- "By smirked. 'They say that at Imperial Service Headquarters, the captains bring the coffee.'
'That’s right. And I like it that way.' Ivan only wished it were true. It seemed barely months ago, though it was over a year, that the latest flare-up of tensions with Barrayar’s most traditional enemy, the Cetagandan Empire, had pinned Ivan to military headquarters 26.7 hours a Barrayaran day for weeks on end, sweating out all the most horrific possibilities." - ―HQ has lots of top-rank people, it seems[src]
Imperial Service Headquarters, in Vorbarr Sultana, was the place where all high-level military planning was performed on Barrayar.
The headquarters building had been burned down during Vordarian's Pretendership; a new one was built in its place soon afterwards.[1]
People who served in Ops generally worked there; they wore bronze Ops pins in front of their rank insignia.[2]
People known to have served at Imperial Service Headquarters[]
- Admiral Hessman[3]
- Ivan Vorpatril[4][2][5][6]
- Commodore Jolliff[4]
- Admiral Desplains[5]
- Alexi Vormoncrief[7]
- Major Zamori[7]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Mirror Dance chapter 14
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Memory chapter 6
- ↑ The Warrior's Apprentice chapter 18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Vor Game chapter 1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Captain Vorpatril's Alliance chapter 1
- ↑ Mirror Dance chapter 12
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Civil Campaign chapter 3