Pearls of Weber: Honor Harrington

A collection of posts by David Weber containing background information for his stories.

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'Inconsistencies' in backstory revelations [ Added December 31, 2011 ]
'Scout frigates' part I [ Added January 2, 2012 ]
'Scout frigates' part II [ Added January 2, 2012 ]
"Beached" or half pay officers [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
"Buckshot" missile defenses [ Added January 3, 2003 ]
"Paintball"-style projectile weapons training [ Added November 14, 2004 ]
"Weaknesses" of the SD(P) classes (c1914 PD)
Gauntlet's weapons fit (c1918 PD) [ Added March 10, 2004 ]
Harvest Joy's first transit of the Torch terminus (c1921 PD) [ Added August 15, 2009 ]
Medusa-Bs (c1922 PD) [ Added June 29, 2004 ]
Nike (big BC) clarification (c1921 PD) [ Added November 18, 2006 ]
Reliant-class battlecruiser ship layout (c1905 PD)
Roland-class destroyer (c1917 PD) [ Added October 31, 2004 ]
Saganami-C vs a pre-war superdreadnought (c1921 PD) [ Added December 31, 2007 ]
Shrikes and Ferrets are not fighters (c1914 PD)
Wayfarer and camouflaging itself as a merchantman [ Added February 7, 2003 ]
Wayfarer's cargo doors (c1910 PD)
Wayfarer's cargo doors: jettisoning them (c1910 PD) [ Added April 26, 2009 ]
A comparative look at the BC(P) vs BC(L) [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
A grab-bag of gravitics questions (c1922 PD) [ Added July 4, 2011 ]
Acceleration by ship mass (c1900 PD)
Administrative and tactical organization of the RMN (c1919 PD) [ Added December 14, 2002 ]
Admiral Chin and the climax to the Battle of Manticore (c1921 PD) [ Added January 2, 2008 ]
Admiral Hemphil and Fearless' deployment [ Added August 24, 2004 ]
Admiral Rajampet's nominal superiors (c1922 PD) [ Added July 4, 2011 ]
Admirals Chin and Kusak  and the climax to the Battle of Manticore, part II (c1921 PD) [ Added July 4, 2011 ]
Admiralty chain-of-command (c1922 PD) [ Added June 21, 2011 ]
Andermani intelligence gathering [ Added August 28, 2004 ]
Apollo fire control for light units (c1921 PD) [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
Armed merchant ships within the Silesian Confederacy (c1919 PD) [ Added December 31, 2011 ]
Arsenal ships based upon ammunition colliers (c1920 PD) [ Added November 14, 2004 ]
Artificial divisions within the SLN [ Added March 3, 2004 ]
Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology [ Added April 18, 2004 ]
Aspects of the Alignment's Uplift program (c1922 PD) [ Added June 19, 2011 ]
Asymmetrical broadsides
Balance of power in the Star Kingdom of Manticore [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Baron High Ridge's fate (c1920 PD) [ Added December 31, 2007 ]
Battleship and SD(P) comparisons [ Added April 14, 2004 ]
Benjamin Mayhew and prolong [ Added January 2, 2012 ]
Beowulf and the 'super soldier' gene-mods (c1920 PD) [ Added June 19, 2011 ]
c-Fractional missile attack plan [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
c-Fractional pod-based missile attack plan [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
c-Fractional pod-based missile attack plan II (c1922 PD) [ Added May 24, 2009 ]
Capital missiles, multi-stage missiles, and missile pods
Capital ships and raiding defenses (c1918 PD) [ Added May 26, 2008 ]
Cathy Montaigne's wealth (c1919 PD) [ Added June 10, 2005 ]
Civilian-hulled 'scout frigates' [ Added January 2, 2012 ]
CLAC design considerations and tactical deployment (c1922 PD) [ Added July 4, 2011 ]
Coast Guard equivalent [ Added June 7, 2005 ]
Compensator failure [ Added October 31, 2004 ]
Congo-Maya-Erewhon map (c1918 PD) [ Added September 12, 2004 ]
Congo-Maya-Erewhon map (c1918 PD) [ Added September 12, 2004 ]
Congo-Maya-Erewhon map (c1918 PD) [ Added September 12, 2004 ]
Construction time for the first-flight Harringtons (c1912 PD) [ Added December 22, 2004 ]
Corporate-form governments (c1920 PD) [ Added June 19, 2011 ]
Costs of the Prolong Process [ Added August 14, 2009 ]
Costs of the Prolong Process (c1920 PD) [ Added August 15, 2009 ]
Counter-missile canisters (c1900 PD) [ Added December 14, 2002 ]
Counter-missile fire control issues and counter-missile pods [ Added December 14, 2002 ]
Counter-missile pods and two-stage counter-missiles [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
Cover art [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
David's "mistakes" relating to character background material [ Added January 15, 2012 ]
Deep-penetration & commerce raiding strategy [ Added February 24, 2007 ]
Deep-penetration strategy [ Added February 24, 2007 ]
Default failure mode of a hyper generator (c1922 PD) [ Added June 27, 2011 ]
Detection of upward hyper translations (c1922 PD) [ Added May 24, 2009 ]
Do you plan ahead for which characters die? [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
Does the Manticoran Peerage allow Proxy Voting [ Added December 12, 2002 ]
Education reform in the Republic of Haven [ Added July 9, 2005 ]
Effective intercept range for counter-missiles [ Added December 14, 2004 ]
Effective speed by hyper band
Effectiveness of cruisers-vs-battlecruisers (c1911 PD) [ Added February 7, 2003 ]
Elizabeth III is not an irrational nut-job [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
Elizabeth's new royal yacht, HMS Duke of Cromarty (c1920 PD) [ Added April 21, 2009 ]
Energy torpedos in a defensive role [ Added August 24, 2004 ]
Energy-siphon effect [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
Erewhon and the inertial compensator (c1919 PD) [ Added April 14, 2004 ]
Erewhon's 'betrayal' of the Manticoran Alliance (c1919 PD) [ Added December 19, 2004 ]
Escort CLACs (c1920 PD) [ Added May 26, 2008 ]
Expanding upon the Eridani Edict [ Added December 6, 2005 ]
Fire control uplink flexibility (c1915 PD) [ Added December 26, 2004 ]
Firing through a drive band [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
Fission/fusion power reactors [ Added December 14, 2002 ]
Fleet strengths as of 1905 PD (c1905 PD) [ Added December 19, 2004 ]
Fleet strengths as of 1920 PD (c1920 PD) [ Added December 17, 2004 ]
Freighting LACs to the Talbott Quadrant (c1921 PD) [ Added April 17, 2009 ]
Frigates vs. LACs... again! (c1900 PD) [ Added December 31, 2011 ]
FTL fire control (c1920 PD) [ Added June 4, 2005 ]
FTL fire control communication lag (c1921 PD) [ Added May 14, 2006 ]
FTL LACs
Future ship design (c1922 PD) [ Added June 12, 2011 ]
Gene dominance among modified strains [ Added January 15, 2012 ]
Goals of Thunderbolt (c1920 PD) [ Added January 15, 2012 ]
Grav lance
Grav pulse comm and the detection of hyper footprints [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Grav pulse comm in hyper [ Added November 22, 2002 ]
Grav pulse comm intercepts (c1920 PD) [ Added June 10, 2005 ]
Grav pulse comm post Ashes of Victory (c1915 PD) [ Added April 14, 2004 ]
Grav pulse comm pulse generation [ Added November 22, 2002 ]
Grayson inheritance laws (c1913 PD) [ Added June 17, 2005 ]
Ground warfare
Gun control in the Star Kingdom of Manticore [ Added February 10, 2003 ]
Hamish Alexander and children [ Added October 22, 2002 ]
Hardening shipkiller missile drives [ Added June 10, 2005 ]
Haven's "strategic blunder" of attacking Marsh as part of Operation Thunderbolt (c1920 PD) [ Added January 15, 2012 ]
Heavy attack craft (HAC) [ Added June 10, 2005 ]
Heavy spinal-armed units [ Added June 10, 2005 ]
Honor Harrington series timeline
Honor should have gone to Haven before Sanskrit (c1921 PD) [ Added January 15, 2012 ]
Honor's reactions to Denver Summervale vs. the Zilwicki & Cachet revelations (c1920 PD) [ Added December 25, 2011 ]
Honor's Second Marsh strategy (c1920 PD) [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
How big is a recon drone? [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
How do the Sollies regard the Havenite War?
How do tight budgets affect the Solarian League Navy?
How is the Solarian League Navy organized?
How is the Solarian League organized?
How much does the SLN know about the Havenite War?
How much has the Maya Sector's military capability improved? (c1922 PD) [ Added March 17, 2009 ]
How powerful are superdreadnoughts?
Hyper generator modes of operation (c1921 PD) [ Added June 8, 2009 ]
Hyper Limits by stellar spectral class (c1900 PD)
Hyper transits [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
Hyper translation [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
Hyper-band access by ship type [ Added September 11, 2004 ]
Hyperspace near a Wormhole Junction
Impeller rooms
Is the destroyer obsolete as a ship type? (c1921 PD) [ Added November 14, 2004 ]
Judaism in the Honorverse [ Added June 12, 2011 ]
Keyhole platform survivability [ Added November 16, 2006 ]
Kinetic anti-ship attacks
Kinetic infrastructure attacks
LACs as kamikazis [ Added September 11, 2004 ]
LACs as parasites
LACs towing counter-missile pods [ Added October 18, 2004 ]
Launcher design: PODs vs. tubes (c1922 PD) [ Added June 12, 2011 ]
Locating new Manticoran shipyards (c1920 PD) [ Added July 9, 2005 ]
Maneuver, combat and missiles
Manpower's optimism in it's covert operations [ Added June 7, 2005 ]
Manticoran Admiralty [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Manticoran Peerage seating [ Added November 23, 2002 ]
Manticore's relationship with Beowulf [ Added December 6, 2005 ]
Marines aboard ship
Masada and the Eridani Edict [ Added July 15, 2004 ]
Mesan assassin nanotech [ Added July 9, 2005 ]
MetalStorm missile tubes
Misconceptions about the League (c1921 PD) [ Added August 22, 2006 ]
Misconceptions about Torch (c1921 PD) [ Added June 26, 2008 ]
Missile orientation during flight
Missile pod launchers
Missile pods as strap-on weapons?
Missile pods: how well can you fit pods/box launchers on the exterior of a hull?
Missile pods: where are they tractored?
Missile power systems
Missile production costs (c1920 PD) [ Added August 15, 2009 ]
Mitigating kinetic attack (c1921 PD) [ Added December 31, 2011 ]
More on the BC(P) design (c1922 PD) [ Added June 12, 2011 ]
More on the Keyhole platforms [ Added March 17, 2009 ]
More on the sources of Manticoran wealth (c1921 PD) [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
Naval blockades [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
Naval refits [ Added October 28, 2002 ]
Non-hyper-capable units [ Added June 10, 2005 ]
Off-bore missile targeting (c1920 PD) [ Added November 14, 2004 ]
Overwhelming the RMN with light units [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
Oyster Bay and the Eridani Edict (c1922 PD) [ Added July 31, 2010 ]
Peep intelligence gathering [ Added August 28, 2004 ]
Planning for Manpower & Mesa [ Added June 7, 2005 ]
Planning story elements ahead [ Added June 28, 2011 ]
Plentary defense considerations [ Added July 27, 2009 ]
Point defense laser clusters (c1921 PD) [ Added June 26, 2008 ]
Post-battle debris concerns
Post-Oyster Bay damage assessment by the League (c1922 PD) [ Added July 4, 2011 ]
Power of the Manticoran Monarchy [ Added December 6, 2005 ]
Powered missile pods [ Added September 14, 2004 ]
Pre-war alliance strategy (c1905 PD) [ Added February 24, 2007 ]
Predictability of a ship's position (c1921 PD) [ Added December 24, 2011 ]
Production implications of Oyster Bay (c1922 PD) [ Added July 19, 2010 ]
Prolong [ Added November 2, 2002 ]
Prolong effects [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
Q-ships
Q-ships as convoy escorts/raiders
Recon LACs [ Added September 24, 2004 ]
Refitting to the Keyhole-II standard (c1921 PD) [ Added July 17, 2005 ]
Reinforcements for the Battle of Manticore (c1921 PD) [ Added December 6, 2005 ]
Removing Giancola from office (c1921 PD) [ Added February 2, 2008 ]
Reportage of Honor's 'trial' by the Committee of Public Safety (c1911 PD) [ Added May 2, 2009 ]
Return of the frigate as a combat-effective unit (c1922 PD) [ Added June 12, 2011 ]
Roots for the rapid industrial modernization of Grayson (c1903 PD) [ Added June 16, 2011 ]
Shipboard beam rates of fire limitations [ Added June 21, 2011 ]
Shipbuilding times (c1920 PD) [ Added December 17, 2004 ]
Shipkiller missile evasive maneuvers [ Added June 7, 2005 ]
Ships of the Wall and battleships
Shipyard types (c1920 PD) [ Added June 10, 2004 ]
Single-drive fusion-powered missiles (c1920 PD) [ Added November 14, 2004 ]
Source of the Eridani Edict (c1921 PD) [ Added July 27, 2009 ]
Source of the Grayson starship reserves (c1920 PD)
Stability of the Republic of Haven and system secession (c1921 PD) [ Added July 15, 2006 ]
Status of the Solarian League Navy (c1920 PD) [ Added June 2, 2008 ]
Strategic attrition [ Added February 24, 2007 ]
Strategic map as of Shadow of Saganami (c1921 PD) [ Added September 28, 2004 ]
Survival of the Church of Humanity Unchained [ Added September 18, 2006 ]
System control ships [ Added April 14, 2004 ]
System defense ships
Technical improvements in the Talbott Cluster (c1921 PD) [ Added July 9, 2005 ]
Terms of surrender [ Added August 14, 2009 ]
The "Twelve Hour Limit" [ Added December 31, 2011 ]
The Alignment and the Eridani Edict (c1921 PD) [ Added July 27, 2009 ]
The basis for Manticoran inventiveness [ Added July 5, 2005 ]
The Battle of Farley's Crossing [ Added March 3, 2004 ]
The Cherwell Convention's Equipment Clause [ Added May 26, 2008 ]
The Grendelsbane yards vulnerability (c1920 PD)
The Honorverse and Interstellar Law (c1920 PD) [ Added July 17, 2009 ]
The impact of Oyster Bay on Manticoran and Grayson industry (c1922 PD) [ Added April 14, 2010 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: Can Manticore prevent the League from rearming? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: What does the ONI know about the Solarian League's real capabilities? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: What happens if a revanchist Solarian League or successor arises? [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: What would happen to the Manticoran merchant trade? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: Who declares war on who? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: Will the League be prepared to support a major war? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: Will the war result from the arrogant overreach of Frontier Fleet? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: Would Manticore's strategy be defensive or offensive? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The League vs the Star Empire of Manticore: How effective will RMN ships-of-the-wall be compared to SLN units? (c1921 PD) [ Added June 23, 2008 ]
The Mesan Navy [ Added June 7, 2005 ]
The Mesan Spider Drive [ Added March 17, 2009 ]
The missing figures from the Honorverse CD-release of More Than Honor. [ Added May 2, 2009 ]
The nature of Manticore's battlecruisers (c1920 PD) [ Added July 19, 2010 ]
The origin of Bolthole (c1909 PD) [ Added October 22, 2002 ]
The origin of the Manticoran technical edge [ Added November 14, 2004 ]
The pre-war importance of Basilisk Station (c1880 PD) [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
The rationale behind when to reveal Apollo's existence (c1921 PD) [ Added July 16, 2005 ]
The rationale for the Theisman Buildup (c1918 PD) [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
The return of battleships as a viable class (c1922 PD) [ Added June 14, 2011 ]
The spillover effect from Manticore's Junction-created astrographic position [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
The status of the Lynx System (c1918 PD) [ Added October 22, 2004 ]
The Union of Monica (c1921 PD) [ Added October 22, 2004 ]
Thunderbolt at Trevor's Star and Marsh (c1920 PD) [ Added January 15, 2012 ]
Timothy Mears and DNA access (c1921 PD) [ Added August 13, 2009 ]
Treecat intelligence I [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Treecat intelligence II [ Added April 26, 2009 ]
Treecat toenails [ Added August 24, 2004 ]
Trevor's Star through-traffic during open hostilities (c1905 PD) [ Added August 15, 2009 ]
Unmanned LACs [ Added August 24, 2004 ]
Variable geometry starships [ Added September 24, 2004 ]
VLS cells for light units
Warshaski sail missiles
Warship armor [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Warship construction costs (c1920 PD) [ Added August 15, 2009 ]
Wealth and opportunities in the Solarian League [ Added April 10, 2009 ]
Wedge geometry
Wedge interaction [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
Wedge-killer missiles [ Added August 23, 2004 ]
What are the League/Solarian League Navy financial resources?
What happened to Erewhon's League Membership?
What happened to Erewhon's League Membership?
Where is the RMMC boot camp located? [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
White Haven's double-transit to Basilisk (c1913 PD) [ Added June 7, 2005 ]
White Haven's relief mission to Yeltsin (c1905 PD) [ Added May 26, 2008 ]
Who are the Peeps buying their technology from? (c1912 PD)
Why did Paul Tankersley accept Summervale's challenge? [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Why did Pavel Young accept Harrington's challenge? [ Added November 1, 2002 ]
Why didn't Manticore join the Solarian League? [ Added January 2, 2012 ]
Why does Mesa still exist? [ Added October 21, 2004 ]
Why does Mesa still exist? [ Added October 21, 2004 ]
Why does towing pods decrease ship acceleration? [ Added April 22, 2009 ]
Why doesn't Elizabeth pack the Lords? [ Added December 14, 2002 ]
Why the Queen's Own exists [ Added April 11, 2009 ]
With Apollo, do you really need armor any more? (c1921 PD) [ Added April 11, 2009 ]


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