I never did post anything for the last Thought Experiment, so I might as well do that now! For this, I'll be stripping away all of the setting details from my characters. Winning a million dollars doesn't matter too much to a bunch of nobles, and dollars don't mean anything when the national currency is "Work Credits".

The character in question (Countess Lasis), happens to have a genetic disorder that makes her heart (along with every other part of her body) too weak for her homeworld's gravity. There are others like her, but there are so few that society as a whole barely acknowledges them, or treats them as fragile novelties if they do. If she won a million dollars, she would definitely try to start an awareness campaign for her disease. She hates being treated like a piece of fine china that will break with the slightest tap, and being sheltered (as you are when tripping is a death sentence), she expects everyone else with the condition to feel the same way. In reality, she's one of the only ones with the disorder that feels like that, the rest are perfectly content with living without ever walking. Lasis, on the other hand, insisted on an exoskeleton instead of a wheelchair, and even ended up as an Admiral (space being one of the few places she can function perfectly fine). Since she expects everyone else to be like her, she will likely find that her awareness campaign is a noble, but misguided effort. After trying to convince the others that she's living life the right way, she would likely hand over the entire organization to them, deciding that majority should rule.

Hooray for tangents. I'm the best at them.

(Just for fun, if the setting remained fully intact? She would be overjoyed to get her hands on "ancient relics")