Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith:
His Life And Times
Originally created for Baen's website in 1996, later additions by
Michael Bernardi from the books.
- Approximately 200 years before Miles' Birth
- Quaddies are created by Genetic Engineering. (Falling Free)
- During the Beta-Barrayaran War
- Cordelia Naismith meets Lord Aral Vorkosigan while on opposite sides of
a war. Despite difficulties, they fall in love and are married. (Shards
of Honor)
- The Vordarian Pretendership, Miles is born
- While Cordelia is pregnant, an attempt to assassinate Aral by poison
gas fails, but Cordelia is affected; Miles Vorkosigan is born with bones
that will always be brittle and other medical problems. His growth will
be stunted. (Barrayar)
- Miles is 17
- Miles fails to pass a physical test to get into the Service Academy. On
a trip, necessities force him to improvise the Free Dendarii Mercenaries into
existence, he has unintended but unavoidable adventures for four months. Leaves
the Dendarii in Ky Tung's competent hands and takes Elli Quinn to Beta for
rebuilding of her damaged face; returns to Barrayar to thwart plot against his
father. Emperor pulls strings to get Miles into the Academy. (The Warrior's Apprentice)
- Miles is 20
- Ensign Miles graduates and immediately has to take on one of the duties of
Barrayaran nobility and act as a detective and judge in a murder case. (The Mountains of Mourning in Borders of Infinity)
- Shortly afterward, his first military assignment ends with his arrest.
Miles has to rejoin the Dendarii to rescue the young Barrayaran Emperor.
Emporor accepts Dendarii as his personal secret service force. (The Vor Game)
- Miles is 22
- Miles and his cousin Ivan attend a state funeral on Cetaganda. Miles collects
trouble, of course, but proves he is a contender. (Cetaganda)
- Miles sends Elli Quinn, who's been given given a new face on Beta, on a
solo Mission to Kline Station. (Ethan of Athos)
- Miles is 23
- Now a Barrayaran Lieutenant, Miles goes with the Dendarii to smuggle a
scientist out of Jackson's Whole. Miles's fragile leg bones have been
replaced with synthetics. (Labyrinth in Borders of Infinity)
- Miles is 24
- Miles plots from within a Cetagandan prison camp on Dagoola IV to free the
prisoners. (The Borders of Infinity in Borders of Infinity)
- The Dendarii fleet is pursued by the Cetagandans and finally reaches earth for repairs. Miles has to juggle both his identities at once, raise money for
repairs, and defeat a plot to replace him with a double. Ky Tung stays on Earth.
Comander Elli Quinn is now Miles's righthand officer. Miles and his Dendarii
depart for sector IV on a rescue mission. (Brothers In Arms)
- Miles is 25
- Hospitalized after previous mission, Miles' broken arms are replaced by
synthetic bones. With Simon Illyan, Miles undoes yet another plot against
his father while flat on his back. (Borders of Infinity)
- Miles is 28
- Miles meets his clone brother Mark again, this time on Jackson's Whole.
(Mirror Dance)
- Miles is 29
- Miles hits thirty; thirty hits back. (Memory)
- Miles is 30
- Emperor Gregor dispatches Miles to Komarr to investigate a space
accident, where he finds old politics and new technology make a deadly
mix. (Komarr)
- Miles is 30
- The Emperor's wedding sparks romance and intrigue on Barrayar, and
Miles plunges up to his neck in both. (A Civil Campaign)
- Miles is 31
- Armsman Roic and Sergeant Taura defeat a plot to unhinge
Miles and Ekaterin's midwinter wedding. (Winterfair Gifts in Irresistible Forces) [1]
- Miles is 32
- Miles and Ekaterin's honeymoon journey is interrupted by an
Auditorial mission to Quaddiespace, where they encounter old friends,
new enemies, and a double handful of intrigue. (Diplomatic Immunity)
- Ivan turns 35
- ImpSec Headquarters suffers a problem with moles. (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance)
- Miles is 39
- Miles and Roic go to Kibou-daini to investigate cryo-corporation chicanery. (Cryoburn)
- Miles is 42, Cordelia is 76
- On Sergyar, Cordelia Vorkosigan and Oliver Jole work together to reconcile the past, the present, and the future.(Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen)
[1] Not originally published by Baen, but now found in Miles in Love.
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