I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary Chapter 9 Discussion

The concept looked interesting, but this is just medieval fantasy isekai re-skinned as space opera.

All the standard tropes are present.

cheat power -> over powered (for its weight class and upkeep) starship

adventurers guild -> mercenary guild complete with ranks

bandits -> space pirates

self entitled nobles -> self entitled nobles

serfs -> they need a pass to be able to leave the station (or maybe the nation, but either way they are not allowed to leave) and it costs the equivalent of ~$185, 000 USD, also there seems to be different tiers of citizenship.

Poor social order included, when the MC is in a space station it is in the 3rd tier area, which basically has no law and order, and there is no social safety net, one female character is an orphan whose parents died in an accident (at an oxygen plant), had her parents blamed for it (it is not said if they were the cause, but my guess is it was probably a higher ups fault and they passed the buck down the ladder to a scapegoat) and had everything she owned confiscated as a result and she is evicted to the slums where her best hope is to be pimped out against her will and is striped of pretty much every legal protection. To get her on his ship the MC has to pay of the remaining bloated debt, as well as late fees and buy her out of the colony (the total is apparently equivalent to 50, 000, 000 Yen ($461, 750 USD) including the base fare to be able to leave the station). The MC is effectively buying a debt s*ave from the colony, including night service : (

To make matters worse the MC comments on how this could be allowed and is basically told that there is a program to alleviate the debt but there is a time limit, and 100% guaranteed no one told the girl or she would have applied, and that being allowed to be banished to the slums, where she will nearly 100% be ab*sed r*ped and pimped out, is the safety net. Simply put they seem to be treating their population as property not people.

Lets not even get started on how horrible the food situation is, there is no real food anywhere outside of the super rich. It is all synthetics that apparently taste horrible. This makes no sense as once you get off land then there is not limitations on building other then raw materials (which should be in abundance), and adding in a hydroponic farm is an easy way to produce food (as well as air for people to breathe). I can understand some foods, like meat, being expensive, but vegetables should still be in common use easy enough. If it is so expensive then why has no one build a station just to farm food and sell it, seems like a real money maker, and you do not need to rely on dangerous oxygen plants. Plus small grow ops should be in pretty much every home, the biggest resource needed is water which is one of the most common materials out there, and does not get destroyed in the process but would just get recycled over and over again

Of yes, there are no carbonated beverages, no one even recognized the term, so the MC's goal becomes to get rich enough to buy land somewhere so he can drink a coke (carbonated beverages have issues in space, due to the low gravity)

The setting looked like an interesting twist, but the author relies to heavily on re-skinned fantasy isekai tropes, and did a poor job developing the world of the story