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** Sten's friend Ida acted as a stockbroker for him, and her investments made him wealthy enough to own an uninhabited but Earthlike ''planet'', Smallbridge. ([[Horatio Hornblower]] became Baron Hornblower of Smallbridge.)
** Sten's friend Ida acted as a stockbroker for him, and her investments made him wealthy enough to own an uninhabited but Earthlike ''planet'', Smallbridge. ([[Horatio Hornblower]] became Baron Hornblower of Smallbridge.)
** Mercury Corps call the "appear unlike who you really are and like no one in particular" camouflage tactic a [[Robert A. Heinlein|"Great Lorenzo"]].
** Mercury Corps call the "appear unlike who you really are and like no one in particular" camouflage tactic a [[Robert A. Heinlein|"Great Lorenzo"]].
* [[Smug Snake]]: Several, but probably the worst offender is Sr. Hakone, an armchair general who believed that the Empire was a little too decadent and needed a good, long war with another government to get things going again. Sten obligingly fries Hakone with an electrical cable [[Shut UP, Hannibal|right in the middle of another of his self-important speeches]].
* [[Smug Snake]]: Several, but probably the worst offender is Sr. Hakone, a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] who believed that the Empire was a little too decadent and needed a good, long war with another government to get things going again. Sten obligingly fries Hakone with an electrical cable [[Shut UP, Hannibal|right in the middle of another of his self-important speeches]].
* [[Space Navy]]: therefore...
* [[Space Navy]]: therefore...
* [[Space Marine]]
* [[Space Marine]]