WhiteChrys, the White Chrysanthemum Cryonics Corporation, was a Kibou-daini cryocorp that decided to expand its franchise onto Komarr. Their actions in doing so were sufficiently suspicious that Gregor Vorbarra of Barrayar ordered his galactic Imperial Auditor, Miles Vorkosigan, to investigate. "The slowest, subtlest, and, I have to say, creepiest planetary conquest scheme ever devised!" ―Miles' opinion of the plans