Re: Furries

[Vendetta]

There should honestly be a comprehensive breakdown as to why the fandom does not fit in the lore of Discovery Freelancer, so I'm going to roughly summarize it as it's not even 8 AM when I started writing this.

The idea of animal-anthropomorphic beings/furry fandom in a society based on an alternate timeline, over a nine hundred years in the future in a different part of the sector is silly. When you examine the extended intro of the vanilla game, as well as the lore listed in the vanilla + extended lore added by Discovery, there is surprisingly little mentioned about agriculture relating to animals. In fact, the only real mention of Sol-Based life beyond humans is fish, which were put in to the oceans of various worlds in order to sustain an edible food source. Looking at the extended intro, Sol was utterly decimated by the Nomads, quite literally wiping out planet Earth. One might argue: "Oh, but it's the future, surely they had colonies on Mars."

They did.

But they weren't terraformed.

A particular scene of the intro shows marines in space, battling it out on the red planet with zero gravity or life of any kind surrounding them. The planet was still a desolate, lifeless rock. The idea that animals in any sense would've left Earth outside of being processed for consumption is up for debate, especially when considering that it was a time of war, and food rations were a must for both sides. You then get to the final scene, where the five sleeper ships take off from one of Jupiter's moons, full of people - especially the Hispania. In fact, the Hispania was overpopulated in the lore. It never successfully survived the journey beyond the founding of the Maltese and Cretan nations.

Second hole - The People of The Alliance were fleeing for their very lives. Their existence depended on them escaping with what they had loaded on to the ships - people. I seriously doubt that they'd have gone out of their way to make the Sleeper Ships in to giant Noah's Arc-style vessels, when their goal was to survive the onslaught of the Coalition. Not to mention - They're on an atmosphereless moon. As I mentioned before, there was no terraforming done on Mars. There wouldn't have been any on this moon, either. It wouldn't have been able to sustain human life outside of the sealed and shielded bases that were built, let alone animal life. The absolute very least of their concerns was if their pets were going to survive, as proven by mankind's instinctual ability to sacrifice things they love in order to preserve life. For example - If a predatory bear approached you and your dog with the intent of killing you, you would 100% of the time send the dog at the bear and run, because every single instance of fighting a bear in history has gone exactly how you'd think it would go.

Naturally though, Humanity would factor in and did factor in the possibility of there being no sustainable food source at their destination. The lack of terraforming made them have to pick and choose which worlds they needed to colonize. Earth-like worlds that can sustain life. The most common and easy to carry source of food is seeds for farming. Fish eggs could be preserved for the entirety of the journey, as we can all assume the trip from Sol to Sirius was not instantaneous, otherwise the point of cryogenic sleep would've been a redundancy, and if the Coalition cared enough to wipe out the alliance - factoring in the existence of instant-jump technology - they'd have probably gone after those ships. So, they reach Sirius and begin anew, seeding the water with fish in the hopes they'll be able to survive, beginning to farm and investigate the never-specified new life on the various worlds. Society would begin to grow around survival. For the longest time there would be little to no media, fiction or entertainment of any kind that would reference animals.

I could go way more in to detail about how unimportant it would be for the people of this day and age to want to involve themselves with animals, let alone waste time and effort in developing hybrids from long-dead species. The fandom its self wouldn't have been imagined or exist in society this day in 824 A.S.

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