I was really certain that I had read this before, but now I'm not so sure. I didn't remember/recognize characters or events that I would have expected to. I recognized a lot of character names, but not in the context of this story.
We have young (well, semi-young) Honor's first command and her success against overwhelming odds.
Honor and her cruiser Fearless are sent out to support the Manticore presence at Basilisk Station. The assignment is a punishment tour visited upon Honor and her ship because they have succeeded where they should not have and were then set up for failure. The senior captain at Basilisk is totally nasty fellow who tried to rape Honor when they were both students at the Manticore Naval Academy, Saganami Island. He didn't manage it, and Honor refused to rat him out because she assumed that no one would believe her. So, being the son and heir of a peer of the realm, Pavel Young survives the black mark on his record and is now in a position to destroy Honor, having none of his own, of course.
Young essentially abandons Honor and Fearless and her crew to accomplish the task which he didn't bother to attempt with more ship and personnel and goes away snickering at the thought of her ultimate failure and disgrace. Of course, she pulls it off at enormous cost in lives and ship, but comes home covered with glory.
No comments:
Post a Comment