Begging the translator’s indulgence, @radchaaipopsongs, I hope that my submission to this meme would be appreciated.
By what effort does a daughter of no house
with parents hailing from an annexed world, placed on a wayward station by Amaat’s will and impoverished,
achieve great justice, benefit, and propriety?
The orphan founder who would be remembered on her currency
Accrued much more benefit by her superior work ethic
By her superior mental acuity, by her self motivation
At fourteen years, she directed trading ships
And daily, as annexations gathered bodies to manufacture new ancillaries
she struggled and defended herself
a citizen prepared to advance by means just or unjust
An incident at Omaugh endangered her
and it appeared that the omens had fallen inauspiciously
she began to write
her first song, a description of her sufferings
Word of this spread, and some suggested reeducation,
but they gathered money to send her to a prestigious planet
“Prepare for the aptitudes, but do not forget your origins!
And all the Radch will recognize your house!”
Idenfity yourself, citizen!