Crown of Slaves [SEP] series
Crown of Slaves
Crown of Slaves is a 2003 novel by David Weber and Eric Flint set in the Honorverse; it has been billed as the first in the "Wages of Sin" series, spun off from the main Honor Harrington series.
It features Honor herself only in a cameo role: other characters from the novels and several short stories take centre stage. These include Captain Anton Zilwicki and his adopted daughter Berry, introduced in "From the Highlands", and Ruth Winton, introduced in "Promised Land"
to move the series' internal chronology up by about 20 years and begat the "Crown of Slaves" novel, first in the "Crown of Slaves" sub-series based on a number of the short stories of the first four collections. In this scenario, proxies for Manticore and Haven oppose the same hidden enemy, the genetic slavers and powers behind the government and corporations of the planet of Mesa. Mesa is later revealed in "Mission of Honor" to be part of a secret cabal of about a dozen highly