The point of view characters include women ( Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar ; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign ), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos ), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan ).

Since that time ( at least 400 years before Falling Free or 600 years before Shards of Honor ), dozens of planets now host divergent, evolving cultures.

The Betan Survey Service, in which Cordelia Naismith is a captain at the beginning of Shards of Honor, maps unexplored sectors of the Nexus and explores new systems for habitable planets.

Space stations in the past ( up to 200 years before the action of Shards of Honor ) were null-g or used centrifugal force to generate partial gravity, but now they use artificial gravity.

In Shards of Honor, Cordelia borrows a holovid reporter ’ s camera, but in most of the books a computer / holovid screen seems to have a built-in camera which can record an image or video.

In Falling Free and Shards of Honor there is mention of a light pen, a 1980s input device.

In Shards of Honor, Beta Colony develops “ plasma mirrors ,” defensive weapons for spaceships which return any fire to the source.

Barrayar is a planet colonized by humans some four hundred years prior to Shards of Honor, the first Vorkosigan novel.

When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold incorporated these elements, but greatly expanded.

# Shards of Honor ( June 1986 )

# Cordelia's Honor ( November 1996 ), combined edition of Shards of Honor and Barrayar with an afterword by the author.

Ember, however, felt Mender was too much like her, and when her father chose to split the tribe in half to face the Shards War, she chose her mother Leetah to take care of the health of her branch of Wolfriders, while Mender would have gone fighting alongside Cutter and his warriors.

He was raised by his father at Howling Rock, where Ember's tribe found him while Cutter's tribe was waging war for the Palace Shards hundreds of miles away.

* The Shards of the Sun are described in Pelorian holy texts as " Pelor ’ s gift, which I carry into darkness — a sun that never sets.

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, known as in Japan, is a platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, a sequel to Kirby's Dream Land 3, and one of few Kirby titles not directed by Masahiro Sakurai, though he voiced King Dedede in the game.

Shards of pottery vases on the street, after being thrown from the windows of nearby houses.

* Shards of Alara, 2008 expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

It currently uses cards from Magic 2010, Shards of Alara block and all subsequent sets.

With the story themes deriving from objects in the collection ( usually with the names of the people involved changed but the facts remaining true to history ), the 52 episodes had such titles as " The Tartan Scarf " and " A Piece of Iron Chain " or " Frosted Glass Shards " and " A Khaki Handkerchief ".

Strongbow and Moonshade were separated from each other at the time of the Shards War, with Strongbow following Cutter and his warriors to fight the human dictator Grohmul Djun.

Though Shards of Dalaya is no longer on the EQEmu server list, it originated from there and is still based on it.

Shards of ice erupted into the air as if a bomb went off, this only hours after divers surfaced and after the Braveheart moved away from the iceberg ( National Geographic ).

* 2009-proposed but not released-a " Pirates Adventure Book " box including new ships, crew and treasure: one Pirate fleet with ships Charming Mary and Mercy, and crew Sean ' Cannonball ' Gallows ; and one Cursed fleet including ships Demon's Heart and Wraith, and crew El Fantasma ; also 4 Unique treasures ( a Red, Blue, Yellow and Green ' Gem Shards from the Eye of the Leviathan '); a new plastic Map with 6 preprinted islands on it, and 4 " fiction pieces " with scenarios.

Shards from the Kakiemon kiln site at Nangawara show that blue and white and celadon wares were also produced.

He deciphers the charts needed to haul the Triforce Shards from the ocean floor.

He is also known for his extortionate prices ; he demands 398 Rupees per chart, plus 201 Rupees for the IN-credible Chart that shows the location of the Triforce Charts and Triforce Shards from the charts that have been deciphered.

Ribbon, heartbroken to find she is left with only one of the shards, helps Kirby, being predicament and agrees to retrieving all the Crystal Shards and save Ripple Star from Dark Matter's control.

In " Shards ", he appears with two other long-dead Sith Lords, Darth Nihilus and Darth Andeddu, in a vision to the series ' chief villain, Darth Krayt.

Flint had to set aside several planned projects ( the Assiti Shards novels were in outline form at the time ) and do some additional co-writing with Weber as Ring of Fire gestated.

# The series became popular enough to support a second plot arc, consisting of the novels Shards of Alderaan to The Emperor's Plague.

Tiger Shards can attack with their front legs, mandibles, and raptorial legs, but like the Tiger Spit, this bug often attacks at a distance, though it is easily provoked into a charge.

While this would be overlooked in later games not designed by Masahiro Sakurai ( such as Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards ) the hats soon became a staple of the series ( with the exception of Kirby: Canvas Curse ).

He also appears in the novel Dark Victory ( William Shatner, 1999 ), and the short story " The Greater Good " ( Margaret Wander Bonanno ) in the anthology Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows ( 2009 ).

After the Shards War she reunited with Strongbow, and in the 2004 graphic novel, The Searcher and the Sword, they are together again.

* Beutter Park-The centerpiece of Mishawaka's 21st century downtown revitalization, the new park includes a river race with elliptical-shaped overlook weirs and fiber-optic underwater lighting, two connecting bridges across the St. Joseph River race to the park, the Mishawaka Riverwalk, the " Shards " sculpture, and an 800 foot perennial garden.

However, others attribute them to the Elder Things, because of certain similarities to the Eltdown Shards.

Ton Steine Scherben's literal English translation is " Clay Stones Shards "; in German, " Ton " can mean " sound " as well, so the band's name may be considered to be an amphibology.

His first appearance took place in the 1992 video game Kirby's Dream Land, where he was portrayed by a two-dimensional sprite ; since Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards for the Nintendo 64, he has made several appearances in 3-D.

Kirby is voiced by female seiyū Makiko Ohmoto in the Super Smash Bros. series, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby Mass Attack, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, and in both versions of the anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

His weight is unknown, although several parts of the anime, the game Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, and the Super Smash Bros. series suggest that he is light enough to be carried and for the wind to cause him to move in an unwanted direction.

His dialogue is largely limited to appearances in some games ' instruction manuals, and brief comments such as ' Hi ' in games including Super Smash Bros. and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.

While in most games he can float indefinitely, this ability is limited in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and Super Smash Bros. Other games have developed his powers even further, such as allowing him to block attacks in Kirby Super Star.

* Conflux: As the Shards of Alara draw closer together, the millennia-long machinations of a hidden evil come closer to bearing a dire harvast.