Depends - start of series, or end?
Well, Oneiros has managed to work out, over the past six months or so, one of the best 'engines' for simulating space-naval quests that I have ever seen, so...
That would actually not work as badly as you'd think.
If Honor were a Havenite she'd be Joanne Hall.
Who got killed by a bullshit Manticoran superweapon in Book Eight.
Then again, just having your improbably talented heroine show up earlier would have helped; there were a few critical moments where someone a bit more talented or with a bit more gift for reading the enemy's intentions would have been very helpful.
That said, I like this idea and will, as you say, subscribe to your newsletter?
[like seriously I'd be happy to help brainstorm and set this up]
Honestly, you wouldn't need an Honor-analogue on the other side, just having Pavel in charge would make the whole thing a disaster for Manticore by default.
I can place this exact moment. This is right before Cordelia Ransom walks in his door in In Enemy Hands, forcing him to take a emergency sober-up shot and then suppress even more nausea than usual.
I have not heard it change from 2u10 and based on annual rolls it still seems to be that. Our only non tech source to rolls is our chief of staff who gives a +4 to all rolls. What is interesting with our techs is that some state annual roll and others diplo roll which implies some do not work on diplo pushes.
Space France doesn't use British spelling, so she's Valor and no question.
Keeping the MDM but having it introduced more gradually would be good. I actually have a lot of ideas about this spawning hella fast, but I think I'm gonna save most of them for @AKuz.
The way I figure it, Haven makes most sense if you look at it as the combination of a status quo that was deliberately created and enforced, PLUS the unintended side effects of that status quo.
Ah, I took u10 as being a 1 to 10 with a random + or - in front of it.
Honestly, you wouldn't need an Honor-analogue on the other side, just having Pavel in charge would make the whole thing a disaster for Manticore by default.
I can place this exact moment. This is right before Cordelia Ransom walks in his door in In Enemy Hands, forcing him to take a emergency sober-up shot and then suppress even more nausea than usual.
Respectfully, Manticore's average citizens do have some voice; they can vote for the House of Commons. Said House had/has several powers that the House of Lords lacks, and by the time of the later books (I did have to look this up to remind myself), much of the financial power/rights ("the power of the purse") of the House of Lords was actually being transferred to the House of Commons.@AKuz
I actually like the idea that Haven is different in that their political class sort of turned on, nationalized, and effectively cannibalized their corporate power structures, rather than going down the usual (Solarian-esque) route of selling out to them. It makes Haven noticeably different from, say, revolutionary-era France in that there was already a promised Revolution, and it went sour, and now people are trying to figure out what went wrong. Was the whole revolution a misguided idea? Should they violently double down on it? Would just resetting the whole system from scratch work somehow?
The Legislaturalist system hasn't just "existed forever" the way the ancien regime did; Haven was in fact different a few hundred years ago. We know this. Exploring how things went to hell in a handbasket strikes me as part of the fun of trying to reimagine Haven.
I also have my own notions about how the welfare state and citizenship work in Manticore, to the extent that it seems like Manticore and Haven are both failed democracies- only in Manticore very few people have votes but the votes matter quite a bit, while in Haven everybody votes and the votes hardly matter at all.
But I said a lot about this in my PMs and maybe we can work on it.
