Fireflair wrote:I must admit to having gotten lost in all the prolong generations and their effects. Especially once there was discussion about the additional genome edits the MAlign had performed making their star lines even longer lived. AND on top of that was the MAlign's 'improved' prolong.
Just how long does the most modern and best generation get to live?
That isn't certain yet, because the introduction of third generation prolong occurred so recently that Honor Harrington was one of the first recipients. Indeed, since the first generation was introduced in ~1825, they haven't had enough time to truly test prolong. That's 100 years prior to 1925 with a treatment age cap of 25, meaning the oldest humans with prolong can only be 125 years old or so, well short of the 200-250 they were projected to get.
IIRC, Honor Harrington's prolong generation was projected to live until around 300-350. The Alignment's improved version is probably closer to 500 years, but as above, nobody can know for several more centuries whether prolong really does work as advertised. The Honorverse's scientists can't get useful quantities of old-age-death data from first-gen prolong until around 2075. Third-gen prolong's deaths probably won't be until the 2200s.