Mecha Vengeance: The Laws That Govern History

A century has passed since humanity colonized the solar system, but conflict has never ceased. The protagonist, Commodus, is a sixteen-year-old boy. He and his childhood sweetheart, Elena, are a couple who work as smugglers, buying goods elsewhere and smuggling them to the revolutionary army's base on Jupiter.

One day, as they attempt a hyperspace jump using a method called Higgs particle jumping, they are pulled into a battlefield between the revolutionary army and the imperial forces.

While trying to escape, Commodus and Elena are caught up in the fighting. Elena is killed by an imperial soldier, and Commodus is taken prisoner.

Burning with rage, Commodus decides to join the imperial forces to find and avenge the person who murdered her.

Along the way, he meets three pilots, and becomes convinced that one of them must be his enemy.

Where is his enemy? Which one of them is it?

As he searches for the person he wants to kill, he will also become deeply entangled in the struggle between the imperial forces and the revolutionary army. Where will this maelstrom, born of a tragic chapter in history, lead him?

If there is any hope of escape from history's despairing cycle, what might it be? And what direction could it lead the world in?

If you're curious about Hegelian philosophy, be sure to read to the very end!