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Tau, Varadar—TAH_OH, VAAR-ah-dahr—Bandit leader whose tax-collecting accountants were the first counts of Barrayar. (B)

Tau Verde IV—TAH_OH VAYR-dee FOHR—Location of Felice and Pelias. (WA)

Taura—TAH-rah—Ninth (and only survivor) of ten experimental supersoldiers made on Jackson's Whole, rescued/recruited by Miles for the Dendarii. (L, MD, WG)

Teki—TEH-kee—Kline Station hydroponics specialist and cousin of Ellie Quinn. (EA)

Teris Three—TEH-rihs THREE—Third-shift supervisor for Graf Station Security. (DI)

Tesslev—TEHS-lehv—Best guerrilla lieutenant General Piotr ever had, killed during the Cetegandan War. (WA)

Thorne, Bel—THOHRN, BEHL—Officer on the Ariel in the Oseran Mercenaries, captain of the Ariel in the Dendarii Mercenaries, forced to retire from the Dendarii for its role in the clone rescue raid, ended up in Quaddiespace as Assistant Portmaster on Graf Station, and wants to be a Union of Free Habitats citizen. (All except B, FF, SH)

Toscane, Laisa—TAHS-kayn, LAI-sah—Ph.D. in business theory and on Barrayar to lobby for Komarran shipping interests. Ends up marrying Emperor Gregor. (CC, M)

Touchev—TOO-chehv—Sergeant in the Imperial forces, squad leader of the Security team sent to retrieve Ensign Corbeau when the Barrayaran escort fleet went to alert status. (DI)

Tremont, Guy—treh-MAWNT, GEE—Marilacan colonel and a brilliant commander, he was betrayed at Fallow Core, died on Dagoola IV. (BI)

Tris—TRIHS—Marilacan, field-promoted to lieutenant. She and her disciplined corps are the core of Miles's organization of the prisoners and of the new Marilac resistance. (BI)

Trogir, Marie—troh-GEER, mah-REE—Engineering technician in the Waste Heat Management group, working for Radovas. She died in the test of the wormhole-closing device. (K)

Tung, Ky—TUHNG, KAI—Captain-owner of the Triumph in the Oseran Mercenaries, commodore and chief of staff in the Dendarii Mercenaries until his retirement. (BA, BI, MD, VG, WA)

Tuomonen—too_oh-MOH-nehn—Captain, head of ImpSec for Serifosa, married to a Komarran, helps Miles investigate the Soletta Station accident. (K)

Ungari—uhng-GAA-ree—Captain in Imperial Security, assigned to make a military evaluation of the Hegen Hub situation and given Miles as a resource. (VG)

Urquhart, Ethan—R-kwahrt, EE-thn—Doctor and Chief of Repro ductive Biology at the Sevarin Replication Center, sent to

replace the ovarian cultures bought from Jackson's Whole. (EA)

Ushakov—OO-shah-kawv—Colonel in Barrayaran Imperial Secu rity, commander of Major Zamori, Captain Ivan Vorpatril, and Lieutenant Alexi Vormoncrief, among others. (CC)

Vaagen—VAH-gn—Doctor and biochemist on Barrayar, expert in combat medicine, granted a research empire by Cordelia when he saves Miles's life. (B)

Valentine—VAA-ln-tain—Admiral, one of the seven sitting Imperial Auditors when Simon suffered his memory chip sabotage. (M)

Van—VAAN—Pilot Officer on a commercial liner, on the board of the pilot's union, acquainted with Arde Mayhew. (WA)

Van Atta, Bruce—Vaan AA-tah, BROOS—Head of the Cay Project after the death of Doctor Cay, sees his job as making the project profitable. After interpreting his orders to terminate the quaddies, he tries to stop them from escaping. (FF)

Vandeville—VAAN-d-veel—Town on Barrayar's South Continent where Ekaterin grew up. (K)

Venier, Ser—veh-NEER, SEHR—Administrative assistant to Tien Vorsoisson, a slight, nervous, rabbity Komarran. (K)

Venn—VEHN—Crew Chief of Graf Station Security, offended by the armed violence of Barrayarans in military alert mode. (DI)

Vervain—vr-VAIN—System linking the Hegen Hub to the Cetagandan Empire, attempting to remain neutral vis-à-vis Cetaganda. (VG)

Vervani—vr-VAAN-ee—An inhabitant of Vervain.

Villanova, Liz—vih-lah-NOH-vah, LIHZ—aka "Mama Nilla," a popular crèche mother to the younger quaddies. (FF)

Virga, Valeria—VUHR-gah, vah-LEH-ree_ah—Author of romantic novels Silver is fond of, possibly a committee. (FF)

Visconti, Elena—vihs-KAWN-tee, ay-LAY-nuh