cthia wrote:Interesting. If your prediction is true, the conflict the MA engineered between Haven and Manticore and the SL should have been deja vu for Haven.*
Perhaps during that era of wormhole discovery it took significantly longer than five years to support the logistics of a wormhole assault.
Kinda déjà vu, but not exactly. The DuQuesne Plan and the PRH was actually doing the things they were being accused of. They did conquer systems. The fact that they were manipulated into doing it and not even know that is a side discussion at that point. My prediction is that Axelrod has not gone anywhere as far, if for no other reason they have no time to do so. Remember lines of communication are much slower at this time, as there are no known Wormholes leading to this part of the Galaxy. Haven and New Berlin are actually farther from the Core than Manticore.
The prediction is that Haven is being framed, meaning they weren't guilty of the act. Oh, there may be some Havenite patsies that got duped into actually doing nefarious things, but that's not the Havenite government.
*Late edit: In addition, if true, the MA may have been taking a page out of that book. Am I recalling correctly that Axelrod has some sort of relations to the MA?
Now that's a question I've been meaning to ask too.
Nothing has been explicitly said on this yet. Axelrod is headquartered on Earth (Axelrod of Terra), not on Mesa, and is interested in the wormhole for commercial reasons. There doesn't seem to be any genetic plan involved, nor galactic domination over the human race. They appear to have "simple" profit motives: they want an enviable economic position by controlling wormholes and junctions, either directly or through puppet governments.
And we also know that the Alignment was operating contemporaneously, through Manpower Inc. They had already tried to acquire treecats (SK book series). In fact, at one point in one of the MA books ("Manticore Ascendant", yet another overload to the acronym...), probably ACTA, a character wonders why the Volsungs are attacking and asks "is it about the treecats?" So if Axelrod was a MAlign company, I'd expect some coordination, which doesn't appear to have happened.
So, right now, I'm guessing that Axelrod is actually independent. Aside from the treecats, which are a mere curiosity, the Alignment has no interest in the Haven sector at all. Haven is not big enough to be the polity to confront the League. It won't be until after the Junction is discovered that they turn their attentions to the sector. Probably 50 to 100 years after that, as the Junction brings wealth to the sector and Haven benefits from it. I'm guessing that even the Economic Bill of Rights was a purely Havenite invention, not influenced by the Alignment; they only distorted it for their purposes later.
That's not to say there's no connection. There has been no mention of Axelrod in Honor's time, even in the half century preceding it in House of Steel. So my guess is that Axelrod is no more. It probably fell apart as a result of Manticore actions, which we'll probably learn in the MA books. So it's possible that Manpower or another MAlign front like the Jessyk Combine acquired the assets of the company as it was going down.