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::''Note: This is the 'Main' article for the Honor Harrington related Book Series and Sub-series by David Weber . The Honorverse is the semi-official name for the setting of a Military Science Fiction series of stories by David Weber featuring Honor Harrington , the Nelson esque heroine in a series reminiscent of C. S. Forester 's Horatio Hornblower Book Series . The books are popular in the United States and new releases regularly make '' The New York Times '' Best Seller List . HISTORY The universe first explored in '' and Suspended Animation ) and then, as a means of Faster Than Light travel was discovered and gradually developed, rapidly beyond. The hypothesized FTL system is a richly detailed Hyperspace mechanism, with some unique features such as the ability to "sail" along "gravity waves". One important feature of the hypothesized physics behind the tales is that there exist rare Wormhole s, by which properly equipped ships can travel virtually instantaneously between wormhole terminus points, vastly speeding interstellar travel along such routes. In practice, these are akin to choke point naval stations (fortified Port s, Cities , et cetera, in the Age Of Sail in the Caribbean , around the horns of Africa and South America , or places in the Far East like India , Ceylon , The East Indies or places near strategic straits like many in today's Indonesia ) or man-made routes such as the Panama and Suez canals. Possession of a wormhole provides the owner star nation an important revenue source from Tariff s and increased trading opportunities relative to star nations without such access. The analog to our world's extant , Matapan, Gregor, Basilisk, Trevor's Star '', and ''Phoenix'') as of the events in the first book of the series ''On Basilisk Station''. In the tenth novel of the series, '' War Of Honor '', a seventh terminus is discovered and explored and it is found to lead to a planetless M8 Red Dwarf near the inhabited Star named Lynx in the (so-called) Talbott Cluster . This became central to the first novel of a new sub-series, '' Shadow Of Saganami '', and in some of the short stories set after its discovery. Since the wormhole junction termini links are so similar to "Age of Sail"-like trade routes, the Star Kingdom of Manticore has a very important role in interstellar , the Republic Of Haven , the Andermani Empire , Mesa and its corporate powers, and the large, chaotic collection of mostly individual star-polities known by the Misnomer of the Silesian Confederacy , where pirates roam, and more or less everyone wants to do business, or conquer, or annex the mess. There are some other interesting historical parallels to Earth's Age of Sail built into the Honorverse. It is set primarily after Honor's October 1 , 3961 birth. Disruptive technological advances have been gradual in the Honorverse for most of the 500 years of the Star Kingdom of Manticore's existence, and as the series opens, that technological stagnation has led to a similar stagnation in both military Strategy and Tactics . The gravity impeller propulsion systems used in spaceships require "gun ports" in military vessels and captains strive to position their ships to maximize their Fire Power by using a Broadside attack akin to the Unturreted days dominated by the Warship s and Ships Of The Line of the Age of Sail. Like Horatio Hornblower, Lord Nelson and Thomas Cochrane , Honor Stephanie Harrington is a superb ship handler bordering on genius. Although most of the stories and books cast Honor in a starring role, more recent additions to the series include short stories and novels in which only passing references at most are made to her. In some cases this is because they are set before her birth; otherwise the featured characters have usually made appearances (if only brief ones) in Honor-centered stories. THE "HONORVERSE" UNIVERSE The most important Space Empire s or kingdoms in the series are the Star Kingdom Of Manticore , the (People's) Republic Of Haven , the Solarian League , the Silesian Confederacy , and the Andermani Empire . Grayson , Mesa , and Erewhon are single system star nations of some importance. Several of the members of the Manticoran Alliance are limited to a single system each; the largest star nation in the neighborhood is Haven (whatever its current government) and the second largest is the three-planet (or four if one counts Basilisk) Star Kingdom of Manticore. By the end of ''War of Honor'', an additional system has petitioned for membership in the Star Kingdom (Trevor's Star, formerly independent and then conquered by the Republic of Haven). ''The Shadow of Saganami'' recounts the attempt of the Talbott cluster systems (about 20 star systems near the newly discovered Lynx terminus of the Manticore Junction) to petition for admission to the Star Kingdom as an alternative to the unpleasant prospect of being engulfed by the Solarian League's Office of Frontier Security. And, in ''At All Costs'', a deal between the Andermani Empire and the Star Kingdom resulted in the division of the anarchic Silesian Confederacy between them, adding a large number of systems to the Star Kingdom, now becoming an Empire. BOOKS All the books up to and including ''At All Costs'' are available on free-to-copy CDs produced by Baen Books . Weber has stated that there will be at least five more books in each of the ''Honor Harrington'', ''Wages of Sin'', and ''Saganami Island'' series. The newest book, ''At All Costs'', is now available in hardcover and the hardback includes one of the CDs containing all the previously released Honorverse titles. 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