Cordelia Naismith

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Cordelia Naismith is a fictitious character from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga. She was the captain of an astronomical survey from Beta Colony when she met Aral Vorkosigan. Together, they had the child Miles Vorkosigan.

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From Beta Colony, she becomes the captain of an astronomical survey vessel. Brought up with Beta Colony's liberal and anti-militarist values, she despised the military mind; however, when captured by the controversial Admiral Aral Vorkosigan of the Barrayaran Imperial Military Service, she fell in love with him and they were married.

During her first pregnancy, years later on Vorkosigan's home planet of Barrayar, Cordelia Naismith was present at a soltoxin poison-gas attack on her husband by political terrorists. As a result, her child, Miles Vorkosigan, suffered severe physical deformities; her father-in-law, Count Piotr Vorkosigan refused to allow the deformed child to use his name. Instead, he was named Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, after Cordelia's own father.

When she married Aral Vorkosigan, her name/title became Lady Vorkosigan. (possibly Lady Cordelia Vorkosigan). Then when Aral was appointed Regent, she was Regent-Consort Lady Vorkosigan. Later, with Piotr's death, she became Regent-Consort Countess Vorkosigan. Then when Aral and she moved to Sergyar, and Aral became Viceroy, Cordelia became Vicereine Countess Vorkosigan.