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I think I have a beginning to my story that works out. Well, the very very beginning is fine, but getting that to mesh with modern reality was a pain. Getting furries wasn't hard, getting the cool stuff wasn't hard, I'm still working on space travel, but getting everything to work together was still lacking. But I think I have it.
A couple of thousand years ago, an alien spaceship crashes. A local warlord finds it, and with his little band, rescues the crew. The alien in charge is thankful, but the warlord manages to trick him into granting a great boon. For this boon, the warlord calls on the alien to work magic and give him and his warriors to change into fierce animalistic forms for battle. Since some disagreed on the exact animal to do, space was made for custom selection of the animal, with a DNA sample from a bit of fur or such used.
Finished, the aliens did what they came to do--take some humans out to be mercenaries in thier fight against other aliens of a similar tech level. The same technology that created the other furries was used to make these humans anthro, though they preferred their anthro forms and it was quickly forgotten where they came from, especially after the alien war grew cold and they were put out to pasture. Their culture stagnated, leading to various tech levels on their planets, but none lower than industrial age.
On earth, the other aliens came a-calling. After a couple of hundred years, there was a significant number of clans with the biomatrix that allowed the shape-changing, but they stayed on the fringes of the large civilizations, inspiring legend and myth, but little more. The new aliens saw that humans were evolving technologically faster than they cared for, and sought to preemptively defeat and conquer them.
To do this, they made changes to the biomatrix. They weren't as familiar with biotech as the first, but they were able to make the changes, increasing hormone levels and making it harder to control urges to kill and rape. At the same time, they planted seeds for controlling earth by making another variation of the biomatrix. This was given to rulers to increase their personal power and lifespan so they could control the planet. This work built on earlier, much more primitive secret combinations to control. This biomatrix took reptilian DNA rather than mammalian, though they left certain traits like live birth and general shape of the anthro form. Among the stars, they introduced a third variant, dragons. This was given to specific families, and under these attempting to take and maintain control progress among the interstellar anthros slowed and stopped.
Dragons were introduced to earth though there were less than half a dozen. The reptilian type was strictly controlled, and never numbered very many. The modifications of the mammalian matrix failed, and while a bit wilder than before, they were still reasonable but also got the energy manipulation abilities built into the dragon line. The "cold marked" were an attempt to make an upper class, but failed because the energy manipulation didn't take hold. They still were on top, and tricked the dragons into killing each other until only a couple survived, which disappeared. They then sought to exterminate the "warm marked" to eliminate competition, which succeeded. Few remained, mostly again on the edges of civilization, and among the favored of the reptilian elite.
Energy manipulation is an important part of the biomatrix constructed by the aliens to create the super-soldiers in space, and used to satisfy the warlord on earth. The transformation is more or less instantaneous, and there can be mass differences. To solve this, some advanced stuff was included, to store extra mass for transformation, and to provide energy to transform fast enough to work. The Mach Effect is involved here, among other things, so it's not too far fetched. Changes made by the second race gave access to these abilities.
This doesn't include the religious themes--I'd like to make this a Christian analogy, like Narnia, but sci-fi and furry. That's somewhat secondary though, as in real life, religion is a personal thing, and while some prophecy and stuff is involved, it's more of an overtone than something I want straight in your face.
A couple of thousand years ago, an alien spaceship crashes. A local warlord finds it, and with his little band, rescues the crew. The alien in charge is thankful, but the warlord manages to trick him into granting a great boon. For this boon, the warlord calls on the alien to work magic and give him and his warriors to change into fierce animalistic forms for battle. Since some disagreed on the exact animal to do, space was made for custom selection of the animal, with a DNA sample from a bit of fur or such used.
Finished, the aliens did what they came to do--take some humans out to be mercenaries in thier fight against other aliens of a similar tech level. The same technology that created the other furries was used to make these humans anthro, though they preferred their anthro forms and it was quickly forgotten where they came from, especially after the alien war grew cold and they were put out to pasture. Their culture stagnated, leading to various tech levels on their planets, but none lower than industrial age.
On earth, the other aliens came a-calling. After a couple of hundred years, there was a significant number of clans with the biomatrix that allowed the shape-changing, but they stayed on the fringes of the large civilizations, inspiring legend and myth, but little more. The new aliens saw that humans were evolving technologically faster than they cared for, and sought to preemptively defeat and conquer them.
To do this, they made changes to the biomatrix. They weren't as familiar with biotech as the first, but they were able to make the changes, increasing hormone levels and making it harder to control urges to kill and rape. At the same time, they planted seeds for controlling earth by making another variation of the biomatrix. This was given to rulers to increase their personal power and lifespan so they could control the planet. This work built on earlier, much more primitive secret combinations to control. This biomatrix took reptilian DNA rather than mammalian, though they left certain traits like live birth and general shape of the anthro form. Among the stars, they introduced a third variant, dragons. This was given to specific families, and under these attempting to take and maintain control progress among the interstellar anthros slowed and stopped.
Dragons were introduced to earth though there were less than half a dozen. The reptilian type was strictly controlled, and never numbered very many. The modifications of the mammalian matrix failed, and while a bit wilder than before, they were still reasonable but also got the energy manipulation abilities built into the dragon line. The "cold marked" were an attempt to make an upper class, but failed because the energy manipulation didn't take hold. They still were on top, and tricked the dragons into killing each other until only a couple survived, which disappeared. They then sought to exterminate the "warm marked" to eliminate competition, which succeeded. Few remained, mostly again on the edges of civilization, and among the favored of the reptilian elite.
Energy manipulation is an important part of the biomatrix constructed by the aliens to create the super-soldiers in space, and used to satisfy the warlord on earth. The transformation is more or less instantaneous, and there can be mass differences. To solve this, some advanced stuff was included, to store extra mass for transformation, and to provide energy to transform fast enough to work. The Mach Effect is involved here, among other things, so it's not too far fetched. Changes made by the second race gave access to these abilities.
This doesn't include the religious themes--I'd like to make this a Christian analogy, like Narnia, but sci-fi and furry. That's somewhat secondary though, as in real life, religion is a personal thing, and while some prophecy and stuff is involved, it's more of an overtone than something I want straight in your face.