is primarily of Mediterranean-Anatolian descent but also "A blend of all humanity, such as was not uncommon these days" (Rise Of The Terran Empire, p. 343);
is the self-educated son of, probably, a space prospector and, definitely, a day laborer on Venus;
shipped out for Sirius at thirteen;
has been a spaceman, miner, docker, soldier, politician, hunter and machinist;
has also had some unspecified "darker" occupations;
fought in human civil wars and also against the Baldic League;
is captured in a Gorzuni raid on Alpha Centauri;
at forty, returns to the Solar System as a slave;
leads a slave revolt and founds an Empire;
proposes to disarm other races but to treat them as equals, to collect tribute, not to expand indefinitely, to rule from good breeding stock with hard training and to revive archaisms like an Emperor and an aristocracy because these are effective symbols.
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