Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life . . . the 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 extinction.

The Star Kingdom is a minor nation among the worlds of the Diaspora, its closest neighbors weeks or months away, with little in the way of resources. With only modest interstellar trade, no foreign contacts to speak of, a plague-ravaged economy to rebuild, and no enemies looming at the hyper limit, there are factions in Parliament who want nothing more than to scrap the Navy and shift its resources and manpower elsewhere.

But those factions are mistaken. The universe is not a safe place.

Travis Long is about to find that out.

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    Not Terrible, just Boooring and not up to Weber's standards. Filling in a blank that we really don't care about. To read this it was just amazing that there was a RMN at all, not that it turned out great in the Honorerse. I detect that this one was a revenue producer and not a serious effort by anyone. It could be missing an NO ONE would care.

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    I enjoyed the book.

    I liked a lot of what was NOT there....
    The characters were NOT literally super human. (The main character is his flaws and is decidedly human)
    There wasn't the obsessive fawning over the Royalty/Monarchy.
    It didn't depend on other stories.

    I'm looking forward to the next on in this series.

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    A new character with lots of integrity and potential. The hint of interesting challenges in the future. Great start to a new thread in the Honorverse with a new set of interesting people we can care about. Would have given it five stars if it had included a few more kick ass chicks.

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    I'd rate this at 4.5 stars, but that's not an option. Timothy Zahn does an excellent job of fitting his writing inside the Honorverse. We're given a view of the very early days of the RMN when they didn't have a long tradition of duty and victory at all cost, or much of a purpose at all other than to deter pirates. It's nice to see the Havenites as they were before the Republic collapsed into the People's Republic, and there's some pretty good action. A couple of events stretch military protocol a bit, but this is FICTION so I won't complain too much. The ending makes clear that we'll hear about the first major battle the RMN fought in the next book, and the background, infighting, and discovery of the Manticore Junction will be interesting reading. We aren't left hanging - if you've read all of the latest infodumps and background books that have come out on the early Honorverse that is. The plot is solid and well worth reading, and entirely devoid of tree-cat marines in battle armor!

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    Loved it, it felt like I was reading one of the first Honor books, lots of action and a very good story.

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    Good and easy reading book

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