" On the third, we got into troubles. Baz Jesek had gotten more and more involved with equipment and maintenance—he is a good engineer, I’ll give him that—I was tactical commander, and Oser—I thought by default, but now I think design—took up the administrative slack. Could have been good, each doing what he did best, if Oser’d been working with and not against us. In the same situation, I’d have sent assassins. Oser employed guerilla accountants. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)