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This is intended to be a comprehensive list of the names of even minor characters in the Honor Harrington series and its related works. Characters are sorted by their last name. Some are sorted by first name since their last name has not been found in the books (or does not appear). Military characters are mentioned with the rank they had in the last novel in which they appear.

Although efforts have been made to include all characters, there are likely to be omissions and other errors. At any particular time, there will be variations in the level of brief detail, and there are some duplications, not all of which are errors as there is some name duplications amongst the characters.

Treecats characters may be found at list of treecats.

Explanation of Abbreviations
Other Abbreviations


 * ATO - Assistant Tac Officer
 * CIP - Council for an Independent Prism
 * CO - Commanding Officer
 * CN - Caliphate (Zanzibaran) Navy
 * CPO - Chief Petty Officer
 * DCC - Damage Control Center
 * ECM - Electronic CounterMeasures (methods to confuse enemy sensors)
 * EN - Erewhon Navy
 * ER - Erewhon star system
 * EVA - Extra-Vehicular Activity (derived from ancient NASA term)
 * EW - Electronic Warfare (also Energy Weapons?)
 * HH - Honor Harrington
 * INS - Interstellar News Service (one of a small number of more or less Galaxy wide news organizations), knock off of Old Earth International News Service
 * JNMTC - Joint Navy Military Transport Command (SKM)
 * KT - Star Kingdom of Torch
 * LAC - Light attack craft (not hyper capable)
 * MA - Masada star system
 * ME - Mesa star system
 * MN - Monican Navy
 * MO - Monica star system
 * OCTO -Officer Candidate Training Officer
 * PO - Petty Officer
 * ROE - Rules of Engagement
 * SAR - Search and Rescue
 * SC - regional star cluster and political entity Silesian Confederacy
 * SBA - Sick Bay Attendant (in RMN)
 * SCPO - Senior Chief Petty Officer
 * SIS - Special Intelligence Service (SKM term)
 * SO - Senior Officer
 * SUT - Sustained Use Thruster (usually in context of EVA suit thrusters)
 * TC - region near one of the SKM wormhole terminals Talbott Cluster
 * VE - verge system

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Grayson Space Navy
The Grayson Space Navy is the space force for the planet Grayson, a space nation in the Honor Harrington universe created by the science fiction author David Weber.

In the internal history of the Honorverse, Grayson was settled by emigrants from Earth motivated by their religion, which called for a withdrawal from the technocratic society of Earth, a society the future inhabitants of Grayson believed to be subversive of true human potential and spirituality. The planet picked for the settlememnt was one very rich in heavy metals; local life had adapted, but human settlers suffered a very high death rate as well as a high rate of non-lethal, but debilitating poisonings from the high environmentyal levels of lead, mercury and antimony. The settlers' biology has partially adapted since, but to this day, agriculture on Grayson remains a chancy undertaking, and food Graysonites eat with safety can still poison an outsider.

Until Grayson joined the Manticoran Alliance, the Grayson Navy was hopelessly obsolete, and most of it was destroyed during a brief war with its neighbor Masada, just before it officially joined the Manticoran Alliance (Two Manticoran destroyers were also lost during the incident, with two cruisers badly damaged.)

After joining the Alliance, Grayson received massive technological boosts from Manticore, and quickly rebuilt its navy with the new technology. Grayson ships are different from Manticoran, Havenite, and Andermani ships in that they mount fewer weapons, but the weapons themselves are much larger. Later Manticoran and Grayson ship designs were designed in concert and are largely similar in design and function, and newer Manticoran designs have been influenced by the success of Grayson-designed ships.

Due to difficulties developing fusion technology, the Graysons continued to use fission reactors long after other nations had switched to fusion power. This meant that the Graysons developed fission reactors that were far smaller, safer, and more efficient than almost anywhere else in the galaxy. This technology was taken by Manticore, and used to develop more advanced reconnaissance drones, LACs, and, eventually, missiles. Also, in developing their own version of the inertial compensator, the Graysons used a method that "everyone knew wouldn't work," but which actually did. Manticore perfected this technology once the Graysons demonstrated that it was practical, giving the alliances ships a decided advantage in acceleration over the Havenites.

The Grayson Navy consists of its main navy, with its regular chain of command, and the Protector's Own Squadron, which answers directly to the Protector, ruler of Grayson, and is currently commanded by Fleet Admiral Steadholder Honor Harrington, the Protector's Champion, with Admiral Alfredo Yu as her second-in-command. The Protector's Own is an oddity in itself, since a large portion of its personnel are expatriates and former prisoners of the People's Republic of Haven, which the Manticoran Alliance is currently at war with.

The Grayson Navy wears a uniform which resembles the United States Air Force uniform of blue jacket and trousers, light-blue shirt, visored cap, and necktie. (This was done by Weber to annoy a good friend of his who was a historical buff and who disliked the USAF uniform.)

Grayson ships have the prefix "GNS" (Grayson Navy Ship).

High Admiral
The Military Commander of the Grayson Space Navy holds the rank of High Admiral. The High Admiral's chief duties include advising the Protector on military concerns, commanding the Yeltsin units during a hostile naval attack and conducting operations vital to his nation. After the 1st and 2nd Battles for Yeltsin, Wesley Matthews was promoted to the position. Previous High Admirals include Bernard Yanakov, Leon Garrett and Wesley Matthews.

Other Cruisers
 * GNS Francis Mueller

SLN

 * Gladiator class CA The Service of the Sword''
 * War Harvest class - DD Crown of Slaves
 * Nevada class BC, Indefatigable class BC The Shadow of Saganami

Please notice I did quite some work on the article as it on List of Honorverse characters, mainly with the internal linking. Debresser (talk) 07:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)