Science fiction : La Saga Vorkosigan, Lois Mac Master Bujold

avec la mort du prince Serg, l'assassinat de Vorrutlyer, pourquoi Vorkosigan est en disgrâce etc?

Aral Vorkosigan was the second son of Count Piotr Pierre Vorkosigan and Princess-and-Countess Olivia Vorbarra Vorkosigan. His paternal grandmother was the daughter of Pierre Vorrutyer and his mother was the daughter of Prince Xav Vorbarra and his Betan wife. Aral had a sister as well.

In his childhood, the Emperor of Barrayar was Yuri Vorbarra . During Emperor Yuri's reign, Barrayar was still transitioning out of the Time of Isolation. In Aral's childhood, dueling between Vor lords was still legal, and marriages were almost universally arranged. His father was absent during most of that time due to his responsibilities as a general and Count, and the rest of the Vorkosigan family often vacationed at Bonsankler.

When Aral was eleven, the increasingly unstable Emperor Yuri ordered all other descendants of Emperor Dorca the Just Vorbarra killed. The targets included Prince Xav and all his descendants. Olivia Vorkosigan and her children were ambushed at dinner. While Aral survived, his mother, brother, and sister were slain. Other survivors of Yuri's massacre included Prince Xav himself and Aral's infant first cousin Padma Xav Vorpatril . Aral's father Piotr Vorkosigan was not targeted by Yuri, nor was Piotr's old friend General Ezar Vorbarra.

Outraged at the death of their families, Piotr Vorkosigan and Xav Vorbarra joined forces and convinced Ezar Vorbarra to spearhead a bid for the Imperium. After two years of Yuri Vorbarra's Civil War, Yuri was captured. Aral Vorkosigan, then thirteen, was among those who took part in his dismemberment. Ezar Vorbarra, who had married Yuri's sister, became Emperor, while Piotr Vorkosigan and Prince Xav returned to being political adversaries. After Yuri's death, Aral Vorkosigan occasionally spent vacations with Prince Xav and his wife.

Military career
Aral Vorkosigan joined the Barrayaran Imperial Service at age eighteen. When he was twenty, he was married to a woman two years younger of the Vorrutyer family. The marriage was arranged by his father, and the bride was the sister of his friend and fellow lieutenant Ges Vorrutyer. Vorkosigan was often away from home, and his wife took two lovers. When informed about her lovers by his friend Ges, Vorkosigan challenged both of them to duels to avenge his honor.

Vorkosigan killed them both, but it was assumed that they had killed each other and he escaped penalty. Shortly afterward his wife committed apparent suicide with a plasma arc. It was rumored at the time that he had killed her. While Aral had not, he sometimes suspected his father of the deed. He became drunken and reckless after her death, and had an love affair with his friend Ges Vorrutyer.

Nevertheless, Vorkosigan was an exceptional officer. He became a ship captain at twenty-eight and held command for several years before being pulled off space duty to plan the Barrayaran conquest of Komarr. At the age of thirty-six he became the youngest admiral since the end of the Time of Isolation. Appointed Imperial Fleet Commander, he successfully defeated the Komarrans and their Selby Fleet of mercenaries.

The Komarran Counselors who governed the planet surrendered on terms to Vorkosigan, who gave his word of honor that they would be spared. They were gathered in a gymnasium in the planetary capital of Solstice and guarded. Despite their surrender Vorkosigan's political officer ordered them all killed. They were all murdered by Barrayaran security forces in an event known as the Solstice Massacre.

Vorkosigan, furious, killed the political officer in turn. However, the event permanently marred his reputation, and ever afterward he was known to his enemies as the "Butcher of Komarr".Due to the death of his political officer his career went into eclipse. He commanded Lazkowski Base on Kyril Island for six months before being demoted to captain and given the command of the warship General Vorkraft.

The ship was known colloquially as "Vorkosigan's Leper Colony", and became a place where the dregs of the Service were assigned. Several years after he was given command, his political officer Radnov staged a partially successful mutiny while the crew of the General Vorkraft was detaining a Betan Astronomical Survey team led by Commander Cordelia Naismith.

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