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* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Cind is a very nice gal. Young, pretty, lethal within a five mile radius...
* [[Gargle Blaster]]: Stregg, an alien beverage quaffed by gigantic wookie-like Space Vikings. The beverage itself is named after the "streggan," a vicious monster that these Space Viking wookies once hunted as a rite of manhood; in other words, this is the manliest, toughest drink in the universe. Sten takes a liking to the stuff after the second book, and briefly gets the Emperor hooked on the stuff too.
** To give a measure of how powerful stregg is, at one point the Eternal Emperor hands Sten a glass of 180-proof home-brewed moonshine, expecting it to knock Sten straight on his ass. Sten tosses the entire glass back like its full of distilled water, then calmly asks for a refill, then explains to the incredulous Emperor that once you've built up enough alcohol tolerance to be able to handle stregg at all you can [[No Sell]] pretty much anything else ever distilled.
* [[Ghost Ship]]: Sh'aarl't discovers one.
* [[Gold Fever]]: A variation of it occurs in the Emperor's backstory. He was a simple space engineer at the time on a ship that accidentally discovered the portal to an alternate universe filled with antimatter--a nearly limitless supply of energy that would completely transform society upon its discovery, and make anyone who had a monopoly on it insanely rich. This would be enough to make people think greedy thoughts on its own. The ship becomes badly damaged, however, and while it's limping back to Earth it becomes clear that the fewer survivors there are the more air and food there will be for the rest...
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