Gryphon (Honorverse)
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Gryphon is one of three habitable planets in the Manticore system, the home system of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, a fictional binary star system found in the Honorverse. It is one of two planets of Manticore B and the only habitable one. It has a very considerable axial tilt, leading to extreme seasonal weather. The planet's environment is not very pleasant, with extremely harsh winters with snowfall measured in meters. As a result, natives of Gryphon tend to be a very tough bunch, and also a little contemptuous of people who were not born on Gryphon.
With a sparse population, Manticore-B's single habitable planet was the least hospitable and last settled of the Manticore System's three Earth-like worlds with its notorious winters.
Gryphon is much more sparsely populated than either Sphinx or Manticore, but a higher percentage of her population joins the Royal Manticore Navy. Its society is very rough-edged, and people tend to view Manticorans and Sphinxians as soft. In SKM politicis natives of Gryphon are considered to be conservative royalists.
Several references are made to "Gryphon granite," presumably a superiorly-dense mineral composite.
[edit] Notable natives of Gryphon
- Sally MacBride
- Mercedes Brigham
- Anton Zilwicki
- Helen Zilwicki (daughter of Anton and Captain Helen Zilwicki)
