"...damn," says Kaidan to that, because really, what else is there to say?

After a moment to revise his strategy map, patchy though it is, he reflects that "I'm guessing, human ingenuity being what it is, that you still have the concept of blockade runners. Did the Barrayarans have time to make any contacts of their own before our hosts showed up, or were the Cetagandans the first ones to find them?"