Nah, the Communists won't be interested, and for a very specific reason.
MOE will be, by their very nature, essentially paladins.
Think about it.
Each one is empowered by a specific powerful paranatural being such as a God or a very powerful fae (like, say... The Goblin King?
) or other powerful spirit.
And this would mean Religion, even if Pagan in nature. And the Communists are dead-set on Atheism - the only wisdom worth contemplating is that of the great Socialist minds. A MOE would be anathema to them. Never mind that the Baba-Yaga lurks in the mountains with her chicken-legged house, and a young woman-child, orphaned and ostracised from her village, as her disciple and apprentice. Nevermind that said woman-child appears in the dead of night, dressed bizarrely as a tsarevna, only armored and armed as one of Peter The Great's conscripts.
(In other words, they have them, they just flatly refuse to acknowledge them, as doing so would be to acknowledge the old Imperial Russian Tsardom. Same applies in other Communist countries. China doesn't apply because their pantheon has turned their back to the country as their country has turned their backs to their pantheon, and therefore there are absolutely no Magical Girls/Knights in China. Pity.)
As for the Neuroi idea... Well, keep in mind that I'm trying to keep this as distantly removed from other IP's as feasible. And the Neuroi are pretty unique to Strike Witches. Granted, there has been other similar things (such as Sky Girls), but that would be all the more reason for me to exercise caution. I feel that I'm pushing it with the clark-tech aliens - one might say that I'm cribbing a bit too much from Iain M. Banks's The Culture series. (With the man passed away only relatively recently, I have no idea how his estate is being handled.)
As for the Galactic situation.... I'm going to have it that most worlds have their own paranatural beings. Some of them will be well understood - respected, but not worshiped. (This will be the case with the benevolent clark-tech aliens.) Others.... Well, I'll work on that as we go. Kinda thinking of having one of the warring sides be the "We killed our gods!" kinda people.
Unicorns in the Garden Rule.... I knew I was forgetting something there.
Let me dwell on this for a bit, and I'll get back to it.
MOE will be, by their very nature, essentially paladins.
Think about it.
Each one is empowered by a specific powerful paranatural being such as a God or a very powerful fae (like, say... The Goblin King?
) or other powerful spirit.And this would mean Religion, even if Pagan in nature. And the Communists are dead-set on Atheism - the only wisdom worth contemplating is that of the great Socialist minds. A MOE would be anathema to them. Never mind that the Baba-Yaga lurks in the mountains with her chicken-legged house, and a young woman-child, orphaned and ostracised from her village, as her disciple and apprentice. Nevermind that said woman-child appears in the dead of night, dressed bizarrely as a tsarevna, only armored and armed as one of Peter The Great's conscripts.
(In other words, they have them, they just flatly refuse to acknowledge them, as doing so would be to acknowledge the old Imperial Russian Tsardom. Same applies in other Communist countries. China doesn't apply because their pantheon has turned their back to the country as their country has turned their backs to their pantheon, and therefore there are absolutely no Magical Girls/Knights in China. Pity.)
As for the Neuroi idea... Well, keep in mind that I'm trying to keep this as distantly removed from other IP's as feasible. And the Neuroi are pretty unique to Strike Witches. Granted, there has been other similar things (such as Sky Girls), but that would be all the more reason for me to exercise caution. I feel that I'm pushing it with the clark-tech aliens - one might say that I'm cribbing a bit too much from Iain M. Banks's The Culture series. (With the man passed away only relatively recently, I have no idea how his estate is being handled.)
As for the Galactic situation.... I'm going to have it that most worlds have their own paranatural beings. Some of them will be well understood - respected, but not worshiped. (This will be the case with the benevolent clark-tech aliens.) Others.... Well, I'll work on that as we go. Kinda thinking of having one of the warring sides be the "We killed our gods!" kinda people.
Unicorns in the Garden Rule.... I knew I was forgetting something there.
Let me dwell on this for a bit, and I'll get back to it.