Her base camp is attacked by a Barrayarian, her crew escapes, but she is marooned with one of the most famous of Barrayar’s soldiers, the noted “Butcher of Komarr” - Aral Vorkosigan. Ruled by an emperor, Barrayar is primitive, patriarchal, and flat out backwards in the viewpoint of one of its most famous ladies - Countess Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Beta Colony system.Ĭaptain Cordelia Naismith is a competent and respected captain, in charge of a scientific exploration mission (the highest honor for a Betan commander), when she runs into Barrayar in Shards of Honor (1986). Smack dab in the middle of the speculative fiction universe, lies a parochial planetary empire, somewhere to the right of the Cyteen System in firm Space Opera territories, lies Barrayar.
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