16-years-old Vladilena "Lena" Milize is a Major serving in the military of the Republic of San Magnolia, a country that prides itself as the first modern democracy in the world, and has been locked in a war against the remnants of the destroyed Giadian Empire for the past 9 years. However, by this point in the war, the ideals of equality the Republic upheld were mere empty words. The country is led by a racial supremacist government who stripped the rights of the colored citizens (Colorata) and condemned them outside the fortifications of the country, a region known as the Eighty-Sixth Sector and its inhabitants, considered as sub-humans, are referred to as the Eighty-Six. The young men and women of the Eighty-Six are forced by the Republic government to fight their war against the Empire's advanced autonomous drone army, the Legion, by piloting makeshift "drones" known as Juggernauts in order to liberate their families from the Eighty-Sixth Sector and restore their citizenship.
Witnessing this atrocity personally when she was younger, Lena could not let this injustice be ignored any longer, and with her fervid sense of justice she tried her hardest to help the Eighty-Six in the war before it was expected to end in the next two years due to the lifespan of the Legion's central processors. To her surprise, she was assigned as the Handler of an elite squadron of name-bearing Eighty-Six known as the Spearhead Squadron, led by the ominous Undertaker that drove his Handlers insane. She is repeatedly encouraged not to take the job by her closest friend, Henrietta von Penrose. Annette suggested that Lena instead transfer to the research division to work alongside her, as "former military personnel" would not be a good occupation to put on her resume once the war was over.
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