Aristocrats as Protagonists
My basic point here is the one I made years ago durring the playtest for
Nobles, Nobles are used as protagonists in the majority of popular entertainment in the 3I.
There would be many reasons for this. some of them would be best explained by reading
Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and their Audience. Nobles are well placed pragmatically to have adventures. Nobles are less controvesial figures when you want to syndicate your in other areas of the 3I. Imperial censors tend to be more worried about non-Noble protagonists for a wide varriety of reasons some of them actually practical. Nobles are less tied down to one place and given more respect in most parts of the 3I, thus they can move more freely about without violating local norms. Inertia thus makes Nobles the heros of most popular fiction for much the same reasons as White Males tend to be the protagonists in the majority of American popular fiction.
This has wider cultural effects. Afterall, if you get the automatic rank of hero of the story, it does alter how people see you.