Ethan Stewart

Ethan Paul Stewart, ex-mercenary, is the crime lord of Dead Man's Rock, a world too far from the Terran Dominion to attract its attention.

Stewart is very intelligent, although not strictly in the "booking sense". He is very disciplined, which he calls "knowing what you want", and his body disciplined as his mind. Ever since he was a child, Stewart had known what he wanted, and pursued it with a single-mindedness of purpose that stunned his allies and devastated his enemies.

History
Stewart met Rosemary Dahl, a fellow mercenary, in a drug den on the outlying world of Dead Man's Rock. He helped her overcome her addiction to stims and became her employer and lover. Eventually he decided to leave the mercenary business, which meant he couldn't be around Dahl all the time, but they still kept in contact.