The Vorkosigan Companion - Lillian Stewart Carl [187]
Timmons:
No first name given. A customs agent on Beta Colony, he repeatedly catches Bothari trying to smuggle assorted weapons past the security checkpoint. (WA)
Tonkin:
No first name given. A trooper in the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet, he participates in the rescue mission on Jackson's Whole, and is with Medic Norwood and Mark when Norwood sends Miles's cryo-chamber to the Durona Group, although he doesn't know what the medic did with Miles's body. Mark uses Tonkin's helmet recorder to figure out what happened to his brother. (MD)
Tony:
Also known as TY-776-424-XG, he is a pink-faced quaddie with tight, blond curls. He is a grade-two welder and joiner, and a permanent resident on the Cay Project Habitat. He is Claire's mate, and Andy's father. He tries to escape Cay Habitat with both of them, but is shot during the attempt, and hospitalized. He is rescued by Ti and Doctor Minchenko. (FF)
Toranira:
A planet that controls the other end of one of the jump points from Vega Station. Sometimes it is Cetaganda's ally and sometimes the Empire's enemy, but is currently upholding the arms embargo imposed on Vega Station by the Cetagandans. Miles's plan had been to smuggle three warships from the Dendarii fleet there, and leave them to pick up three brand-new warships at Illyrica, but Mark has derailed his scheme by stealing the Ariel. (MD)
Toscane, Anna:
Laisa's aunt, a sixty-year-old, married, gray-haired heiress whom Ivan must escort to the Komarran delegation welcoming party. She thinks he is a nice young man, and shows him a picture of her seven-year-old granddaughter, on whom she dotes, boring Ivan. (CC)
Toscane, Laisa:
See Vorbarra, Laisa Toscane.
Tractor beam:
A ship-mounted directed-gravity beam that can be used to seize and immobilize vehicles, and pull or push them as necessary. Primarily used as a tool rather than a weapon, but the pilot of a Dendarii combat shuttle uses its tractor beam to slam a pursuing aircar into the ground. (L)
"Tragedy of the Maiden of the Lake":
A Barrayaran legend. When Vorkosigan Surleau was besieged by the forces of Hazelbright, they held out as long as they could, but before the town could fall, the unnamed Maiden of the Lake asked her brother to kill her so she wouldn't suffer abuse at the hands of the invaders. He did so, not knowing that the siege would be lifted the next day by her betrothed, General Count Selig Vorkosigan. Many poems, plays, and songs about the event have been written and performed on Barrayar. Ekaterin ponders the story while being held prisoner by the Komarran engineers. (K)
Transient:
Term used by space station inhabitants for anyone from off- station. (All)
Translator earbug:
A small device, designed to be worn in a person's ear, that can instantly translate a spoken language into the wearer's native tongue. Miles attends a dinner on Earth that is made more difficult when the earbugs do not arrive in time for the event. (BA)
Trans-Stellar Transport:
Also known as TST, it is a transport company GalacTech works with. Ti wanted to be a jump pilot for them. (FF)
Tremont, Guy:
The commanding officer of the 14th Commandos Division and the hero of the siege of Fallow Core, he is the man at the prison camp on Dagoola IV that Miles came to rescue. When Miles finds him, he is lying in his own waste, catatonic and emaciated, and dies soon afterward. (BI)
Triad:
The title of Anias Ruey's romantic feelie-dream. She has been commissioned to make a sequel to it, as it has sold quite well. (DD)
Tris:
No first name given. The leader of the women prisoners at Dagoola, she is a former frontline trooper, well-muscled, with dark, rage-filled eyes. Miles convinces her to help organize the camp around the ration drops in preparation for the Dendarii breakout.