons firing chemically-propelled ammunition. [HAE]

 

Christmas. Holiday celebrated on Grayson. [AOV]

 

Christopher. Sir Edward Janacek’s personal secretary. [WOH]

 

Christy and Sons. Wholly owned subsidiary of the Hauptman Cartel that own seventy percent of the stock of the Duvalier Medical Association. [OBS]

 

Chuiban, Kingdom of. One of the two nation-states on Silvestria. King Bira is the monarch. It was settled by the Pechili Consortium colonists. It is assisted by the PRH in its war against the Canmore Republic. Its capital is Royal City. [WOHd]

 

Chung, Fernando. Erewhon Army lieutenant colonel, a military advisor to the Canmore Republic. He and Shuna Ryder become lovers. He is killed during the operation against the Kingdom of Chuiban. [WOHd]

 

Church of Humanity Unchained. Religion of the founders of Grayson and the official state religion. It was originated by Austin Grayson in Idaho on Old Earth. [HOTQ] The Act of Toleration, passed about one hundred years earlier, allows the practice of other religions on Grayson. [FOD] The second highest sacred text is The Book of the New Way. Its ruling body is the Sacristy. In most cathedrals, the pulpit is usually on the extreme right. The Stranger’s Aisle is reserved for non-members of the Church. It is tradition for the head of the Church to celebrate services at each of the eighty steading cathedrals on a rotating basis. Although confession is privileged, the confessor can waive the privilege. [FIE] One of its basic tenets is redemption through good works. [AOV]

See also

Allman

The Book of the New Way

Comforter

Faithful

Hanks, Julius

Intercessor

Jouet

Marchant, Edmond Augustus

Sullivan, Jeremiah

Tester

 

Church of Humanity Unchained (Defiant). See the Faithful

 

cigars. Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville smokes them. Although he dislikes them, he continues to smoke them because to stop would be to admit he had made a mistake. They became fashionable in the PRH. [IEH]

 

Cimiterre-class. RHN LAC class, designed in great part by Commander Clapp. Their life support endurance is about ninety-six hours. They contain no energy armament with the exception of a basic point defense laser system. There is very little redundancy built in. Compared to RMN LACs, they respond better to the helm, have almost the acceleration and have almost the missile range. Warheads use dirty nuclear payloads to strip away the enemy EW advantage. They are designed for brutal, mass attacks with little finesse. [WOH]

 

Circe, HMS. RMN cruiser destroyed in the Battle of Hancock when she cuts across the path of missiles aimed for HMS Cassandra. [SVW]

 

circus. Ancient form of entertainment still done on Erewhon. Hieronymous Stein’s funeral is, essentially, one big circus. [COS]

 

Citizen Admiral Tascosa, PNS. PN BB commanded by Citizen Captain Hector Griswold. She is part of Task Force 12.3 in Operation Icarus. [EOH]

 

Citizen, Diane. PRH people’s commissioner with the rank of Citizen Major, one of the people’s commissioners assigned to the squadron in the La Martine Sector. [SOTSf]

 

Citizens’ Rights Party. Political wing of the Citizens’ Rights Union. [SVW]

 

Citizens’ Rights Union. Anti-Legislaturist activist group on Haven. It advocates a higher BLS for the Dolists. [SVW]

 

City of God. Capital of Masada. [SOTSp]

 

CL. Shorthand designation for light cruiser. [SVW]

 

Clairdon, David. GSN commander, Admiral MacDonnell’s chief of staff. [WOH]

 

Clairmont. PN vice admiral under the Legislaturists, one of those shot for allegedly being part of the Harris Assassination. [EOH]

 

Clairmont Sytem. Star system with a PRH base, captured by Sixth Fleet that becomes a RMN station commanded by Vice Admiral of the Green Dame Madeline Sorbanne. [IEH]

 

Clapp, Mitchell. RHN commander with an expertise in small craft. He made a name for himself in the PN as a pilot and homegrown expert on pinnace and shuttle developments. He is among the leading developers of the RHN’s LAC program at Bolthole. [WOH]

 

Clarke System. Star system in the PRH. It has a G1 primary and the only inhabited planet is Lois. [EOH]

 

Clarke, Sir Frederick. Astronomer who, in 562 P.D. confirmed that the Manticore Binary System had planets. [MTHu]

 

Classified Information Act. Law of the Republic of Haven dealing with state and military secrets. [WOH]

 

Clausel, Regina. Newsy with the Landing Guardian. She has been one for almost fifty T-years and has been an operative of the Liberal Party for thirty-five. She appears on four different political issue-oriented programs and her column appears in many newsfaxes. She writes a column that, while not condemning Honor Harrington and Earl White Haven for their alleged relationship, makes them both look very bad. It prepares the way for far more savage attacks on them. [WOH]

 

CLAUSEWITZ, KARL VON. (1780-1831) Prussian military officer and theorist, author of On War. Honor Harrington and Reginald Houseman debate his writings. [HOTQ] Helen Zilwicki is familiar with him and understands his reference to the “friction of war.” She believes her abductors do not. [COWf]

 

Claymore, PNS. PN ship, part of Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville’s task group. [IEH]

 

Clear Singer. Female treecat, a memory singer of the Walks in the Moonlight Clan. [WOHs]

 

Clearway System. System in the Manticoran Alliance, one of those in which the PN makes an incursion before the First Battle of Hancock. [SVW]

 

Cleary. PRH SS citizen colonel. Oscar Saint-Just orders Erasmus Fontein to sit down with Cleary to create a “paper trail” proving Esther McQueen is disloyal. [AOV]

 

Clements. Brother of the Church of Humanity Unchained, chaplain of Mayhew Steading. [AOV]

 

Climbs Quickly. See Lionheart

 

Clinkscales, Carson. GSN ensign, Commodore Honor Harrington’s flag lieutenant. He grew up in Mackenzie Steading. [EOH] He is Howard Clinkscales’ nephew. He is incredibly clumsy and seems to be an accident waiting to happen. He is among those captured on HMS Prince Adrian. During the escape from PNS Tepes, he acquits himself extremely well, killing an SS sergeant during the escape. He is among those who survive and land on Hades. [IEH] The experience gets him over his shyness and clumsiness and Harrington likes the changes in him. He is the first person to discover celery for Nimitz on Styx. [EOH]

 

Clinkscales, Howard. Grayson Minister of Security and personal commander of the Protectorate Security Detachment. He has served three generations of Mayhews. [HOTQ] At Benjamin’s request he accepts the regency of Harrington Steading. Despite his age and conservatism, he and Honor Harrington come to like and respect each other. He is violently allergic to squash from Manticore. [FOD] He began his career as a Sword armsman recruit and rose to the rank of brigadier in palace security by age thirty-six. He served as chief of Planetary Security under Benjamin Mayhew IX and his father. Among the ways in which he views Harrington is as a daughter. [IEH] He vehemently argues against being made Honor Harrington’s heir and suggests to Benjamin that her parents be approached about having another child. According to the terms of Harrington’s will, he is to continue as CEO of Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. [EOH] Before Harrington’s return, he was named Regent for Faith Harrington, Honor’s heir to the Steading of Harrington. [AOV]

 

cloud flower, Manticoran. Flower native to Manticore. [WOH]

 

cluster stalk. Treecat name for celery. [MTHb]

 

Coatsworth. PN admiral, commander of the Seaford task force, responsible for the follow-on attack of Hancock Station. [SVW]

 

cocoa. Honor Harrington’s favorite beverage. [OBS]

 

Cockatrice, HMS. RMN CLAC, Admiral Truman’s flagship in Task Force Thirty-Four. [WOH]

            Crew. See Baker, Arthur

 

Code Duello. Manticoran rules of dueling. They specifically exempt journalists from being challenged on the basis of published reporting or commentary. [WOH]

 

coffee. Honor Harrington’s opinion of it is that it smells nice but she would not even use it for a lubricant. [HOTQ] Real Terran coffee can be obtained at any of the many coffee houses in the Old Quarter of Chicago. [COWf]

 

Coglin, Johan. Captain of RHMS Sirius. [OBS]

 

COLAC. Commanding Officer, LACs, the title of the commander of the LAC wing in a LAC carrier. [EOH]

 

Coleman, Steading of. Steading where an anti-Protector rally is held, orchestrated by Lord Mueller and his allies. [AOV]

 

colleges, universities and institutions of higher education. See

Anderman University

Harvard University

King’s College

Mannheim University

Mayhew University

Rousseau Planetary University

Semmelweis University

Skanderberg University

Tulane University

Valasakis University

 

Colonel Arabi. PN Brilliance-class CL owned by Lord Orloff. Sir Hakon Nessler maneuvers him into “lending” her to him to pursue PNS Rienzi. Nessler renames her HMS Ajax. [MTHg]

Crew. See Kotzwinkle; Royston

 

Colt Model 1911A1. Pistol with which Honor Harrington practices routinely and is an expert marksman. She received it as a gift from High Admiral Wesley Matthews. She kills Andrew Warnecke’s men with it. [HAE]

 

Comforter. One of the Church of Humanity Unchained’s names for God. [EOH]

 

Command Central. GSN central headquarters and command and control center. [FIE]

 

Committee of Public Safety. Name Rob Pierre gives to the group he heads that takes control of the PRH after killing the Legislaturists. [SVW] Right after the coup it consisted of eighty-seven members. By the time of Esther McQueen’s attempted coup, are only five of the original members are left: Pierre, Oscar Saint-Just, Angela Downey and Henri DuPres. There are, at the time, a total of twenty-six members. [AOV] Two-thirds of the Committee agreed to support Esther McQueen but all but Oscar Saint-Just were killed in the destruction of the Octagon. [COWn] Thomas Theisman admits that they were able to begin turning around the economy and they broke the Legislaturist hold on the officer corps. [WOH]

 

Conagher. RMN captain, captain of HMS Troubadour. [WOH]

 

Conclave Chamber. Chamber where Grayson’s Conclave of Steadholders meets. One of the doors is the original one bearing bullet holes dating from the Civil War. [FOD]

 

Conflans, Gerard. PM citizen brigadier, commander of the PM contingent in PNS Rousseau. [MTHw] Promoted to Citizen General, he is placed in the chain of command of the Nouveau Paris spaceport. He induces the entire garrison to Esther McQueen’s side in the first twenty minutes of her attempted coup. [COWn]

 

Conforming Wee Free Kirk. Religious group from Earth that founds the Canmore Republic on Silvestria. They are absolutely opposed to adultery and abortion. [WOHd]

 

Congo. Inhabited planet in the Congo System. Sixty percent of the surface is rain forest and the remainder is swamps, marsh and bayous. It is under the control of Manpower’s subsidiary Verdant Vista. A joint force of the Audubon Ballroom and Solarian Marines seizes control and establishes the independent Kingdom of Torch. [COS] See also Torch

 

Congo System. Star system where ENS Star Warrior was headed after the Tiberian System. She never arrived. [SOTSs] It has a wormhole junction with three termini. [COS]

 

Connors, Sandra. People’s commissioner assigned to Citizen Admiral Alec Dimitri. [AOV]

 

Conquérant, PNS. PN BB, Citizen Rear Admiral Theisman’s flagship in Operation Dagger. [FIE] At the defense of the Seabring System, she was pounded into such a wreck that she could not be repaired and had to be sent to the breakers. [IEH]

 

Conqueror-class. PN class of CLs. [SVW] They are missile-heavy and carry a broadside of nine launcher tubes. [HAE]

 

Conquistador, PNS. PN BB, Citizen Vice Admiral Thurston’s flagship. She is destroyed by the first salvo of missiles in the Fourth Battle of Yeltsin. [FIE]

 

CONRAD, JOSEPH. (1857-1924) Polish-born English novelist. The prevailing opinion of RMN officers is that he is the greatest of the classic novelists. [COWf]

 

Conservative Association. Manticoran political party. They oppose anything that might embroil the Star Kingdom in affairs outside of its borders. [OBS] Baron High Ridge is the party leader and the 10^th Earl of North Haven is the party whip. The party’s rallying point is the defense of privilege of the ruling elite. [FOD] Despite it’s conservatism, many members of the Gryphon peerage consider it too liberal. [AOV] They are the smallest of the parties and are the most reactionary. [MTHu]

 

Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (CGM). Military award in the Star Kingdom of Manticore, among those held by Honor Harrington. [SVW] The ribbon is blue and white. [FOD] Midshipwoman Abigail Hearns is awarded it for her actions on Refuge. [SOTSs]

 

Constantine, Angelica. PRH SS citizen lieutenant, an intervention battalion officer in Nouveau Paris. She is married to Gregory Constantine. [COWn]

 

Constantine, Gregory. PRH SS trooper assigned to the security detachment in the Octagon. He is married to Citizen Lieutenant Angelica Constantine. [COWn]

 

Constanza. Female RMN master chief petty officer, helmsman in HMS Nike. [SVW]

 

Cooper. Engineering rating in GSN Francis Mueller. He has to be tranked about once a month. [SOTSn]

 

Copper Ridge. Excellent brand of sparkling wines. [SOTSl]

 

Copper Wall Battalion. Component of the Queen’s Own Regiment drawn from Sphinx. [FOD]

 

Copper Wall Mountains. Mountains on Sphinx near the Harrington home. [SVW]

 

Cordwainer, the Honorable Alyce. RMN vice admiral, the Judge Advocate General. [FOD]

 

Corell, the Honorable Ernestine. RMN captain (j.g.), Rear Admiral Sarnow’s chief-of-staff. [SVW] She receives an anonymous call from Georgia Sakristos revealing that the Earl of North Hollow hired The Honorable Denver Summervale to kill Paul Tankerlsey and Honor Harrington. [FOD]

 

Cornucopia. Silesian merchant ship. PNS Vanguard masquerades using her transponder code. [SOTSw]

 

Corrigan System. Star system with a PRH base, captured by the RMN’s Sixth Fleet. It has a G6 primary. [IEH]

 

CORTEZ, HERNANDO. (1485-1547) Spanish Conquistador, conqueror of the Aztecs. When his men landed, he burned his ships so they would realize there was no going back or retreat. Honor Harrington mentions this when she plans the Battle of Cerberus, realizing that if they lost, their ships would have insufficient reactor mass to escape. [EOH]

 

Cortez, Sir Lucian. RMN Fifth Space Lord. [OBS]

 

Cosmo’s. Most exclusive restaurant on Manticore. [OBS] They boast that no one has ever ordered a dish that their chefs have not been able to make. [FOD]

 

Costanza. Female RMN chief petty officer, helmsman in HMS Nike. [SVW]

 

cotanine. Sedative that Pavel Young slipped into Nimitz’s celery to sedate him the night he attempted to rape Honor Harrington when they were cadets. [SVW]

 

Coulter, Jackson. RMN power tech in HMAMC Wayfarer. He has a reputation as a troublemaker. He is implicated in the plot to kill Ginger Lewis and sent to the brig. He is killed when the brig is destroyed during the fight with PNS Achmed. [HAE]

 

Council for an Independent Prism. Separatist movement in the Prism System. [COWm]

 

Council of Coordinators. What passes for a government on Mesa, essentially a council composed of representatives of the major corporations. [COS]

 

Council of Elders. Ruling council on Masada. [HOTQ] After Masada is occupied, it goes underground but continues working against Grayson and the Star Kingdom of Manticore. They are used by the PRH to execute Operation Hassan. [AOV]

 

Count Tilly, PNS. PN BC commanded by Citizen Captain Alfred Hewitt, Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville’s flagship. She is ordered to accompany PNS Tepes to Hades. Through a recon drone, she records the fact that two small ships escape from Tepes before she is destroyed but Tourville erases the record. [IEH] For months, she and her crew, were held for investigation by Secretary Saint-Just. Once cleared, she remains Citizen Vice Admiral Tourville’s flagship for Task Force 12.2 in Operation Icarus. [EOH]

            Crew. See

Foraker, Shannon

Fraiser

Hunley

 

counter-grav collar. Device worn to counter the effects of gravity. [HOTQ]

 

County Duvalier. County in the Duchy of Shadow Vale on Sphinx. [MTHu]

 

coup de vitesse. Type of unarmed combat, primarily “offensive” in nature, designed for the greater reach and height of “westerners”. It borrows moves from a variety of other martial arts. Honor Harrington and Sergeant Major Iris Babcock both hold black belts. [HOTQ] There are nine grades of black belt and the highest rank is simply referred to as “Master Grade.” [HAE]

 

Courageous-class. RMN class of CLs that includes HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS]

 

Courageous, GSNS. GSN SD, part of Rear Admiral Brentworth’s division. [FIE]

 

Courvoisier Avenue. Street in Harrington City. [FIE]

 

Courvoisier, Raoul. RMN Admiral of the Green, something of a mentor to Honor Harrington. As a captain, he taught Advanced Tactics at the Academy, [OBS]; where he was Honor Harrington’s favorite instructor. [COWm] He is a childless bachelor. He is appointed to head the diplomatic mission to conclude a treaty with Grayson. He is killed when GSNS Austin Grayson is destroyed during the Masadans initial attack on Grayson. [HOTQ] According to Admiral White Haven, he considered Harrington the daughter he never had. [FOD] Among the things he was fond of saying was, “Almost invariably, ‘surprise’ is what happens when one side fails to recognize something it’s seen all along.” When Admiral White Haven was a fourth term midshipman, Courvoisier was his senior tactical officer. [EOH] Captain Bachfisch considers him the finest tactician and one of the three best strategists with whom he has ever served. [COWm] He came to Lieutenant commander Harrington’s assistance after she broke up a slave depot on Casimir. To save her career he twisted several arms of members of the Conservative Association. [COWf]

 

Courvoisier II-class. GSN BC class with a pod design. They can roll enough pods to saturate the defenses of an SD(P) and have heavy enough energy armament to penetrate their armor. They are even more heavily automated than the Harrington-class. [WOH]

 

Cousins, Fred. RMN lieutenant, communications officer in RMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Coventry. Nickname for Auxiliary Control in large RMN ships. [SVW]

 

Covert Insertion Team. Elite unit of the RMN’s Office of Naval Intelligence. Their headquarters is in the former PN base in the Seaford Nine System once the RMN captures it. Previously it was in a converted warehouse on New Ghuanzou. [SOTSl] [Note. In Let’s Go to Prague (SOTSl) the system is noted as Seaforth Nine but it is almost certainly Seaford Nine.]

 

Covilla, Rachel. RMN captain in the Office of Naval Intelligence, a long-time deep cover agent stationed on Haven. She has the mission of extracting Citizen Admiral Mládek and is unwittingly assisted by Charles Gonzalvez and John Mullins. She and Mullins had been involved on Haven but he had to leave her behind when his mission was over. He is unaware that she is an ONI agent and believes she is merely acting with the anti-PRH underground. Once the mission is over and they are back in Alliance space, she and Mullins renew their relationship. [SOTSl]

 

Covington-class. GSN CLAC-class. They are somewhat larger than the comparable RMN class and carry about twenty-five percent more LACs. They carry Katana-class LACs. [WOH]

 

Covington, GSNS. GSN CL, [HOTQ]; commanded by Wesley Matthews. [IEH] She is lightly damaged by the Masadans. [HOTQ]

Crew. See Greentree, Thomas

See also Candless, James

 

Craggy Hollow. Harrington family homestead on Sphinx, Honor Harrington’s birthplace. It is located in County Duvalier, Duchy of Shadow Vale. [MTHu]

 

cragsheep. Animal preyed on by hexapumas. [HOTQ]

 

Crawford System. Star system in the Silesian Confederacy. [WOH]

 

Cresswell System. Star system in the Posnan Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE]

 

Creswell. Planet in the Silesian Confederacy. The Zoraster Freemen believe there to be a supplier of shredder pulser darts. [SOTSw]

 

Crichton, Jeremiah. Military analyst with the Palmer Foundation. He claims that Captain Lord Pavel Young is actually the victim for his actions at the Battle of Hancock. [FOD] He is among the people who attack the Cromarty Government after Operation Icarus. [EOH]

 

Crippler. Name given by Charles to the weapon system that can take down a merchant ship’s wedge from ten times the distance of the grav lance. It creates a resonance wave in the impeller nodes causing them to shut down. ONI Tech Team Four counters this by installing circuit breakers that allow the impellers to be reset within minutes. It does not work against military-type impellers, a fact that Charles knows but hides from the PN. [SOTSw]

 

Cromarty, Duke of. See Summervale, Allen, Duke of Cromarty

 

Crooked Tail. Treecat, an elder of the Bright Water Clan. [COWc]

 

crown blossom, Manticoran. Flower native to Manticore. [HAE]

 

Crown Council of Financial Advisors (CCFA). Advisory body to the government of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Abraham Spencer is its Chairman. The Prime Minister recommends members to the Queen who makes the actual appointment. [WOH]

 

Crown Loyalists. Manticoran political party whose interests are most closely allied with the Crown’s. [OBS] During the reign of King Roger III they were led by LeBrun. [WOHq] They are led by Henry McShain and believe that the stability and prosperity of the Star Kingdom of Manticore depends on the power and authority of the monarchy. They are allied with the Centrists, agreeing on foreign policy but are even more fiscally conservative. [MTHu]

 

crown oak. Type of tree native to Sphinx. [EOH]

 

Crown Range. In the Star Kingdom of Manticore, land under the public domain free for the use of any individual. The dispute over the granting of lands from the Crown Range on Gryphon is the basis of the hostility of the Gryphon yeomanry to the Gryphon nobility. [MTHu]

 

Crown Reserve. Resources and lands belonging to the Crown of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Queen Elizabeth III creates Honor Harrington’s duchy out of some of them. [AOV]

 

Cruiser Squadron 18. Squadron assigned to Eighth Fleet, commanded by Commodore Honor Harrington. [IEH]

 

Crusader-class. RMN class of CAs. They are somewhat larger than Prince Consort-class CAs and have a dedicated flag deck. Typical RMN CA squadrons consist of seven Prince Consort-class ships with one Crusader-class. Sir Edward Janacek cut funding for them by over seventy percent. Although the stated reason was cost, the actual reason was to deny the RMN enough cruiser flagships to prevent the Star Kingdom from engaging in “imperialist adventures,” a position advocated by the Conservative Association. [IEH]

 

Crusader, HMS. RMN Crusader-class, [IEH]; CA, Commodore Van Slyke’s flagship. She is destroyed in the First Battle of Hancock. [SVW]

Crew. See Lovat

 

Crystal Grotto. Alphane architectural artifact possibly located in the Bakersfield Cordillera. [MTHg]

 

crystoplast. Clear substance with which Adam Gerrick suggests towns and farms be domed on Grayson. [FOD] The material used in the domes is three millimeters thick. [FIE]

 

Cukor, Olivia. RMN lieutenant (j.g.) in the LAC wing in HMS Hydra, sensor officer in HMLAC Cutthroat. she is killed when the ship is destroyed. [AOV]

 

Culverin-class. RMN DD class. [SOTSs]

 

Cumming. RMN lieutenant, communications officer in HMS Madrigal. [HOTQ]

 

Cummings. RMN lieutenant, engineering officer in HMS Troubadour. [HOTQ]

 

Cutlass, HMS. RMN ship, one of the ships participating in the test of the Skyhawk Mk 26 at the time of the Attica Avalanche. [WOHh]

 

Cutthroat. Solarian-built CA commanded by Juliette Mourakis, one of the four Manpower ships under the overall command of Haicheng Ringsdorff. She is destroyed by HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Cutthroat, HMLAC. Shrike-B-class LAC in HMS Hydra commanded by Commander Robert Roden. She is officially Hydra Six. She is destroyed in the battle in the MacGregor System. [AOV]

            Crew.

Bolgeo

Buckley, Joe

Cukor, Olivia

Gilley, Kelly

Paulk, Mark

Sheldon, Gary

Steinbach, Kirios

D

 

Daggan System. Star system where Citizen Rear Admiral Chin’s forces destroyed an RMN BC. [SOTSf]

 

Dagger, Operation. PN operation devised by Citizen Vice Admiral Thurston designed to take the Yeltsin and Endicott Systems. It is to follow Operation Stalking Horse, an operation to draw RMN forces and attention away from those systems. [FIE]

 

Dague. Ship of the Gaston Space Forces. When the Gaston System surrendered to the PRH, Dague’s captain refused to surrender her. For the next T-year she conducted a hit-and-run campaign against PRH shipping. She was finally pounded into a wreck by the PN and her officers were shot. [EOH]

            Crew. See Benson-Dessouix, Henri

 

Dalipagic, Sybil. Manticoran ACS lieutenant commander in the Wormhole Junction command center. [WOH]

 

Damakos, Adam. Manticoran Liberal Member of Parliament, the ranking member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Parliament. He is Admiral Chakrabarti’s brother-in-law. [WOH]

 

Damana, Jack. RMN lieutenant commander, a member of ONI Tech Team Four. [SOTSw]

 

Danak System. Star system in the PRH that has been settled for four hundred years. The primary is a G8 star. Danak Alpha and Beta are paired planets. Danak Alpha is inhabited and has been heavily industrialized for two T-centuries. The climate is unpleasant, made worse by volcanic gases. It is the location of SS headquarters for the Danak Sector. Danak Beta is only, technically, habitable. [EOH]

 

Dances on Clouds. Honor Harrington’s name among the People. [COWc]

 

Danforth. Sergeant in the Medusan Native Protection Agency. He is an ex-Royal Manticoran Marine. [OBS]

 

Danislav. RMN admiral, commander of the 18^th Battle Squadron. His arrival saves the remainder of Rear Admiral Sarnow’s command and obliges Rear Admiral Chin to surrender. [SVW]

 

DANTE ALIGHIERI. (1265-1321) Italian poet, author of The Divine Comedy. Citizen Captain Gallanti wonders, out loud, whether Oliver Saint-Just got Oliver Cachat from the Ninth Circle of Hell. [SOTSf]

 

Danton. PN commodore who provides weapons and transports to the Citizens’ Rights Party with which they kill the Legislaturists. [SVW]

 

Danvers, Lady Lucy. RMN admiral, the Third Space Lord. [OBS] She has a notoriously short temper. [HOTQ] Vice Admiral Adcock convinced her to build HMS Minotaur to test the LAC carrier concept. [EOH]

 

Danville. Planet in the Paroa System, Warner Caslet’s homeworld. [EOH]

 

Danville, Isaiah. Masadan navy commander, captain of Bancroft. [HOTQ]

 

Dara. A member of the Sisterhood of Barbara, one of the women who escape from Masada in Aaronis Rod. [SOTSp]

 

Darkness Foe. Treecats’ name for Scott MacDallan. [WOHw]

 

Darlington, Gregor. PN citizen rear admiral, commander of Task Group 12.4.2. in Operation Icarus. His group is savagely mauled in the Basilisk System by Eighth Fleet. [EOH]

 

Darwin’s Joke. Extremely fertile planet that produces enough food to export it. [HAE]

 

Dauguaar. Medusan city-state near the Mossybacks, the furthest north of the city-states. [OBS]

 

Daumier, Marguerite. RMN captain, captain of HMS Invincible. [SVW]

 

Dautrey. RMN chief petty officer, Admiral Draskovic’s yeoman. [COS]

 

David. Masadan navy cruiser. [HOTQ]

 

David, GSNS. GSN DD, sister ship of GSNS Saul. She is destroyed in the First Battle of Yeltsin. [HOTQ]

 

Davis. GSN captain, captain of GSNS Ararat. [WOH]

 

Dawtry. Capital and largest town on Air. [MTHg]

 

dazzlers. Type of anti-personnel weapon. [AOV]

 

DD. Shorthand designation for a destroyer. [SVW]

 

DeGroot, Agnes. RHN vice admiral, commander of the attack on the Tequila System in Operation Thunderbolt. [WOH]

 

De La Sangliere, George. PRH secretary of the economy who succeeds Walter Frankel. [SVW]

 

De Sangro. Female PN SS citizen captain of ground forces in PNS Tepes. She becomes commander of the brig detail after Nimitz kills the major who had commanded it. She is a native of San Martin. [IEH]

 

death fang. Treecat term for a hexapuma. [MTHb]

 

Death Fang’s Bane. Treecats’ name for Stephanie Harrington. [WOHw]

 

DeCastries. RHN captain in Second Fleet, possible captain of an SD(P). [WOH]

 

DeConde, PNS. PN cruiser commanded by Citizen Commander Hewlett. [FIE]

 

Defense of the Realm Act. Manticoran law that restricts the conveyance of certain information. [FOD]

 

Defiant, HMS. RMN ship, flagship of Commodore Prentis. She is destroyed in the Battle of Hancock with barely one-sixth of her personnel escaping. [SVW]

 

DeGeorge, Sam. PN lieutenant commander in Masadan service, purser in Thunder of God. [HOTQ]

 

DeKyper. Elderly woman from Haven, an archaeologist studying the Alphane crystal books. [MTHg]

 

Del Conte, Jensen. RMN senior chief petty officer in the tactical division of HMS War Maiden. He is killed during the engagement against PSN Annika. [COWm]

 

Delacourt. Excellent wine in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Honor Harrington celebrates her being named captain of HMS Nike with a bottle of ’27. [SVW]

 

DeLaney, Molly. Female RHN captain, Admiral Tourville’s chief of staff. [WOH]

 

Delight. Planet where Sir Hakon Nessler stopped. [MTHg]

 

Delta. Continent on Hades. Camp Delta Forty contained many PRH political prisoners and conditions were considerably better than in other camps. [EOH]

 

DeMarco, Ellen. CEO and chief analyst of the brokerage firm DeMarco, Clancy and Jordan. Swhe is also a member of the Crown Council of Financial Advisors. [WOH]

 

Dempsey Cartel. Business concern in the Star Kingdom of Manticore, second only to the Hauptman Cartel. It was originally founded with the Dempsey’s Restaurant chain. [FOD]

 

Dempsey, Erika. Chief operating officer and owner of the Dempsey Cartel. She is one of the few people who Klaus Hauptman respects. [HAE]

 

Dempsey, Kirk. RMN engineering rating in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Dempsey’s Restaurant. Chain of restaurants in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. One is at the hub of HMSS Hephaestus. It has only human servers and it holographically displays views from the three Manticoran planets. The restaurants were the first businesses in what became the Dempsey Cartel. [FOD]

 

Denby. RMN commander in the LAC division of HMS Werewolf. He holds a black belt with five knots in coup de vitesse. [WOH]

 

Denby, Steading of. Steading on Grayson whose steadholder is Jonathan Kreshaw. [AOV]

 

Deneb Accords. Interplanetary treaty on the treatment of prisoners of war. At the time of the First Battle of Yeltsin, neither Grayson nor Masada was signatories. [FIE] They require combatant governments to convey the name of any captured and/or killed personnel in a reasonable time. Contact is generally through the Solarian League. They require combatant governments to convey the name of any captured and/or killed personnel in a reasonable time. Contact between the RMN and PRH is generally made through the Solarian League. [HAE] Because PRH signed them under the Legislaturists, Cordelia Ransom believes that the Committee for Public Safety is not bound by them. Section Twenty-Seven, Subsection Forty-One states that a person who commits a civil crime prior to hostilities is not protected from prosecution and/or punishment if made a prisoner of war. This provision is cited by Ransom to legitimize the proposed execution of Honor Harrington. A prisoner of war who assaults enemy personnel not in the course of an escape attempt sacrifices all rights under the Accords. [IEH] Section Twenty-Seven, Subsection Forty-Two provides for wartime trials for individuals accused of violating local laws, the basis for the trials of SS personnel on Hades. [EOH] They forbid the psych adjustment of any prisoner of war. [WOHw]

 

Derfflinger, IANS. IAN Seydlitz-class SD commanded by Captain Gunterman, Admiral von Rabenstrange’s flagship. [HAE]

 

DesCours, Henry. PN citizen lieutenant, tactical officer in PNS Subutai. [EOH]

 

Descroix, Lady Elaine. Manticoran peer of the realm, a leader of the Progressive Party. [FOD] She was married to Sir John Descroix but never remarried after he died. [WOH] She agrees to abstain from the vote to recall Honor Harrington to active RMN service. [HAE] After the Duke of Cromarty’s death, she is among those who form the new government, although at the expense of infuriating and alienating Queen Elizabeth III. She is the cousin of the Earl of High Ridge and is viewed as being even more amoral than he is. [AOV] She if Foreign Secretary in the High Ridge government. When High Ridge resigns, she, too resigns. She departs for Beowulf, apparently not to return, having transferred twenty million dollars into an account on Beowulf and then into one in the Stotterman System. It is believed that some of the money may have been gotten by illegal means. [WOH]

 

Descroix, Sir John. Lady Elaine Descroix’s deceased husband. [WOH]

 

Desjardins. RMN lieutenant, chief of flight instruction at the Naval Academy. [FOD]

 

DeSoto, Francis. PN commander, Rear Admiral Chin’s operations officer. [SVW]

 

Despartia. Planet in the Solarian League. [SOTSl]

 

Dessouix, Henri. See Benson-Dessouix, Henri

 

Detweiler ruby. Extremely valuable gem stone. [EOH]

 

DeWitt, Augustus. RMN commander, executive officer in RMAMC Scheherezade. [HAE]

 

Diamaond. Shuttle ship between Erewhon and The Wages of Sin. [COS]

 

Diamato, Oliver. PN citizen commander, tactical officer in PNS Schaumberg. He advanced rapidly under the Committee for Public Safety’s regime, partly by competence and partly because of his political fervor. He had joined the ship as assistant tactical officer and was made tactical officer when the captain and people’s commissioner finally were able to get rid of the incompetent tactical officer, Citizen Commander Young. He is also second officer of Schaumberg. [EOH] He survives the pounding the ship takes although he is wounded. He is one of the officers who assert that the Alliance has developed a class of “super” LACs. He is promoted to citizen captain and receives command of PNS William T. Sherman. [AOV]

 

Dianchect. Treecat who adopts Crown Princess and, later, Queen Adrienne. His name among the People is Seeker of Dreams. It is rumored his image is the model for the treecat on the Adrienne Cross. [COS]

 

Diem, Unser. A Mesan, the Jessyk Combine’s official representative on Erewhon. He is an associate of Haicheng Ringstorff. To obtain certain code information, Victor Cachat shoots him in the shoulder, and he spills everything he knows. [COS]

 

Digger. Treecat of the Bright Water Clan at the time of Stephanie Harrington’s adoption. He oversees the clan’s plant places. [MTHb]

 

Dillinger. RMN commander, executive officer in HMS Enchanter. [IEH]

 

Dillingham Cartel. Manticoran business enterprise with substantial interests in the Melchor System. [COWm]

 

Dimitri, Alec. PN citizen admiral who replaces Citizen Admiral Theisman in command of the Barnett System. He is obliged to surrender the system to Eighth Fleet during Operation Buttercup. [AOV]

 

Dinah. Ephraim Templeton’s senior wife, a founder of the Sisterhood of Barbara. He married her when she was fifteen. Her family was poor and marrying her to Templeton was a way of ridding themselves of a useless daughter. She was something of a surrogate mother to Judith. When the sisterhood steals Aaron’s Rod to escape from Masada, she becomes executive and gunnery officer. When they are safe, she suffers a serious heart attack. [SOTSp]

 

Director of the Guard. Senior military rank in the Canmore Republic. [WOHd]

 

Dirk, PNS. PN Sword-class CA, part of Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville’s task group. [IEH]

 

dirt-grubber. Term for any person who has never crossed the alpha wall from hyperspace into n-space. Once they have done so they are considered a hyper-dog. [SOTSs]

 

Dismore. RMN yeoman in HMS L’Imperieuse. [MTHg]

 

Distinguished Service Order (DSO). Manticoran military award, among those held by Honor Harrington. [SVW]

 

Djebel Hassa. Area on Sphinx on Jeffries Land where Samantha adopted Harold Schu. [HAE]

 

DN. Shorthand designation for a dreadnought. [SVW]

 

Dobrescu. RMN commander, astrogator in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Doctor Jennifer Chou Genetic Clinic. State of the art genetic hospital established by Honor Harrington in Harrington Steading. It is named for her maternal grandmother and her mother heads it. [IEH]

 

Doctrine of the Second Fall. See the Faithful

 

dogwood. Terran tree species that was brought to Grayson. [FIE]

 

Dolists. The underclass on Haven, those who are unemployed and are paid the Basic Living Stipend (BLS). [HOTQ] As the Legislaturist expansionist policy was pressed, it became necessary to draft Dolists to crew PN ships. They tended to be of low quality although of sufficient ability for commerce raiding. [MTHg] Their incessant demand for a higher BLS is one of the factors that helped drag down the Legislaturists. [MTHw] Rob Pierre and the Committee for Public Safety begin using them for constructive pursuits. [FOD]  They are, by and large, the cannon fodder of the Republic. [COWf]

 

dolphin. Treecats are higher on the sentience scale than Old Earth dolphins. [HOTQ]

 

Dominick, Robert. PN commodore, commander of the mission to evaluate the Crippler in Silesia. [SOTSw]

 

Dominion. Masadan navy DD, destroyed by HMS Troubadour. [HOTQ]

 

Don Quixote Novel by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616). Honor Harrington believes that there is something to the directness of a Don Quixote as long as the windmills do not hit back too hard. She feels herself to be something of a female reincarnation of Quixote. [WOH]

 

Donald X. Former Mesan slave designated F-67d-8455-2/5. He is a member of the Audubon Ballroom and assists in recovering Helen Zilwicki. [COWf] He is on Erewhon at the time of Hieronymous Stein’s funeral. He commands a team of gunmen in the assault on Felicia III. [COS]

 

Donatelli. PRH SS citizen private in the ground forces in PNS Tepes. He is killed by Harkness during the escape. [IEH]

 

Donevski. LIEUTENANT in RMMS Artemis, the communications officer. [HAE]

 

Donizetti, Randal. Weapons dealer from the Solarian League who provides a ship and missiles for the Faithful. The Council of Elders has him killed. [AOV]

 

Door Warden. Ceremonial functionary in Grayson’s Conclave Chamber. He wears a gold-braid-encrusted uniform of the Grayson Army with the Protector’s insignia. [FOD]

 

Dorado, RMMS. Manticoran merchant ship commanded by CAPTAIN McLeod. She is jury-rigged with circuit breakers to counter the Crippler and her inertial compensators are taken off line. By remote control, she is set on a collision course with PNS Vanguard. They are both destroyed when their impeller wedges touch. [SOTSw]

 

Dorcett, Jessica. RMN commander, captain of HMS Windsong. She is the senior surviving RMN officer after the Battle of Adler. [IEH]

 

Doreas System. Star system in the Manticoran Alliance. [SVW]

 

D’Orville, Ellen. One of the greatest figures in RMN history. [IEH] Her crypt in King Michael’s Cathedral is one of the three empty crypts. [EOH]

 

D’Orville, Sebastian. RMN Admiral of the Green. He commands the Aggressor force in the first tests of the grav lance. His flagship is HMS King Roger. [OBS] He is one of the senior officers open to some of the ideas of the jeune ecole. [HAE] He is among the RMN senior officer placed on half-pay by the High Ridge government. [WOH]

 

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN. (1813-1861) American politician best known for his debate against ABRAHAM LINCOLN. He is among the people extensively quoted by Lady Catherine Montaigne. [COWf]

 

Douglass, Isaac. Former Mesan slave designated V-44e-684-4/5 and known as Isaac X, Lady Catherine Montaigne’s servant and bodyguard. He took the surname Douglass shortly after he was freed in honor of abolitionist FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817-1895). He was a member of the Audubon Ballroom. He was freed when Honor Harrington destroyed a slave depot on Casimir. [COWf]

 

Dover, Padraic. Royal Army major of the Bordeaux Battalion of the King’s Own Regiment, the liaison between the regiment and the Palace Guard Service during the reign of King Roger III. He is a member of the cabal that results in the King’s assassination. It is hoped that he can discredit Justin Zyrr and gain Elizabeth III’s hand. When Zyrr asks to speak with him, he assaults Zyrr, hoping to kill him. Monroe, King Roger III’s treecat, attacks and kills him. [WOHq]

 

Downey, Angela. Minor member of the Committee of Public Safety. She is killed during the Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. [AOV]

 

DRACUL, VLAD. (1390?-1447) Vlad the Impaler, the model on whom Dracula was built. According to Honor Harrington, after her destruction of RHMS Sirius, the PRH has painted her as the most bloodthirsty humans since Dracul. [HOTQ]

 

dragon’s teeth. Anti-vehicle munitions designed to cripple or destroy heavy ground combat units. [EOH]

 

Draskovic, Josette. RMN Admiral of the Red, the Fifth Space Lord under First Space Lord Janacek. [SOTSs] She had several difficult appearances before the House of Lords’ Naval Affairs Committee, mostly because of Honor Harrington. She is recognized as one of the “political” admirals. [WOH]

 

Dreyfus, Arnie. RMN lieutenant commander, executive officer in HMS Windsong. [IEH]

 

Dreyfus Protocol. One of the two dueling protocols recognized in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Each duelist is armed with only five rounds and only single shots are allowed. The Master of the Field will attempt to convince the participants that honor has been satisfied after each shot. The duel ends with first blood. [FOD] See also Ellington Protocol

 

Drusus, PNS. PN CL, part of Rear Admiral Chin’s attack force. She is destroyed when they are lured into a Manticoran minefield. [SVW]

 

Du Havel, W.E.B. Former Mesan slave and a leader in the Anti-Slavery League. His designation was J-16b-79-2/3. He has several doctoral degrees and is a recipient of the Nobel-Shakhra Prize for Human Aspiration and the Solarian Medallion. He wrote The Political Value of Sacrifice and Scales of Justice: Feathers Against Stones. His name had been Kami and his current name is in honor of W.E.B. DuBOIS (1868-1963) and VÁCLAV HAVEL (1936-). He accompanies Anton Zilwicki, Berry Zilwicki and Princess Ruth to Erewhon for Hiernomymus Stein’s funeral. He agrees to become head of state of Torch under Queen Berry but only if Jeremy X agrees to become Secretary of War, thereby forcing him to give up his terrorist tactics. [COS]

 

DuCain, Patrick. Co-host of the video program Into the Fire. [FOD]

 

DuChene, Sarah. RMN lieutenant commander, astrogator in HMS Prince Adrian. [IEH] She is among the prisoners held in PNS Tepes and survives the escape to Hades. Honor Harrington gives her command of ENS (formerly PNS) Ishtar. [EOH]

 

DuChesnois, PNS. PRH SSN ship assigned to Twelfth Fleet. She is destroyed by computer command by Shannon Foraker when it seems that they are about to attack Twelfth Fleet ships. [AOV]

 

Dugatkin. Manticoran peer of the realm, a Crown Loyalist, and one of those mentioned as a possible Regent for Queen Elizabeth III. [WOHq]

 

DuMais. RHN lieutenant commander, captain of RHNS Hecate. [WOH]

 

Dumarest, Elaine. PRH secretary of war under President Harris. [SVW]

 

Dumfries. Lieutenant commander, a prisoner held on Hades. [EOH]

 

DuMorne, Stephen. RMN lieutenant commander, astrogator, [SOTSw]; second lieutenant, in HMS Fearless (CA-286). He is a native of Gryphon but prefers the climate of Manticore to which he moved. [HOTQ]

 

Dunatis. Treecat who adopts General MacClintock. [WOHw]

 

Dunecki, Anders. Prism Space Navy commodore, captain of PSN Annika. He is a member of the Council for an Independent Prism. He is the brother of Henryk Dunecki. [COWm]

 

Dunecki, Henryk. Brother of Anders Dunecki, a leader in the Council for an Independent Prism. [COWm]

 

Dunedin Pass. Mountain pass in the Canmore Republic. [WOHd]

 

Dunlevy, Thomas. Second ranking swordmaster on Grayson. He teaches Honor Harrington the Grayson style of sword fighting. [FIE]

 

Dunsinane, Carlotta. RMN lieutenant, assistant tactical officer in HMS Intransigent. [SOTSp]

 

Dupre, Andre. Major in the Queen’s Own Regiment. He is a native of Sphinx. [FOD]

 

DuPres, George. PRH people’s commissioner assigned to Citizen Rear Admiral Chavez. [FIE]

 

DuPres, Henri. Minor member of the Committee of Public Safety. He is killed during the Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. [AOV]

 

DuQuesne. Powerful Legislaturist, architect of the PRH’s original plan for conquest. [EOH]

 

DuQuesne Base. Major PN base on Enki, the third largest PN base. [SVW] It was built right after the conquest of San Martin as the springboard for the next round of conquests. [AOV]

 

DuQuesne Plan. Plan that did away with the original constitution of the Republic of Haven and paving the way for the rise of the Legislaturists and hereditary passage of offices. The second step was to increase deficit spending. The final was to acquire new revenue by military conquest. [MTHu]

 

DuQuesne Tower. Arguably, the worst of the Haven System’s Dolist housing units. Eloise and Estelle Pritchart and her sister lived in it. [HAE]

 

DuQuesne-class. PN class of SDs. They can pull an acceleration of 425 g. [FIE]

 

DuQuesne Ocean. Ocean on Hades where Styx is located. [EOH]

 

Durandel, PNS. PN cruiser, part of Citizen Admiral Giscard’s forces operating in the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE]

 

Durandel System. Star system in the Anderman Empire. It is 332 light years from the Asgard System and connected to it by a wormhole. [FOD]

 

Durkey. RMN engineering rating in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Durkheim, Raphael. SS Citizen general, head of the SS detachment at the PRH embassy in Chicago. He has been dealing with Mesans and the Sacred Band and arranges to have Helen Zilwicki abducted. After her escape and the failure of his attempt to kill her, other Mesans kill him. [COWf]

 

Dutchman. RMN slang for a person in a space suit who is disconnected from a tether. The reference is to the legendary Flying Dutchman. If the person cannot be found, they will just drift in space forever. [HAE]

 

Dutton, Ted. PN citizen lieutenant, communications officer in PNS Vaubon. [HAE]

 

Duvalier City. City on Sphinx about five hundred miles north of the Harrington home. [SVW]

 

DUVALIER, FRANCOIS. (1917-1971) Dictator of Haiti W.E.B. Du Bois notes that ex-slave nations often become dictatorships and mentions Duvalier as one of the results. [COS]

 

Duvalier, Hayne. ACS officer assigned to Basilisk Control. [OBS]

 

Duvalier Medical Associates. Company on Sphinx in which Honor Harrington’s parents are senior partners. It has an excellent reputation for genetic and neural surgery. Seventy percent of the publicly held stock is owned by Christy and Sons. [OBS]

 

 

E

 

Early. Masadan navy lieutenant, tactical officer in Bancroft. [HOTQ]

 

Earnhardt, Angela. RMN engineering crewmember in HMS Fearless (CL-56). She is killed in the destruction of Fusion One during the engagement against RHMS Sirius. [OBS]

 

Earth. Its oldest colony is Beowulf which was settled before its Final War. The Final War resulted from too much bio-engineering and genetic manipulation. It took almost five centuries for Earth to recover from the carnage. [FOD] The laboratories in the Ukraine produced the super-soldiers that resulted in the final war. [COS]

 

Echo of Time. Female treecat, a memory singer of the Bright Water Clan. [COWc]

 

Economic Bill of Rights. Havenite policy that became the law under which the Dolists became entitled to the BLS. [MTHu]

 

Eduard. A Mesan slave, one of the leaders among the slaves in Felicia III. [COS]

 

Edward. One of the personal servants of Queen Elizabeth III and Prince Justin. [AOV]

 

Edward I, King. King of the Star Kingdom of Manticore who died in a boating accident. [WOHq]

 

Edward Esterhaus, GSN. GSNS Harrington-class SD(P), part of BatDiv 62. [AOV]

 

Edward Saganami-class. RMN class of CAs, ten percent larger than Star Knight-class CAs. Its development is based on Manticoran and Grayson experience in the war against the PRH. Their construction and deployment are delayed. [IEH] They mass 425,000 tons. The –B variant has a stern wall passive defense system, although it cuts heavily into the acceleration. [SOTSs]

 

Edward Saganami, HMS. Edward Saganami-class CA commanded by Captain the Hon. Michelle Henke. [AOV]

 

Edwards. GSN captain, captain of GSNS Magnificent. [FIE]

 

Edwards, John. PN citizen commander, tactical officer in PNS Kerebin. [HAE]

 

Edwards, Sir Roland T. RMN captain commanding the convoy escort in a military exercise against the destroyers HMS Arrowhead, Attack and HMS Ambush. [SVW]

 

Eisenberg, Anita. RHN lieutenant, Admiral Giscard’s staff communications officer. [WOH]

 

Eisenbrei. Female lieutenant in HMS Gryphon. [SVW]

 

Eisley. RMN engineering rating in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

elephant. White cow elephants and fertilized white elephant ova were brought from Earth by the colonists who founded the Kingdom of Chuiban. [WOHd]

 

Elephant Temple. Temple in Royal City in the Kingdom of Chuiban. [WOHd]

 

Elf System. Star system in the PRH. [EOH]

 

Elizabeth I, Queen. Queen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, the daughter of King Roger I (Roger Winton). [MTHu] To the surprise of the nobility, she proved to be a strong ruler. Much of the power of the Crown is attributable to her. [AOV] At the age of 53 she became President of the Board of Directors of the colony and one of its pre-eminent jurists. She established that the Prime Minister and all non-hereditary members of the Royal Council served at the pleasure of the Monarchy. This established the supremacy of the Monarchy even though it was not written into the Constitution. [MTHu]

 

Elizabeth III, Queen. Queen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore for forty years at the time of the First Battle of Hancock. Her full name is Elizabeth Adrienne Samantha Annette Winton. On a visit to Sphinx she was adopted by a treecat she named Ariel. [FOD] She is the daughter of King Roger III and Queen Adrienne. [EOH] Because she was born in the same years as Basilisk was annexed, she is the Duchess of Basilisk. She met Justin Zyrr when she was sixteen and was touring his research lab. He yelled at her for entering a restricted area. They then sent letters of apology that crossed in the mail. She contacted him and they began dating. When she learned that her father had been assassinated, she wanted to take personal action against the conspirators. She was convinced that it was in her and the Star Kingdom’s best interest to handle it quietly. [WOHq] They subsequently married and have two children, Crown Prince Roger and Princess Joanna. It is said that she holds grudges until they die of old age and then she takes them to a taxidermist to have them stuffed. [AOV] Her name among the People is Soul of Steel. [COWc] When Baron High Ridge asks to form a government on national unity as a result of Operation Bolthole, she becomes the first Monarch to refuse such a request. [WOH]

 

Ellen D’Orville Hall. Building on the Royal Manticoran Naval Academy campus where tactical simulators are located. [AOV]

 

Ellington Protocol. One of the two dueling protocols recognized in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Each duelist is armed with a fully-loaded magazine and is free to discharge until empty, one is killed or one drops his weapon in surrender. [FOD] See also Dreyfus Protocol

 

Elliot. Chief speech writer of the 10^th and 11^th Earls of North Haven. [FOD]

 

Elliot. Female RMN commander, captain of HMS Linnet. [HAE]

 

Ellis. RMN captain, captain of HMS Royalist. [WOH]

 

Ellis, Roberta. RMN lieutenant commander, captain of HMS Plain Song. She is captured by the PN and taken to Hades. [EOH]

 

Ellyna Vallay. Independent government in Silesia which, apparently, waiting delivery of a supply of shredder pulser darts. [SOTSw]

 

Elric System. Star system with one habitable planet, Zelda and the Alliance’s Elric Station. It is to be attacked by Citizen Vice Admiral Groenwold’s Task Force 12.3 in Operation Bagration. The Alliance pickets the system but does not intend a serious defense. Using ships equipped with Ghost Rider capabilities, the PN suffers serious damage before the defenders depart. [AOV]

 

Elysian Rule. Rule that absolutely forbids the use of lethal means against an unknown without evidence that it poses a danger to humans. It was the first protection afforded to treecats. [MTHb]

 

Elysian Space Navy (ESN). Name given to the collection of ships gathered by Honor Harrington and the prisoners from Hades. It was suggested by Commodore Ramirez. [EOH] Because Harrington organized it using her Grayson rank, she violated the Grayson Constitution because only the Protector is allowed to organize military forces. Protector Benjamin IX takes it into the GSN whole, creating the Protector’s Own Squadron and naming Harrington honorary commander. [AOV]

 

Eminger Park. Park in Landing near Admiralty House. [WOHw]

 

Enchanter, HMS. RMN ship destroyed in the Battle of Adler. [IEH]

            Crew. See Dillinger; Singer, Holden

 

Endicott System. System where the primary is a K4 star where Masada is located. [HOTQ] After the defeat of the Masadan attack on Grayson, the Star Kingdom of Manticore took it over as a protectorate and stationed occupation forces. [FIE]

 

energy torpedo. Weapon that moves at near-light speed, essentially packets of plasma confined in electromagnetic bottles. They are purely ballistic and have a maximum duration of one second, amounting to about 300,000 kilometers. [SVW]

 

Engelman, Binyan. IAN Korvetten Kapitän, executive officer in IANS Gangying. [WOH]

 

Enki. Only habitable planet in the Barnett System, the location of DuQuesne Base. [SVW]

 

Enquien, Rita. PRH SSN Communications Tech First Class in PNS Hector von Dragen. [SOTSf]

 

Ephraim Tudor, HMS. RMN CA involved in a brief engagement against three IAN CLs in the Schiller System. Nine of the crew was killed and seven wounded and one of the IAN CLs was pounded into a wreck and the other two took heavy damage. [WOH]

 

Epsilon Eridani System. Star system where seven billion people were killed by bombardment from space. The incident resulted in the Eridani Edict. [EOH]

 

Equality. Orbital fortress of Haven massing fourteen million tons. [MTHw]

 

Erebus-class. RMN class of minelayers. They are almost as fast as battlecruisers. [SVW]

 

Erewhon Republic. Star government in the Erewhon System. It is neutral to the Star Kingdom of Manticore and PRH, [FOD]; but later joins the Manticoran Alliance. [IEH] Protector Benjamin IX believes that the Erewhonese are second only to the Graysons in their anger at the High Ridge government’s unilateral cease-fire with the PRH and they perceive that they are no longer valued by the Star Kingdom of Manticore. [SOTSs] They began military assistance to the Canmore Republic but welcomed assistance from Manticore. [WOHd] In order for them to join the Manticoran Alliance, they severed their treaty relationship with the Solarian League. In the wake of Operation Bolthole, they leave the Alliance and sign a mutual defense treaty with the Republic of Haven, [WOH]; primarily as a result of Victor Cachat and his actions regarding the Masadan and Mesan attempt to kidnap Princess Ruth. It seems that the founders of the Republic were criminal elements who used the independent status of the Republic to launder money, hence the name of its capital, Maytag. Politics are dominated by several major families. The Erewhonese are notorious as inveterate hagglers and bargainers. A man’s word is considered his sacred bond and they are particularly offended by the high-handed manner with which the High Ridge government treats them. Although founded by gangsters, they have the strictest traffic laws in the known galaxy. The worst sentence under Erewhonese law is life without parole in solitary confinement under conditions of sensory deprivation. [COS] See also

Maytag

Sears

Star Warrior, ENS

Suds Emporium

The Wages of Sin

F

 

F-67d-8455-2/5. Donald X’s Mesan slave designation. [COWf]

 

the Faithful. Inhabitants of Masada, formerly the extreme orthodox wing of the Church of Humanity Unchained. [HOTQ] They are extremely anti-technology and reject the divinity of Jesus because of Earth’s increasing level of technology after he died. Women are little more than wholly-owned chattel in their society. They formerly resided on Grayson until they rebelled against the Moderates and began the Civil War. They were defeated when Barbara Babcock escaped from them and revealed their plan to lay waste to the Moderates. Her betrayal is referred to as the Doctrine of the Second Fall. They were exiled to Masada from which they hope to re-conquer or at least destroy Grayson. [HOTQ] The Faithful do not schedule meetings for after dinner as it violates a tenet of their belief. Women are not allowed to wear their hair cut short. Women do not have surnames. They are simply known by their first name and as the wife of someone. [SOTSp] Ephraim Templeton founds the Church of Humanity Unchained (Defiant), an even more radical sect of the Faithful. [COS]

 

Falchion, PNS. PN Sword-class CA commanded by Citizen Captain Jerome Waters. She is destroyed by HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Faldo. Manticoran ambassador to Masada. [SOTSp]

 

Fallon, Kurt. PRH SS citizen sergeant in the SS detachment at the PRH embassy on Earth. He is killed by Victor Cachat during the “rescue” operation of Helen Zilwicki. [COWf]

 

false-potato. Only plant on Hades that is edible by humans, although the digestive system cannot break it down entirely. It also leaves a trace toxin that accumulates in the speech center of the brain causing a person to sound as if they have had a stroke. [EOH]

 

Fanning. RMN senior chief petty officer, the bosun in HMS Nike. [SVW]

 

Fargo. RMN commander, captain of HMS Attack. [SVW]

 

Farley, Wanda. PRH Secretary of Technology. She is given to temper tantrums. [COWn] She is killed during Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. [AOV]

 

Farley’s Crossing. Computer game that Harkness modifies for his “friends” in PNS Tepes. It is based on a major fleet engagement of the Solarian League and can be played by multiple players. [IEH]

 

Farnese, PNS. PRH SSN BC, part of the task group jointly commanded by Citizen Major General Thornegrave and Citizen Commodore Yang. Half her broadside is destroyed when PNS Attila blows up near her. Re-designated ENS Farnese, she becomes Honor Harrington’s flagship with Warner Caslet as executive officer. [EOH]

            Crew. See Rodham, Guillermo

 

Farnham System, Battle of. Battle in which Baoyuan Anderman won a decisive victory after the enemy attempted to surprise him. [AOV]

 

Farragut. Treecat among those who migrate to Grayson. He adopts Miranda LaFollett. [IEH]

 

Farrow, Solomon. A Masadan, one of the pilots of the Felicia III. [COS]

 

Fawcett, Sue. PN citizen rear admiral in Twelfth Fleet. [AOV]

 

Fearless, (CA-286) HMS. RMN Star Knight-class CA commanded by Captain Honor Harrington. She suffers serious damage defending Grayson from attack by the Masadans, [HOTQ]; including nine hundred casualties. [FOD]

            Crew.

Allgood

Babcock, Iris

DuMorne, Stephen

Harkness, Sir Horace

Harris

Henry

Hibson, Susan

Higgins, James

Hughes

Killian

Liggit

MacGuinness, James

Metzinger, Joyce

Montgomery

Montoya, Fritz, Dr.

Ramirez, Tomas

Talon

Venizelos, Rafael

Wallace, Stockton

Waters

Wisner

Wolcott, Carolyn

 

Fearless (CL-56), HMS. RMN Courageous-class CL commanded by Commander Honor Harrington and formerly commanded by Rath. At the time Harrington received command, she had been heavily modified by having much of her weaponry removed to accommodate a grav lance. She is so severely damaged in her engagement against RHMS Sirius that she has to be scrapped. She suffered 107 wounded and fifty-eight wounded. As a result of her actions, her name is added to the Navy’s List of Honor. [OBS]

            Crew.

Blanding, Ariella

Braun

Cardones, Rafael

Earnhardt, Angela

Frankowski

Halley

Harkness, Sir Horace

Hillyard, Sharon

Howell

Jeffries

Jenkins

Kilgore

Kohl

Killian

Kleinmueller, Ruth

Levine, Bill

Lovejoy

MacBride, Sally

MacGuinness, James

Manning, Allen

Mathison

McKeon, Alistair

Montoya

O’Brien, Tadeuz

Panowski

Papadapolous, Nikos

Parker

Porter

Regiano

Rierson, Ilona

Santos, Dominica

Stevens

Stimson

Stromboli, Maxwell Artoi

Suchon, Lois. Dr.

Tremaine, Scott

TurnerVenizelos, Andreas

Venizelos, Rafael

Webster, Samuel Houston

Wolversham

Yammata, Hiro

 

Federal Intelligence Service (FIS). One of the two agencies in the Republic of Haven formed to fulfill the former functions of the Office of State Security. It is headed by Wilhelm Trajan and is responsible for foreign intelligence and espionage. [WOH]

 

Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). One of the two agencies in the Republic of Haven formed to fulfill the former functions of the Office of State Security. It is headed by General Kevin Usher and is responsible for internal security but without the repressive elements of the OSS. [WOH]

 

Felicia III. Combined freighter and personnel transport registered as an independent carrier out of Yarrow. In reality, it is owned by the Jessyk Combine. She is commanded by Masadans under Ephraim Templeton and captured by Victor Cachat and Lieutenant Palane’s Amazons. The Mesan slaves being held in her become founding members of the new independent government of Congo. [COS]

 

Fellowship of the Elect. Fundamentalist religious group in the PRH. In return for the nationalization of their assets, the Legislaturist regime assisted in relocating them to Refuge. Those who remained suffered under the SS. Under the Prichart administration, they announced their desire to join their fellows. She authorized state funds to help them relocate but their ship never arrived, having been destroyed by the Manpower ships under Haicheng Ringsdorff. [SOTSs]

 

Ferguson. LIEUTENANT in Pirate’s Bane, an electronics expert. [WOH]

 

ferran. Wood native to Gryphon used for fine carvings. [COS]

 

Ferrero, Erica. RMN captain, captain of HMS Jessica Epps. [WOH]

 

Ferret-class. RMN LAC class developed as part of Project Anzio. They lack all offensive armament to provide maximum hull volume for missile magazines and a powerful electronic warfare suite. They carry fifty-six ship-killers and one hundred fifty counter-missiles. They have four sets of sidewall generators. Doctrine calls for them to be used in a support role. Against light units and merchantmen, they can be used from outside the attack range of the Shrike-Bs. Against heavy units, they provide close-in ECM support for the Shrike-Bs. [AOV]

 

Ferris. PN citizen captain, captain of PNS Voyager, Citizen Commodore Yang’s flag captain. [EOH]

 

Fierenzi. PRH SS citizen corporal, a shuttle crewmember on Hades. [EOH]

 

The Fifty-Three. During the Grayson Civil War, the fifty-three steadholders who sheltered in the Conclave Chamber from the Faithful. They refused to surrender and were all killed. A plaque outside the Chamber has their names. [FOD]

 

finch, Sphinx. Type of bird known for its delicacy. [EOH]

 

Fire Runs Fast Clan. Treecat clan, apparently one of the first to see humans. [MTHb]

 

Firebird. Silesian ship belonging to smugglers who deal with Ephraim Templeton. Their shuttle is aboard Aaron’s Rod as well as one of the crewmembers. [SOTSp]

 

Fisher. Treecat of the Laughing River Clan who adopts Dr. Scott MacDallan. His name among the People is Swift Striker. When MacDallan slipped in a river while fishing and seriously fractured a leg, Fisher kept him from drowning by keeping his head out of the water with his carry-net. [WOHw]

 

Fitzclarence, William Allen Hillman, Lord Burdette. Steadholder of Burdette Steading, an extreme conservative opposed to Protector Benjamin’s reforms and an enemy of Honor Harrington. After Brother Marchant is banned by the Sacristy, he refuses to allow the new minister to take his place and restores Marchant. He conspires with Steadholder Mueller to sabotage the Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. project in Mueller Steading to discredit Harrington. When it becomes obvious that sabotage can be proved, he attempts to assassinate Harrington by having her pinnace shot down. When Benjamin names him as the responsible party in the Conclave of Steadholders, he chooses to challenge the Protector’s champion. As a Swordmaster Second, he assumes he can kill Harrington. She quickly slashes him open and beheads him. [FIE]

 

Fitzpatrick, Akahito, Duke of Gray Water. Manticoran peer of the realm, one of Baron High Ridge’s closest allies in the Conservative Association. He is a cousin of Admiral Chakrabarti. [WOH]

 

Flagstad, RMMS. Manticoran merchant ship.[SOTSw]

 

Flairty. A Masadan, one of Gideon Templeton’s lieutenants. He is summarily killed by Victor Cachat. [COS]

 

Flanagan, Ian. RMN senior chief petty officer, Bosun in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Flanagan, Sarah. RMN lieutenant commander, commander of HMLAC Switchblade. Previous to her assignment in HMSS T-001, she was assigned to HMS Mephisto. [WOH]

 

Flanders. RMMC major, deputy commander of the Marine contingent in HMS Nike, killed in action at the First Battle of Hancock. [FOD]

 

Flanders, Hannah. PRH SS private, part of the security detachment in the People’s Tower. She is killed during Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. [COWn]

 

flechette gun. Type of small arm. [HAE] The flechettes travel at three hundred meters per second. They can be set to cover a cone over a full meter wide at five meters or as little as fifteen centimeters across at fifty meters. [IEH]

 

Fleet Officer Candidate School. RMN officer training program for non-commissioned officers. Because they are already familiar with the RMN and its procedures, it is only about half as long as the Academy. Former NCOs who become officers are known as Mustangs. [AOV]

 

Fleet Wind. Treecat of the bright Water Clan, the elder in charge of teaching the young scouts and hunters at the time of Stephanie Harrington’s adoption. [MTHb]

 

Fleetwing. Ship on which Dr. Warshawski first created a Warshawski sail in 1273 PD. [HAE]

 

Fleurieu. One of the chaperones from Unicorn Eleven on the ski trip to Athinai Resort at the time of the Attica Avalanche. [WOHh]

 

flintlock rifles. Projectile firearms with which the native Medusans are armed. [OBS]

 

Flower. Shuttle owned by Ephraim Templeton, , the ship which the Sisterhood of Barbara steals to fly into orbit to gain access to Aaron’s Rod. [SOTSp]

 

Flowker. Solarian League liaison officer on Air. [MTHg]

 

Fontein, Erasmus. PRH people’s commissioner assigned to Citizen Vice Admiral McQueen, himself a citizen general. [AOV] He was a major in Internal Security under the Legislaturists. He assisted in the planning of the Harris assassination and was subsequently promoted to State Sec brigadier. [FIE] He hides behind the mask of being an incompetent. Although he is not, he is taken by surprise by McQueen having prepared contingency plans to deal with a threat such as the one posed by the Levelers. [IEH] He is slightly injured in the crash of her pinnace during the Leveler coup, suffering a broken and dislocated pinkie. [MTHw] Saint-Just considers him the most thoughtful people’s commissioner other than Eloise Pritchart. [COWn] Oscar Saint-Just orders him to begin building a “paper-trail” to use against her when the time comes. He is killed during her attempted coup. [AOV]

 

foods. See

Arellian caviar

celery

chewing gum

false-potato

Manticoran squash

Nagasaki shrimp

tillik moss

 

Foraker, Shannon. PN officer. As a citizen lieutenant, tactical officer in PNS Vaubon. She is a technical whiz to the point of being a techno-nerd. When excited or distracted, she often reverts to referring to a superior as “sir,” contrary to PRH directives. [FIE] She is promoted to lieutenant commander and remains in the same position. She is among the crew captured by HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE] Promoted to citizen commander, she is tactical officer in PNS Count Tilly. She spends a great deal of time with the prisoners captured from HMS Prince Adrian. She probably saves Nimitz’s life by telling Cordelia Ransom that if he is killed, Honor Harrington will die as a result. Her display on Count Tilly reveals that two small ships escape from PNS Tepes before she is destroyed. She is about to erase the tape when Rear Admiral Tourville does it instead. [IEH] As a result of her experience with the prisoners from HMS Prince Adrian, she changes. She becomes very careful of what she says and seems to watch everything around her. [EOH] Because of the kindness she showed to Harrington and Nimitz, no one mentions her to the press so as not to compromise her. As part of the many ops programs she downloaded to Twelfth Fleet ships were self-destruct programs into the computer systems of the SSN ships that are assigned to Twelfth Fleet. When they are ordered to act against the PN ships, she activates it and vaporizes them. Her comment is, “Oops.” [AOV] Promoted to vice admiral in the RHN, she commands Bolthole and supervises its research and development programs. [WOH]

 

forceblade. Hand-held weapon that, under Manticoran law, must make a loud whine when in use. [OBS]

 

FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966) British novelist, creator of the Horatio Hornblower series. Honor Harrington reads one of his books, almost certainly one of the Hornblower books. [HAE]

 

Fortune Hunter. Solarian-built CA commanded by Jerome Tyler, one of the four Manpower ships under the overall command of Haicheng Ringsdorff. She is destroyed by HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Four Yahoos. Haicheng Ringsdorff’s less than charitable name for the four Silesians commanding the ships under his overall command, Jerome Tyler, Dongcai Maurersberger, Juliette Mourakis and Samson Lamar. [SOTSs]

 

Fox. Captain of the Protectorate Security Detachment, the head of Protector Benjamin’s personal security detachment. He is killed defending Mayhew during the assassination attempt by the Brotherhood of Maccabeus. [HOTQ]

 

Fraiser. PN citizen lieutenant, communications officer in PNS Count Tilly. [IEH]

 

Franchot et Fils. Company in Paris, France whose ship Suffren surveyed the Manticore Binary System. They had an excellent reputation. [MTHu]

 

Francis Mueller, GSNS. GSN CA, a rather older class transferred to the GSN and commanded by Captain Zemet. She has an odd collection of crew who refer to service in her as Siberia. [SOTSn]

            Crew. See

Cooper

Greene

Kearns, Robert

Kopp

Kowalski

Kyle

Olds

Ribart

Tyler, Sean

Wilson

G

 

Gagarian. Lady Emily Alexander’s physician. [OBS]

 

Gaines, Heinrich O. RMN lieutenant, the commander of Her Majesty’s Sensor Station, Seaford Nine at the time of Operation Icarus. [EOH]

 

Galaxy Caravan. False identity used by HMS Gauntlet. [COS]

 

Gallanti, Jillian. PRH SS citizen captain, captain of PNS Hector von Dragen. She has the reputation of being a bully and has a horrible temper. After word of Citizen Admiral Theisman’s coup is received, she intends to attack the PN ships in the La Martine Sector squadron. Citizen Sergeant Rolla and Citizen Sergeant Pierce shoot her. [SOTSf]

 

Gangying, IANS. IAN CA commanded by Kapitän de Sterne Huang Glockauer. [WOH]

            Crew. See

Engelman, Binyan

Hoffner, Ruihan

Weiss, Shilan

 

Garches. Female PRH SS citizen corporal in the SS detachment at the PRH embassy on Earth. She has combat experience. She is killed by Victor Cachat during the “rescue” operation of Helen Zilwicki. [COWf]

 

Garches. Planet in the Ventane Sector of the PRH. It is dirt poor and was originally settled by intellectuals. [COS]

 

Garfield. PRH SS citizen major stationed on Hades. After the destruction of PNS Tepes, he returns to Haven in PNS Count Tilly with the tapes of what Hades was able to observe of the incident. [EOH]

 

Garner. RMN chief petty officer, a training instructor in electronics. [HAE]

 

Garret, Leon. GSN admiral. He is among the conservatives opposed to cooperation with the Star Kingdom of Manticore because of the prevalence of female personnel. He commands Command Central but is shifted to command the orbital facilities because of his inability to deal with Honor Harrington due to her being a woman. [HOTQ]

 

Garrison. RMN captain, senior simulator programmer for the ATC. [AOV]

 

Garson. PRH SS citizen general in charge of preventing Citizen Admiral Mládek’s defection. [SOTSl]

 

Garth, Lord. One of the most powerful Grayson steadholders. [FIE]

 

Garth, John, Lord. First Steadholder Garth. He was an only child and died without having a son. Because he was the first, the Key could not revert to his parents. For two years controversy raged until the Church and Conclave discovered that his father’s youngest wife was pregnant. The Key was allowed to pass if the child was born male. [EOH]

 

Garth, Steading of. Steading on Grayson. [EOH]

 

Garvey, Orrin. Inhabitant of Sphinx who assists Dr. MacDallan with investigating the crash of a BioNeering aircar in which True Stalker’s human was killed. [WOHs]

 

Gastelaars. Chief administrator of Unicorn Eleven. He has a daughter named Monica. [WOHh]

 

Gaston System. Star system conquered by the PRH. Its capital is Toulon. The Gaston Space Navy gave the PRH a stiff fight before being defeated. Gastons are among the prisoners on Hades. [EOH]

 

Gatri, Joseph. Third Consular Assistant at the Manticoran embassy on Erewhon. [COS]

 

Gauntlet, HMS. RMN Edward Saganami-B-class CA commanded by Captain Michael Oversteegen. She suffers heavy damage when she is engaged by the four CA-class ships under the overall command of Haicheng Ringstorff. She destroys all four but suffers a crew loss of over twenty percent, destruction of Auxliary Control, Environmental Two and Four, Damage Control Central, Boat Bay Two and Communications One. In her forward chase armament only two tubes and one graser remain and none of the aft armament. Half the gravitics are destroyed, her FTL communications are gone, over thirty compartments are open to space, surviving magazines are down to fifteen percent and Fusion Two is shut down. [SOTSs]

            Crew. See

Abbott

Abrams

Aitschuler, Karl

Atkins, Valeria

Blumenthal, Joel

Chantal

Cheney

Gohr, Betty

Grigovakis, Arpad

Gutierrez, Mateo

Hall

Harris

Hearns, Abigail

Hill

Hoskins

Justinian

Korrami, Shobhana

Palmer

Posner

Roth

Seago

Stevenson

Tillotson

Turner, Henrietta

Tyson

Vassari

Watson, Linda

Westman, Anjelike

Williams

Wilson

 

Gearing. PRH SS citizen corporal, a shuttle crewmember on Hades. [EOH]

 

Gearman, Michael. RMN lieutenant in HMS Minotaur, Gold Squadron engineering chief and engineer in Jacquelyn Harmon’s LAC Harpy. Prior to the assignment he endured nineteen months of regen therapy. He is killed when Harpy is destroyed. [EOH]

 

Gedrosian. RMN officer, executive officer in HMS L’Imperieuse. He is among those killed by a PN CA. [MTHg]

 

Gellon Street. Street in New Prague. [SOTSl]

 

Gemini System. Star system neutral to the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the PRH. [FOD]

 

Gendarmerie. See Office of Frontier Security

 

Geneve. Planet in the Solarian League, headquarters for the sector that includes Hope. [MTHg]

 

genie. Somewhat impolite term for a human who is the product of any degree of genetic engineering. [IEH]

 

Geoffrey. Assistant of the Duke of Cromarty. [FOD]

 

Georg. A Mesan slave, a member of the Audubon Ballroom and one of the leaders of the slaves held in Felicia III. [COS]

 

George. Dame Estelle Matsuko’s administrative assistant. [OBS]

 

Georgides, Aristophones. RMN admiral, commander of HMSS Vulcan. He is a native of Sphinx. As a senior lieutenant he was adopted by a treecat he named Odysseus. [HAE]

 

Georgos, Karen. SLN lieutenant on Captain Rozsak’s staff. [COS]

 

Gerrard. PM in PNS Rousseau. [MTHw]

 

Gerrick, Adam. Engineer on Grayson who develops the plan to use crystoplast to enclose cities and farmland. At Honor Harrington’s suggestion, he resigns from the steading to go become chief engineer and development officer of Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. He receives a salary plus a thirty percent interest. [FOD] He is present when the dome under construction in Mueller Steading collapses. He then leads the team that analyzes how the tragedy occurs and flies to GSNS Terrible to inform Harrington. On the trip down from the ship, he is killed when their pinnace is shot down. [FIE]

 

Gheerinatu. A Medusan, a nomad clan chieftain from the north who is on reasonably good terms with the Native Protection Agency. [OBS]

 

Ghost Rider, Project. RMN advanced electronic warfare program. [IEH] It is originally designed for hyper-capable ships but is adapted to the Shrike and Ferret-class LACs. Among the improvements from the project are improved missile seeker heads, increased range and multiple-drive missiles.

 

Giancola, Arnold. Republic of Haven Secretary of State in President Pritchart’s cabinet. He had been a low mid-level Treasury bureaucrat under the Legislaturists and then the Committee for Public Safety. His competence drew attention and he transferred to State then back to Treasury under Avram Turner. His brother Jason is a senator who helped him build a powerful machine. He became Pritchart’s primary political opponent and took nineteen percent of the popular vote. Because he emerged as the second most powerful politician after the election, Pritchart offered him State. He is extremely ambitious and ruthless. He alters messages between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic which results in Pritchart’s decision to resort to military force. He is surprised and distressed that he misread her so badly. [WOH]

 

Giancola, Jason. Younger brother of Arnold Giancola, a senator in the new Republic of Haven. He is a member of the Naval Affairs Committee and keeps his brother informed of confidential developments. [WOH]

 

Gifford, Lady. Manticoran peer of the realm. Honor Harrington was ambushed by newsies at one of her balls. [AOV]

 

Gilgamesh River Devil. Semi-sentient, highly-carnivorous dual-breathing amphibian. They have six eyes and teeth three centimeters long. [SOTSl]

 

Gillespie. RMN lieutenant commander, a LAC commander in HMS Minotaur. [EOH]

 

Gillespie, Tony. RMN commander, executive officer in HMS Prince Adrian. He is killed in the engagement that forces the ship to surrender. [IEH]

 

Gilley, Kelly. RMN lieutenant (j.g.) in the LAC wing of HMS Hydra, astrogator in HMLAC Cutthroat. She is killed when the LAC is destroyed. [AOV]

 

Gillingham. RMNA midshipman in Admiral Honor Harrington’s tactics class. [AOV]

 

Girardi. PN citizen admiral who replaced Admiral McQueen in command at Trevor’s Star when it became obvious that the system would fall. As a result, he was shot. [IEH]

 

Gironde, Paul. PRH SS citizen major stationed on Earth who reported on the Durkheim affair. [SOTSf] He is close-mouthed even by SS standards and is the only SS officer to interact with the embassy’s PM detachment. [COWf]

 

Gisborne. PRH SS citizen major general, commander of the ground forces in the task group jointly commanded by Citizen General Seth Chernock and Citizen Rear Admiral Yearman. [EOH]

 

Giscard, Javier. PN citizen admiral, commander Task Force 29 in the Silesian Confederacy. Prior to the Pierre coup, he was a commander and had been naval attaché to the Star Kingdom of Manticore and an instructor at the war college. He and Eloise Pritchart, the people’s commissioner assigned to him, are secretly lovers. [HAE] Although he was thought to be a better choice than Esther McQueen for Secretary of War, it was impossible to appoint him because he had been recalled from Silesia because of his “failure.” [IEH] He commands Twelfth Fleet for Operation Icarus and his flagship is PNS Salamis. He is as disgusted by Honor Harrington’s treatment as a prisoner of war is Vice Admiral Tourville. [EOH] He is ordered to return to Haven, most likely to be arrested. The SSN ships accompanying Twelfth Fleet are then destroyed by Shannon Foraker shortly before Citizen Admiral Theisman’s successful coup. [AOV] Admiral Theisman found it possible to trust Eloise Pritchart because Giscard did. He commands First Fleet in Operation Thunderbolt from RHNS Sovereign of Space. He is assigned to attack Trevor’s Star but when confronted by the joint RMN/GSN force, he withdraws. [WOH]

 

Giuliani, Cal. RMN ensign, coxswain in HMLAC Switchblade. [WOH]

 

Givens, Patricia. RMN Vice Admiral of the Green, [AOV]; the Second Space Lord. As head of the Bureau of Planning, the Office of Naval Intelligence falls under her command. [SVW] She personally participates in the planning of Citizen Admiral Mládek’s defection. [SOTSl] She is put on half-pay by the High Ridge government despite her phenomenal success with ONI. She had, for a long time, rendered assistance to Thomas Bachfisch who reported intelligence to her. After the fall of the High Ridge government Earl White Haven recalls her as Second Space Lord. [WOH]

 

Gladiator-class. SLN class of CAs. HMS Gauntlet defeated four of them in the Battle of Tiberian. [COS]

 

Glockauer, Huang. IAN Kapitän de Sterne, captain of IANS Gangying. [WOH]

 

Glorioso, HMS. RMN DD, part of Eighth Fleet. She suffers damage when HMS Vixen runs up on her when she is slow reconfiguring to impellers after exiting the wormhole terminus in Basilisk. [EOH]

 

Glorious, GSNS. GSN SD, part of Battle Squadron 1. She is destroyed at the Fourth Battle of Yeltsin. [FIE]

 

Glory, GSNS. GSN cruiser, the oldest hyper-capable ship at the outbreak of hostilities with Masada. She is seriously damaged in action. [HOTQ]

 

Glory, GSNS. GSN CLAC in the Protector’s Own Squadron. [WOH]

 

God. Mention of God is forbidden under PRH SS regulations. [SOTSf]

 

God’s Tears. The most beautiful chain of lakes on Grayson’s Idaho continent, located in Mueller Steading. [FIE]

 

GODUNOV, BORIS FYODOROVICH. (1551?-1605) Tsar of Russia who increased the influence of the monarchy and church and instituted serfdom. Lady Catherine Montaigne tells Anton Zilwicki that he would make a good Boris Godunov. [COWf]

 

Gohr, Betty. RMN lieutenant, assistant tactical officer in HMS Gauntlet for the mission to Erewhon. She has a background in tactical and intelligence. At the time of the cease-fire with the PRH, she was assigned to the liaison mission with Erewhon. Her career suffered a serious blow when it was claimed that she had used torture as an interrogation technique. [COS]

 

Gold Peak, Earl of. See Henke, Edward, Earl of Gold Peak

 

GOLDBERG, RUBE. (1883-1970) When Anton Zilwicki characterizes Durkheim’s plot that involves his daughter’s abduction as being too complicated, Robert Tye describes him as a Rube Goldberg. Zilwicki does not understand the meaning and mentions that he has asked Tye six times who Rube Goldberg was. [COWf]

 

golden retriever. Type of dog that Honor Harrington’s parents owned when she was growing up. Nimitz learned to play with a frisbee by watching Honor’s father throw it with the dog. [HOTQ]

 

Golden Voice. Samantha’s name among the People. [COWc]

 

Goldstein, Frederick. RMN captain, captain of HMS Queen Caitrin, Admiral White Haven’s flag captain. [FOD]

 

golf. Sport played in the Star Kingdom of Manticore but unknown on Grayson. [FIE]

 

Gonsalves, Cynthia. Captain of the Alto Verdan Navy, a prisoner on Hades. She is a member of the tribunal established by Honor Harrington to try SS personnel. [EOH] She commands the first transports to leave Hades but they arrive at Trevor’s Star after Harrington’s contingent because they are slower. She joins the GSNS and is promoted to commodore in the Protector’s Own Squadron. [AOV] She is promotoed to rear admiral and commands the First Battlecruiser Squadron in the Protector’s Own. [WOH]

 

Gonzalvez, Charles. RMN major assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Covert Insertion Team. He and his pal Major John Mullin decide to go to Prague just for the fun of it. They wind up assisting the defection of Citizen Admiral Mládek. He is a member of the aristocracy from Manticore. [SOTSl]

 

Goodrick, Craig. RMN captain (senior grade) Admiral Truman’s chief of staff. His nickname is “Wraith” for his work on the electronic warfare systems on the first Shrike-class LACs. He has a staunch hatred for Manpower because his mother had been a genetically designed “pleasure” slave. [WOH]

 

Gopfert Yard. Ship yard in the New Berlin System where Pirate’s Bane was built. [WOH]

 

Gorgon Belt. Asteroid belt around Manticore-B which is largely Crown Lands. [WOHw]

 

Gortz, Guangfu. IAN Kapitän der Sterne, captain of IANS Hellbarde. [WOH]

 

Goshen. Southernmost continent on Grayson, the location of the Steading of Harrington. [FIE]

 

Goshen Sea. Diamond-shaped sea on Grayson that cuts into the continent of Goshen from the northwest. Harrington City lies at the eastern end. [FIE]

 

Gosset System. Star system in the Breslau Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. It is part of HMAMC Gudrid’s patrol area. [HAE]

 

Gottlieb, Bob. PRH SSN impeller technician in PNS Hector von Dragen. He is very good at his job but is also the biggest bootlegger on the ship. [SOTSf]

 

Gowan. PRH ambassador to the Star Kingdom of Manticore. He is a retired Dolist manager. [OBS]

 

Gower, Lou. RMN lieutenant, communications officer in HMS LaFroye. [WOH]

 

Gozzi, Marius. RHN captain, Admiral Giscard’s chief of staff. [WOH]

 

Grafton Sector. Sector where the Yarrow System is located. [COS]

 

Granger. PN sailor in Masadan service in Thunder of God. [HOTQ]

 

Granston-Henley, Lady Alyson. RMN captain (j.g.), Admiral White Haven’s chief-of-staff. [EOH]

 

Grant in Organization. Under Grayson Law, an act by the Chamber to create a new steading. [HOTQ]

 

Grant, Sampson. Captain in either the GSN or RMN, probably a staff officer. [WOH]

 

graser. Ship-mounted energy weapon. They are considerably more massive than lasers and can only be accommodated on larger ships. [SVW]

 

grav driver. The basis of pulser weapons. Grayson used standard pistols until they acquired Manticoran technology to make grav drivers small enough for pulser weapons. [FOD]

 

grav lance. Weapon championed by Admiral of the Red Hemphill and installed in HMS Fearless (CL-56). It can burn out any starship sidewall but is cumbersome, slow-firing and mass-intensive with a range of only about one hundred thousand kilometers. [OBS] Because of his experience as Fearless’ tactical officer, Rafael Cardones is seconded to ONI Tech Team Four when what appears to be a similar although much more powerful weapon is being used in Silesia. [SOTSw] See also Crippler

 

grav skiing. One of the sports enjoyed by Lady Emily Alexander before her accident. [EOH] King Roger III was assassinated in a grav-skiing accident caused by a sabotaged grav-ski. [WOHq]

 

Graveson, Amanda. PN citizen admiral, commander of Capital Fleet at the time of Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. Citizen Admiral Theisman replaces her and convinces Oscar Saint-Just mot to have her shot. [AOV]

 

Gray Hill, Earl. Manticoran peer of the realm, leader of the Progressive Party. [FOD] He agrees to abstain from the vote on bringing Honor Harrington back to active RMN service. [HAE] After the Duke of Cromarty’s death, he is among those who form the new government, although at the expense of infuriating and alienating Queen Elizabeth III. [AOV]

 

Gray Water, Duke of. See Fitzpatrick, Akahito, Duke of Gray Water

 

Grayson Army. The uniform is brown and green. They are distinguished from the Marines by the absence of crossed starships on the collar. [FIE]

 

Grayson, Austin. Founder of Grayson, a reverend in the Church of Humanity Unchained. He was from Idaho on Old Earth. [HOTQ] He wrote The Book of the New Way. He is also known as Saint Austin. [FIE] He was a fanatic about baseball. [WOH]

 

Grayson neorat. Small animal native to Grayson. [IEH]

 

Grayson One. Protector Benjamin IX’s personal ship. she is commanded by Captain Leonard Sullivan. [AOV]

 

Grayson, Protectorate of. Star government on Grayson, the only habitable planet of Yeltsin’s Star. Grayson, while livable, is dangerous to humans because of the prevalence of several heavy metals in the soil including, cadmium, mercury and lead. Much of the industry is in orbital facilities and much food is produced off-world. Lung cancer is the third highest cause of death. The society is male-dominated, polygamy is practiced but women are treated with great dignity and deference. Its popular music is, generically, country/western. [HOTQ] Architecture generally reflects the need for hermetic sealing against the environment. The symbol of the Protector is a sword. In numbering years on Grayson, AD does not stand for Ante-Diaspora but the more traditional Anno Domini. Tradition demands that a steadholder returning to Grayson from space first go to his steading before traveling anywhere else. The attempt on Honor Harrington’s life by Lord Burdette was, aside from Maccabeus, the first assassination attempt on a steadholder in over four centuries. Tradition holds that Grayson sword fighting is based on the movie The Seven Samurai. [FIE] Waffles are a traditional breakfast food. [IEH] Grayson and the Star Kingdom of Manticore arranged for Honor Harrington’s funerals on each planet to take place at the exact same time. Unlike most of the galaxy, they still have fission plants, although the number has declined since contact with Manticore. Tradition holds that the Protector may invite others but that others do not invite the Protector. [EOH] It is almost unheard of for a married Grayson man to embrace an unmarried woman in public. [AOV] They are angry that the Star Kingdom of Manticore unilaterally agreed to a cease-fire with the PRH rather than moving forward and dictating terms. The High Ridge government has created much ill-will among the Graysons. The child of a steadholder has the equivalent rank of a Manticoran prince or princess. Proper Grayson women do not cut their hair short. [SOTSs] The High Ridge government stops sharing intelligence and research with Grayson on the pretext that they are a security risk to the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Popular opinion is further enraged against the High Ridge government by the false claims that Harrington and Earl White Haven are lovers. [WOH]

            History. It was originally founded in 998 PD by Austin Grayson and the Church of Humanity Unchained as an alternative to increasing technology. The historically high death rate of newborns due to the poisons resulted in a huge disparity of with women heavily outnumbering men. For many years, euthanasia of any defective newborn was practiced. Eventually, a Civil War broke out between the radical fundamentalists known as the Faithful and the Moderates. [HOTQ] During the Civil War, the Faithful assaulted the Council of Steadholders, intending to take them hostage. Fifty-three of them barricaded themselves in the Conclave Chamber. The Faithful destroyed one of the doors but the steadholders’ armsmen defended and they refused to be captured and died to a man. [FOD] The only person to escape was Protector Benjamin IV. A triumvirate of the remaining steadholders, Bancroft, Oswald and Simonds ruled the planet until a revolt led by Benjamin IV rose up against them and expelled them. Their steadings were forfeited to the Protector. The result was the Constitution. [FIE] Thanks to Barbara Bancroft, the Faithful’s plan to use a doomsday weapon was uncovered and they were expelled and resettled on Masada. [FOD] Because Grayson space flight was sub-light, moving the ten thousand Faithful to Masada required a crude form of Pineau cryogenics. The resources that went into this undertaking set Grayson back about fifty years. [EOH] Over the last T-century, the Council’s power grew at the expense of the Protectorate. [FIE] By the time of Protector Benjamin IX, there is a growing awareness of the need to begin accepting technological change and assistance and to begin changing the perception and treatment of women. An alliance is concluded with the Star Kingdom of Manticore. [HOTQ] Because of the Masadan attack, Protector Benjamin is able to begin reasserting the primacy of the Protectorate. [FIE] Before Honor Harrington’s “death,” there were only three cases of a steadholder dying without an heir, other than the Fifty-Three. [EOH] The original settlers were genetically engineered to make them resistant to the poisons on Grayson. This resulted, however, in a genetic defect that caused healthy births to be skewed in favor of females. [EOH]

            Government. According to the written constitution, the government is headed by a hereditary Protector. The Protector’s Council is headed by the First Councilman, known as the Chancellor. It has most responsibilities for day-to-day running of the government. Hereditary fiefs are known as Steadings and the chief of each is a Steadholder. Honor Harrington is the first woman ever made a Steadholder. [HOTQ]

            Law and Jurisprudence. By law, a steadholder must be accompanied, at all times, by his or her personal armsmen, even into space. [FIE] Duels are illegal. [FOD] Under the Constitution, the Protector has the right and responsibility to policy the Keys and pass judgment on them as required. A steadholder has the right to combat rather than being judged by the Protector. Victory against the Protector’s Champion is the equivalent of an innocent verdict and dismissal of all charges. A writ of summons from the Protector mandates that a Steadholder appear before him. Steadholders have immunity against all prosecution. They must be impeached and stripped of their status before a civil judgment can be passed. The only time the Protector can ignore the Door Warden at the Conclave of Steadholders is when he comes to pass judgment on one of them. [FIE] Only a Grayson can inherit a steadholder’s key. An heir can be born after the steadholder has died. A will that effects Grayson property must be probated on Grayson. If a steadholder dies with no heir, the steading escheats to the Sword. This is known as the Strathson precedent. [EOH] Under the Constitution, only the Protector can raise new military units. By creating the Elysian Space Navy and commanding by her rank as a GSN admiral, Honor Harrington violated the law. Protector Benjamin resolves the issue by creating the Protector’s Own Squadron and taking the ESN into it. At least one steadholder has been executed for violating the ban. Service in the GSN automatically confers Grayson citizenship. The age of majority is twenty-two. The only basis for the Protector conducting a secret investigation is a finding by him that there is a probability that a Steadholder has committed high treason. [AOV]

            Armsmen. By law, a steadholder must be accompanied, at all times, by his or her personal armsmen, even into space. [FIE] A steadholder cannot order an armsman to leave if the armsman believes the steadholder’s life is in danger. Under the Constitution, a steadholder is limited to fifty personal armsmen, known as the Steadholder’s Own. Other members of the Steadholder’s Guard are technically members of the Grayson armed forces. [IEH]

            See also

adultery

austin

Austin City

Conclave Chamber

Bancroft…

Blackbird

Burdette, Steading of

Christmas

Coleman, Steading of

dogwood

Dr. Jennifer Chou Genetic Clinic

The Fifty-Three

Garth...

God’s Tears

Goshen

Goshen Sea

Grant in Organization

Grayson neorat

Grayson Society

Harrington City

High Court

Idaho

Jerimites

kudzu

Mackenzie, Steading of

Mayhew…

Mayhew University

memory stones

Mueller, Steading of

New Covenant

Office of Planetary Security

Orbit Four

Orbit Five

Orbit Six

Owens, Steading of

Planetary Security

Protectorate Security Detachment

Protector’s Council

Star of Grayson

Steadholder Hall

Surtees, Steading of

Steadholders’ Anthem

Strathson, Steading of

Sword Intelligence

Sword Museum

Time of the Five Keys

Watson Steading

Wishbone

 

Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. Corporation chartered under Grayson law established by Honor Harrington to finance and build crystoplast domes over cities and farmland on Grayson. She is chairman of the board with a fifty percent interest, Howard Clinkscales is CEO with twenty percent and Adam Gerrick is chief engineer, development officer with thirty percent and Willard Neufsteiller is chief financial officer. [FOD] In addition to farms, they begin enclosing entire cities. [IEH] By the terms of Harrington’s will, Clinkscales continues as CEO and the company is to be held in trust for the next Steadholder Harrington. All future financial operations are to be based on Grayson and a majority of the board of directors has to be Graysons. [EOH] By the time of Operation Thunderbolt, it is firmly established among the Kingdom Five Hundred list of top corporations. [WOH]

 

Grayson Society. Organization of which Gregory Paxton had been chairman before resigning to accept posting as Admiral Honor Harrington’s intelligence officer. [FIE]

 

Grayson Space Marines. The uniform is brown and green and is distinguished from the army by crossed starship insignia on the collar. The 5019^th Special Battalion is an elite unit that is larger than a regiment. Their nickname is the Orbit Dogs. [FIE]

 

Grayson Space Navy (GSN). Small naval force commanded by High Admiral Bernard Yanakov. Although considerably technologically inferior to the Royal Manticoran Navy, the officers are fairly professional. At the time of the outbreak of hostilities with Masada, it has three cruisers and four destroyers. [HOTQ] Simultaneous with the Battle of Hancock, Admiral Parnell led a PN attack on Yeltsin which resulted in an ambush and massacre of the PN attack force by a joint RMN/GSN force, the Third Battle of Yeltsin. [SVW] Grayson cruisers have fewer grasers than an RMN cruiser, but they are heavier, almost as heavy as an RMN battlecruiser’s. [FOD] Because of its need for experienced officers for the rapid build-up of ships, RMN officers are loaned to the GSN. Borrowed personnel are allowed to retain the Manticoran style of saluting. It has a Chaplains Corps. Where a Marine would normally provide the door guard on a GSN ship, if the officer is a Steadholder, the guard is provided by the steading guard. [FIE] They prefer shipboard and live fire exercises to simulators. Because of Honor Harrington’s influence and its lack of preconceived notions, the GSN is closer to the Manticoran ideal than the RMN itself. [IEH] Protector Benjamin resolves the issue potential Constitutional crisis because of Honor Harrington’s creation of the Elysian Space Navy under her ranks as a GSN admiral. by creating the Protector’s Own Squadron and taking the ESN into it. At least one steadholder has been executed for violating the ban. Service in the GSN automatically confers Grayson citizenship. By the end of the war with Haven, one eighth of the graduating class of the Royal Manticoran Naval Academy is GSN personnel. [AOV] By law, a ship’s chaplain has the run of the ship and is pretty much a law unto himself. [SOTSn] A Grayson ship begins at the shipboard end of a boarding tube. [SOTSs]

Uniform. Uniform colors are blue on blue. [HOTQ] The hat is a peaked hat with brim. Shirt collars are buttoned and a necktie which must be hand-tied is worn. Admirals wear four six-pointed stars. Reserve officers are distinguished with white edging to the gold rings on their cuffs. [FIE] The insignia of the Protector’s Own Squadron is a flame-enshrouded salamander. Honor Harrington is the only RMN officer authorized to wear it and she does on her RMN uniform. [WOH]

            Ships.  See

Ararat, GSNS

Austin Grayson, GSNS

Benjamin the Great, GSNS

Courageous, GSNS

Courvoisier II-class

Covington, GSNS

David, GSNS

Edward Esterhaus, GSNS

Francis Mueller, GSNS

Furious, GSNS

Glorious, GSNS

Glory, GSNS

Glory, GSNS

Grayson One

Harrington-class

Honor Harrington, GSNS

Intrepid, GLAC

Isaiah MacKenzie, GSNS

Jason Alvarez, GSNS

Judah, GSNS

Katana-class

Madrigal, GSNS

Magnificent, GSNS

Manticore’s Gift, GSNS

Nathan, GSNS

pinnaces

Raoul Courvoisier, GSNS

Saul, GSNS

Seneca Gilmore, GSNS

Terrible, GSNS

Yanakov, GSNS

Yountz, GSNS

            See also Alvarez Field; Bernard Yanakov Tactical Simulation Center

 

Grayson Sword of State. Sword of the Protector, the weapon with which his Champion is armed. It is jeweled and is made of what was known as Damascus steel. [FIE]

 

The Great Lorenzo. Street actor in Prague City who works with Rachel Covilla. [SOTSl]

 

Greater Windcombe, Barony of. Manticoran peerage to which Captain Michael Oversteegen is fourth in line. [SOTSs]

 

Greatgap, 14^th Earl of. See Nessler, Sir Hakon, 14^th Earl of Greatgap

 

Greene. GSN officer, executive officer in GSNS Francis Mueller. He is obsessed with finding reasons for trying and executing crewmembers. After Captain Zemet is rendered comatose, he orders one hundred twenty-three crewmembers to be sedated. Admiral Yanakov reassigns him to Blackbird base to get him off the ship. [SOTSn]

 

Greenriver, Lady. Manticoran peer of the realm, one of the few independent members of the House of Lords universally respected. [FOD]

 

Greenslade. RMN admiral. [IEH]

 

Greentree, Thomas. GSN captain, captain of GSN Benjamin the Great, Admiral White Haven’s flag captain. As a lieutenant, he served as assistant tactical officer in GSN Covington. [IEH] He commands HMS Honor Harrington as Admiral Judah Yanakov’s flag captain. [AOV]

 

Greenvale, Countess of. See Burke, Jessica, Countess of Greenvale

 

Gregor Defense Command. RMN station in the Gregor-B System. [HAE]

 

Gregor System. Binary star system, [COWm]; in the Anderman Empire. It has a terminus of the Manticore Wormhole Junction. [FOD] Gregor-A (an F9 star) belongs to the Empire and Gregor-B belongs to the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Gregor-B is the home of the former Gregor Republic. It fell apart in a civil war which was ended when the Anderman Empire came in and declared peace. [HAE]

 

Gregory. RMN commander, captain of HMS Athena. [SVW]

 

Gregory, Stan. Republic of Haven Secretary of Urban Affairs in the Prtichart administration. [WOH]

 

gremlin. Life-form native to Beowulf that rates slightly below treecats on the sentience scale. [OBS]

 

Grendelsbane System. Star system in the Manticoran Alliance, one of the systems where the PN stages a provocation before the Battle of Hancock. It is the location of the RMN’s Grendelsbane Station. [SVW] It is the primary target of the PN’s Operation Grendeslbane. Loss of its station and yards would be a serious blow to the Alliance. [AOV] At the time of Operation Thunderbolt, twenty-seven Medusa-class SD(P)s, nineteen CLACs and forty-six Invictus-class DNs are under construction. When the RHN attacks, the system cannot be held and the entire infrastructure is destroyed with nuclear devices. Word of its loss causes Baron High Ridge to resign as prime minister. [WOH]

 

Gricou, Alina. PM citizen major, commander of the team whose target is Oscar Saint-Just. She is killed during Esther McQueen’s attempted coup. [COWn]

 

Griggs, Achmed. Royal Manticoran Army lieutenant in the Queen’s Own Regiment. He is a recipient of the Sphinx Cross. [COS]

 

Grigovakis, Arpad. RMNA midshipman. His midshipman cruise is in HMS Gauntlet. His family is quite wealthy even by Manticoran standards and can trace its ancestors back to shortly after the Plague Years. His Uncle Connall once served with Captain Oversteegen. He is overbearing, treating Midshipman Hearns, noncoms and ratings as underlings. This behavior continues until he is severely chastised by Oversteegen. [SOTSs]

 

Grimaldi. RMN officer, Admiral Hemphill’s chief of staff. [OBS]

 

Griswold, Hector. PB citizen captain, captain of PNS Citizen Admiral Tascosa. [EOH]

 

Groenwald, John. PN citizen vice admiral, replacement in Twelfth Fleet for Citizen Vice Admiral Shallus. His nickname is BJ. He commands Task Force 12.3 and is assigned to attack the Elric System in Operation Bagration. His flagship is PNS Timoleon. [AOV]

 

Grosclaude, Yves. Republic of Haven ambassador to the Star Kingdom of Manticore under the Pritchart administration. He and Arnold Giancola are old friends and they conspire to alter diplomatic notes between the Republic and Star Kingdom. He was originally a Dolist. [WOH]

 

Grossman, Eric. PRH secretary of education under President Harris. [SVW]

 

growlers. Scaly, burrowing herbivores native to the Alphane worlds including Hope, weighing about thirty kilograms fully grown. Some archaeologists believe them to be the true Alphanes. [MTHg]

 

Gruber, Jinchu. Executive officer in Pirate’s Bane. He is slightly wounded in the engagement with RHNS Hecate. [WOH]

 

Grubner, Lanfeng. IAN captain, captain of IANS Neue Bayern. [SOTSw]

 

Gryphon. Officially, Manticore-B V, [HOTQ]; one of the three habitable planets in the Manticore System. [OBS] The day is 22.71 standard hours long, the year is 650.46 local days long, 615.51 T-days long or 1.69 T-years. Its diameter is 13,200 kilometers and has an axial tilt of twenty-seven degrees. [MTHu] Its winters are more severe than those of Sphinx but its year is shorter and the summers are warmer. In 275 AL there was a serious disaster called the Attica Avalanche. [SVW] It has the smallest population of the three Manticoran core planets, [HAE]; and has the least traffic. [EOH] The Gryphon yeomanry has a long history of staunch support for the monarchy because much of the Gryphon nobility is too conservative for even the Conservative Association. [AOV] During the reign of King Roger II, the planetary government passed a referendum calling for the revocation of the treecats’ status as sentient beings. [WOHw] Its colors are bronze and dark brown. [WOHq] It is the most tectonically active of the three Manticoran worlds. [WOHh] Old Beyelorussian is still spoken in some isolated areas of the highlands. Kevin Usher cannot understand how the highlanders can simultaneously hate the aristocracy but place their faith in the Monarchy. Naming a girl after he mother is an old highlands custom. [COWf] See also

Athinai Resort

Athinai Switch

Black Mountains

Gryphon Mountain Data Interface

Liberty Crossing

Mount Pericles

Olympus Fault

Olympus Mountains

Olympus Valley

Ulster Caverns

Westmount Crown Reserve

Weyland, HMSS

H

 

Habib, Edie. SLN commander on Captain Rozsak’s staff. [COS]

 

Hachiman, PNS. PN Mars-class CA, part of the task group jointly commanded by Citizen Major General Thornegrave and Citizen Commodore Yang. She is damaged by the explosion of PNS Attila. [EOH]

 

Hackett, Jessica. PN officer, one of Esther McQueen’s couriers. Her whereabouts are unknown and she may have been killed in the destruction of the Octagon. [SOTSf]

 

Hackmore, Charles. RMN lieutenant commander, chief engineer in HMS Apollo. [HOTQ]

 

Hades. Planet in the Cerberus System, a closely guarded secret of the PRH. It is the location of Camp Charon, a prison for special political prisoners. Nothing on the planet can be metabolized by humans so all food must be brought in from outside. prisoners are scattered in small settlements all over the surface. [IEH] The headquarters compound is on an island named Styx in the DuQuesne Ocean. With the exception of a plant called a false-potato, nothing on the planet can be metabolized by humans. Styx is terraformed and has farms that supply food for the prisoner settlements. There are four continents simply named Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. The prisoner population is about a half million. A special camp for particularly hard cases is located near the equator on Alpha and called Camp Inferno. All native life is trisexual with a fourth neuter gender. The planet is referred to by most prisoners as Hell. It has three moons, Tartarus, Sheol and Niflheim. [IEH] See also

Camp Charon

DuQuesne Ocean

false-potato

shuttlesquito

 

Hadley. PM private in Masadan service in Thunder of God. [HOTQ]

 

Hadrian. Fourth planet in the Tyler’s Star System. [SOTSw]

 

Hadrian, HMS. RMN ship commanded by Captain Tasco, Rear Admiral Santino’s flagship. [EOH]

            Crew. See Wellerman

 

Hadrian’s Wall. Hotel in the Canmore Republic. [WOHd]

 

Hadrian’s World. Planet known for an excellent brand of scotch. [AOV]

 

Hagen. Silesian Confederacy governor of the Walther System. [HAE]

 

Haggerston, Trevor. Erewhon Navy commander, Admiral White Haven’s operations officer. [EOH]

 

Haines, Jasmine. PRH trade attaché in the Schiller System. [HAE]

 

Hairston, Roberta. LIEUTENANT, tactical officer in Pirate’s Bane. [WOH]

 

Halberd, HMS. RMN cruiser commanded. [WOHh]

 

Halburton. RMN senior chief petty officer in PNS Prince Adrian. He is among the prisoners on PNS Tepes and survives the escape and makes it to Hades. [IEH] He is killed during the taking of Styx. [EOH]

 

Hale, Al. RMN naval attaché in the Star Kingdom of Manticore’s embassy on Haven. [SVW]

 

Halket. Peopl’s commissioner assigned to Citizen Commodore Ryan. [AOV]

 

Hall, Joanne. PN citizen captain, captain of PNS Schaumberg. Her nickname to friends and family is “Froggie.” She is killed at the Second Battle of Hancock. [EOH] She had a reputation as an excellent tactician. [AOV]

 

Hall of the Just. Headquarters of the Masadan Council of Elders. [SOTSp]

 

Hall, Tomas. One of the ruling triumvirate of Erewhon. [COS]

 

Halley. RMMC private in HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS]

 

Hallman System. Star system in the PRH. [EOH]

 

Hallowell. Brigadier of the King’s Own Regiment. [WOHw]

 

Hallowell, Lewis. RMMC sergeant major, senior Marine NCO in HMAMC Wayfarer. He is an eight degree black belt in coup de vitesse and helps teach Aubrey Wanderman how to defend himself. [HAE]

 

Hamer, Ira. PN citizen commander, executive officer in PNS Schaumberg. [EOH]

 

Hamilton. One of the planets best known for medical science. [EOH]

 

Hammerwell, Salvatore. Composer born on Sphinx, one of Honor Harrington’s favorites. As they are about to ram Thunder of God, she has his Seventh Symphony, “Salute to Spring”, played on the bridge. [HOTQ] His “Lament for Beauty Lost” is played during Honor Harrington’s funeral on Manticore. [EOH]

 

Hammitt, Trixie. Admiral Reynaud’s secretary. [WOH]

 

Hammond. RMN lieutenant, communications officer in HMS Nike. [FOD]

 

Hammond. RMN engineering rating in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Hammond, Denise. RMN captain, captain of HMS LaFroye. [WOH]

 

Hanaby. Female RMN rear admiral, commander of the Basilisk Wormhole terminus picket. [EOH]

 

Hancock, HMS. RMN SD(P) in Task Force Thirty-Four. She takes heavy damage in the Second Battle of Sidemore. [WOH]

 

Hancock Station. Major RMN facility located in the Hancock System. It is the object of the PRH’s attempt to gain a quick, decisive victory against the Star Kingdom of Manticore, the First Battle of Hancock. [SVW] Careful investigation of the facts revealed that Rear Admiral Chin had been made the scapegoat for the loss. [SOTSf] The Second Battle of Hancock results from Operation Icarus. It turns into a decisive Allied victory because of the fortuitous presence of HMS Minotaur, [EOH]; and the incompetence of Citizen Rear Admiral Porter. After the death of Citizen Rear Admiral Kellet, he panics, ordering Task Force 12.3 to scatter. This allowed Minotaur’s LACs to pick off ships in detail. [AOV]

 

Hancock System. Star system with a red dwarf primary in the Manticoran Alliance where Hancock Station is located. [SVW]

 

hang-gliding. Sport in which honor Honor Harrington participates. It is a planetary passion on Sphinx. [SVW] It is one of her activities that her armsmen hate and they accompany her in a tractor-equipped aircar. Because of the poisons in its air, she is unable to hang-glide on Grayson. [FIE]

 

Hanks, Julius, Reverend. Spiritual head of the Church of Humanity Unchained. [HOTQ] He is a strong supporter of Honor Harrington and respects her respect for his church. He is killed when he jumps in front of her and takes the bullets intended for her after their pinnace is shot down. [FIE]

 

Hanna. A former Scrag, one of Lieutenant Palane’s Amazons. [COS]

 

Hannah’s Star System. Star system neutral to the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the PRH. [FOD]

 

Hansen. RMN lieutenant, engineering officer in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Hanriot, Rachel. ROH Secretary of the Treasury in the Pritchart administration. [WOH]

 

Hara. PN officer in Masadan service, engineering officer in Thunder of God. [HOTQ]

 

Hardesty, Jack. GSN officer, executive officer in GSNS Jason Alvarez. [SVW]

 

Harding, Dr. RMN psychiatrist who examined Honor Harrington’s fitness for duty after her injuries on Grayson. [SVW]

 

Harding, Samuel Marchant. First cousin of Edmond Marchant. He was once arrested during a demonstration against the Jerimites. He is hired by Grayson sky Domes, Ltd. under the name of Lawrence Maguire to work on the dome in Mueller Steading. He is among those who sabotage the drilling of the footings, causing it to collapse. Lord Mueller has him killed to silence him, making it appear he threw himself from a tenth story window. [FIE]

 

Harken, Helen. PN citizen captain, captain of PNS Rapier. [EOH]

 

Harkness, Sir Horace. RMN petty officer in HMS Fearless (CL-56). He has been busted a number of times because of his penchant for picking fights with anyone in a Marine uniform. He also has a genius for somewhat questionable activities. As a result, he and Ensign Tremaine become very good at finding contraband coming through the Basilisk Wormhole Junction. [OBS] Leiutenant Tremaine introduces Carolyn Wolcott to him to help her approach Commander Venizelos regarding a Grayson officer insulting and taking improprieties with her. [HOTQ] After the Battle of Hancock, he is promoted to senior chief and is assigned to HMS Prince Adrian. [FOD] promoted to senior chief petty officer, he is assigned to HMAMC Wayfarer in Flight Ops. Prior to the assignment, he marries Iris Babcock, much to Honor Harrington’s shock. As a result, he is accepted by the Marines as “one of their own.” He helps Aubrey Wanderman learn to defend himself and to Wanderman’s amazement, he learns that the reason Harkness fought with Marines is because he likes to fight. [HAE] He is assigned to GSNS Jason Alvarez. He pilots the pinnace that brings Honor Harrington and her staff to HMS Prince Adrian and is there when the ship surrenders. He appears to desert and join the PN. In actuality, he uses a minicomp to reprogram the computers in PNS Tepes and leads the escape of the RMN and GSN prisoners. He assures that he is assigned to the same ship where Scotty Tremaine is assigned by hacking into the RMN BuPers computer system. [IEH] He receives the Parliamentary Medal of Valor and is knighted. He is promoted to chief warrant officer and assigned to the LAC wing of HMS Hydra. He is also a recipient of the CGM and DSO. [AOV] In HMS Werewolf, he is senior LAC flight engineer even though the position actually calls for a lieutenant commander. [WOH]

 

Harlequin, RMMS. Manticoran merchant ship. She is attacked by PNS Vanguard using the Crippler. Examination of her helps ONI Tech Team Four develop a way of countering the Crippler. [SOTSw]

 

Harmon, Jacquelyn. RMN officer. As a commander, senior LAC commander in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE] Promoted to captain (j.g.), she commands the LAC wing in HMS Minotaur and personally commands the LAC Harpy. She is killed when the LAC is destroyed at the Second Battle of Barnett. [EOH]

 

Haroun, Lady Nassouah. Crown Prince Adrienne’s appointments secretary. [WOHw]

 

Harpe, Leona. RMN NCO, bosun in HMS L’Imperieuse. [MTHg]

 

Harper. PRH SS citizen captain, a shuttle pilot on Hades. [EOH]

 

Harper, Theodore, Planetary Grand Duke of Manticore. Manticoran peer of the realm, a nephew of Earl and Lady White Haven. He is one of the few Manticoran nobles who outrank Steadholder Harrington. [WOH]

 

Harper’s Ferry, RMMS. One of the two frigates purchased by the Anti-Slavery League. [COS]

 

Harpy,HMLAC. RMN LAC, Captain Harmon’s personal ship in HMS Minotaur. Lieutenant Gearman is her engineer. It is destroyed at the Second Battle of Barnett. [EOH]

 

Harrell. A Mesan slave, one of the leaders of the slaves being transported in Felicia III. [COS]

 

Harriman. PRH SS communications technician on Hades. [EOH]

 

Harrington, Alfred. Honor Harrington’s father, a former naval surgeon. Before his retirement from the service he was Assistant Chief of Neurosurgery, [OBS]; then chief at Basingford Medical Center. [AOV] He and his wife are senior partners in Duvalier Medical Associates. [OBS] He is married to Dr. Allison Chou Harrington. [HOTQ] They met when he was attending Semmelweiss University on a scholarship from the RMN. [IEH] At the suggestion of Protector Benjamin, he and Allison have another baby after Honor is “executed.” They have twins, Faith and James. He oversees the surgery on Honor after she returns from Hades. [AOV] He is extremely gentle and compassionate. He refuses to discuss the very few occasions when he has lost his temper and Honor is aware that she gets her temper from him. [WOH]

 

Harrington, Allison Chou. Honor Harrington’s mother, a neurosurgeon. She is a native of Beowulf and has always delighted in scandalizing Manticoran and Gryphon society with somewhat sexually provocative behavior. [HOTQ] she has an older brother named Jacques Chou who lives on Beowulf. [HAE] She met her husband while they were students at Semmelweiss University. At Honor’s request, she becomes director of the Doctor Jennifer Chou Genetic Clinic. [IEH] At the suggestion of Protector Benjamin, she and Alfred have another baby after Honor is “executed.” They have twins, Faith and James. [AOV]

 

Harrington Cathedral. Main church of the Church of Humanity Unchained in Harrington City. Unlike most other cathedrals, the Steadholder’s Box and pulpit have been moved to the left side and the choir is on the right. This enables Honor Harrington to sit in the Stranger’s Aisle which is on the left side and sit adjacent to the Steadholder’s Box since she is not a member of the Church of Humanity Unchained. [FIE]

 

Harrington City. Capital of Harrington Steading. It is located on the eastern extremity of the Goshen Sea. [FIE]

            See also

Bernard Yanakov Park

Courvoisier Avenue

Harrington Cathedral

Harrington Space Facility

Yountz Center

 

Harrington-class. GSN SD(P) class, the Grayson adaptation of the RMN Medusa-class. [EOH] The class is able to deploy enough missile pods to each account for four other SDs. They have less crew than other SDs because a great deal is automated. [AOV]

 

Harrington, Devon, 2^nd Earl Harrington. Honor Harrington’s cousin and her heir to her Manticoran peerage. After he “execution,” he is made Earl Harrington. [EOH] He is a historian. After Honor’s return to Manticore, he retains his title and she is made a Duchess. [AOV]

 

Harrington, Duchy of. Duchy created for Honor Harrington by Queen Elizabeth III. Its total population is about two thousand by the time she takes command of Sidemore Station. [WOH]

 

Harrington, Faith Katherine Honor Stephanie Miranda. Daughter of Alfred and Allison Harrington, twin sister of James Harrington. She is Honor Harrington’s successor as Steadholder Harrington. [AOV]

 

Harrington House. Governance center and steadholder’s residence in Harrington Steading. The East Portico is the main public entrance. Its gardens have no native plants. [FIE]

 

Harrington, Lady Dame Honor Stephanie, Steadholder Harrington and Duchess Harrington. [Note. The definitive biography of her is found in The Universe of Honor Harrington, the final story in More Than Honor.] A native of Sphinx, [OBS]; the only child of Dr. Alfred and Dr. Allison Harrington. [HOTQ]. She was adopted by a treecat whom she named Nimitz. [OBS] She is a member of the Third Stellar Missionary Communion (Reformed). [FIE] She is a genie and needs to eat a lot because of her matabolism.

            Midshipwoman. She was sexually assaulted by Lord Pavel Young who she then severely beat. Although she refused to press charges or reveal the details, he was forced to apologize to her. She excelled at piloting and tactics but almost flunked out because of mathematics. She set an Academy sailplane record for combined altitude, aerobatics and duration. She graduated in the top ten percent overall although she was only two hundred thirty-seventh out of two hundred forty-one in math. [OBS] Michelle Henke describes her as a dunce at mathematics although possessed of an intuitive ability in astrogation. [WOHq] At some point she dated Cal Panokulous. She found out why Nimitz disliked him when she walked in on him with another woman. [SVW] While engaging in aerial combat, she accidentally cost Commandant Hartley victory in a regatta. [FOD] Her midshipwoman cruise was in HMS War Maiden in Silesia. On the cruise, she was subjected to Lieutenant Elvis Santino until he was relieved of being OCTO. He took a particular dislike to her and Nimitz, probably a result of his familiarity with Pavel Young. She proves herself capable of handling enlisted personnel and impresses the senior staff. After Santino is sent away with RMMS Sylvan Grove, she replaces him as Assistant Tactical Officer (ATO). Almost single-handedly, she not only prevents War Maiden’s destruction, but also destroys PSN Annika. For her efforts, Captain Bachfisch confirms her as ATO with the temporary rank of lieutenant (j.g.) and permanent rank of ensign. [COWm] Bachfisch refused to allow her to testify at his Court of Inquiry to spare her any chance of damaging her career by defending him. [WOH]

            Ensign to Fearless (CL-56). She spent eleven months as sailing master of HMS Osprey then as captain of LAC 113, an intra-system craft. [SVW] She was a tactical officer in HMS Basilisk. [SOTSw] After taking the commanding officer’s course, as a lieutenant commander she received command of HMS Hawkwing. While captain, the ship received the fleet “E” for tactics. At some point while in HMS Manticore, she earned the CGM and Monarch’s Thanks for saving lives when the ship’s forward power room exploded. [OBS] As executive officer in HMS Broadsword. She leads the rescue effort during the Attica Avalanche on Gryphon, [WOHh]; in 275 AL and was mentioned in dispatches. [SVW] As a lieutenant commander, she broke up a slavery base on Casimir, an act for which she was highly praised by Lady Catherine Montaigne. The action almost derailed her career but Raoul Courvoisier used his influence to twist the arms of some members of the Conservative Association to save her. [COWf]

            Fearless (CL-56). As a commander, commanding HMS Fearless (CL-56), she received the unenviable task of proving the grav lance. Thanks to an initial surprise success, she and the ship were “exiled” to Basilisk station where they foiled Operation Daedalus and destroyed RHMS Sirius. For her efforts, she was promoted two grades to Captain, Senior Grade and receives the Manticore Cross. [OBS] She is tried and convicted, in absentia, for the destruction of RHMS Sirius at Basilisk. Although the action is to cover the PRH’s false claim that Sirius is a purely civilian ship, the action is to have repercussions years later. [IEH]

            Fearless (CA-268). She assists ONI in Silesia in trying to analyze what appears to be a super grav-lace. Her use of her impellers to signal IANS Neue Bayern provides Hemphill with the idea that results in the RMN’s FTL communications system. [SOTSw] [SOTSw] She commands a small squadron sent to Grayson in support of Admiral Courvoisier’s diplomatic mission. When he is killed, she becomes senior officer. She ignores the Hon. Reginald Houseman’s order to evacuate and backhands him across the face for cowardice. At dinner with Protector Benjamin, Nimitz and she foil an assassination attempt on him but she is shot in the face and loses her left eye. She is given a letter of reprimand for striking Housesman but for successfully defending Grayson, particularly for preventing Thunder of God from attacking, she is knighted by Queen Elizabeth, created , awarded the Star of Grayson and created a Steadholder, the first woman in Grayson history to be one. In accepting the Steading, the Star Kingdom recognizes her as a Countess. [HOTQ]

            Nike. After recovering for almost a T-year, she receives command of HMS Nike and becomes Rear Admiral Sarnow’s flag captain. While at Hancock Station, she meets Paul Tankersley again and the two of them begin a passionate romance. When Sarnow is severely wounded in action, she takes command of Task Group Hancock 001 and attempts to keep the group together until Admiral Danislav arrives. After the battle, she is ordered to return Nike to Manticore for repairs. [SVW] To honor her, Queen Elizabeth III raises her to Colonel of Marines. She is vilified as the true villain in the Captain Lord Pavel Young’s court martial. After he becomes the Earl of North Hollow, Admiral White Haven suggests that she go to Grayson for a while. She is seated in the Conclave of Steadholders and, because she holds the Star of Grayson, is also the Protector’s Champion. While on Grayson she learns of Tankersley’s death and she returns to Manticore, deeply in shock. She goads The Honorable Denver Summervale into challenging her to a duel and kills him. She determines to kill North Hollow despite Admiral White Haven’s orders not to do so. The only way she can reach him is to be seated in the House of Lords, a ploy to challenge him. He treacherously shoots her while her back is turned and she and the Master of the Field kill him. She is relieved of command of Nike, placed on half pay and returns to Grayson to live. [FOD]

            Steadholder and GSN admiral. High Admiral Matthews prevails on her to accept a GSN commission as admiral and she commands Battle Squadron 1. Opposition to her as steadholder and a foreign “harlot” grows, led by Lord Burdette. A Sky Dome being built in Mueller Steading collapses, killing many children. She blames herself and even Nimitz is unable to “disagree” with her. When she learns that it was, sabotage and not an accident, she returns to Grayson to attend the Protector’s call for a meeting of the Conclave of Steadholders. She survives an assassination attempt when her pinnace is shot down although she is injured. When he names Lord Burdette as the guilty party, Burdette chooses trial by combat against the Protector’s Champion. she promptly kills him. She then commands the forces covering Yeltsin, defeating the PN’s Operation Dagger in the Fourth Battle of Yeltsin. She receives the Crossed Swords to append to her Star of Grayson. [FIE]

            Wayfarer. She is recalled to RMN service and given a squadron of four Q-ships to patrol the Silesian Confederacy designated Task Group 1037. Before Protector Benbjamin agrees to release her from Grayson service, he insists that the RMN recognize that while Captain Honor Harrington was subject to the RMN and its rules, Steadholder Honor Harrington was a sovereign ruler. The Manticoran press nicknames her “the Salamander” for her habit of being wherever the fire is hottest. She commands from HMAMC Wayfarer. She meets IAN Admiral von Rabenstrange and lays the groundwork for RMN-IAN cooperation. Among her captures is PNS Vaubon and she takes Warner Caslet prisoner. When she comes to the aid of RMMS Artemis, she is, again, brought into conflict with Klaus Hauptman. She lures PNS Achmed away from Artemis and they destroy each other in the engagement, with Wayfarer coming away slightly better. After they are rescued by Artemis, Hauptman apologizes to her. [HAE]

            Commodore. She serves on the Weapons Development Board after returning from Silesia. promoted to commodore, she is given command of Cruiser Squadron 18 in the newly forming Eighth Fleet. During a dinner party, through her link with Nimitz, she realizes that Admiral White Haven is attracted to her. Afraid of what this may mean, she volunteers to protect a convoy. On the trip, she visits HMS Prince Adrian to celebrate Alistair McKeon’s birthday. Unaware that the PN has retaken the Adler System, they are confronted by a PN task group. After ensuring the survival of the convoy, she orders the battered Prince Adrian to surrender. At Barnett, Cordelia Ransom orders that she be taken to Hades and to be executed as a convicted murderer for the destruction of RHMS Sirius at Basilisk. She then launches Nimitz in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Ransom. Her prosthetic eye and nerves are burned out on Ransom’s orders. Shortly after arrival at Hades, Harkness leads a breakout of the RMN prisoners and she is rescued. Refusing to leave Andrew LaFollet behind, she is seriously wounded, losing her left arm but escaping with the others to Hades. [IEH]

            Hades. She coordinates the effort to contact other prisoners, first making contact with those in Camp Inferno. Using Nimitz to “sample” the emotions of the others, they gain control of the camp. They then attack and take control of Styx. By luring several SS ships into range of the orbital forts, they gain control over them. Next, they take control of a task group composed of SS and PN units. Finally, when it becomes obvious that not all is right and an attacking force is sent, she coordinates the plan that results in the almost complete destruction of the force in what becomes known as the Battle of Cerberus. She then leads them with several hundred thousand prisoners to Trevor’s Star and return to Allied space. [EOH] In arguing for her to return to the Star Kingdom of Manticore, Anton Zilwicki tells Lady Catherine Montaigne that Harrington’s return from the grave alters the Manticoran political equation. [COWf]

            Return. Inadvertently, she created a Grayson Constitutional crisis by organizing the Elysian Space Navy having used her Grayson rank. Protector Benjamin averts it by creating the Protector’s Own Squadron composed of ESN ships and personnel interested in joining with Harrington as honorary commander. On return to Manticore, she is created Duchess Harrington and given a duchy from the Westmount Crown Reserve. She is jumped in rank to full admiral in the RMN. While she is treated for her facial injuries and adjusts to her new prosthetic arm and eye, she commands the ATC and teaches Introductory Tactics at the Academy. Thanks to her personal knowledge of Elvis Santino, she singlehandedly resurrects Commander Jaruwalski’s career. She purchases a new yacht, the Jamie Candless. During Queen Elizabeth III’s visit to Grayson, she prevents the assassination of the Queen and Protector but is unable to prevent HMS Queen Adrienne’s destruction. Elizabeth makes her a member of her personal advisors. [AOV]

            Sidemore Station. In an attempt to neutralize and discredit her and Earl White Haven, the High Ridge government begins a rumor campaign that they are having an affair. When Lady Emily Alexander publicly acknowledges her as a friend, the campaign loses strength. She is then assigned to take an under-strength unit, Task Force Thirty-Four, to take command of Sidemore Station. Protector Benjamin sends the Protector’s Own on a secret, extended deployment to supplement her command. She meets quietly with Admiral von Rabenstrange to defuse the potential explosive situation between the RMN and IAN. Her command is the only one in the RMN to inflict significant reverse on the RHN’s Operation Thunderbolt. She returns to Manticore after the fall of the High Ridge government. Lady Emily had spent much time talking with Samantha and she gives her blessing to Harrington and White Haven acting on their love for each other. [WOH]

            Wounds and injuries. Defending Protector Benjamin, she is shot at point blank range in the right cheek, breaking the zygomatic arch. She broke her nose when she fell. She suffers total mortality to the nerves on that side of her face although her aural nerve is untouched. The cornea is lacerated by glass and debris and the eye has to be removed. [HOTQ] Because she does not respond to regen treatments, she has to be given artificial nerves. The prosthetic eye has a zoom function. It takes almost a T-year to recover sufficiently to be certified for duty. [SVW] She is badly battered and suffers a broken rib in the crash of her pinnace when it is shot down. She also suffers a scalp wound. Three more ribs are broken when her vest stops the bullets that had killed Reverend Hanks. [FIE] Her prosthetic eye and artificial nerves are burned out to deactivate them after she is captured by the PN. During the escape, she suffers a flechette wound to the leg. Rather than leave Andrew LaFollet behind, she rescues him. While escaping, her left arm is so severely wounded that Dr. Montoya can only amputate it. [IEH] The prosthetic arm has a pulser with a thirty round magazine built into it. [WOH]

            Nimitz. She was adopted by him when she was sixteen. [IEH] At the time of her first visit to Grayson, she is becoming aware that she can sense other people’s emotions through him. His reaction to the assassins from the Brotherhood of Maccabeus warned her, prompting her to act in time. [HOTQ] She is aware that he does something for her when she is angry but she cannot define what it is. [SVW] She guesses that Tankersley, MacGuinness and Michelle Henke have figured out that the bond she shares with Nimitz is much deeper than other bond pairs share. [FOD] Once again, his quick reactions may have prevented her being shot when he takes down one of the assassins who shot down her pinnace. [FIE] She has visited Nimitz’s clan in their home. She is able to receive images from him. [HAE] Although Samantha had not adopted her, as her guardian and Nimitz’s mate, she is given an assignment that does not endanger her or the ‘cats. At the moment she launches him in an attempt to kill Cordlia Ransom, their link suddenly deepens. She is able to maintain the link with him even though they are a great distance away from each other. The sure knowledge that he is still alive helps keep her going. [IEH] They are the first pair to achieve two-way communication. At her mother’s suggestion, she retains a linguist who succeeds in creating a sign language by which the treecats can communicate with each other and with humans. [AOV]

            Miscellaneous. In addition to her other awards, she is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Order. [SVW] Thomas Theisman cannot believe the RMN is so stupid that they would beach her. [FIE] Thanks to Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd., she is probably the richest person on Grayson. [HAE] She received the Sidemore Presidential Medal for freeing the system from Andrew Warnecke. She purchases a Star Falcon-class yacht and names her RMS Paul Tankersley. [IEH] Esther McQueen characterizes her as possibly the best RMN commander. She purchases a yacht to use on Grayson and names her Jamie Candless. [AOV] Her name among the People is Dances on Clouds. [COWc] The PRH considers her their greatest nemesis but she is also their favorite example of the injustices of elitist rule. [COWf] She is the only RMN officer authorized to wear the Grayson insignia for the Protector’s Own Squadron on her uniform. [WOH]

 

Harrington, James Andrew Benjamin. Son of Alfred and Allison Harrington, twin brother of Faith Harrington. [AOV]

 

Harrington, Jason. Author of a well-known treatise on treecats. [WOHw]

 

Harrington, Marjorie. Mother of Stephanie Harrington, wife of Richard Harrington. She is a xeno-botanist. [MTHb]

 

Harrington Neurological Clinic. Hospital specializing in neurology established by Honor Harrington in the Steading of Harrington. They cure Henri and Harriet Benson-Dessouix of the neurological impairment cause by false-potatoes. [AOV]

 

Harrington, Richard. Stephanie Harrington’s father. He is a xeno-veterianarian. He is an expert hang-glider. [MTHb]

 

Harrington Space Facility. Newest space facility on Grayson located more than ten kilometers from Harrington City. [FIE]

 

Harrington Steadholder’s Guard. Steadholder Honor Harrington’s armsmen, commanded by Colonel Hill. [FOD] Of the twelve armsmen who accompany her in HMAMC Wayfarer, five are killed. [HAE] A separate section is created to0 provide security for Faith and James Harrington. [AOV] They are the only non-Manticorans allowed to carry weapons on Saganami Island. [WOH] See also

Blacket, Luke

Candless, James

Hawke, Spencer

Howard, Eddy

LaFollet, Andrew

Mattingly, Simon

Sully, Frederick

Tennard, Jeremiah

Whitehead, Anthony

Whitman, Robert

Yard, Arthur

 

Harrington, Steading of. The newest steading on Grayson; [FOD]; located on the continent of Goshen. [FIE] Its color is green and the coat of arms is a side-by-side representation of the western hemispheres of Grayson and Sphinx connected by a stylized key. Lord Clinkscales is the Regent. [FOD] Harrington City is the capital. [FIE] It attracts the more open-minded Graysons. [IEH] Many of the former prisoners from Hades who choose not to enter GSN service stay on in the steading. [AOV] See also Harrington Treecats; James Candless Memorial Field

 

Harrington, Dame Stephanie. Daughter of Richard and Marjorie Harrington and at the age of eleven T-years, the first human adopted by a treecat. She was born on Meyerdahl. She is a precocious girl who figures out how to obtain images of whatever has been stealing celery. Climbs Quickly, a treecat of the Bright Water Clan, becomes fascinated with her and her mind-glow. He comes to her assistance when she breaks a leg in a hang-gliding crash and protects her from a Sphinx hexapuma. When he is grievously wounded, she defends him and kills the hexapuma with a vibro-knife. During the incident, they bonded and when her father comes to rescue her, she takes Climbs Quickly with them to be treated. [MTHb] Treecats referred to her as Death Fang’s Bane and she named Climbs Quickly Lionheart. She rose to the rank of brigadier in the Sphinx Forestry Service and was awarded the Order of Merit although she declined the Order of the Star Kingdom. Simmons wrote a biography of her named Trailblazer of Dreams and Tsukie Akimoto painted the best-known portrait of her and Lionheart. [WOHw]

 

Harrington Sword. Formerly the Mueller Sword, it was awarded to Steadholder Harrington after she killed Lord Mueller. She brings it along with her on HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE] Captain the Honorable Michelle Henke carries it in Honor Harrington’s funeral in Landing. There was no controversy over whether it should be carried at the funeral on Manticore or Grayson because as the Protector’s Champion, the Protector’s Sword could be carried on Grayson. [EOH]

 

Harrington Treecats. Grayson professional league baseball team from Harrington Steading. They were originally named the Salamanders and Harrington had a great deal of trouble getting them renamed. [WOH]

 

Harris. GSN commander, Admiral Yanakov’s operations officer. [HOTQ]

 

Harris. Masadan armed forces colonel, commander of ground forces at Blackbird Base. He surrenders to Royal Manticoran Marines. [HOTQ]

 

Harris. RMN lieutenant, tactical officer in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ]

 

Harris. RMN engineering petty officer in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Harris. RMN chief petty officer, helmsman in HMS Prince Adrian, [IEH]; killed during the taking of Styx. [EOH]

 

Harris. Female PRH SS citizen major general, commander of the task group that was to bring prisoners from Hades to Seabring after its recapture. She died from a cerebral hemorrhage. [EOH]

 

Harris. RMMC sergeant in HMS Gauntlet. He is on the landing party on Refuge and is killed in action. [SOTSs]

 

Harris, Shawn. RMN lieutenant commander, tactical officer in HMS Jessica Epps. [WOH]

 

Harris, Sidney. Hereditary President of the People’s Republic of Haven. [OBS] He, along with most other Legislaturists and their families, are killed during Rob Pierre’s coup d’état. [SVW]

 

Harrison. Andrew Warnecke’s personal pilot. Honor Harrington shoots him to death. [HAE]

 

Harrison. Citizen Vice Admiral Tourville’s staff communications officer. [AOV]

 

Harston System. Star system in the Silesian Confederacy, one of those patrolled by HMS Jessica Epps. [WOH]

 

Hart. Masadan navy lieutenant, communications officer in Thunder of God. [HOTQ]

 

Hartley. Commandant of the Royal Manticoran Navy Academy when Honor Harrington was a midshipwoman. [OBS]

 

Harvard University. University on Old Earth from which Protector Benjamin earned a bachelor’s degree at its Bogota campus. [HOTQ]

 

Harvest Joy, HMS. RMN ship commanded by Captain Josepha Zachary, the ship assigned to investigate the newly discovered wormhole. [WOH]

            Crew. See

Hooja, Arswendo

Jefferson, Wilson

Thatcher, Rochelle

Tobias

 

Haskins, Jason. GSN captain, captain of GSNS Isaiah MacKenzie, Rear Admiral Trikoupis’ flag captain. [AOV]

 

Haskins, Mason. RMN lieutenant, executive officer in HMS Troubadour. [HOTQ]

 

Hassan, Operation. Black operation authorized by Rob Pierre and planned by Oscar Saint-Just. Using Masadan agents, they plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth III and Protector Benjamin Mayhew IX. Using Lord Mueller as their dupe, they smuggle transmitters onto Benjamin and Elizabeth’s persons on which a missile can home. Honor Harrington intercepts the missile heading for Grayson One but the other destroys HMS Queen Adrienne, killing the Duke of Cromarty and other senior members of the Manticoran government as well as the counterparts in Benjamin’s government. This results in a new government being formed by the Conservative Association, Liberals and Progressives that agrees to the truce offered by Saint-Just. [AOV]

 

Hathaway, Megan. PN captain, Admiral Theisman’s chief of staff of staff. [IEH]

 

Haughton. RMN commander, executive officer in HMS Manticore. He is a native of Gryphon. [EOH]

 

Hauptman Cartel. One of the most, if not the most, powerful commercial enterprises in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. It is owned and operated by Klaus Hauptman. Among their subsidiaries is Christy and Sons. [OBS] Hauptman Lines is a subsidiary. Its headquarters is in the underground sections of the Hauptman family home. [HAE] Gryphon Minerals Ltd. and Hauptman Yards Ltd. are subsidiaries. They invest heavily in Blackbird Yard. [EOH]

 

Hauptman, Eric. Father of Klaus Hauptman. [HAE]

 

Hauptman Foundation. Foundation established by Klaus Hauptman’s father, the board of which is chaired by Stacey Hauptman. Because of Klaus, one of its major aims is stamping out genetic slavery. [COS]

 

Hauptman, Heinrich. Ancestor of Klaus Hauptman. He was a “zero-balancer”, a person who was unable to pay their own passage to Manticore. [OBS]

 

Hauptman, Jessica. RMN lieutenant, a member of ONI Tech Team Four. [SOTSw]

 

Hauptman, Klaus. Owner and chief executive officer of the Hauptman Cartel. [OBS] He has one daughter, Stacey. [HAE] He is one of the richest men in the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Honor Harrington threatens to challenge him to a duel and kill him if he ever threatens her parents again. [OBS] He leads the move to have Honor Harrington returned to active RMN service, hoping that she can either make a difference in the Silesian Confederacy or be killed in the process, or both. He travels to the Confederacy aboard RMMS Artemis and, again, shows himself to be petty when it comes to dealing with Harrington. He comes around thanks to his daughter who refuses to talk to him unless he apologizes for his behavior. [HAE] He and Stacey keep an eye on Honor Harrington’s business affairs for her, [AOV]; and strongly express their support for her when the false rumors regarding her and Earl White Haven are spread. [WOH]

 

Hauptman Lines. Shipping and passenger line of the Hauptman Cartel. [HAE]

 

Hauptman, Stacey. Klaus Hauptman’s daughter. She is an extremely attractive and intelligent woman who he has groomed as his successor in running the Cartel. She accompanies him on RMMS Artemis and severely chastises him for his treatment of Honor Harrington. She refuses to talk to him until he apologizes to Harrington. [HAE] She and her father keep an eye on Honor Harrington’s business affairs for her, [AOV] and strongly express their support for her when the false rumors regarding her and Earl White Haven are spread. [WOH] She chairs the board of the Hauptman Foundation. [COS]

 

Hauser. IAN commander, Admiral von Rabenstrange’s intelligence officer. [HAE]

 

Haven. Central planet of the PRH, located about three hundred light years from Manticore. Two-thirds of its populations are Dolists. The capital of the planet and the PRH is Nouveau Paris. [SVW] The first shuttle to land on it was in 1309 P.D. It’s day is 24.56 standard hours long, the year is 412.25 local days, divided into thirteen months, nine of thirty-two days and four of thirty-one days. The short months are the third, fifth, tenth and twelfth. Every four years the third month is thirty-two days. [MTHu] See also

DuQuesne Tower

Equality

Fraternity

Hoskins Tower

Institute

Liberty

New Octagon

Noueveau Paris

The Octagon

People’s Tower

pseudogrizzly

Regional Intervention Battalions

  Headuqarters

Rochelle Tower

Rousseau Planetary University

 

Haven, People’s Republic of/Republic of (PRH/ROH). [Note. A brief history of Haven is found in section 6(c) of The Universe of Honor Harrington [MTHu].] Star nation centered on Haven and governed by a hereditary ruling class called Legislaturists. The vast majority, the underclass, is known as Dolists. The PRH is forced with the necessity of constantly expanding to meet its growing economic needs. The Star Kingdom of Manticore, particularly the Manticoran military, refer to them as the Peeps. [HOTQ] One of the ploys of the Legislaturists was to use anti-slavery action as a justification for expansion. [COWf] Nouveau Paris is the capital. A coup détat led by Rob Pierre kills the Legislaturists and their families and takes control of the government in the name of the Committee of Public Safety. [SVW] One of the first reforms under Pierre is to begin employing the Dolists, playing on the revolutionary fervor generated by elimination of the Legislaturists. [FOD] Despite promises and good intentions, Pierre finds it almost impossible to begin the reforms that are needed. Propaganda focuses popular discontent on the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the necessity for continuing the battle against their “war of aggression.” [FIE] A group calling themselves the Levelers and led by a man named LaBoeuf stage a rebellion on Haven. They are stopped by a bombardment from space by Esther McQueen but at the cost of millions of lives. The education system is primitive by comparison to other star nations because under the Legislaturists, there was no reason to educate the Dolists. [IEH] It was the habit of the Legislaturists to attack other star systems without a declaration of war. At the time of Operation Icarus, it becomes necessary to deflate the currency and simultaneously decrease the BLS. [EOH] After both Operation Bagration and the Alliance’s Operation Buttercup kick off, Pierre and Saint-Just decide to dispense with Esther McQueen. When she learns of this, she attempts a coup which is put down with the destruction of the Octagon, although Pierre is killed. After the death of the Duke of Cromarty and the new Manticoran government headed by the Liberals and Conservative Association replaces it, Saint-Just cynically sues for a truce before the Alliance is able to defeat the PRH and the offer is accepted. Citizen Admiral Theisman is summoned to command Capital Fleet. He leads an assault by PN and PM forces on the People’s Tower and he personally kills Saint-Just. [AOV] The monetary standard is electronic transactions related to a person’s identity chip. Metal currency is standard in the black market. [SOTSl] Following Theisman’s coup, there is unrest in several sectors including the Ja’al Sector and Tetra Sector. [SOTSf] After Saint-Just’s death, a Constitutional Convention was held that readopted the pre-Legislaturist Constitution. Four years of fruitless negotiations follow while the RHN pursues new developments in a program named Bolthole. When Secretary of State Giancola begins altering diplomatic messages, Prtichart loses her patience and orders the resumption of hostilities. With the exception of Trevor’s Star, virtually all systems taken by the Alliance are retaken and Erewhon signs a mutual defense treaty. [WOH] See also

Alto Verde System

Aprilists

Barnett System

Cerberus System

Citizens’ Rights Party

Citizens’ Rights Union

Clarke System

Classified Information Act

Committee of Public Safety

Corrigan System

Danak System

Danville

Economic Bill of Rights

Enki

Garches

Hades

Helmsport System

Information Control Act

Internal Security

Ja’al Sector

Jameston System

La Martine Sector

La Martine System

Lannes System

Legislaturists

Levelers

Lois

MacGregor System

Mathias System

Midsummer

Montague System

Mylar System

New Geneva

New Octagon

The Octagon

Owens System

Parnassians

Paroa System

Pegasus System

People’s Navy (PN)

Presidential Security Force

President’s Day

Proctor Three

Public Order Police

Re-Socialization Centers

Sarawak System

Seabring System

Secour System

Shilo System

Slocum System

Solway System

State Security, Office of

Supreme Judicial of the People’s

  Justice

Tambourine

Tarragon System

Technical Conservation Act of

  1778 P.D.

Tetra Sector

Treadway

Ventane Sector

Zeroists

 

Haven System. Capital system of the People’s Republic of Haven. It is 667 light years from Earth. [MTHu]

 

Havensport, PNS. PN DN, sister ship of PNS Kaplan. She is damaged in the Battle of Hancock. [SVW]

 

Haverty. RMN petty officer in RMAMC Waufarer. [HAE]

 

Haverty, Yolanda. RMN ensign in HMS Broadsword. [WOHh]

 

Havlicek, Alessandra One of the ruling triumvirate of Erewhon. [COS]

 

Havlicek, Freddie. Person who Naomi Imbesi attempted to seduce, an incident that her uncle had to hush up. [COS]

 

Havoc, HMS. RMN DD, one of the ships destroyed by the PN during their provoking attacks before the Battle of Hancock. [SVW]

 

Hawke, Spencer. Harrington Steadholder’s Guard armsman first class, one of Honor Harrington’s personal armsmen. [WOH]

 

Hawkwing, HMS. RMN DD, Honor Harrington’s first hyper-capable command. [OBS] Under the command of Commander Gene Usher, she accompanies HMS Artemis to the Silesian Confederacy. She is destroyed defending Artemis from attack by PN ships. [HAE]

Crew. See

Donevski

Marcos, Alicia

Sargent, James

Hearns, Lord Aaron. Steadholder Owens, the father of at least three daughters including Abigail Hearns. [AOV] He attends the ceremony where she receives the CGM, making him the first steadholder, other than Honor Harrington, to visit Saganami Island. [SOTSs]

 

Hearns, Abigail. GSN midshipwoman at the Royal Manticoran Naval Academy, the first female Grayson to attend. She is the third daughter of Aaron Hearns, Steadholder Owens. She spent years working on her father about becoming an officer like Honor Harrington. She “demanded” the right to help avenge her “death” and when she reached the age of twenty-two, her father conceded. She is in Harrington’s Introductory Tactics class, [AOV]; and earns ten invitations to dinner. She is among the first Graysons to receive prolong therapies. She does her midshipwoman cruise in HMS Gauntlet. According to the Manticoran Foreign Office, she has the equivalent status of a princess. Captain Oversteegen selects her to command the landing party that contacts the Fellowship of the Elect on Refuge. When the ship is forced to go into hyper when attacked, she, the crew and Marines with her are forced to land and defend themselves from Haicheng’s Ringstorff’s men. She distinguishes herself, impressing Marine Sergeant Gutierrez. For her actions, she is awarded the CGM. [SOTSs]

 

Heathrow, Edgar. PN citizen lieutenant commander, captain of a small craft. [EOH]

 

Hebrew. Language spoken in the Judean League. [EOH]

 

Hecate, RHNS. RHN Trojan-class DD commanded by Lieutenant Commander Dumais and assigned to Second Fleet in Silesia. She is observed by Pirate’s Bane in the Horus System, arousing the suspicion of CAPTAIN Bachfisch who then shadows her through hyper-space. [WOH]

            Crew. See Singleterry, Stephanie

 

Hector, HMS. RMN ship, Rear Admiral Meiner’s flagship. [FIE]

Crew. See Lewis

 

Hector, RHNS. RHN DD assigned to Second Fleet in Silesia. She engages Pirate’s Bane and is destroyed with only forty-one survivors. [WOH]

 

Hector von Dragen, PNS. PRH SSN SD commanded by Citizen Captain Jillian Gallanti, one of the SDs assigned to monitor the PN ships in the La Martine Sector squadron. Seven officer and twenty-three crewmembers were arrested in the first week of Victor Cachat’s investigation. After Gallanti is killed, she is succeeded by Citizen Captain Wright. [SOTSf]

            Crew. See

Alouette, Henri

Ballon, Edouard

Carson, Kit

Citizen, Diane

Enquien, Rita

Gottleib, Bob

Rolla, Jaime

Saunder

Tarack

 

Hedges. Female prisoner on Hades, called as a witness at Citizen Lieutenant Mangrum’s trial. [EOH]

 

Hedges, John. RMN lieutenant, a boat officer in HMS Broadsword. [WOHh]

 

Heemskerk, Alasdair. PRH SSN citizen rear admiral, one of the squadron commanders assigned to Twelfth Fleet. When he orders Citizen Vice Admiral Tourville aboard his ship on the orders of Oscar Saint-Just, Shannon Foraker activates the computer codes that destroy the SSN ships. [AOV]

 

Heinlein Maneuver. During the Lunar Revolt of 39 A.D., the rebellious colonists dropped cargo shuttles loaded with rock into Earth’s gravity well. [EOH] [Note. The name is derived from a similar occurrence in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-1988).]

 

Heinrich. Neurologist on Manticore who works with Dr. Alfred Harrington on Honor Harrington’s injuries and prostheses. [AOV]

 

Heinrich. An elder of the Fellowship of the Elect on Refuge. [SOTSs]

 

Heisman. RMN chief petty officer in HMS War Maiden. [COWm]

 

Helen, Mother. Honor Harrington’s Third Stellar Missionary Communion (Reformed) religious teacher when she was a child. [FIE]

 

Helft. PRH SSN citizen commodore, commander of the SSN squadron keeping an eye on Capital Fleet. His units destroy two PN SDs that might have been attempting to support Esther McQueen’s coup. [AOV]

 

Hell. Name by which most prisoners refer to Hades. [EOH]

 

Hellbarde, IANS. IAN CA commanded by Käpitan der Sterne Guangfu Gortz. She shadows HMS Jessica Epps, conducting subtle provocations. When Jessica Epps orders a ship falsely transmitting an Andermani transponder code, she opens fire. In the engagement she is pounded into a wreck although Jessica Epps is destroyed. [WOH]

 

Helmsport System. Star system captured by the PRH. Members of the Helmsport Navy are prisoners on Hades. [EOH]

 

Helpern. RMN captain, an officer in System Command Central. [HAE]

 

hemlock. Type of tree native to Manticore that bears little resemblance to the hemlock of Earth. [OBS]

 

Hemphill, Lady Sonja. RMN Admiral of the Red, leader of the jeune ecole and nicknamed Horrible Hemphill by her detractors. Because of her ideas, HMS Fearless (CL-56) is equipped with a grav lance. [OBS] She personally assigns Rafael Cardones to ONI Tech Team Four. She gets the idea for FTL communications using gravitic sensors from Honor Harrington’s use of her impeller to signal IANS Neue Bayern, [SOTSw]; and Harrington hates to admit that she did something right. [HOTQ] She serves on the court martial of Captain Lord Pavel Young and proposes the compromise to convict him but spare him the death sentence. She is a cousin of Sir Edward Janacek and heir to the Barony of Low Delhi. [FOD] Janacek gives her credit for all the developments in the RMN that led to the success of Operation Buttercup although she all but publicly disassociated herself from the High Ridge government because of her basic diagreement with them over naval policy. After the fall of the High Ridge government, she is returned to command of BuWeaps. [WOH]

 

Henderson. PM citizen brigadier, one of the commanders loyal to Esther McQueen during her attempted coup. [COWn]

 

Henderson, George. PRH SS citizen captain, part of Oscar Saint-Just’s security force. [MTHw]

 

Hendricks, Edward. Manticoran ambassador to the Solarian League. Anton Zilwicki uncovers proof that he has availed himself of the services of Manpower at their “pleasure resorts.” [COWf] When this is revealed by Catherine Montaigne, he is recalled from Earth, [WOH]; tried and sentenced to prison. [COS]

 

Hendrickson. One of the ships in Andrew Warnecke’s “navy.” She is destroyed by RMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Hendrickson System. One of the star systems in the Chalice Cluster. [HAE]

 

Henke, the Honorable Calvin. Son of Lord Edward Henke and Duchess Caitrin Winton-Henke, brother of Michelle Henke. [EOH] He is among those killed when the Masadans destroy HMS Queen Adrienne. [AOV]

 

Henke, Edward, Earl of Gold Peak. Manticoran peer of the realm, husband of Duchess Caitrin Winton-Henke, father of Michelle and Calvin Henke. [EOH] He is among those killed when the Masadans destroy HMS Queen Adrienne. [AOV]

 

Henke, Lady Michelle, Countess Gold Peak. RMN officer. She is the daughter of the Earl of Gold Peak and Duchess Caitrin Winton-Henke and younger sister of the Honorable Calvin Henke. [AOV] She is a lieutenant at the time of the death of her uncle, King Roger III. [WOHq] As a commander, executive officer in HMS Nike. She is a cousin of the Queen. She and Honor Harrington roomed together for three T-years at the Naval Academy where she helped Harrington through mathematics and the intricacies of social events. It was she who reported Lord Pavel Young’s attempted rape to the Commandant. [SVW] Promoted to captain (j.g.), she commands HMS Agni. She brings Harrington the news of the death of Paul Tankersley. [FOD] She is promoted to captain of the list. [IEH] She carries the Harrington Sword in Honor Harrington’s funeral procession in Landing. [EOH] She commands HMS Edward Saganami. After her father and brother are killed, she becomes Countess Gold Peak. [AOV] She is promoted to commodore. After the death of her father and brother, she stands fifth in the line of succession. [WOH]

 

Henneman, Roland. Host of The Henneman Hour, a political analysis and commentary program in the ROH. He had been an employee of PubIn. Under Rob Pierre, he amassed a sufficient fortune to finance a cartel to purchase a portion of the broadcast studios and equipment when PubIn was dismantled. [WOH]

 

Hennesey. RMN admiral, commander at Seaford Nine before Rear Admiral Santino. [EOH]

 

Hennesy System. Star system with which the Phoenix terminus of the Manticore Wormhole Junction is associated. [COS]

 

Henries, Sir Alfred. RMN admiral, commander of a battle squadron. He came up through the ranks having started in the merchant service. [FIE]

 

Henry. RMMC sergeant in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ]

 

Hephaestus, HMSS. RMN space station in orbit of Medusa. It is commanded by Vice Admiral of the Red Sir Craig Warner, [OBS]; then Vice Admiral Cheviot. It is the RMN’s premier shipyard. [SVW] At its core is Dempsey’s Restaurant. [FOD]

 

Hera. Female treecat, the oldest of those from Nimitz’s clan who migrate to Grayson. The others defer to her. [IEH] She and Nelson “assault” Lord Mueller when he meets them, tearing his clothing but leaving him untouched. [AOV]

 

Hera System. Star system in the Saginaw Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE]

 

Hereux, Sarah. PN citizen commander, a member of Citizen Vice Admiral Abbot’s staff officers. [FIE]

 

Hernando, Oliver. RMN commander, tactical officer in HMAMC Scheherezade. [HAE]

 

Herndon. PN citizen captain, captain of PNS Shaldon. He dies of heart attack before the attack on Basilisk. [EOH]

 

Hero, RHNS. RHN SD(P), flagship of Battle Squadron 21 and Rear Admiral Zrubek in Second Fleet. She is damaged, including the destruction of her flag bridge, in the Second Battle of Sidemore. [WOH]

 

Herrick, Jake. PN citizen commander, officer in PNS Kerebin. [HAE]

 

Hewitt. RMN rear admiral, commander of Sidemore Station until replaced by Admiral Honor Harrington. [WOH]

 

Hewitt, Alfred. PN citizen captain, captain of PNS Count Tilly, Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville’s flag captain. [IEH]

 

Hewlett. PN citizen commander, captain of PNS DeConde. [FIE]

 

hexapuma, Sphinx. Predatory animal that preys on cragsheep. [HOTQ] Their claws are ten centimeters long. Treecats refer to them as death fangs. [MTHb]

 

Heyerdahl. Governor of the Brennan System. It is believed that he has a private arrangement with the system’s criminal elements although he does not seem to be connected to slavery. [WOH]

 

Heywood, the Honorable Astrid. RMNA midshipwoman assigned to HMS Intransigent for her midshipwoman cruise. She is the daughter of Baroness White Springs. [SOTSp]

 

Hibson, Kalindi. Husband of Liesell Hibson and father of Ranjit and Susan Hibson. He is a native of Manticore but is a specialist analyst on Unicorn Eleven. [WOHh]

 

Hibson, Liesell. Wife of Kalindi Hibson and mother of Ranjit and Susan Hibson. She is a native of Manticore but is a specialist analyst on Unicorn Eleven. [WOHh]

 

Hibson, Ranjit. Susan Hibson’s brother, son of Kalindi and Liesell Hibson. He and Susan are among those trapped in the Attica Avalanche. He is five T-years older than Susan. [WOHh]

 

Hibson, Susan. RMMC officer. She is the daughter of Kalindi and Liesell Hibson. More than anything else, she wants to become a Marine. As a child she and her older brother Ranjit, were caught in the Attica Avalanche. She is able to escape from their ski-lift car and dig her way to the surface where she is located by Nimitz. For her bravery, Honor Harrington arranges for the RMMC to reserve a slot in Occifcer Candidate School for her when she is old enough. [WOHh] As a captain in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ] Promoted to major, she becomes executive officer of the Marine contingent in HMS Nike. She participates in the “training mission” on Gryphon that locates The Honorable Denver Summervale. She chews gum. [FOD] Promoted to major she commands the Marines in HMAMC Wayfarer. She loses her right leg during the engagement against PNS Achmed. [HAE]

 

Hibson’s orchid. Flower native to Indus. It is bell-shaped with deep purples and blues with a deep-throated golden core shot with scarlet. It is among the flowers cultivated by Protector Benjamin. [FIE]

 

Hideyoshi. Rabbi on Erewhon, one of Hieronymous Stein’s closest friends. He crowns Berry Zilwicki Queen of Congo. [COS]

 

Higgins. Corporal of the Mueller Steadholder’s Guard. [AOV]

 

Higgins, Allen. RMN Admiral of the Red, commander of Grendelsbane Station. When he realizes the system cannot be held against Operation Thunderbolt, he orders its evacuation and the complete destruction of all infrastructure and ships being built in its yards. His flagship is HMS Indomitable. [WOH]

 

Higgins, James. RMN lieutenant commander, chief engineer in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ]

 

High Clan. The People’s name for the House of Winton. [COWc]

 

High Court. Supreme judicial body on Grayson. [FIE]

 

High Crag Clan. Treecat clan that neighbors the Bright Water Clan. They were once forced to expel a scout who had attacked other members of the clan. [MTHb]

 

High Ridge, Baron of. See Janvier, Michael, Baron of High Ridge

 

High Sligo, Duchy of. Alexander family home on Manticore. [OBS] The Location of the RMMC’s Camp Justin. [FOD]

 

High Threadmore, Borough of. Borough on Manticore whose Member of Parliament resigns to accept a lucrative position with a Solarian banking firm. After renouncing her noble title, Catherine Montaigne is elected to replace him. [WOH]

 

Highlands. Area of the Canmore Republic. [WOHd]

 

Hightower, Baron. Manticoran Commissioner of Planetary Affairs on Medusa who preceded Dame Estelle Matsuko. [OBS]

 

Hill. GSN captain, commander of Orbit Four. [HOTQ]

 

Hill. Colonel commanding the Harrington Steading Guards. [FOD]

 

Hill. RMMC major, commander of the Marines in HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Hill, John. Manticoran diplomatic officer assigned to the mission to Masada. It is likely that he is actually an intelligence agent. [SOTSp]

 

Hill, Tanith. RMN vice admiral, commander of the Bureau of Training. [EOH]

 

Hillman Sector. Sector in the Silesian Confederacy. Its only inhabited star system is the Hillman System. [HAE]

 

Hillman System. Star system, the only inhabited system in the Hillman Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. [HAE]

 

Hillyard, Al. PN lieutenant in Masadan service, tactical officer in Principality. [HOTQ]

 

Hillyard, Sharon. RMMC corporal in HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS]

 

Hindemith. RHN commander, an officer, possibly staff, in Second Fleet. [WOH]

 

Hines, Judson. GSN lieutenant, captain of the GNLAC Intrepid. [AOV]

 

Hipper. Treecat, among those from Nimitz’s clan who migrate to Grayson. [IEH] He adopts Rachel Mayhew. [EOH]

 

Hirake, Janice. RMN lieutenant commander, tactical officer in HMS War Maiden. She does not like having to carry a side arm. [COWm]

 

Hiroshio, Avram. RMN space suit technician in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

HMAMC. Her Majesty’s Armed Merchant Cruiser, official designation for the Caravan-class Q-ships. [HAE]

 

Hobbard, Sonura. Xeno-biologist at the Xenology Institute on Sphinx. [WOHs] She made the first attempt to teach sign language to treecats. She was one of the first scientists from outside the Star Kingdom of Manticore to study the ‘cats extensively, spending fifteen years in the attempt. [AOV]

 

Hobbs, Muhammed. Chicago Police lieutenant, an associate and friend of Anton Zilwicki. [COWf]

 

Hodges, Lawrence. Grayson Councilor for Interstellar Affairs. He is among those killed when the Masadans destroy HMS Queen Adrienne. [AOV]

 

Hodgkins, Bryce. RMN Rear Admiral of the Red, a watch commander in the Pit. [AOV]

 

Hoffner, Ruihan. IAN Käpitan Leutnant, communications officer in IANS Gangying. [WOH]

 

Hofschulte, Gregor. Andermani Marines lieutenant colonel, a veteran of almost thirty T-years. With absolutely no warning, he drew a sidearm and hot Prince Huang, Emperor Gustav’s younger brother, and his family. The Prince and his wife survived but one of the children was killed. Several members of Andermani security believe he had been “adjusted” to commit the crime. As a result of what became known as the Hofschulte Incident, no one is allowed armed in the presence of members of the Imperial family. [WOH]

 

Hofschulte, Laura. Royal Manticoran Army platoon sergeant in the Queen’s Own Regiment. She is killed defending Princess Ruth and Berry Zilwicki in The Wages of Sin. [COS]

 

Holcombe, Ed. PN captain, Admiral Rollins’ chief-of-staff. [SVW]

 

Holderman, George. RMN Rear Admiral of the Green. He is one of the officers evaluating the LAC carrier concept and he clearly opposes it. [EOH]

 

Holdt. Inhabitant of hope, a farmer. [MTHg]

 

Hollister. Town on Meyerdahl where the Harringtons lived before moving to Sphinx. [MTHb]

 

Holmes. RMN surgeon lieutenant in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Holtz, Stephen. PN citizen captain, captain of PNS Achmed. He survives the ship’s destruction. [HAE]

 

Homer-class. RMN class of BCs. [SVW]

 

homosexuality. Graysons strongly disapprove of it because of the population composition and the tradition of men’s responsibility to care for women. [EOH]

 

Honeker, Everard. PRH people’s commissioner assigned to Citizen Rear Admiral Tourville. He and Tourville respect each other. He disapproves of Cordelia Ransom’s intention of executing Honor Harrington. By the time they reach the Cerberus System, he has virtually become Tourville’s ally. [IEH] He becomes extremely dissatisfied with the regime to the point of disaffection. [AOV]

 

Honor Harrington, GSNS. GSN Harrington-class SD(P) commanded by Captain Thomas Greentree, [AOV]; Admiral Judah Yankaov’s flagship. She is christened by Allison Harrington. [EOH] She is assigned to the Protector’s Own Squadron under the command of Captain Susan Phillips and is Admiral Yu’s flagship. [WOH]

 

Hood. Treecat, among those from Nimitz’s clan who migrate to Grayson. [IEH]

 

Hooja, Arswendo. RMN lieutenant commander, chief engineer in HMS Harvest Joy. [WOH]

 

Hope. Planet in the Solarian League, a world at one time occupied by the Alphane civilization. It was originally named Salamis and first settled by the Teutonic Order who renamed it Haupt. For a while it was capital of a four system empire but it soon sank into neo-barbarism. After being rediscovered it petitioned to join the League. The pronunciation of the name decayed until it became Hope. [MTHg] See also

Bakersfield Cordillera

Crystal Grotto

Kuepersberg

Six Pylons

 

Hopkins. PN citizen lieutenant commander, engineering chief in PNS Schaumberg. [EOH]

 

Horatius, HMS. RMN SD in Task Force Thirty-Four. She is damaged in the Second Battle of Sidemore. [WOH]

 

Horatius, SNS. Solarian Navy ship at Captain Rozsak’s disposal. [COS]

            Crew. See Carlson

 

Horner. PN admiral under the Legislaturists, one of those shot for allegedly being part of the Harris Assassination. [EOH]

 

Horus System. Star system in the Saginaw Sector of the Silesian Confederacy. It has an honest system governor. It is the only system in the sector that has an official Havenite diplomatic mission. [WOH]

 

Hoskins. Female RMN petty officer first class, a small boat pilot in HMS Gauntlet. [SOTSs]

 

Hoskins Tower. Dolist residence building in Nouveau Paris where Rob Pierre lives. It is four hundred stories high and a kilometer in diameter. [SVW]

 

Hotspur, HMS. RMN DD commanded by Lieutenant Commander McAllister, one of the escorts commanded by Captain Helen Zilwicki for the convoy bound for Grendelsbane Station. She is destroyed with the other escorts. [SVW]

 

Houghton, Simon. PN citizen lieutenant, astrogator in PNS Vaubon. [HAE]

 

Houseman, Arthur. RMN commander, Commodore Van Slyke’s chief-of-staff. He is a cousin of the Honorable Reginald Houseman. He conspires with Captain Lord Pavel Young to poison Van Slyke’s opinion of Honor Harrington. [SVW]

 

Houseman family. The Waldsheim Housemans are from New Bavaria. [SVW] Even Edward Janacek believes them to be hopelessly naïve and politically inept. [WOH]

 

Houseman, Jacqueline. Sister of the Honorable Reginald Houseman. Her nomination to the Crown Council of Financial Advisors was blocked by Queen Elizabeth III. [WOH]

 

Houseman, the Honorable Reginald. Manticoran diplomat, Admiral Courvoisier’s assistant to negotiate a treaty with Grayson. He had been a tenured professor in Mannheim University’s College of Economics and was selected to help Grayson with its economy. His family is a vocal supporter of the Liberal Party. When Masada attacks and after Courvoisier is killed, he panics and orders that all Manticoran personnel are to be evacuated from Grayson. Honor Harrington countermands his orders and when she realizes what a coward she is, she backhands him across the face, sending him sprawling. He lodges an official protest and she receives a reprimand in her file. [HOTQ] Although Queen Elizabeth III agrees that Harrington was out of line, speaking as a woman and not a queen, she tells Harrington she wishes that she had hit him harder. [FOD] Because of his actions in Grayson, his diplomatic career came to a screeching halt. Klaus Hauptman is contemptuous of him but uses him to help get through the House of Lords a motion to recall Honor Harrington to active RMN service. [HAE] He is among the people who attack the Cromarty Government after Operation Icarus. [EOH] In the High Ridge government, he is Second Lord of the Admiralty. He believes that all uniformed service personnel are stupid. [WOH]

 

Howard. Grayson physician, the Yanakov family physician. [HOTQ]

 

Howard. Private in the Harrington Steading Guard. He is seriously wounded in the attempt to murder Honor Harrington at Regiano’s. [FOD]

 

Howard. Personal servant of Baron High Ridge. [WOH]

 

Howard, Eddy. Harrington Steadholder’s Guard armsman, one of Honor Harrington’s usual travel party. [FIE] He is killed in the engagement between HMAMC Wayfarer and PNS Achmed. [HAE]

 

Howard, Irene. PN citizen ensign, communications officer in Citizen Lieutenant Commander Heathrow’s crew. [EOH]

 

Howard, Matt. Medusan Native Protection Agency trooper, killed in the detonation of a mekoha lab. [OBS]

 

Howell. RMMC sergeant in HMS Fearless (CL-56). [OBS]

 

Howell, Ambrose. Reporter for the Yawata Crossing Dispatch. [WOH]

 

Howell, Darrin. Corporal in the Queen’s Own Regiment, killed defending Princess Ruth and Berry Zilwicki in The Wages of Sin. [COS]

 

Howell, Earl of. See Kemeny, Willis, Earl of Howell

 

Howell, Jake. Accounting officer in Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. [FIE]

 

Huan-Ti, PNS. PRH SSN CA, one of the ships captured by Honor Harrington and the former prisoners from Hades. Harrington gives command of her to Lieutenant Commander Lethridge as ENS Huan-Ti. [EOH]

 

Huang, Kao. Solarian Marine lieutenant colonel, commander of Captain Rozsak’s Marine contingent. He was previously stationed on Boniface.

 

Hudson. RMN coxswain petty officer first class in HMS Prince Adrian. [FOD]

 

Huertes, Joan. Interstellar New Service anchorwoman in the PRH. [AOV] She covers the “execution” of Honor Harrington, [EOH]; and then attempts to get a comment from the Secretary of Public Information when she returns to Alliance space alive. [AOV]

 

Huff. PN citizen commander, Citizen Rear Admiral Darlington’s staff astrogator. [EOH]

 

Huggins. Masadan Elder, one of those most in favor of attacking Grayson. [HOTQ]

 

Hughes. RMN lieutenant in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ]

 

Hughes, Caroline. RHN captain, captain of RHNS Majestic, Admiral Tourville’s flag captain in Second Fleet. [WOH]

 

Hughes, Jennifer. RMN officer. As a lieutenant, she served in HMS Fearless (CA-286). [HOTQ] As a lieutenant commander, tactical officer in HMAMC Wayfarer. she is killed during the engagement against PNS Achmed. [HAE]

 

Hughes, Steve. Captain in Grayson Office of Planetary Security assigned to investigate Lord Mueller. He joins the Mueller Steadholder’s Guard where he rises to the rank of sergeant and is one of Mueller’s most trusted armsmen. He is killed by the Masadan agents with whom Mueller is dealing. [AOV]

 

Hume System. Star system inn the Breslau Sector of the Silesian Confederacy, part of HMAMC Gudrid’s patrol area. [HAE]

 

Hunley. Citizen chief petty officer, a chief of the watch in PNS Count Tilly. [EOH]

 

Hunter. RMN lieutenant commander, a LAC commander in HMAMC Wayfarer. [HAE]

 

Hunter, Byron. RMN captain, Admiral White Haven’s chief of staff. [HOTQ]

 

Hunter of Stars. The People’s name for Harold Tschu. [COWc]

 

Hurlman, Christine. COMMANDER, executive officer in RMMS Bonaventure. She chooses to remain behind and is captured with CAPTAIN Sukowski. She is repeatedly and savagely raped and beaten by the pirates who capture them. She was a keel-plate owner of Bonaventure and was originally fourth officer. She is, in many ways, the daughter Sukowski and his wife never haqd. [HAE]

 

Hurst, Albert. Helmsport Navy commander, a prisoner on Hades. He represents the Camp Inferno inmates on the court for the trials of SS personnel. [EOH]

 

Hurston, Mark. RMN captain, Vice Admiral Parks’ operations officer. [SVW]

 

Hydra, HMS. RMN Minotaur-class LAC carrier CLAC-19 commanded by Captain Adib. Commander Tremaine commands the LAC wing. [AOV]

            Crew. See