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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Kilgour's specialty
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The [[Big Bad]] in the final book keeps internally justifying his actions to himself. He's ''not crazy,'' he just enjoys the screams coming from the interrogation room because it means progress is being made. He doesn't think they're all out to get him--they ''are'' all out to get him, he's not crazy!
* [[Tactical Withdrawal]]: In the third book, we're shown that Imperial Guards units at big Imperial celebrations often stage simulated military actions as a show for the crowd — and the one for the current year, rather unusually, is a fighting retreat. It's '''very''' well done and impressive ... including a special effect that leaves the Eternal Emperor wondering, as he picks himself up after reflexively diving for cover, how anybody managed to simulate '''that''' sound without actually blowing something up.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Even Sten didn't expect it to work. Apparently he's not [[Genre Savvy]].
* [[Tribal Face Paint]]: As part of her pre-mission preparation ritual, La Ciotat "paint[s] her face in the ancestral battle pattern of her house."
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