SWM wrote:cthia wrote:Question. The little data that Herlander was able to supply, in what form was it? All from memory or a smuggled chip? I can imagine data chips to be insanely small in the Honorverse. Thumb drives are smaller than thumb nail size now.
As I recall, Herlander himself had only his own skills and memory to supply. But while that was important, Herlander did not know all that much about the Alignment. His main contribution was technical knowledge and general information about how the Alignment works from the view of someone halfway inside the Onion.
The most important information came from McBryde, and was contained (as I recall) on a single data chip. It was intended to be just a teaser to convince Zilwicki and Cachat that he had good intel, but he never had time to give them anything further. But even so, that single data chip contained more information on the Alignment than anyone outside had ever seen in all the centuries that the organization has existed.
Thanks SWM. I was beating myself up. I knew I had read somewhere about loads of data on a chip.
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My investigation has turned up this file (Service of the Sword -- by way of our wiki informant) that I don't think I'm familiar with. Must read.
The Service of the Sword
The heavy cruiser HMS Gauntlet, Captain Michael Oversteegen commanding, is sent to the Tiberian System to investigate the disappearance of a Havenite freighter and an Erewhonese destroyer. Unknown to them, the Mesan slave-trading company, Manpower Inc., has established a stronghold in the system. While Midshipwoman Abigail Hearns, the first Grayson-born female officer in the Grayson Space Navy, finds herself leading a team of Marines against attackers on the planet Refuge, Captain Oversteegen and his crew fight – and win – the decisive Battle of Tiberian.