History Literature / ChakonaSpace

** Also Leanna and pretty much any other similar slave morph. Leanna was "decanted" as a young adult, rather than as a child.

** Allen Fesler's character, Shadowcrest, is injured badly enough that an EmergencyTransformation ''process'' is the only lifesaving measure likely to save hir. Hir natural empathic abilities go [[PowerLevels over 9000]] thanks to some overenthusiastic [[GodInHumanForm Deities]]. ** The transporters aboard the Folly are able to perform a "Fountain of Youth" makeover thanks to yet a different Deity (or three).

** Boyce Kline is interfertile with any mammalian morph, taur or alien species, thanks to a meddlesome Rakshani fertility Deity, or possibly more than one.
** Shamara, a Herm Rakshani, winds up fertile with any biped feline species thanks to a different Deity. Possibly the same one responsible for hir being born a herm in the first place (hir parents lost a boy and a girl child in an accident, apparently some Deity thought it would be amusing to replace them both in one), possibly another one.
** The character Shadowcrest from the "Tales of the Folly" stories ends up with hir natural empathic abilities going Up to Eleven thanks to some more meddlesome alien Deities.
** The transporters aboard the Folly are able to perform a "Fountain of Youth" makeover thanks to yet a different Deity (or three).

* TomatoSurprise: From Garrek's perspective in his and Goldfur's BackStory, [[spoiler:[[AccidentalPervert Goldfur]] is a [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Hermaphrodite]]. When he [[StupidSexyFlanders calms down]] and [[ShownTheirWork belatedly does his research]] (as he should have done in the first place) he is more comfortable with hir.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: When she accidentally becomes a stowaway on the Folly, Cindy Grayson winds up on the receiving end of some self defense instruction. She also takes some advanced self-defense classes from a group of Rakshani Marines.
** When her father, [[AbusiveParents Charles Grayson]] finally catches up with her and shows up in Chakona's Council chambers, he tries to get physical with his daughter and Cindy [[CurbStompBattle mops the floor]] with him.
* TouchedByVorlons:
** Allen Fesler's character, Shadowcrest, is injured badly enough that an EmergencyTransformation ''process'' is the only lifesaving measure likely to save hir. Hir natural empathic abilities go [[PowerLevels over 9000]] thanks to some overenthusiastic [[GodInHumanForm Deities]].
** Boyce Kline is interfertile with any mammalian morph, taur, or alien species thanks again to at least one Deity.
*** Same goes for his descendants, [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction in ways that defy physical limitations.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Shadowcrest comes out of Neil Foster's "Processing" looking like shi's about 20. Shi is in fact more like 12 or 13.

* DrillSergeantNasty: One episode of "''Tales of the Folly''" gives us Kestrel pushing this to extremes for a little while.

* TomatoSurprise: From Garrek's perspective in his and Goldfur's BackStory, [[spoiler:[[AccidentalPervert Goldfur]] is a [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Hermaphrodite]]. When he [[StupidSexyFlanders calms down]] and [[ShownTheirWork belatedly does his research]] [[WhatAnIdiot (as he should have done in the first place)]] he is more comfortable with hir.]]

* HumanAliens: Subverted in the Chakat Universe. Voxxans are aliens who are almost indistinguishable from genetically engineered plantigrade foxmorphs from Earth. Their cultures even share similarities with Terran Western culture, allowing them to adjust and blend in easily.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters:
** Like a lot of UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} stories, we have the Human's First movement. Or terrorist group. Or... something.
** There's also the Non-Aligned Worlds where slavery of morphs is still practiced.
* ICallItVera: Neal Foster's shotgun, ''Betsy''. Also Mike's version, ''Thumper''.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: During chapter 7 of ''Tales of the Folly'', a few Chakats have some fun. When they finish, they are subjected to [[HoldUpYourScore being rated]] by the rest of the crew and passengers of the ''Folly''. Most give average scores, but one of the scorecards is marked "HOLY #%#^^$$!!". Later, in chapter 9, a pair who didn't realize they were quite so ''noisy'' get busy after work and affect all on board. Afterward, they are greeted by everyone holding the "HOLY #%#^^$$!!" card. Neal [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when he comments: "We sometimes find the scale we’re using isn’t quite large enough for what we’re trying to measure."
** Earlier in the same series, a small fleet of Starfleet's finest encounter the ''Folly''. The sensor tech on one of the ships is having trouble believing the readings being sent to his systems.
--->'''Sensor Tech Carson''': "Well, for one thing, your passive scans are ‘showing’ non-powered objects at five times the range my sensors could, and the couple of times your people went active my display wouldn’t scale far enough out to see what they were looking at!"

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are a '''''lot''''' of characters, so much so that there's a whole cast page for them. Thankfully, not all of them are used by all authors, so expect a majority of them not to show up in most stories.

* CorruptChurch: Any story involving the 'Holy' Christian Kingdom of North America is going to involve some combination of racism, terrorism, [[HumanExperimentation human/alien/morph experimentation]], or just plain murder. The priests who don't engage in hypocritical sermons, abuse of power[[note]]including embezzlement of donations and spiteful persecution of morph minors and interspecies couples[[/note]], or outright blasphemy[[note]]technically Gildedtongue is one of the nice priestesses but shi still ''had sex in a church''[[/note]] are typically full-blown terrorists.

** If you are not [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor careful with wishes]] in the presence of Rakshani Deities, they will throw this trope at you with a mischievous laugh that you will never hear.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: During chapter 7 of ''Tales of the Folly'', a few Chakats have some fun. When they finish, they are subjected to being rated by the rest of the crew and passengers of the ''Folly''. Most give average scores, but one of the scorecards is marked "HOLY #%#^^$$!!". Later, in chapter 9, a pair who didn't realize they were quite so ''noisy'' get busy after work and affect all on board. Afterward, they are greeted by everyone holding the "HOLY #%#^^$$!!" card. Neal [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when he comments: "We sometimes find the scale we’re using isn’t quite large enough for what we’re trying to measure."

* IncestIsRelative: And not exactly taboo among some species, Chakats are fine with it as long as there's no breeding and Foxtaurs allow one generation of inbreeding.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Chakat Candycane is tiger striped... In pink. Shi even has matching pink hair. Hir sister Pixiepaws has lime green fur with ordinary blonde hair.

* GenderRarityValue: Because of their skewed gender ratio, foxtaurs practice polygyny but they also discourage if not outright forbid Todds from "dangerous" professions such as hunting or Starfleet. Moreover, village-associated foxtaur todds are required to prostitute themselves for breeding purposes, euphemistically referred to as their "obligation".

** Foxtaurs have their "obligation", referring to [[GenderRarityValue males being legally obligated to prostitute themselves to continue the species]].

* GenderRarityValue: Because of their skewed gender ratio foxtaurs practice polygyny but they also discourage if not outright forbid Todds from "dangerous" professions such as hunting or Starfleet.

* UnusualEuphemism: One example seems to be a ShoutOut to ''Series/RedDwarf''.
--> ('''Arcade Manager'''): "'''What the smegging hell is going on here?'''"

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Leanna pulls this off early on, but [[RealityEnsues can't get it to fly]] past [[TheEmpath Forestwalker]].

* TouchTelepathy: Physical contact creates an unfilterable, unblockable link between the mind reader and pretty much anybody else. Especially another telepath. Not that the touch is required in the first place.

* ContainmentField: Little page time is given to them, but they are there, especially when an author starts discussing antimatter.

A WebOriginal SharedUniverse UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} setting, based on a WebSerialNovel, "Forest Tales", by Bernard Doove, ([[http://www.chakatsden.com available here (NSFW)]], [[http://furry.org.au/chakat/FT-index.html Mirror]], [[http://www.chakat.net/ Mirror 2]]. You might need to check all three as the site occasionally goes down for one reason or another.) that started as a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' FanFic and became its own series. "Forest Tales" was the first series in the setting, but others have been written, by Doove and an army of Chakat fans. Some of these fans are better writers than others.

* DividedStatesOfAmerica: Nearly every large nation was balkanized in World War III[[note]]with the exception of the Australian coalition, which stayed neutral and won by endurance[[/note]]. In irony, the interstellar empires of some of these commonwealths far exceed that of the pre-war America. This is sometimes a bad thing, as the Holy Christian Kingdom of North America has practically annexed the planet Amazonia, and is busy turning it from Neo-Vietnam to ''Neo-North Korea''.

* PathOfInspiration: The Holy Christian Kingdom of North America is basically this; the whole kingdom is set up as a twisted mega-fundamentalist nation where all the FantasticRacism HolierThanThou gather to debase and insult all non-humans. In reality, it's ''someone's''[[note]]Implied in "All Our Times Have Come" to be a massive criminal syndicate that spans multiple planets and persecutes minorities mainly for profit[[/note]] Task Force X on KnightTemplar, as terrorist cells within the country are put to work using untested technologies to kill non-humans, most not realizing they're advancing military science and killing key political figures for organization(s) that ''definitely'' don't give two yiffs about their [[TheScapegoat racist operatives inevitably getting arrested or killed]].
-->'''Disguised Mastermind''': Ah, for every puppet, we put on a different face. *disables priest holo-disguise*
* PercussiveTherapy: Apparently, Neil Foster indulges in this from time to time.

** In one possible timeline, homo-sapiens on Earth went extinct because some bigot tried to assassinate a morph, hit a human, who was given an EmergencyTransformation into a chakat, and the results of the case study led to a breakthrough in transformation technology[[note]]canon ends here[[/note]], which was globally adopted as a means of curing all biological diseases, eventually convincing the 'victorious' Humans First movement on Earth to splice themselves up until every last human became a morph.
** Darkstar spent her whole life in Starfleet's Black Ops division, thinking she was killing potential threats to the galaxy, only to discover that her father was a war-beast hirself, designed specifically to murder minorities.

** In one possible timeline, homo-sapiens on Earth went extinct because some bigot tried to assassinate a morph, hit a human, who was given an EmergencyTransformation into a chakat, and the results of the case study led to a breakthrough in transformation technology[[note]]canon ends here[/note]], which was globally adopted as a means of curing all biological diseases, eventually convincing the 'victorious' Humans First movement to splice themselves up until every last human became a morph.

* PathOfInspiration: The Holy Christian Kingdom of North America is basically this; the whole kingdom is set up as a twisted mega-fundamentalist nation where all the FantasticRacism HolierThanThou gather to debase and insult all non-humans. In reality, it's ''someone's'' Task Force X on KnightTemplar, as terrorist cells within the country are put to work using untested technologies to kill non-humans, most not realizing they're advancing military science and killing key political figures for organization(s) that ''definitely'' don't give two yiffs about their [[TheScapegoat racist operatives inevitably getting arrested or killed]].

* AuthorAvatar: Chakat Goldfur, child of Longstripe and Desertsand, is literally this.

* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: The Folly's rabbit chef likes to add this kind of spice to meals when she thinks her captain or fellow crewmwmbers aren't paying attention to her culinary efforts. She has learned to tighten up her aim after a group she wasn't targeting sampled the spiced up stew she left out for the captain, who had, as usual, skipped dinner.

* BondageIsBad: Averted, male-on-female domination is taboo in Foxtaur culture but somehow [[spoiler: it helps Garrek deal with the aftereffects of being flooded with mating pheromones]]

* CatFolk: : Chakats are hermaphroditic feline centaurs. Additionally, you've got Caitans, Rakshani, and other cat-morphs.

* ColdEquation: During the first chapter of the "More Terrible Than Chains" story, a slave ship breaks down light years from anyplace habitable. One of the crew wants to protect their significant investment. The captain understands the limitations of the life pods.

** Averted; [[spoiler: Garrek]] is severely traumatized[[spoiler:, and it's made clear that he'll be affected for life]].

* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Chakats are [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]], with a saying that "love doesn't divide, it multiplies". In addition Foxtaurs and Caitians are polygynous due to skewed gender ratios (3-1 and 8-1 females to males respectively). The former two species are Terran, but uncommon enough on earth that [[InterspeciesRomance mates of different species]] have to get used to their idea of monogamy as a foreign concept.

* FantasticRacism: some stories revolve around specist, anti-furry sentiment. One story features an anti-human wolf.

* StandardSciFiHistory: TheFederation seems to be at its Apex with hints of being headed for the Decline.
* StupidJetpackHitler: Lars V. Jensen's [[http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/Stories/WolvesInTheSnow.html "Wolves in the Snow"]] suggests that the Nazis created [[spoiler: wolftaurs]]

** What [[spoiler: the Foxtaurs]] were originally designed for, but the Gene Wars ended before they could be deployed so [[spoiler: they made up a story about being designed as park rangers, and made sure that their kits never knew the truth]].

** Dale's accident is the basis for Professor Oceanwalker's deliberate application of this procedure.
*** Shi and hir process also get featured in several other different stories in the 'verse.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Martin Yote and Commander Bethany Oakwood in "Flight of the Phoenix", largely because her last relationship with a superior officer got her blacklisted by Starfleet. [[spoiler: They keep it up for five years, until the final chapter.]]