En la estación Basilisco, David Weber (inglés y alemán)

On Basilisk Station

The story


Commander Honor Harrington, freshly graduated from the Royal Manticorian Navy’s Advanced Tactical Course, assumes command of CL-56 Fearless as it is completing an extensive weapons refit.

A successful young officer with a promising career in the service of her Queen, Honor’s delight at her new command soon turns to dismay as she realizes Fearless has been nearly stripped of her normal weapons and turned into a tactical testbed for new technology. After initial success in the opening rounds of fleet war games, Fearless suffers defeat after defeat as opposing officers correctly determine the safest way to deal with the light cruiser’s refitted weapons is to deny her the chance to use them.

Banished to Basilisk Station by officers eager to sweep their so-called “secret weapon” under the carpet, Honor is even more dismayed to learn the commanding officer of the other Queen’s ship assigned to the system picket is an old Academy nemesis. Captain Lord Pavel Young has learned of Honor’s assignment, and has set her up for failure to discharge her duty. After taking his heavy cruiser Warlock off to Manticore for a “desperately needed” refit, Young leaves Honor and Fearless as the sole RMN unit responsible for the Basilisk system’s security. When the widely contradictory picket requirements cause Fearless to stumble in its duty, it will be Honor, not Young, who takes the bullet for the failure.

Grimly buckling down, Honor kicks and drags her crew after her as they address themselves to the tasks set for them. With hard work and clever use of resources, Honor soon has revitalized the RMN’s presence in Basilisk and amazed the other Manticorian personnel assigned to the system. Having grown used to the backwater dumping ground circumstances of Basilisk, the Junction and planetary mission staff are delighted to realize they now have a competent and dedicated officer to partner with. Even though short handed and lacking full resources to properly address all the requirements of their duty in Basilisk, Fearless and her crew rise to the circumstances as Queen’s officers are expected to.

And none too soon, as the rival star nation of Haven, a bloated conqueror which has been slowly strangling on its own economic policies for over half a century, has set its eyes on the Star Kingdom. The plan Haven has evolved begins with a coup de main against Basilisk; whipping the low-tech native aliens into a killing frenzy that would sweep across the planet in a haze of blood was to provide the interstellar pretext Haven desires to swoop in and take control of the system before Manticore can respond. This would provide the means to invade of Manticore through the two Junction termini Haven would then possess: Trevor’s Star and Basilisk.

But through the proper attention to duty, Honor and the Manticoran planetary personnel stumble into pieces of the plan. Assembling the fragments of information into a coherent whole, Honor deduces Haven’s intentions and is left with no choice but to act firmly or stand aside while Haven moves into launch position for an invasion. Honor leads Fearless and her crew into a desperate engagement against a fleeing Haven Q-ship. Overmatched in everything but courage, Fearless is pounded into scrap during the chase, and suffers terrible casualties among her officers and crew.

Despite this, Fearless succeeds in its desperate mission; Honor manages to lure the Q-ship within range of their secret weapon and to destroy it. Manticore reinforces the system in time to greet the “visiting” Haven task force, who leave after a suitable interval to inform Haven of failure. After extensive repairs just to get the mauled light cruiser underway, Honor returns to the Star Kingdom to a hero’s welcome. Promoted to Captain, Honor is given command of the heavy cruiser Fearless, a newly constructed Star Knight-class vessel hastily redesignated to replace the aging, gutted, and scheduled to be scrapped CL-56 which had given so much in Basilisk.

Auf verlorenem Posten

Handlung
Kommandantin Honor Harrington der Royal Manticoran Navy wurde ohne eigenes Verschulden strafversetzt. Nun hat sie den Befehl über einen alten Leichten Kreuzer am scheinbar gottverlassensten Ort der Galaxis. Doch da beginnen die bisher friedlichen Bewohner des Planeten zu rebellieren und Honor kommt einer interstellaren Verschwörung auf die Spur.


Me lo ha recomendado Osomax, sí que ya sabéis a quien dar las gracias.

Gracias caballero

No sé ni para que entro, imagino que la curiosidad mató al gato pero en fin, que parece interesante, pero impasible el alemán e imposible el inglés, de todas maneras gracias

Realmente a quien hay que dar las gracias es a BB, que soporta estoicamente mis alusiones a reseñas pero siempre me trata con suma bondad y amabilidad, en conjunto que el resto de los chico/as del foro.

Una sugerencia...si tenéis chavales en casa y, con el signo de los tiempos, han de aprender idiomas...y además, por pura casualidad, tenéis un ejemplar de un libro en castellano, el homólogo en otro idioma puede ser una gran ayuda para estimular su interés.

Gracias BB, eres un sol.

Esta vez no voy a buscar el traductor para darte las gracias Osomoax por querer colaborar con tus sugerencias de nuevas lecturas en este foro.

gracias a tod@s vosotr@s..

¡Honor Harrington!

Vaya, qué gusto ver esto reseñado... tendré que repasar mi lista de leídos, porque no recuerdos los títulos...

Eso sí, en inglés, en alemán lo único que sé decir es Ich liebe dich...

Anabelee escribió:¡Honor Harrington!

Vaya, qué gusto ver esto reseñado... tendré que repasar mi lista de leídos, porque no recuerdos los títulos...

Eso sí, en inglés, en alemán lo único que sé decir es Ich liebe dich...

También hay reseña en español, Anabelee...en la sección de Sci-Fi-Fantasía del foro.
Por cierto, con esa frase ya tienes más de la mitad del alemán controlado...la otra mitad se deriva de esa..

Huy... y yo sin saber que el alemán era tan fácil.


No tengo problema en leer en inglés, es más, desde que me regalaron el lector hace casi dos años he ido alternando libros en inglés y español sin grandes dificultades. Hay muchos libros de los que me interesan que no se han publicado en español, así que me decidí a buscarlos en su idioma original.

Gracias BB y Osomax,por la recomendacion,me hablaron muy bien de estos libros,me los apunto para cuando tenga un poco de tiempo.Gracias.