stewart wrote:n7axw wrote:"Theemile"]"Kytheros"]The RMN already tried that. She threatened to resign her commission.
The GSN, well, Admiral Matthews and the Protector Benjamin called Honor's bluff, plus used the Church to give her the runaround when she tried to get them to change the name. Honor was not amused, but they were.
The RMN renamed what would had been the Honor Harrington-class SD(P), back to the original (before Honor's reported execution) designation, the Medusa-class SD(P).
I just had an odd mental image of what the RMN "Honor Harrington"/"Medusa's" crest would look like - Honor's face with a dozen snarling snake/treecat hybrids growing out of her head like hair. Her eyes set to pierce to your very soul. All in all, Enough to give enemies nightmares for weeks.
If the enemy actually gets close enough to see the crest, mightmares will be the least of their problems.
Don[/quote]They would just need to see the "wallpaper" of the comm request.
-- Stewart[/quote]
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I don't think that Queen Elizabeth and the RMN would do that. I think the RMN's Medusa crest would be more classical in nature (No snake/treecat hybrids). And I don't think they would use Honor as the model. Among other items, at the time of her return, she wore an eyepatch over one eye. And I'm don't think that salamanders were associated with Gorgons.
As for the GSN
Honor Harrington's crest, it is the same as Honor's coat of arms:
Field of Dishonor, Chapter 12 wrote:"Oh, that!" He waved a dismissive hand, then stood beside her and opened the overhead luggage compartment to withdraw a large, expensive-looking shoulder bag. It was black, made of natural leather and polished to a mirror-bright gloss. It was also, she noticed in surprise, badged in gold with the coat of arms she'd selected as Steadholder Harrington: side-by-side representations of the western hemispheres of Sphinx and Grayson, joined by the stylized key that was the patriarch's sigil of a steadholder, under a vac helmet crest. The helmet looked very little like modern equipment, but it was the symbol which had denoted naval service for almost two thousand T-years.
Ashes of Victory, Chapter 2 wrote:Her thoughts chopped off as she saw the ship's crest on the bulkhead behind the honor guard. The basis of the crest was glaringly obvious. She'd seen the same set of arms every time she looked at her own steadholder's key . . . and if there'd been any question at all of where it had come from, the ship's name blazoned above it would have dispelled it immediately.
She stared at the crest, unable to look away even though she knew her reaction was fully validating the torrent of amusement she felt flooding from the Earl of White Haven. And it was probably as well for the earl's continued existence that she couldn't turn away, she realized later, for if she'd been able to, and if he'd been smirking even a tenth as broadly as she suspected he had, and if he'd been in arm's reach . . .
But she had no time to think about such things just then, for the tumult about her was dying, and Thomas Greentree decided to ignore the strict demands of naval protocol just this once. His hand came down from its salute even before hers did, and it reached out, catching hers in a crushing clasp of welcome before she could say a word.
"Welcome home, My Lady!" he said, and if his voice was husky with emotion, it also echoed in the sudden quiet. "Welcome home. And welcome aboard the Honor Harrington!"
Italics are the author's, boldface is my emphasis.
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