Honor Harrington hat einen Fehler begangen: Sie hat sich ihren Vorgesetzten zum Feind gemacht. In Unehren wurde sie daraufhin auf den kleinen Außenposten Basilisk versetzt. Ihre demoralisierte Mannschaft macht sie für diese Degradierung verantwortlich. Das Parlament weiß nicht, ob es den Sternensektor überhaupt behalten will; die ortsansässigen Händler sind Schmuggler und fordern Honors Kopf; ein benachbartes Sternenreich schmiedet dunkle Ränke.

Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...he two things his neglectful mother couldn’t or wouldn’t provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he’d finally found the structure he’d always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn’t exactly what he expected. Boot camp is rough and frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating plague, the Navy is possibly on the edge of budgetary extinction.

New York Times best-selling author David Weber invites David Drake and S.M. Stirling, two of today's top writers of military science fiction, to join him in an exploration of Honor Harrington's universe.

Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk station and given an antique ship to police the system. The vindictive superior who sent her there wants her to fail. But he made one mistake: he's made her mad....

The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower.