Lucy van Marten

Lance Corporal Lucy van Marten (17 August 2657 – early November 2667) was an android soldier in the Terran Imperial Army. She served for four years in the 12th Guards Cavalry Division, and died in early November 2667 during the Battle of Khoz during the Great War.
== Early life ==
Lucille "Lucy" van Marten was grown-to-order in the mid-2650s by a private black-market android producer, Cyprien Andries, for his regular client Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Cassander Marten. At the time, Lt Col Marten was concurrently serving as governor of Nieuwvaalia and held the peerage Duke of Nieuwvaalia. He had obtained a reputation in certain circles as a debauched rake who often held drug-fueled sex parties with his business partners at his ducal palace, engaging in human and alien sex trafficking as well cooperation with organized criminal gangs. He maintained a public face as a conservative, neo-feudal aristocrat. He spent lavishly on his homeworld's charitable organizations, somewhat softening his image among those who knew the "open secret" rumors. The aspect he kept most secret, however, was a predilection for teenage girls, and he had Lucy grown as a custom order to gus exact specifications and desires.
Lucille was incepted on August 17th of 2657, though she had been grown for over two years before that. She was deliberately stunted in her physical development to cease growth at the equivalent of 16 human years. Her brain was underdeveloped for naivety and pliability, qualities Cassander Marten specified to make her more "innocent" and also easier to manipulate and abuse. She alone was designated as his personal sex android, and her presence was noted at some parties where he treated her somewhat like a daughter. He violated numerous laws even in his creation of her, as androids were required to be produced by licensed genetic engineering firms or specialists, and the person or institution receiving an android was required to read them their rights as human beings and citizens. Their neurological and psychological development is carefully monitored during growth and after incept to ensure androids have he same cognitive faculties of humans and can understand their enumerated rights.
A raid on his home in November 2661 saw much of his illicit material confiscated, including the sex androids along with drugs and paraphernalia, weapons, and money. Lucille was taken into protective custody and subsequently placed into receivership as a ward of the Empire. A psychiatric evaluation deemed her to have the mind of a child, and she was compelled to go through a regimen of psychological therapy, medication, and class-based education in a government school.
She was given a secondary-level general education in civics, mathematics, basic science, languages, the arts, and history. Her physical education was largely perfunctory, as she was engineered for peak physical performance despite resembling a teenage girl. She excelled in boxing, wrestling, long jump, and endurance sports, and had higher-than-average strength. After a year, she was determined by a psychiatry board to have a young-adult level of intelligence, and could be legally treated as an adult, though she still had lower-than-average critical thinking skills and was overly trusting. She was seen as having few independent career prospects, and was offered by her social worker a choice of joining the Terran military or remaining in a nursing home for the rest of her life.
== Military career ==
Lucy enlisted in the Terran Imperial Army on 1 September 2662.