Iron Ladies Steel Soldiers

I binge read a year ago, but the story started to fall off with random battles and girls with no real personality or build up wanting to join MCs cult.

It’s starts off interesting with shades of Japanese girl mecha genre but shifts into sci fi cultivation for MC.

What I thought was different is that this is sci fi from a Chinese/Eastern POV where it’s not based on Western values or sci fi tropes but centers on the authors deceptively pro-government views. So he makes the “rebel navy” into his answer for the rot and corruption in China but is heavy in nationalism, which is also handy for him not to get censored by CCP culture cops…

But yeah, I dropped because the story got convoluted and the original characters built up in the first 200 became soulless dolls/props for whatever 4D chess moves played on seemingly 3D chess villain moves.

Didn’t work for me because it was still 80% mindless action or sex appeal… Like a bad foreign action movie.

Still recommend giving it a shot because the world building is different and had politics outside of current manga/manhua but you’ll know when to drop…or not