User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 599 - Too Early To Win, Too Late To Know/@comment-3286233-20141003145804/@comment-24384892-20141005202922

I guess you're right about the Sternritters in general being meaningless. None of them have received any decent development. The Espadas were more developed and had more of a personality than the Sternritters. Each of the Espadas' death made more of an impact than any of the Sternritters' did.