When we join her story, Honor Harrington is a fresh graduate of the RMS Naval Academy. What follows is an intricate political and military drama with a sprinkling of action scenes. The situation that the prologue sets up is that the Manticoran Monarchy holds possession of a few key locations that bring in a lot of money from trade, and their rival political system, the Republic of Haven, has spent itself broke supporting a welfare state. The book starts off a little slow with a prologue that doesn’t click into place until more than half-way through, but picks up quickly after that. It’s a classic space opera written in 1993 that follows the eponymous heroine, Honor Harrington, as she rises through the ranks of the Royal Manticoran Navy (RMS). On Basilisk Station is the first book in David Weber’s Honor Harrington series.
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