r/Honorverse

Yeah kinda getting into "GRRM, just release the next book" with the banality of this but I was just thinking, Astro Control is a civilian service, with military ranks and obviously they had to come from somewhere. Gotta wonder if one of the bits of fallout from the end of Manticore Ascendant will be Mpars reorganised into Astro Control both to manage the junction and do MPARS current job while the navy focuses on defence.

Though that might take a while as I think the first actual transit took place more than 40 years after Call to Insurrection. Or who knows they might recon it

I’ve read the Manticore Ascendant books and most of the original Honor Harrington books as well, and it seems to me the Queens of Manticore seem to be the only monarchs of that star nation that actually accomplish anything (thought I say that as loosely as I can since they are constitutional monarchs and therefore can’t really accomplish much of anything). The two Kings in the Manticore shown in Ascendant don’t seem to accomplish anything or do anything to neutralize their opposition, as opposed to Elizabeth II who all but violates the constitution by having her children of a peer of the realm be legitimatized

I know that we're not going to get anything at this late date. Nor would I want any distractions from whatever he might be working on now. But I would really like to have the story of Queen Elizabeth's adoption. AFAIK the only thing this we know was that she was very young when she was adopted. I wonder what kind of state visit to Sphinx brought Elizabeth there and in a position or place to be adopted. Was King Roger and Monroe there? Or perhaps it was Elizabeth and her mother.