Shannon Foraker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Commander Shannon Foraker is a fictional character in the Honorverse.

An expert tactical officer, she has served under Warner Caslet onboard the light cruiser PNS Vaubon during the early years of the war, gaining a reputation of a "tac witch" for her technological prowess. She also refused to regard the technological disparity between the People's Republic and Manticore with the same 'depressed' attitude that many of the People's Navy did. Foraker looked at it as more of a challenge of her and her navy's skills, and appeared to love the 'thrill' of it.

After being captured by Honor Harrington on Silesia, she was allowed to return to Haven and was assigned to serve under Admiral Lester Tourville. She saved Honor's treecat Nimitz from being killed by State Security and allowed Honor Harrington to escape from Cordelia Ransom's prison ship. Her involvement was never noticed (except by her accomplice, Admiral Tourville), and she continued to serve throughout the war with Admiral Tourville.

During Thomas Theisman's coup, she engineered the self-destruction of two State Security naval battlegroups sent to execute Admiral Tourville; her only comment at the moment was "Oops". After the fall of the People's Republic, she rose quickly through the ranks, becoming Vice Admiral and head of research and development (codenamed Project Bolthole) for the new Navy of the Republic of Haven.

Despite her technical knowledge, she was something of an absent-minded person, and frequently failed to follow the Committee of Public Safety's new regulation that all personnel should be addressed as "Citizen", never "Sir", especially when being heavily engaged in a particular train of thought.