SWM wrote:wastedfly wrote:Clearly MWW tried to copy Jane's when he made Jayne's HV. Obviously MWW misspelled Janes' to Jayne's so as to dodge the ol' copy and trademark office. So similar I misspelled it in first post. I suppose you could take the opinion that Jayne's is only a local publication and therefore not circulated in the HV. I do not take this stance. From the name, it is obvious MWW's intentions and implications.
It wasn't MWW that invented Jaynes. It was Ad Astra, for their supplementary books. There have been arguments about how canonical the Ad Astra books are. Some of those people from Ad Astra are now on BuNine. The HoS article specifically labeled as an apology from Jaynes is clearly referencing the Ad Astra books. But the rest of the articles are not specifically marked as Jaynes, so it is not absolutely clear that they are.
In any case, it was Ad Astra and BuNine that wrote the Jaynes material, not MWW.
I actually used Jane's in HotQ and didn't worry about it at all (because it didn't occur to me to, given the context). When Ad Astra started on SITS, they altered the spelling for the very reasons cited above.
FWIW, Jayne's is widely distributed in the Honorverse, not simply an SKM publication. My version of in it the Honorverse is not nearly so well-informed as Ad Astra's version, however, and the more "speculative" data in it (i.e., anything not already known the Solarian ONI) is routinely disregarded by the Invincible Solarian League since, after all, its intelligence sources must be better than that stupid bunch of civilians. Besides, what does it matter what the clever little Japanese are up to when we clearly have a superior fleet sitting in Port Arthur ready to cut them back down to size if they're foolish enough to try anything?
The biggest problem the SLN's intelligence people have is that (aside from a few fairly-far-down-the-totem-pole characters I've introduced you to, they are totally satisfied that their intelligence sources are the broadest and their analysts are the finest to be found anywhere in the explored galaxy. If they weren't, after all, the ISLN wouldn't be the ISLN and would actually have a peer competitor somewhere, which it manifestly does not.
As for the degree of detail of the entries in HoS, we wanted an "in-universe" feel for it and this seemed the best compromise between that and giving readers a lot more detailed information than they've gotten from the infodumps in the books.
) by my WAG were ordered in two batches of two: One in response to the Icarus' sailing, and the other in response to the advent of the Inertial Compensator & the Jason's imminent arrival ... resulting in around 32 frigate crews, most of whom likely were paid for a 10-year hitch in colony shares, being thawed to greet the Jason (or just thereafter), whence the crews for those nine BCs (and an immediate slump in numbers of crews and resulting build-down soon thereafter as they would all be retiring within a few years).