Gunnar Heim

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Gunnar Heim, an exemplary Poul Anderson hero:

was born to Norwegian parents on the extrasolar colony planet, Gea, Tau Ceti II;
grew up with alien Sindabans;
served in the Deepspace Fleet of the Earth Space Navy;
helped to put down the Hindu-German trouble on Lilith;
spent four months recuperating on New Europe;
fought the Aleriona off Achernar;
learned about the Aleriona two-phase control system from a captured ship;
left the Navy, became naturalized as an American and founded the Heimdal nuclear motor company;
lives in a suite on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco and employs domestic servants but drinks in the ghettos of the unemployable;
contributes to the Libertarian Party whose senior senator from California is majority leader of US representatives in the World Federation Parliament;
keeps contact with his Greenland Academy classmates, some now admirals;
is a widowed single parent;
heeds governmentally discounted evidence that human colonists are still alive on New Europe resisting Aleriona occupation;
decides to do something about it.

What a man!