History Literature / SeafortSaga

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority -- Played with. Among Midshipmen, any of the junior Midshipmen may challenge the "Senior Middy" in a fight to attempt to take over the Wardroom. Consequently, a Midshipman who is unable to hold his or her Wardroom is unlikely to ever get promoted to Lieutenant. It's a minor subplot in the first book, and mentioned occasionally in following books.

The Seafort Saga follows the career of Nicholas Seafort, eager midshipman starting out from one of his early voyages where a disaster wipes out the top end of the command structure leaving the inexperienced youth in charge. The verse's background includes a strong world government backed by an equally strong church, many of the heroes issues arise out of his strictly religious upbringing and how this conflict with the realities of life in the SpaceNavy and indeed the world. Seafort's first voyage also leads to the discovery of StarfishAliens who apparently don't like us very much.

* BadDreams -- Nick constantly dreams about being left at the Naval Academy by his father, the dream is identical to what actually happened.
** Also, every man he's killed or had executed has shown up in his nightmares.

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Queen Victoria's Navy updated with new equipment and put into a SpaceOpera. Not literally. That is just the feeling of the premise of this series of SF novels by David Feintuch, which can be a lot of reading fun, if that is what you are looking for. For a similar feeling see: the Literature/HonorHarrington series by DavidWeber.[[note]]The series even has a star system named after the titular character of the Seafort Saga.[[/note]]

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