The General Vorkraft was a Barrayaran warship assigned to prepare Sergyar as a staging point to invade Escobar, after the Barrayarans had discovered a previously unknown wormhole connecting the two systems. Aral Vorkosigan was given command of the ship after his demotion to Captain for strangling the political officer responsible for the Solstice Massacre. The worst of the Barrayaran Imperial Service were reputedly assigned to the ship, earning it the nickname "the Leper Colony". It is likely to have been named after a Barrayaran General named Vorkraft.