On the one hand, I'm tempted to go with just "everything is extremely illegal" but as a possible fanwank: does count's heir get a separate twenty count from count proper?
hmm, I don't *think* so, mainly because a count's heir gets to swear them, iirc, because he's the count's voice, so he's doing it on the count's behalf. He can't do it on his own name. That was a whole big thing, because Dono didn't have the right to swear armsmen unless he was a count or a confirmed count's heir, and it's still twenty.
Part of the timeline is oh god, interstellar travel takes forever; roundtrip Barrayar-Beta is about three months
it is? oops. I am so bad at figuring this out. I'd thought it was a month each way. And I think it's 3 days in a fast courier between Komarr and Barryar, but seven days otherwise? I don't know. I think it might be a factor also of deliberately taking longer due to stress and strain on the passengers of going through a lot of wormholes very quickly. If you're willing to get severely jumpship, you can get there in X amount of time, but if you don't want to get as sick, it's going to add a couple days travel time.
As for the age thing, Ezar is 77 when he dies, according to the end of Shards. Trying to dig up where Piotr's age is stated. I think it's early 90s, though, which would make him younger than Ezar. Although later Ekaterin says he was nearly a hundred, which would bring Piotr up to being a handful of years older than Ezar. Heh, and now I've started a canon reread of WA to find this. Well, I needed to do something to distract me from my canon reread of Cryoburn to figure out how to make that Komarran plot make any sense...
Edit: Huh, according to this, Ezar's a year or two older than Piotr. It sources Piotr's age to Mirror Dance. "The man was seventy-two standard years old, middle-aged for a galactic, old for harsh Barrayar... His father, Count Piotr, had lived twenty years more than that, a whole other lifetime. " Although the twenty years there could probalby be handwaved as a loose measurement, being anywhere from 20-29.
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hmm, I don't *think* so, mainly because a count's heir gets to swear them, iirc, because he's the count's voice, so he's doing it on the count's behalf. He can't do it on his own name. That was a whole big thing, because Dono didn't have the right to swear armsmen unless he was a count or a confirmed count's heir, and it's still twenty.
Part of the timeline is oh god, interstellar travel takes forever; roundtrip Barrayar-Beta is about three months
it is? oops. I am so bad at figuring this out. I'd thought it was a month each way. And I think it's 3 days in a fast courier between Komarr and Barryar, but seven days otherwise? I don't know. I think it might be a factor also of deliberately taking longer due to stress and strain on the passengers of going through a lot of wormholes very quickly. If you're willing to get severely jumpship, you can get there in X amount of time, but if you don't want to get as sick, it's going to add a couple days travel time.
As for the age thing, Ezar is 77 when he dies, according to the end of Shards. Trying to dig up where Piotr's age is stated. I think it's early 90s, though, which would make him younger than Ezar. Although later Ekaterin says he was nearly a hundred, which would bring Piotr up to being a handful of years older than Ezar. Heh, and now I've started a canon reread of WA to find this. Well, I needed to do something to distract me from my canon reread of Cryoburn to figure out how to make that Komarran plot make any sense...
Edit: Huh, according to this, Ezar's a year or two older than Piotr. It sources Piotr's age to Mirror Dance. "The man was seventy-two standard years old, middle-aged for a galactic, old for harsh Barrayar... His father, Count Piotr, had lived twenty years more than that, a whole other lifetime. " Although the twenty years there could probalby be handwaved as a loose measurement, being anywhere from 20-29.