no, it's a different kind of jump

[rockeye_stonetoe]

The satellites, stations, and vessels surrounding Barrayar have plenty of chance to observe an intense burst of EM radiation leaning towards the low-frequency end of the spectrum, but including plenty of visible light.

After that it will take more sensitive scanners and cameras to detect an object on a very definitely sub-orbital trajectory. When it crashes to the planet, it seems to still be in one piece. Somehow.

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[thisvorlunatic]

Miles gets two calls about this event.

First, someone he doesn't initially recognize wakes him up at some atrocious hour of the morning to nervously inform him that an unidentified object has crashed into Vorkosigan Vashnoi. This naturally puts him in the perfect mood for the midsentence interruption from Simon, who takes one look at him and correctly deduces that he must have heard about the incident already.

He stifles the impulse to ask what gave it away, and instead accepts the forwarded ImpSec report, which Simon verbally summarizes as: "An approximately spaceship-sized, approximately spaceship-like object appeared out of thin air and fell on your radioactive inheritance."

"And what am I supposed to do, go knock on the hatch?" he asks irritably.

No, of course not. But he is expected to keep himself updated on the situation, since the land is his and there is considerable pressure from multiple sides to figure out as soon as humanly possible what in damnation is going on here.

He gets himself dressed and on a lightflyer to the nearest town immediately, so he won't have to waste the time flying there if something interesting happens. And then he settles glumly down to sit and read datastreams and wait for something interesting to happen.