There's another aspect to the question of how many SDs Honor Alexander-Harrington's life would be worth, too. If she died now --- circa A Rising Thunder --- her death would cost very little outside the personal grief and loss it would entail. She's done her job. She's been fundamental in creating the GA and the rapprochement between Haven and Manticore. She's changed Grayson beyond recognition. She's contributed to the strategic direction of the war against the SL. She's helped unmask the MA. And, most importantly of all, perhaps, she's helped train an entire generation of RMN officers who will carry on for her if something happens to her. Completely aside from all moral consideration of expending hundreds or thousands of live to preserve hers because of how much "one life worth" (which, BTW, is a concept Honor herself would completely reject), Honor's death in action at this time would be of incredible value to the RMN. The SEM and the GA would lose whatever services she might yet perform (and I'm not trying to minimize her potential future achievements), but the RMN --- and the entire Grand Alliance, for that matter --- would get a modern Edward Saganami whose value as inspiration, role model, and rallying point would be literally incalculable. Remember the Grayson's reaction to her "execution" in Basilisk. Now project that same sort of reaction across the entire GA.
Would you really want to be the Mesan Alignment after killing Honor Harrington?
I wouldn't want to be a certain author after killing Honor Harrington either.
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Is Honor a bionic woman?
Does some people think of her as Honor Alexander Salamander Harrington? (HASH) ... Certainly everyone she turned into corned beef. Little wonder Houseman doesn't want to rehash things with her.
Honor has a bionic eye.
A bionic arm.
A tricky finger.
A sixth sense.
A best friend with six legs.
Dual citizenship. Or is that triple-citizenship? Wait, didn't Elizabeth give her holdings somewhere yet to be completely developed, a Duchy was it, on Gryphon, iirc,??? Then that's quad citizenship?
She's good friends with a witch, a tac-witch.
She can literally eat a cow, with her metabolism.
An outta control alter ego — Sally Mander.
She made a fortune from smuggling.
She has a wife and a husband.
Friends on several planets.
Enemies on all planets.
Diplomatic immunity.
A Queen with a temper that matches her own.
The Tester and the Lord on her side.
A side kick.
A space ship.
A fortune.
Pregnant out of wedlock by a married man.
An alias.
A criminal record — accused of a capital crime.
At least two entire planets of people who would die for her.
Love affects her like kryptonite.
The lone wielder of the Sword of Grayson.
Seven people reside in one body — Steadholder Harrington, Protector's Champion, Admiral Harrington, Wife, Treecat bondee, daughter, mother and Preston of the Spaceways.
More titles than a Broadway theater.
Killed a man in a duel.
Assaulted an envoy.
Beat the shit out of a fellow officer.
Can anyone else think of any tangies or intangible gossip about Honor Harrington?
Come on, spill the juice!
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