*snorts* Given Honor canonically did accidental baby acquistion that says something about Weber's writing. Given that I seem to remember something about the tree-cat life-support modules also getting used for babies, what about a Navy rescue crew post either the destruction of Blackbird or Haephaestus pulling a baby out of one of them alive?
Road trip ... what about something from Cathy Montaigne's trip to Old Chicago when she exiled herself there? Did she go direct, or did she wander around the Core Worlds for a bit?
If it wasn't for the AU part, I'd point you at the Sollies at the tail end of A Rising Thunder, who are starting to try and investigate Manpower/Mesa's tendrils in the League amongst other things, because they got hit with the cluebat.
All Honorverse, I'm afraid.
Road trip ... what about something from Cathy Montaigne's trip to Old Chicago when she exiled herself there? Did she go direct, or did she wander around the Core Worlds for a bit?
If it wasn't for the AU part, I'd point you at the Sollies at the tail end of A Rising Thunder, who are starting to try and investigate Manpower/Mesa's tendrils in the League amongst other things, because they got hit with the cluebat.