Naturally this makes the Star Kingdom of Manticore an object of envy and an aspirational target for other, less well-endowed star systems.
Over the last year I’ve been rereading the Honor Harrington series, those David Weber novels concerning the necessarily prolonged life of one Honor Harrington, an officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy. It’s set some few thousand years in the future when mankind has moved out of the Solar System and scattered itself across the galaxy…
