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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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