Aspatria

The Following has been copied or abreviated from information provided on Professor Bob's Rejuve Writers Guide and is a description of the homeworld where Kayla Ackart's specie comes from. Iconically Kayla, The main character of the Kayla Ackart Stories does not live here but the planet and its culture is referred to primarily by way of flashbacks.

The World
Roughly 2/3 the size of Earth, with no moons. All of the planet is orange, upright walking foxes (With different color and pattern variations). White and black in certain places, where ever inherited. Loose ties with the Federation, as trade with earth is common, yet taboo. Aspatrians are rare members of earth. This planet is also rather 'third world' in many areas, with rampent poverty and social instability under a dictatorship controlled world government. They are not allowed to join the United Federation of Planets due to the government being run by a global dictator and how poorly the planet's citizens are treated. There are many cities and outlying slums, with the planet being mostly high-polluting industry. The dark red atmosphere always looks sickly from the amount of toxins and smog in the air, with many clouds of brown pollution reaching ground level in some cities. A large amount of the population is homeless, or living in decrepid structures, leaving prostitution, drugs, gambling, and murder to be common crimes (None of which are stopped by any sort of anti-crime unit). The only law enforcement present on Aspatria is the military, controled and used by dictator Francias Renacross to oppress and pacify his people. This military has been known to slaughter entire slums to eliminate resistance.

The People
Life expectancy on the planet is very low, with most citizens dying young from starvation or disease caused by the smog and poisonous pollution. Aspatrians living in slums or in city alleys tend to form small groups and work together to care for one another, as well as orphans. Orphaned children generally always die, while others are sold into slavery, cheap (and often leathal) factory labor, or become thieves and child prostitutes. It is customary that children below the age of ascention, which is thirteen, remain nude. With many historical records burned by the ruling regime, it is not certain where and why this custom came to place. Some believe it was due to lack of clothing for a quickly growing body, others think it was due to the fact they did not require it, while some members of the slums believe it was due to the rampant increase in popularity to have sex with the young kits hundreds of years ago.

When contrasted with humans, Aspatrians are more agile and tactile creatures, whom use their ears as a primary sense (The planet's sun is farther away than Earth's. It retains heat with it's thick, gassy atmosphere, but the light is dimmer as a result. Accute hearing was evolved due to the need for direction-finding in low light areas, or the location of stealthy predators).

The Language
Their language would be somewhere along the lines of this, when demonstrated.. "Da rast de estu kah!". Very vocalized sounds, void of accents. The language emphasizes easily made sounds, with rough sounds. For example, 'rast' and 'kah', start off quite vocalized and harsh. "Gastare to re vol?". When not exclaimed, the harshness of the words sill comes through, as that is the nature of their words. Hard letters, such as the hard 'v' in 'vol' there.

Aspatrian Religion
Aspatrian Religeon is based around the Male is Law. The god of the Aspatrian faith is Hakra, a male god and the foundation of their society is based around male dominance. Under the authority of the church all women and all children under the age of thirteen are not people but instead property owned by a male. And as his property the male can do whatever he wishes with them, have sex with them, sell them, whore them out, abuse them, mutilate them physically and sexually and even kill them if he pleases with full authority from the church. Even male children are not exempt from this, instead at the age of thirteen (if they survive that long) they are expected to go through a clensing ritual and become 'Ascended' to 'Being a man' at which point they are encouraged to treet others exactly how they were treeted.

The only form of marraige in Aspatrian religion is a man to a man (Gay sex for men only being sanctioned) women can not marry anyone cause they are property and if caught being affectionate with anyone without the man's permission they can be beaten and or killed. Women or children who try to get ideas above their station can be beaten and killed.

Other imporant laws on the planet include the fact you cannot speak negatively about the dictator, you cannot run a press of any kind, or have a lesbian relationship (A male-male relationship is called a 'Goda', a partnering found in an ancient religion of the planet. Any key law found to be broken would result in an immidiate execution without trial.

Reform?
Supposedly in recent times there has been reform on the homeworld and the mutilation and killing of people outlawed but many still do as they like assured that the church is on their side. Legally in the modern society the slavery of women or children has been outlawed, but is not regularly enforced, and crimes once punishable by death no longer recieve a death sentence. Historians have been making an effort to try and correct many of the teachings of the church however the work is slow.

Aspatrian Technology and Modern Civilization
Complexes and structures are built primarily of brick, and power is generated by fossil fuels. There was no research into clean alternatives, or nuclear power, dispite using radioactive substances found on the planet in other applications (mostly government weaponry and corporate processing). Water is in short supply in many areas due to the levels of contamination. Clean water and air in a luxury as is efficient technology.

Nearly all technology is a luxury and rare as education is too low for the standard person to use them. The more fortunate, or those capable mechanically with their paws, or quick on their mind, do end up obtaining more knowledge then the rest, mostly through appreticeship. Those would be engineers for ships, computer architects, and technicians. These individuals will be mostly employed by the government for their own projects. Many foods are processed and synthesized, as the polution killed a large majority of the planet's plant life long ago, ending the time of the farmer. Less poluted areas of the planet can be cultivated, but real Aspatrian fruits and veggies are too expensive for the generally poor people. It is another corporate luxury.

Military Advancement
Post Modern technology, primarily driven off military budget.

Technology contains some short range FTL and space travel mostly owned by militia forces. Weapons on them would be similar to disruptors, but colored red, and more rapid firing. As a result, the shots do not have as much power as an actual disruptor, it's a step down from that technology. Military defense craft around orbit would also be using warheads with light-impulse propulsion - space based missiles. On the ground, Aspatrians use basic energy weapons. Rifles can fire charges similar to their orbital crafts, but in a much smaller version. The weapons also do not recharge automatically, meaning they run out of power quickly unlike a phaser of the time. Some projectile weapons are still used, such as pistols, on rare occasion. Federation banned weapons are also used by Aspatria against their own people, such as chemical weapons. Compressed plasma explosives are the most common 'grenade', causing an explosion and blue shockwave that vaporizes flesh on contact.