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Rian Degtiar, a member of the Cetagandan Empire's haut class, served for a time as the acting keeper of the Star Crèche after the death of the Empress, Lisbet Degtiar, with the title of "Servant of the Celestial Lady, Handmaiden of the Star Crèche". As a fellow member of the Degtiar Constellation, she was related to Lisbet, though three generations removed. At the conclusion of the novel she was elevated to permanent keeper of the Star Crèche and became the leading one of Fletchir Giaja's Empresses, the one who was tasked with the job of creating the next haut-Emperor.

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rdfs:comment	Rian Degtiar, a member of the Cetagandan Empire's haut class, served for a time as the acting keeper of the Star Crèche after the death of the Empress, Lisbet Degtiar, with the title of "Servant of the Celestial Lady, Handmaiden of the Star Crèche". As a fellow member of the Degtiar Constellation, she was related to Lisbet, though three generations removed. At the conclusion of the novel she was elevated to permanent keeper of the Star Crèche and became the leading one of Fletchir Giaja's Empresses, the one who was tasked with the job of creating the next haut-Emperor.
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abstract	Rian Degtiar, a member of the Cetagandan Empire's haut class, served for a time as the acting keeper of the Star Crèche after the death of the Empress, Lisbet Degtiar, with the title of "Servant of the Celestial Lady, Handmaiden of the Star Crèche". As a fellow member of the Degtiar Constellation, she was related to Lisbet, though three generations removed. She recruited Miles Vorkosigan, who was on a courtesy diplomatic mission to attend the state funeral of the late Empress, to help solve the mystery of the disappearance of the Great Key, a sophisticated decoding device without which the entire genetic database of the haut was indecipherable. "He felt his underlying assumptions slowly wringing inside-out. Rian seemed less and less like a damsel in distress all the time. In fact, he was beginning to wonder if he was trying to rescue the dragon. Well, dragons need to be rescued too, sometimes. . . ." ―Miles' later sense of Rian At the conclusion of the novel she was elevated to permanent keeper of the Star Crèche and became the leading one of Fletchir Giaja's Empresses, the one who was tasked with the job of creating the next haut-Emperor.

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