"Empires usually do... and with this whole business about wormholes, they're going to pretty much have to take Komarr eventually, if they want to keep their supply lines intact." Getting a single ship with minor damage and solid supplies spaceworthy had been an all-hands effort for the Normandy crew. Block the one way in or out, on a planet under-developed in terms of technology... "There's no way they could sustain the standards we're seeing them at long term, if they were forced to make do with only what they've got with them right now. Which is why they actually worry about the Barrayaran forcess, I'm guessing."