Ah, you don't know the half of it.

[ Byerly leans back in his chair. ]

There were only fifty thousand of them - the people who settled this world. Fifty thousand, cut completely off from all technology and support and relief, hacking out Barrayaran vegetation and desperately trying to convince Earth plants to settle into that dirt. You can see how people like Piotr Vorkosigan ended up being born - contrary old goat that he is.