Section: "Mara Vale Saga"

 

Sci-Fi Noir

The Mara Vale Saga
by Rodriac Copen


Mara Vale is a series of noir science fiction stories set in a decaying orbital megacity, where corporations manage violence, memory, and guilt through contracts, protocols, and administrative authorizations.

The series offers a mature and realistic take on the near future: there are no heroes or revolutions, only individuals operating on the fringes of a system designed to be efficient, not just.

Each story stands alone, but all stem from the same origin: a routine order that triggers a legal massacre and transforms Mara Vale —a corporate logistics analyst—into a functional anomaly of the system.

The protagonist is neither a heroine nor a classic avenger. She is an enforcer of private balances .

After surviving an attempt at institutional erasure—illegal interrogations, faulty implants, and memory fragmentation— Mara abandons all notion of systemic justice. The dead do not return. The system is not redeemed.

Her ethics are strict, silent, and non-negotiable. She charges for her work, but chooses whom she accepts. She makes no promises to save anyone. If she accepts a commission, she doesn't betray anyone.

She is accompanied by two recurring figures:

• An old military instructor, who teaches him efficiency, limits, and real physical cost. 

• Lila, a woman from the street who conveys to him an accurate reading of desire, power and social manipulation as a language.

Why read Mara Vale's stories?

Because Mara Vale offers no consolation or fantasies of redemption. She offers stories where decisions matter, where every contract has a human cost, and where the future is defined not by grand deeds, but by small, irreversible actions.

Because it's a saga for readers seeking mature science fiction, without cardboard heroes or cartoonish villains; stories where violence is a consequence, not a spectacle, and where power is wielded with forms rather than weapons.

Because each story functions as an independent noir case, yet they all converse with one another, constructing a coherent portrait of a recognizable and disturbing world, too close to be comfortable.

And because Mara Vale doesn't try to save the system or destroy it. She moves within it, understands it, and sometimes corrects it in the only way possible: by altering the balance where no one else is looking.

• Episode One: Irrevocable Authorization

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