neokarl said:
I just didn't have a reason to "why there are furries" and I still don't have a good reason.
Biological Warfare.
Humanity starts to focus on a bio-arms race (throw some political things in: North Korea, you could have them making an army of small purple unicorns to take over for all that the rest of world would know
) ~2013 - The Beginning of the End.
It's meant to be a 'race' focused weapon i.e. only certain 'races' get effected (read: die).
Surprise, surprise...it scares the crap out of the world!
The US, Russia and EU, not wanting to be left out, start their own programs and counter-programs (vaccine to immunise or 'fool' the weaponized virus to ignore its targets).
How could we get people to get ignored on a genetic level....add new stuff and take away the stuff that makes them the targets! Genius!
Where is the next most viable source of similar genetic material?
Primates! Animals!
Hey! Why not weaponized the vaccine too?
Soldiers with wolf like sight, smell and hearing? Hell yeah!
What about stealthy feline soldiers too? Put it on the list!
Husky based arctic long range soldiers? Good idea!
Attributes from a desert fox to secure
oil the future of the Middle East! Nice plan. etc.
Things start to get out of hand (as they do) and you take more and more of the 'human' genetic material and the volunteers start to lose their 'human' looks, abet gaining the immunity to all known anti-human bio-weapons. But keep their minds and feelings and everything.
Humm...these soldiers are getting good...too good...
End the program. The UN is going to crap themselves over this.
Ahh! They don't want to be 'ended'!! Oh teh noes! There are enough of them to make a viable population! D'oh!
THEY LITTER MORE THAN ONE CHILD!? FUUUUUUUUUU-
Fur Folk = Fight with tooth, claw and packs
United States Biological Task and Intelligence Force (USBTIF [USBeetif]) = Fight with airstrikes, tanks and armies
See: Vietnam War
The global guerrilla war wares down USBTIF, then the 'Axis of Evil' strikes with their own bio-weapons. 'My enemy?s enemy is my friend.'
2025 - The Fall of Humanity.
The world is brought to its knees. Populations panic. Economies crash. Civil governments struggle to cope and the weaker ones collapse. In the death throes of humanity, the United Nations takes a stand and what few working governments and multi-national corporations are left complete the 'ARK Initiative' [Working title]
The ARK's were built in event of end of humanity. Conveniently, they have mostly been sitting there unused since 2012 (mass panic as an unexpected asteroid and stuff that you can fill in
)
The old story of 'the best and the brightest' of humanity are chosen and taken to geographically suitable locations, away from large population centres, in a valley surrounded by mountains, sea on one side whatever.
Thing is...it's anarchy out there. People are panicking, biological weapons are going off left, right and centre. The few that escape the cities and hear about the ARK's flee to them. Many have died in the cities. Many die on the journey but with what few people the UN can scrounge together, anyone who isn't infected or dying is a welcome person.
With the doors closed, those left behind are sick and dying. The Fur Folk, immune to all of the weapons that humanity had devised to destroy themselves, try desperately to help.
However, since most of them were just low ranking officers or lower ranks in the armed forces, none of them really know how to develop cures.
2031 - Humanity Has Fallen.
One year before there was 7 billion humans in the world.
The next there are fewer than 10 million. The last human, a young girl, dies on the 31st December 2031 in her sleep. But not before leaving one last message: 'Forgive us all for all these ills.'
2032 - Furs Have Risen.
Although most cities and towns have already started to crumble, the Furs moved to some almost as soon as humans abandon them.
The population boom starts to slow, genetics starts to kick in as the human genes override the animal genes so each pregnancy has only has around one to three offspring, like humans.
Humans are believed to be extinct. There are whispers of the ARK's but since they were hidden for years from general knowledge, no-one knows where they are. Some say that even if they did exist then with all the diseases around, at least one infected person would have entered and decimated the populations.
Humanity is quickly forgotten in many ways. As the years pass and the Furs make their own 'paw print' on Earth, humans are demoted to simple cautionary tails or warnings:
"If you don't come home by dusk, the humans will come and get you!"
"History became legend. Legend became myth."
Humans are cast in a light of trickster or evil sorcerers. Causing all the ill in the world by brewing more powerful potions but finally brewing up a potion so powerful that it consumes them but not before allowing them all one last spell. One human, a young girl, sees a pack of wolves and directs the spell towards them that bestows all of the good and kindness that all of humanity can muster and gives it too the wolves leaving a final message: 'Forgive us all for all these ills.'
The wolves pass the message and knowledge to animal species to animal species which in turn passes it on until the world is here as they know it.
No God myth. No magic legend. Only that there was once something before, it all died out and left the Furs with everything else.
