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* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Invoked by Van Rjn. He [[Unreliable Narrator|says]] that the reason he doesn't let his employees take unfair advantage of natives is that it would be bad policy. For whatever reason, he is not going to claim that he really wants to wield power in a decent and restrained manner.

** In general he is suspicious of altruistic motives in himself or anyone else. He is a great believer in the bottom line. It just so happens that he is clever enough to arrange that [[Enlightened Self Interest| his concept]] of the bottom line is beneficial to as many concerned in the matter as possible.

* [[Proxy War]]: Flandry spends much of his time dealing with these.

* [[Public Secret Message]]: The Mongol-descended people of the planet Altai didn't know what it meant when Flandry, stranded there by their ruler's treachery, "vandalized" a monument with paint. But the paint spelled out "Mayday," and when mention of that got to Terran Intelligence, agents knew to come looking for more information....