The first season begins ten years later in 2019, as it follows the life of the now 19-year-old Max as she struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters.

In 1973 he wrote English lyrics for the Italian group Premiata Forneria Marconi ( also known as PFM ) and produced their first album for ELP's Manticore Records, titled, Photos of Ghosts.

Socially, by virtue of her father's ancestry, she was born a yeoman — meaning that she is a descendant of paying settlers of the second wave of settlement of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, not a member of the nobility — who for the most part can claim descent from the first colonists who invested in the joint venture purchasing settlement rights to the new system and who subsequently underwrote the migration of that first wave of colonists in slow ships to Manticore.

For example, in A Rising Thunder this point is directly addressed in dialog with the Haven diplomatic delegation visiting Manticore in the discussion about whether the Mesan Alignment could actually exist — in short for her to detail what she sensed from the just concluded briefing by Herlander Simões, the Mesan physicist who had defected from the Mesan Alignment when the diplomats were again alone in session.

Attached to a cruiser squadron assigned as screening elements for her Battlecruiser squadron in The Short Victorious War, Young demonstrated cowardice in the books ' finale as Haven finally began the war long expected by both sides in its opening bid to conquer Manticore and its alliance against Haven.

As a result, simultaneous state funerals were staged for her on both Manticore and Grayson, while she is recuperating and formulating plans to take over the planet's management.

Involving hundreds of ships of the wall on both sides, the Battle of Manticore is the largest naval engagement in human history, and it is extremely costly for both sides.

They seek to start a conflict between Manticore and the Solarian League in order to remove the Cluster from the Star Kingdom and for other, as yet unknown, reasons.

Despite Haven's attack on Manticore, Honor is shown in Storm from the Shadows as an advocate for at least partial reconciliation with Haven, as it increasingly appears that war with the Solarian League is inevitable.

She also earns several medals for bravery, including the Parliamentary Medal of Valor for saving both Queen Elizabeth III and Protector Benjamin Mayhew IX ( the heads of state of Manticore and Grayson respectively ) from a surprise attack.

However collaborating author Eric Flint intervened asking for the invention of a mutual enemy for both the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven to oppose in a spy and counterspy spin-off sub-series the two contractually agreed to co-write, just as they have contracts to write in Flint's 1632 universe.

In this scenario, proxies for Manticore and Haven oppose the same hidden enemy, the genetic slavers and powers behind the government and corporations of the planet of Mesa.

Though Basilisk has become a dumping ground for misfits and rejects from her home colony of Manticore, Honor is determined to discharge her duty regardless of the circumstances.

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.

The Star Kingdom of Manticore is gearing up for a likely war with Haven.

With little choice, Honor dispatches the light cruiser Apollo to Manticore for reinforcements and prepares her last two ships, Fearless and Troubadour to fight the Masadans.

Grayson is strategic because it represents a possible flank of advance towards Manticore for an attacking Havenite fleet.

Manticore is more reliable for the Grayson leaders ( who also want to modernize their society ) than the voracious People's Republic.

Ransom gives any crew member serving under Harrington a chance to defect and Senior Chief Petty Officer Harkness takes up the offer claiming that Manticore have never really done anything for him.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

* In the TV series Dark Angel gene therapy is mentioned as one of the practices performed on transgenics and their surrogate mothers at Manticore, and in the episode Prodigy, Dr. Tanaka uses a groundbreaking new form of gene therapy to turn Jude, a premature, vegetative baby of a crack / cocaine addict, into a boy genius.

The Manticore is the story of Boy Staunton's only son, David.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > Although the CD lists this as being the ' medley ', recorded in 1993, released on The Return of the Manticore box set and some pressings of the 1994 album In the Hot Seat, it is actually a live recording of the band's performance of ' Pictures ' taking from their first Isle of Wight show-including the famous cannons being fired at the end.

The last is mentioned in Robertson Davies ' book The Manticore, where he interprets the legend in Jungian psychological terms.

During the Brazen Head segment of Paul ’ s show, someone in the audience ( revealed to be David Staunton in The Manticore ), cries out, “ Who killed Boy Staunton ?” At this exact moment, Dunstan, who is in the audience, suffers a heart attack.

The Manticore is the second novel in Robertson Davies ' Deptford Trilogy.

The protagonist Honor Harrington is an officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy ( RMN ), the space navy of the Star Kingdom of Manticore.

In the second, The Honor of the Queen, she takes severely outgunned units to defend a planet she has no political allegiance to but with which her government is attempting to negotiate treaties, and subsequently takes on the duty of upholding the honor of the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its queen.

This is because the new government of the Star Kingdom is venial and corrupt and eventually through a succession of systematic slights, disgusts an alliance of small powers Manticore had built up to oppose the Haven Behemoth threatening each member state of the alliance — which that government also further antagonizes leading to much further and greater loss of life.

Sphinx is the second inhabited planet with a long slow orbital year and long seasons orbiting around the star ' Manticore A ' of the three inhabited planets of Star Kingdom of Manticore, located much farther out in the liquid water zone than the planet Manticore, which is nearer the inner margin of inhabitable zone, whereas the third inhabited world Gryphon orbits ' Manticore B '.

She is the daughter of neurosurgeon Alfred Harrington and physician / geneticist Allison Benton-Ramirez y Chou Harrington, both with towering renown and fame of their own among the Manticore and Beowulf medical establishments ; and her father is known to have one of the most beneficial and dominant genetically modified gene variations that he has passed onto Honor.

An former officer in Manticore's Naval Medical system, he is well regarded by the Manticore admiralty as well.

On Manticore, Cromarty's death opens an opportunity for former Opposition factions led by Baron High Ridge to seize political control, much to the frustration of Queen Elizabeth.

49, BB 63 by Béla Bartók, uncredited on US release of Emerson Lake & Palmer ( credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP, on the back cover of the LP jacket ).

* " Knife Edge ", based on Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček, uncredited on US release ( credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP, on the back cover of the LP jacket ); middle section based on French Suites by J. S.

* Manticore Records: A record label created by the members of the rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Manticore released albums by ELP and a number of other Progressive rock artists.

Manticore was originally distributed in the U. S. by Atlantic Records from 1973 to 1975 but switched to Motown distribution until the label folded in 1977.

He also appears as a major character in " The Manticore ", and appears in several other novels by Davies.

Her position on Grayson and its feudal-like organization and constitution makes Countess Harrington of Manticore a head of state, in her own right as Steadholder Harrington with direct powers of life and death not enjoyed by even the most powerful Manticorian noble.

The two subseries and the last three novels all share interlocking events and descriptions of the same events from alternative points of view, deliberately synchronizing and locking the timelines of the three broad fronts as the series twists to include the conflict with the massive Solarian League as engineered by a malevolent and hidden power pledged to destroy both Haven and Manticore by conquest.

Her legend was also picked up by foreign flag diplomatic and intelligence appreciations about her, especially from Manticore and in private back channels of the Manticorian Admiralty.

The dressing down was very public, witnessed by the Manticore Ambassador to Grayson and the Grayson head of state.

Manticore then fields a new weapon system, " Apollo ", that not only neutralizes the new system defense systems Haven is deploying, but also turns the tide of the war, as it renders modern missile defensive systems effectively worthless, and further, capitalizes on the new MDM Ghost Rider missiles that have been in the field by enhancing their long range accuracy.

Realizing his nation's poor strategic position, Admiral Thomas Theisman of Haven resolves to launch one final massive, desperate strike on the Manticore system itself, hoping to end the war before Apollo can be widely distributed in the field to all units by the Royal Manticoran Navy.

After a successful attack by the Mesa Alignment Navy on the Space Stations of the Manticore home system, Harrington helps bring about an alliance between the Star Empire and Haven against Mesa / Manpower.

Weber revealed in the foreword to Storm from the Shadows that it had originally been his intent to kill Honor off in the Battle of Manticore, thus further mimicking Nelson's life ( he died in his greatest battle, Trafalgar ) and have the emerging Mesa problem be dealt with by the next generation, specifically, Honor's children.

* " Fire ", a song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on the album The Return of the Manticore

Protagonist Honor Harrington is a citizen of the Star Kingdom of Manticore which is, during the first 20 or so works of the series, the key rival and the main stellar protagonist against the star-conquering ( People's ) Republic of Haven ; these two nations are consciously based on Imperial Britain and Napoleonic France, although Haven also seems to be influenced by the former Soviet Union.