cthia wrote:I don't recall the term being applied to anyone but Manticore, though it may have been applied to the Havenites as well, being a part of the fighting and bickering "over there."
It's been applied pretty broadly. And the operative term in "neobarb navy" appears to be "neobarb" -- first you start calling them neobarbs, and then if they have a navy it's a neobarb navy.
Also here's a telling quote given by RMN's Sara Kate Lessem on HMS Clas Fleming at Ajay "They’re Solarians, and Solarians automatically know everything they need to know about the neobarbs inhabiting the outer dark beyond the League’s borders" because that does show that at least Manticorans believe that the League applies the term to anybody outside their borders.
But the term seems pretty widely applied.
Even ignoring cases where someone self-deferentially uses it against themselves, says it as a projection of how they think a 3rd party views them, or is someone from the League using it solely against Manticore, we still have at least the following:
* Rob Pierre [Haven] as a general term for distant folks - "Now everyone, with the possible exception of a few neobarbs on planets no one's gotten around to rediscovering yet, knows who she is" [AoV]
* (As mentioned) Janacek [Manticore] against Grayson - "Besides, Graysons were uppity, without the proper respect and deference such a planet full of hayseed neobarbs ought to show the Alliance's senior navy." [WoH] (one of several instances)
* Janacek [Manticore] against Lynx - ""You think they're going to turn out to be another bunch of Graysons? Or that we should even want another batch of neobarbs?""
* Aldona Anisimovna [MAlign] - "There were entire star nations, and not just those full of neobarbs or stuck off in the back of beyond in the Shell, worth less than he was." [AAC]
* Albrecht Detweiler [MAlign] against the League and/or Manticore - "Sometimes you have to be really obvious to convince neobarbs to draw the desired conclusion." [AAC]
* Rajampet [League] against Manticore plus the verge in general - "We can’t establish that kind of precedent! If any pissant little neobarb navy decides the SLN can’t tell it what to do, we’re going to have a hell of a problem out in the Verge!" [MoH] (one of several against Manticore and "other neobarbs" they might inspire)
* League files [League] against outsiders in general - "Byng’s files had also confirmed something ONI had suspected for a long time. In the almost inconceivable event that some neobarb star nation, or possibly some rogue OFS sector governor, attacked the Solarian League (or chose to forcibly resist OFS aggression, although that wasn’t specifically spelled out, of course), the SLN had evolved a simple, straightforward strategy" [MoH]
* Hirokichi Floyd [League] against Manticore plus others - "To make matters worse, he’d been deprived by the then-Star Kingdom of Manticore, the most uppity of the neobarb star nations which were disinclined to grant the Solarian League the deference to which it was so obviously due" [ART]
* Filareta [League] reflected on his prior belief; against both Manticore and Haven - "After all, how good did some neobarb have to be if all she was going to do was beat up on other neobarbs?" [ART]
* Filareta [League] against Grayson - "ONI and BuPlan had always recognized that Grayson might be stupid enough to stand up beside its Manticoran allies. They were religious fanatics, after all, even more backward than most of their fellow neobarb monarchies" [ART]
* Abruzzi or Carmichael [League] against the grand alliance - "people who were embracing Abruzzi’s version so enthusiastically had done so because it explained how the invincible Solarian League could have been defeated so completely by a patchwork coalition of neobarbs" [ART]
* Admiral Helland [League] about both Manticore and Haven - "She’d subscribed fully to Battle Fleet hubris—at least before the Battle of Spindle—and she still considered both Manticore and the Republic of Haven “uppity neobarbs” who needed to be taught their manners" [UH]
* Hajdu [League] showing it applies more generally - "Neobarb neutrals are one thing, but someone who chooses to stab the League in the back when it’s his responsibility to represent it" [UH]
* Quartermain [League] about the protectorate - "And a government run by their neighbors, people from their own region, has to be more attractive to neobarbs in the Protectorates than OFS ever was" [UH]
* Henry Thoreau [unknown affiliation] - "this one is too high profile. We try to pull it off, and we'd better plan on migrating to some neobarb colony no one ever heard of" [Worlds of Honor]
* Governor Obermeyer [Silesian] - "The Confederacy was not some neobarb single-system little flyspeck on a chart somewhere, she had informed Honor icily, and she intended to demand apologies—and undoubtedly reparations—at the very highest level" [IFF]
* Commodore Aikawa Navarre [Mesan Space Navy] about Manticore - "I am shocked-no, Captain, sickened-to hear anyone calling himself a naval officer, even of a backwater, neobarb 'star kingdom,' acting as a mouthpiece for the scum of the galaxy" [CoS]
* Ragnhild's Instructors at the Acadamy [Manticore] - had told her "Sometimes the inhabitants of planets whose societies or technology bases had been hammered especially hard took a sort of aggressive, in-your-face reverse pride in their neobarbarian status." [SoS]
* Naomi Kaplan [Manticore] - "Too many real pirates are neobarbs from backwaters even less enlightened than Nuncio." [SoS]
* [Manticore] - "Some of those alarmed souls had been none too shy about calling the Talbotters "neobarbs," which Michelle, despite her own concerns, had found decidedly ironic, given the fact that Sollies routinely applied that pejorative to the same citizens of the Star Kingdom who were now using it about someone else" [SftS]
* Maitland Askew [League] - "He knew the RMN was a lot bigger than most of the neobarb fleets floating around out in the Verge and beyond" [SftS]
* Commissioner Lorcan Verrochio [League] about Monica - "a batch of battlecruisers manned by neobarbs who hadn't even managed to get more than three of them refitted and back into commission" [SftS]
* Karl-Heinz Sabatino [League] against the Chotěbořan system - "What amounted to petty cash for a transstellar like Frogmore-Wellington or Iwahara was more than enough to make a neobarb dictator like Cabrnoch and the key members of his regime indecently wealthy by local standards" [SoV]
* Adam Omikado [League] against Swallowan citizen - "He loathed uppity neobarbs like Eileanóra Allenby." [SoV]