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* It's revealed in ''Uncompromising Honor'' that the Harringtons were a lost Mesan Alpha line, and it had been previously mentioned that the Alignment had tried several times to crack the secret of telempathy. This explains why the Harrington line have a natural telempathic gift: their line must have been one of the ones used for early telempathic experiments. As for why Mesa was never able to get this to work with any other lines, there are two unique factors for the Harringtons. First, of course, was that they have a very high percentage of treecat bondings over the years, and the bond helped them train their talent. Second, they lived on Sphinx and therefore presumably were regularly eating Sphinxian celery, which contains a telepathy-boosting vitamin.
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* Manticorans keep going 'how can these Sollies be so stupid' but these are Manticoran naval personnel. Who have been rescuing Mesan slaves for centuries, and then often marrying them (or the children of those slaves join the military, and often marry fellow naval personnel). Since the Mesans want to genetically uplift humanity, it would make sense for them to put genetic improvements into their slaves, especially the pleasure slaves, in hopes of those improvements making it into the general population. Not that effective on the Sollies, because of the stigma of genemod people, but that stigma is much less on Manticore. Over the centuries, the Manticorans have benefited from all Mesa's research to the point that the reason Sollies seem stupid to the segment of the Manticoran population that would have the most freed slave ancestry is that they ARE relatively stupid.
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* The presence of Kudzu on Grayson is treated as a throwaway joke, referencing the planetary culture's FantasyCounterpartCulture inspirations of Meiji-era Japan and the DeepSouth. Honor even wonders why anybody would take a plant like that with them to the stars. But where these days kudzu is mostly regarded as an invasive weed, it's actually a very resilient, fast-growing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation nitrogen fixer]] with numerous uses (including culinary). In other words, it's ''exactly'' the kind of thing you'd want to bring along to a newly colonized planet.
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* The presence of Kudzu on Grayson is treated as a throwaway joke, referencing the planetary culture's FantasyCounterpartCulture inspirations of Meiji-era Japan and the DeepSouth. Honor even wonders why anybody would take a plant like that with them to the stars. But where these days kudzu is mostly regarded as an invasive weed, it's actually a very resilient, fast-growing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation nitrogen fixer]] with numerous uses (including culinary).culinary -- in fact, in Japan its main application is for its edible beans and root starch). In other words, it's ''exactly'' the kind of thing you'd want to bring along to a newly colonized planet.
