Final War (Honorverse)

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The Final War or Earth's Final Wars are about a conflict that nearly wiped out human life on Earth in the Honorverse.

The Final War was a war fought by genetic supermen using viral technology as one of its apocalyptic weapons. A group of genetically enhanced humans, the Ukrainian Supermen, launched a war of conquest, and used biotech diseases as one of its weapons. As the conflict was launched after many offworld and interstellar colonies were already established, and colony ships to others launched, the devastated Earth was helped to recover by its colonies. Particularly, the planet Beowulf provided medical technology to stem the tide of disease, from which it gets its reputation as the premiere medical world. This conflict also provides the aversion to genetic tinkering of humans prevalent in many worlds of the Honorverse, and the sense that "genie"s (gengineered humans) are bad.