Miron Ganides

**Miron Auxentius Ganides** is the main protagonist of the book "2010: Assassination of the Russian President". He appears as a justice sergeant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the planet Assidrus, who is hired by the company Allabos to execute a task on planet Earth.

## Personality

Miron Ganides appears as a tall, mesomorphic middle-aged man with short brown hair and dark-grey eyes. By nature, he is calm, polite, tactful and calculating, not picky, patient, always striving to achieve his goal. Ganides tries to treat everyone with respect, but he only expresses any sort of warmth towards friends and relatives. In the original story, the author never describes the main character, but it's not hard for the reader to picture him if all the details that are revealed by other characters in him throughout the book are pieced together.

According to himself, the sergeant serves five hours a day, so he "has a lot of free time." Due to the authority and respect that he has earned for himself throughout his service, he is allowed to take several vacations from service per year (including times when he has to execute given agent tasks). In his spare time, Ganides practices architecture, and is also fond of photography.

## Skills

Miron Ganides is distinguished by his masterful handling of firearms, to be exact: sidearms and marksman rifles. It is known that he uses a named custom-made sniper rifle and has two silver-plated pistols on which his initials are engraved *(orig. article here)*. What he lacks in acrobatics and agility he makes up with great endurance and his reaction speed.

## Family

Miron Ganides mentions his wife Corinna several times throughout the story. There are no direct interactions between the two. The book also does not mention whether the Ganides family has children, but it is assumed that they do not. The sergeant's other relatives are also not mentioned.

## Involvement

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Miron Ganides is called to the Allabos department by Nikola Lillatos, who gives the sergeant a new assignment. Miron learns that an agent by the name of Andrianos Metrolis has breached contract regulations by running for president of the Russian Federation on planet Earth. Ganides' mission is to eliminate Metrolis. According to Lillatos, there were eighteen agents who took the job before Ganides, but all were either lost without a trace or found dead under suspicious circumstances, and Miron Ganides is the last assassin the Allabos company can trust with this mysterious task.

Once Miron Ganides arrives on Earth under the name of Ganimede Mironov, he is met by other local agents, who take him to the old Makarov motel that is their current headquarters. Ganides learns from local news that the president is planning to perform a speech in front of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in two days, and decides to go to St. Petersburg, where he stays the following nights in the Pit Palace hotel.

On the performance day the sergeant picks an under construction skyscraper located five kilometres away from the Alexandrinsky Theatre and waits for Metrolis' arrival. Once the president arrives to the scene, his bodyguard and, subsequently, himself are shot by Ganides, who then explodes a hydrogen bomb in the construction site to destroy all traces and flees the area.

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## Trivia

* Professor Nikola Lillatos mentions that sergeant Ganides has once been to Earth in the past as a special agent, attributing this to Ganides' extensive knowledge of the Russian language;
* The first concept of Miron Ganides depicted him being bald with pale skin and having bright-blue eyes. This concept was rejected because it way too closely resembled Agent 47 from the Hitman franchise, especially considering Ganides wears a suit for most of the story.