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== On Basilisk Station ==
* Honor's light cruiser as sole protection for an entire star system, with an crippled armament mix, creates and maintains order in the system anyway, and finally fights off a {{spoiler|Q ship that outguns her ship by a ridiculous margin.}}
** In the later novel, Admiral Hemphill finally finds an opportunity to discuss its armament mix with Honor. Her comments boil down to 'That ship was intended solely as a testbed! What colossal ''idiot'' actually deployed you to a ''potential combat zone'' with it?!?' Which means that Honor pulled off the events of the first novel with an untested prototype that wasn't remotely combat-ready for solo action and wasn't ever {{hardline}}intended to be.
* Part of Honor's overwhelming duties at Basilisk Station is to hold customs inspections. The NPA, the local police organization, is mainly ex-Army and ex-Marines and so they have almost no experience finding smuggling compartments or the like. (Which is why its supposed to be the Navy's job to handle customs in the first place, a duty the previous Basilisk Station commander had been ignoring.) During the meeting with the head of the NPA, she calls in the Bosun.
{{quote|''"I'm not going to ask you to betray any secrets, Bosun, but what I'm looking for are people who--from their own experience, let us say--would be intimately familiar with the best way to hide contraband aboard a shuttle or a starship.''}}
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