Climb over these aristocratic trashes? Sorry, you're mistaken, Corrie. I will eliminate them!
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In a distant future where humanity has taken to space, with Mars being terraformed and colonized, Earth is now run by an empire while Mars remains a representative republic, the two engaged in trade from the Earth controlled asteroid mines providing ores while Mars provides foodstuffs. The peace is not to last as the empire has received reports of unrest on Mars, cutting off the food supply to the miners and requiring an imperial envoy to investigate the issue. This is, of course, a lie. The story follows the tale of one Baron Olga Perez whose house has fallen on hard times, thanks to her spineless father, with Olga herself shoved off into an Arranged Marriage with an abusive boyfriend who started beating her around and threatening her with Marital Rape License the instant she comes of age, starting at age 8, her only hope of escape being joining the imperial army and getting too strong to be pushed around. This naturally causes several other aristocratic houses to put her in their crosshairs, afraid of her baring her fangs at them next.Associated Tropes:
- Armies Are Evil: Played With. The Terran army are clearly despicable, looking for any excuse to Rape, Pillage, and Burn. The Marsian armies are a mixed bag.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: With the exception of Baron Olga Perez herself, all the imperial aristocracy are horrible, horrible people who only care about themselves, especially the emperor.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: The story starts with Olga coming out of a sabotaged imperial army testing simulator, and despite being a freshman gets a score putting her officially in third place out of tens of thousands. Her abusive arranged fiancé, who sabotaged the simulator in the first place, protests, accuses her of cheating, and demands a duel. He actively cheats, despite having a massive advantage on paper, and still loses. His cheating is so bad, it offends the emperor (largely due to his use of illegal drugs) and gets his aristocratic house disbanded. Then, just to kick him while he's down and being carted off on a stretcher, the academy completes its investigation and finds that because Olga's testing simulator was sabotaged, she should have gotten a higher score, putting her firmly in SECOND PLACE, second only to the near-graduating Valedictorian.
- Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Every last one of Olga's enemies come after her purely because they're afraid of what she might do once she gets strong enough. Of course, they see her as an evil bitch if she refuses to just lay down and die for them.
- Drugs Are Bad: Enforced. The terran emperor usually doesn't meddle in aristocratic politics unless he is directly threatened, but he will immediately crack down with extreme, emphasis on extreme, prejudice whenever the use of illegal drugs is discovered. Olga's fiancé uses said drugs to cheat in his duel with Olga. This results in the emperor ordering all his troops on site to immediately arrest the entire guy's house and seize all their holdings, with the douche-nozzle's father held at gun-point and left as a penniless commoner.
- Feudal Future: The exact date is not mentioned, but Humanity has advanced to the point of being able to colonize other planets, and Earth has reverted to a feudal empire.
- Revenge Myopia: All of Olga's enemies happily do terrible things, with pride, but when Olga retaliates, they become enraged and plot murderous vengeance.
- Straw Hypocrite: All of Olga's enemies love to harp Might Makes Right to justify themselves when Olga calls them out on their villainy towards her, but when she turns the tables and starts defeating them, they howl, point, and protest that she's not playing by the rules and call themselves the victims, demanding "righteous vengeance."
- Take That!: Subtle, but profound. The only news agency shown to be entirely honest in their broadcasting is Fox NEWS. The rest are backed by one noble house or another, and will only intentionally broadcast what their aristocratic house orders them to, immediately pulling the plug on command.
