Cordelia Ransom is a fictional character in David Weber´s Honorverse series of novels. Many people consider her to be analogous to Jean-Paul Marat, an important figure in the French Revolution. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... David Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... The Honorverse is the semi-official name for the setting of a military science fiction series of stories by David Weber featuring Honor Harrington, the Horatio Hornbloweresque heroine. ... Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 – July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born scientist and physician, who made much of his career in England, but is best known as a French Revolutionary. ... During the French Revolution (1789–1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...

A citizen of the People's Republic of Haven, Cordelia Ransom was a leading member of a radical faction called the Citizens´ Rights Union. The CRU resorted to acts of terrorism in what they believed was the defense of the God-given right to a high state-supported standard of living. The Peoples Republic of Haven is a fictional star nation in the Honorverse. ...

Together with Rob S. Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just, Ransom led the coup against Haven´s Legislaturalist government, and became a senior member of the Committee of Public Safety installed in its place. Her official position was Secretary for Public Information, which would give Ransom control of the People´s Republic media and censorship apparatus. Robert Stanton Pierre is a fictional character in David Weber´s Honorverse series of novels. ... Oscar Saint-Just is a fictional character in David Weber´s Honorverse series of novels. ...

She was considered a skillful propagandist and an expert on managing the mob´s emotions, but the more level-headed Pierre and Saint-Just noted that Ransom had extremely radical opinions about politics and economics. Her rhetoric had a distinct resemblance to Communist propaganda, and, as Admiral Thomas Theisman noted, she believed her own propaganda. Thomas Theisman is a fictional character in the Honorverse. ...

Cordelia Ransom used the capture of Honor Harrington as a propaganda weapon against Manticore and personally took Harrington to her scheduled execution on the planet Hades, but she died during Harrington´s escape when her personal battlecruiser PNS Tepes was destroyed with all hands. Honor Harrington is a fictional character, the eponymous heroine of a series of science fiction books set in the Honorverse, written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. ...