He sighs lightly. Either this man was from a planet more backwaters than Barrayar or the Cetagandas found ways to manipulate more than time and space. He decides to leave both open as possibilities.

"Yes, I have. And beyond their difficulties planetside, I don't know what they intend on doing." Except he does, but that's more knowledge about the Cetagandan Empire than he wants them to realize he has. He was toeing a fine line in this base. "An invasion of some scale is all I can tell."