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On Basilisk Station

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On Basilisk Station is the first book of David Weber's series of novels and short stories chronicling the adventures of Honor Harrington. It was first published in 1993.

Timeframe: 1900 PD - 1901 PD

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Having made an Admiral look foolish, after succeeding in making a way out idea work once, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and there set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.
Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating performance during Fleet exercises and for their posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.
The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.
Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up to Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser, with an armament that doesn't work, to police the entire star system.
But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.

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Emily Alexander | Hamish Alexander | William Alexander | Arless | Ronald Bergren | Ariella Blanding | Braun | Mercedes Brigham | Bullard | Wallace Canning | Rafael Cardones | Cindy | Johan Coglin | Raoul Courvosier | Lucien Cortez | Sebastian D'Orville | Danforth | Lucy Danvers | Elaine Dumarest | Hayne Duvalier | Angela Earnhardt | Ellen | Walter Frankel | Frankowski | George Fremont | Gagarin | Gheerinatu | Gowan | Grimaldi | Gustav XI | Hadley | Horace Harkness | Sidney Harris | Alfred Harrington | Honor Harrington | Hartley | Heinrich Hauptman | Klaus Hauptman | Jeff Hayabashi | Sonja Hemphill | Hightower | Sharon Hillyard | Matt Howard | Howell | Barney Isvarian | Jamal | Edward Janacek | Michael Janvier | Jayne | Jeffries | Jenkins | Liam Kilgore | Killian | Ruth Kleinmuller | Sharon Koenig | Kohl | William Levine | George Lewis | Lovejoy | Lowell | Allen Manning | Sally MacBride | MacDougal | James MacGuiness | Frances Malcolm | Marisa | Mathison | Estelle Matsuko | Alistair McKeon | Merker | Fritz Montoya | Isaac Newton | Nimitz | Tadeuz O'Brian | Panowski | Nikos Papadapolous | Parker | Amos Parnell | Porter | Shigematsu Radhakrishnan | Rath | Regiano | Michael Reynaud | Illona Rierson | Christopher Rodgers | Dominica Santos | Scott | Stag | Stevens | Stimson | Maxwell Stromboli | Lois Suchon | Duke Allen Sumervale | Denver Summervale | Prescott Tremaine | Truman | Henrietta Turner | Henrietta Turner | Andreas Venizelos | Sheridan Wallace | Carol Warner | Craig Warner | Frederick Warner | Keith Warner | Robert Warner | Sandra Warner | Adrienne Warshawski | James Webster | Samuel Webster | Bryan Westerfeldt | Queen Adrienne | Queen Elizabeth III | King Roger I | Wolversham | Hiro Yammata | Andrew Yerensky | Pavel Young | Yountz

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[edit] Other

Biology

Bekhnor | Buffalo (Beowulf) | Celery | Dolphin | Gremlin | Hemlock | Hemlock (Manticore) | Kodiak Maximus | Neotiger | Potato | Praying Mantis | Shemak moss | Tilik moss | Treecat | Tree-hopper

People's Republic of Haven

Chief of Naval Operations (PRH) | Dolist | DuQuesne Plan | Haven Information Ministry | |Haven System | Hereditary President of the People's Republic of Haven | Military cabinet (PRH) | Naval Intelligence (RHN) | Nouveau Paris | Operation Odysseus | People's Merchant Service | People's Republic of Haven Navy | Plebeians | Secretary of the Economy | Secretary for Foreign Affairs | Secretary of War | Ministry of Trade

Star Kingdom of Manticore

Barony of High Ridge | Centrist Party | Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench | Christy and Sons | Conservative Association | County of New Kiev | Cromarty Government | Crown Loyalist Party | Duchy of Cromarty | Duchy of High Sligo |Duchy of New Texas | Earldom of North Hollow | Earldom of White Haven Hauptmann Cartel | Jason Bay | Knight of the Order of King Roger | Landing | Lord of Exchequer | Manticoran dollar | Manticore Colony, LTD | Manticore Colony Trust | Manticore Cross | Manticore Division | Manticore System | Minister for Medusan Affairs | Monarch's Thanks Medal | Native Protection Agency | New Men Party | Prime Minister | Progressive Party | Queen's Bench | Royal Customs Service | Resident Commissioner for Planetary Affairs | Royal Manticoran Marine Corps | San Giorgio | San Giorgio City Police

Royal Manticoran Navy

Advanced Tactical Course | Advanced Tactical Course building | Admiral of the Green | Admiral of the Red | Admiralty Court | Bassingford Medical Center | Bureau of Personnel | Bureau of Ships | Commandant | Commanding Officer's Course | Courageous class | Fifth Space Lord | fire control station | First Lord of Admiralty | First Space Lord | Fleet "E" Award | Fleet Logistics | Fourth Form Tactics | freshman | General Staff | Gryphon Division | Home Fleet (Manticore) | jeune ecole | List of Honor | Lords of Admiralty | midshipman | Office of Naval Intelligence |Royal Manticoran Navy | Saganami Island Academy |Ship Types | tactical repeater display | Third Space Lord | War Cabinet | War games | Weapons Development Board | White Command Beret

Technology

Beta node | capsule | Combat Information Center | Counter-grav tubeway | Entry port | hyper-capable | Hyper Log | Hyperspace | Impeller band | Impeller drive | Impeller wedge | Inertial compensator | intrasystem | Intercom screens | gravity generator| power room | Prolong Treatment | sidewall | Warshawski sail | Yard mech

Wormholes

Basilisk Terminus | Beowulf Terminus | Erewhon Terminus | Erewhon Wormhole Junction | Manticore Terminus | Manticore Wormhole Junction | Trevor's Star Terminus | Wormhole junction | Wormhole terminus

Other

A.L. | Cocoa | coffee | Earth Time Standard | Erewhon System | First Battle of Basilisk | Gross system product | Kingdom of England | Sandalwood System | Sentience scale | Sheldon System | Sir | Sol System | Star Types | Station Types | Trevor's Star System | Zurich

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Main Honor Harrington series
HH1 On Basilisk Station HH7 In Enemy Hands
HH2 The Honor of the Queen HH8 Echoes of Honor
HH3 The Short Victorious War HH9 Ashes of Victory
HH4 Field of Dishonor HH10 War of Honor
HH5 Flag in Exile HH11 At All Costs
HH6 Honor Among Enemies HH12 Mission of Honor
Spin off Series
Wages of Sin Saganami Island
WS1 Crown of Slaves SI1 The Shadow of Saganami
WS2 Torch of Freedom SI2 Storm from the Shadows
Anthologies
HHA1 More Than Honor HHA3 Changer of Worlds
HHA2 Worlds of Honor HHA4 The Service of the Sword
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