saber964 wrote: The MAlign has managed to combine three of the four most powerful militaries in the Honorverse and the fourth doesn't exactly like them much either. The Grand Alliance has in its forces the best trained best led most technologically advanced and most battle hardened troops in the Galaxy.
And the fourth is in at least strategic agreement with the other three, as far as Manpower, Mesa and the Malign are concerned. And if they found a SLN ship or task group wandering around within their sphere of influence causing trouble, they might be forced to take notice. With prejudice.