The next Emperor, Lennon was even worse. He designed a law that said that when someone was known to be non-religious or gay, they had to put in jail or killed, that was decided on how bad their ‘crime’ was. If they still had another religion or hadn’t slept with someone of the same sex more than once, they were put in jail for the rest of their lives. If they were not religious at all or had slept with someone of the same sex more than once, they had to be killed. He also made a law that decided that anti conception was not allowed anymore.

The current emperor, Serranoff was not better. He banned divorce a few years ago and was planning to overtake another planet in another solar system called, Vidar. It was similar to the Earth only that planet was the model of tolerance and equality. It was a challenge for Serranoff. He would try to make the rules that were now only applying to the Earth, also the law in other planets. The emperor was far from ready to invade this planet because the military was still not strong enough. There was a law that every man of 18 years had to serve the military at least until he was 21 but now, because he wanted to make the military stronger and needed more soldiers, he had decided that instead of 18, it would be 16. The only problem was that the ‘good’ citizen had to be married after 18 but if the men were in the military, they couldn’t find a girl, so, he banned that rule and instead said that they had to have served the military. It was still better to be married to have more respect. It became a silent rule.

In this world, Bette Porter grew up. She lived with her Dad, Melvin and her two sisters and brother.

Kit was her oldest (half-)sister and she was fully African American (Her real name was Aikaterine). She was about to get married to Benjamin Bradshaw who she liked, but not loved. She didn’t know what else to do. If a woman didn’t have a man, she was nothing.

Her father, Melvin, didn’t like the empire but he had respect for it and wanted to live by the rules there were.