G-force is countered by inertial compensators, but these can fail if taxed so ships keep their speed down when not absolutely necessary. Wormholes are instantaneous and can span hundreds of light years so they are hugely important for trade and military. Travel between systems can take weeks or months. Ships have propulsion though "Impeller drive" which allows them to accelerate at hundreds of Gs of force and leaves the "top" and "bottom" of the ships invulnerable when the drive is active.Įven with this, travel within star systems takes many days.
Manticore, with its vast trade wealth, is the most enticing, but also most dangerous, prize. Haven has been expanding by conquering systems for decades to power their welfare state economy. Main antagonist is the Republic of Haven, a former democracy that has descended into oligarchy and can roughly be though of as Space 18th Century France. Story centers around the Star Kingdom of Manticore, which can essentially be thought of as Space United Kingdom, which is a small power (a single binary system with 3 inhabited planets) that has enormous wealth due to its strategic location near multiple wormholes, giving it great trade power. This means many outlying colony systems have been independent from Earth for centuries and often have very distinct cultures based on their original settlers. Humans began colonizing the galaxy around 2100 but only had Nauvoo-like generational ships for many centuries before FTL travel was discovered. Set roughly 2000 years from the present day Here's some more details for those interested:
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These also have no DRM because the publisher Baen is awesome so you can download and read on whatever you want.
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The first 2 main story books are free on Amazon Kindle which has apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Macs, etc. If you like Tom Clancy war thrillers, you'll love this series. Combat is very detailed and technical and a good comparison would be "Tom Clancy in Space". The series has been ongoing since the early 90's and there are tons of main line and spinoff books. It's called the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, which centers around a warship captain who comes into conflict with the enemies of her Star Nation as a Cold War with a neighboring power starts to get hot - very much like Earth vs. While we're all waiting for the next major book and Season 3 to start, I thought other Expanse fans may be interested in a book series I've been a fan of for many years that takes a similar attention to detail with regards to the science though it's set much further in the future so more tech has solved some of the issues The Expanse deals with.
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