The Mechanic Isn’t Doing Her Job [Interstellar]

【Sci-fi academy progression fantasy with a touch of ensemble cast】 Yu Xi is transported to the interstellar era, where seventy percent of humanity are “evolved.” She becomes an ordinary person on a backward planet and is even forced to work as a laborer. To get free room and board, Yu Xi takes out a loan to attend school. She studies and works, takes odd jobs after class, and sometimes arrives late or leaves early, but she’s a good student. At last, Yu Xi pays off her entire loan and qualifies to take the interstellar college entrance exam. But why has the minimum requirement for applying to military academies suddenly become “evolved”? Damn this genetic discrimination. Yu Xi pores over the application guide until she finally finds a major open to ordinary people: Heavy Armor. Three years later. Inside a proving ground packed with geniuses, a young woman carrying a box of heavy armor machinery weaves through the crowd, advertising to everyone she meets: “Full-body mechanical conversion, painless and done in one star-hour.” “Get a diamond-hard head and never worry about trials again!” “Not 990,000, just 188,000! A body as tough as combat armor, with a steel-plated shell you can take home!” “Rush orders are free right now!!!” A roar comes from the judges’ seats: “Who let her in here?!” The trainees in the proving ground: “Our bodies are gifts from our parents… Never mind, I’ll take a new set of iron bones.” Somehow, an ordinary person has ended up on the league team representing their Alliance Territory. The first day of the competition, the audience says: 【Rigged!】 【Non-evolved contestants should withdraw!】 【Looks like Alliance Territory Seven has given up. Surely an academy team can at least beat the civilian teams.】 The Nth day of the competition: 【Wait, this ordinary person seems pretty capable.】 When Yu Xi is called back to the military and can’t compete for a while: 【When is that ordinary girl coming back? I miss her…】 Reader’s guide: 1. A touch of ensemble cast. Lots of original worldbuilding. Please be kind if it’s not to your taste. 2. There’s a male lead, but the romance is a relatively small part of the story. 3. Evolution means mutation. In this interstellar world, “ordinary people” are ordinary only in comparison to the evolved, not entirely without abilities. Theme: When the great roc rises with the wind, it soars ninety thousand miles into the sky