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The slave who became a soldier who became a spook who became the most important figure in the known universe.
* [[The Ace]] - Pretty much everyone sees Sten as this... except Sten himself, who is on a good day willing to concede that he's ''maybe'' not a total incompetent. Of course, Sten's made an entire career out of killing more powerful men than him by taking advantage of their overconfidence so its understandable he's made a habit of always being his own worst critic. See also [[The Mario]] below.
* [[Badass]]
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[The Hero]]
* [[The Mario]] - Sten is not the best marksman on his team (Cind is), nor the best close-quarters combatant (Alex is), nor the best tactician or strategist, nor the best intelligence analyst... in point of fact he's not the best at anything. Regardless of military or spook specialty, at least one member of his supporting cast edges him out on it. However, Sten is second-best at so many different things that it all adds up to him being super-adaptable and nigh-unstoppable in any conflict unless the enemy is capable of ''totally'' controlling the battlespace and forcing Sten to engage only on the enemy's terms. Even then he usually improvises a way out.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: With one exception, ''All'' of Sten's love interests above the 'one-night stand' level are this. And that one exception (Princess Sofia) barely lasts long enough to avoid being called a fling, and his involvement with her was partly driven by political considerations in the first place.
** In fact, Sten reflects that his hooking up with Lt. Haines (one of the aforementioned Amazons) was at least partly driven by the fact that he was desperate enough to ask out ''any'' woman he knew to avoid being partnered up with Sofia as her escort at a diplomatic reception (she was seeking to renew their old relationship, he strongly disagreed precisely because he'd so strongly gone off of princess types), and Haines was not only nearest to hand but also the toughest woman he then knew at the time.
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Laird Kilgour of Kilgour, called Sten's "personal thug" by the Emperor. A Scottish aristocrat who joined the Emperor's service like his brothers. Unlike his brothers, he didn't die. He also joined Mercury Corps, became a Mantis operative, and Sten's right-hand man.
* [[Cultured Badass]] - Although he prefere to affect the ''persona'' of a drunken Scottish bruiser, Laird Kilgour of Kilgour is from an aristocratic line dating back centuries, incredibly wealthy, a patron of fine arts, and in fact lives a higher and more cultured lifestyle than his boss does.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] - This is the fate of pretty much everyone Alex Kilgour has ever gotten a solid grip on. He's essentially a superhuman in a world full of normals. Even Sten has given up trying to beat Alex in sparring sessions with anything short of electrocution.
* [[The Lancer]] - Sten's loyal right hand to outright Holmes and Watson levels, Alex has gone from simply being one of the NCOs on Sten's tactical team to changing service branches several times simply to be assigned where his friend is, and following him through multiple revolutions and acts of high treason. During the final rebellion Poyndex considers a confirmed Alex Kilgour sighting to be proof positive that Sten must have survived his apparent death as well, because there's simply no way Alex would have abandoned his partner to die.
* [[Heavyworlder]] - Alex's home planet of Edinburg is over 3 G's.
* [[Implacable Man]] -- Alex Kilgour is one of the heavyweight champions from a planet full of extreme heavyworlders, and has never been defeated in hand-to-hand combat in the course of the series. The only scenes where he's been successfully captured involved either him surrendering due to external considerations or him being knocked out from a nearby spaceship bombardment. He's kept going even when shot, stabbed, and blasted through walls. An entire species of giant Space Viking wookiee expies considers him to be their physical equal. Short of blowing him to tiny pieces there's essentially no stopping him.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: He's a demolitions expert. Of the 'Could make an improvised nuke out of commonly available parts, or disarm one while under fire from multiple automatic weapons' variety.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]
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