![]() ![]() Tien Vorsoisson and Miles stumble upon the conspirators and are captured. Heavily in debt, he has been bribed to ignore certain irregularities, which he believes are just a swindle, but are actually part of a plot against Barrayar. Tien suffers from a degenerative genetic condition, which would stigmatize him with other Barrayarans, and has tried to raise money for secret treatment by gambling on the Komarran financial markets. Miles uncovers an extremely dangerous Komarran conspiracy, one which threatens the entire Barrayaran Empire, and is attracted to Vorthys's niece, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, the unhappy wife of an Etienne "Tien" Vorsoisson, an engineer at one of the terraforming facilities. ![]() He is there, along with Professor Vorthys, an older, more experienced Auditor and engineer, to investigate whether the destruction of a solar power satellite vital to the ongoing terraforming of the planet was an accident or sabotage. ![]() In his new role as Imperial Auditor, Miles Vorkosigan finds himself on Komarr, a planet where his father has an unfortunate reputation, being blamed for a massacre of government officials who had surrendered to him during the planet's conquest. It was included in the 2008 omnibus Miles in Love. It is a part of the Vorkosigan Saga, and is the twelfth full-length novel in publication order. Komarr is a 1998 science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. ![]()
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