Masha Petrovich, Fashion Czar of Ursus Dubhe Osnovnoy

Year 3211, the Parisian Empire has stretched its impeccably tailored velvet glove across the Cosmopolitan Cosmos, conquering each system with the iron fist just beneath that fashion accessary.

Ursus Dubhe Osnovnoy, an M class planet, rich in mineral wealth, gave particular resistance to the spread of Colonization Couture, as its ruling class wanted to retain their autonomy, and thusly, their strangehold on the export of rare and valuable metals.

"Sashay, divide, conquer and strike a pose," was the motto of Empress Iylophra Munien, and so, rather than engage her Couture Fleet with the orbital platforms surrounding the planet, she made an offer to the second daughter, Masha Petrovich, seething in the shadows of her father's rule and her elder sister's clear line to succession.

Masha orchestrated a coup so outrageously fashionable there was no doubt as to whom she had chosen to serve. In one silent and bloody evening, she became Czar and bent the knee to the Parisian Empress.