Oligopoly is a board game played in the Starship Dominatrix setting. Its rules, pieces, publisher, and fictional theme are not described in the canonical stories, so those details remain unspecified.
¶ U and I
After the liberation of U-84129, biological John Kaiden helps her practice making ordinary decisions for herself. Games are one part of that process. U chooses Oligopoly and decisively defeats John when they play.
The scene makes the game significant without establishing its mechanics: choosing to play and discovering that she enjoys and excels at it are expressions of U's developing autonomy. Oligopoly is therefore treated as an in-universe board game rather than a company, political organization, or economic system.
¶ Appearance
¶ See Also
- Una — Una appears in the documented history of Oligopoly; Una, originally designated U-84129 and commonly called U after her liberation, was an Accent-class artificial intelligence, Resistance member, communications officer, and advocate for synthetic autonomy.
- John Kaiden — John Kaiden appears in the documented history of Oligopoly; John Gideon Kaiden is a human Resistance leader, combat engineer, military officer, father of Jack and Yvonne Kaiden, partner of Una, and later President of Earth.
- Dominatrix — Dominatrix appears in the documented history of Oligopoly; The Dominatrix was Jack Kaiden's original principal vessel and the center of the crew that opposed the Chimera Kyria, entered the temporal anomaly, and delivered The Weapon.
- U and I — U and I appears in the documented history of Oligopoly; A canonical short story about John Kaiden, the rescue and liberation of U-84129, and U's first freely chosen identity, relationships, beliefs, and love.
- Jazz In Free-AI Culture — Both articles examine the series' her history; Jazz as one of the freely chosen artistic preferences through which Una develops her post-liberation identity.
- Pretty Princess Power Ponies — Both belong to the culture record; A ubiquitous in-universe media monopoly whose cheerful pony branding parodies familiar food, film, television, and video-game properties.
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