Honor Harrington Mod Discussion

[Phoenix-D]

I am going to have to hurt you. I haven't read Shiva Option yet!

Phoenix-D

[geoschmo]

Honor Harrington is a girl?!?

I heard some much about these Weber books from you people on the forum and decided to check it out. Weber and his publisher, Baen Books, has graciously (and smartly I think) put the first book (Basilik Station) in the series on their free Online library. Read the first couple chapters and it looks very interesting. Probably going to have to pick this one up.

Geoschmo

[ July 12, 2002, 19:03: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Baron Munchausen]

Heh...

I just read those two free books in the Last few days. Interesting technical universe. I like it. It's much more realistic then Treknology, but it's different from the usual 'gritty' war story universe like Starship Troopers.

Honor Harrington herself is Horatio Hornblower recast (note the initials!) if the books hold true to the form of the first two through the entire series. She keeps getting promotions to 'unusual responsibility' for her age and sets to work uncovering the secret machinations of the enemy or enemies. Once she's figured things out, the enemy has to play his hand and it's broadside after broadside until both sides are reduced to shreds, with Honor Harrington winning by a smidge. She's gonna need a new ship for every novel. She always finds a reason to use her superior strength (from growing up on a high gravity world) to smack some men around, too.

[ July 12, 2002, 19:59: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Trajan]

If you have not read the Harrington novels, and you are a fan of Military Sci-Fi, then you are missing out on some very good books.

In a nutt-shell, Honor (chick hero) gets into some really bad situation(s), kicks someones butt, gets deeper into the bad situation, gets her own behind kicked, finds and implements a nearly impossible solution that will get a lot of people killed yet save the world/star system/galaxy and then gets a promotion or somehow becomes a significant politician/ruler/leader on a planet that she saves. Occasionally she gets her eye shot out or an arm broken/amputated, but basically she wins in every book.

Oh....one more thing...She has a six legged cat that enjoys eating celery and killing Honor's enemies.

I really look forward to the HH mod but I am wondering how they will implement the Tree Cats into the Mod.

Cheers!
Trajan

[ July 12, 2002, 20:10: Message edited by: Trajan ]

[Hiruu]

Hey Geoschmo,

Honor Harrington isn't a girl, she's a War Goddess!!!

Anybody hear anything about the next book in the HH series, it's due out in Nov...War of Honor!!! I just started playing Space Empires again,...alot, and I also just got done reading Shiva Option (I read almost all of Weber's stuff!), so I thought to myself, this would make some great mods, but somebody already thought of it!

The Fifth Imperium series would be cool as well, with those huge planetiods. Dalhak would cool!

[Phoenix-D]

"She's gonna need a new ship for every novel."

Pretty much. As far as mass destruction goes, you ain't seen nothing yet..

And no, I'm not touching the treecats with a ten foot pole.

Phoenix-D

[sachmo]

Yes, my universe was very much influenced by the Honorverse, but it seems to have taken a bit of a turn. The dang game won't cooperate! All the action keeps happening where Jager isn't!

[ July 12, 2002, 23:09: Message edited by: sachmo ]