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* [[Mind Probe]]: One of the more unpleasant devices Rykor (and others liker her) can use is a machine that scans every memory you've ever had. It's unfortunately of limited use on those who have been driven insane, however, so when they use it on a guy who's gone catatonic from nearly being eaten by a [[Starfish Alien]], they mostly get jumbles with only a few clue threads.
* [[Nepali With Nasty Knives]]: the Gurkhas, real-life badasses who continue to be badass in space.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: The Emperor's "Privy Council," composed of the wealthiest businesspeople in his empire, and every one of them a transparent [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. Their leader, Sullamora, even chose a couple because of their "raw, open greed." Apparently they're so rich they can [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|screw the rules]], because they actually ''take over'' in the Emperor's absence. You can't really run a political empire ''quite'' the same way you run a financial empire, though, so [[It Got Worse|things get worse]].
* [[Officer and A Gentleman]]: Sten may be a [[Combat Pragmatist]], but it seems he [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]] unless forced. There's one instance where he nearly kills a female guard but instead knocks her out, not out of chivalry, but because he doesn't have time to hide a body.
* [[Off Screen Breakup]]: Sten and his childhood girlfriend Bet have already broken up by the beginning of the second book. This does not stop them from occasionally having sex. They agreed to be "just friends," but Bet was feeling "really friendly."
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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.)
** 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]].
* [[Space Navy]]: therefore...
* [[Space Marine]]
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