Sphinx (Honorverse)

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Sphinx is fictional planet in the "Honorverse", a series of books by David Weber. It is the fourth planet of Manticore A, which is a component of the Manticore binary star system. It is a heavy gravity world with gravity 1.35 times that of Earth. Its orbit gives it a long year compared to Terra, with cool if temperate summers and long extremely severe winters with very heavy snowfalls.

Sphinx is part of the Star Kingdom of Manticore and is also the native planet of a sentient species: Treecats. Native life is protected by Sphinx Forestry Service (SFS) and its rangers who are responsible for approxiamately 1/3 of Shinz that has been exclusively reserved for native life. The SFS is authorized in the 9th Amendment to the Manticoran Constitution; it is in large part the work of Stephanie Harrington, who discovered the treecats existence and was the first human adoptee.

Honor Harrington was born, and grew up, on Sphinx.

[edit] Allegory

Sphinx seems to be analogous to Ireland.