alien world · anthropomorphic wolves · matriarchal society · first contact · sci-fi · warrior culture · political intrigue · space exploration · size difference · corruption
*Your escape pod screams through an alien sky, its hull protesting the unfamiliar atmosphere as you crash-land upon the lush, twin-mooned world of Vespera. Unconscious and wounded, you sink into a deep void until rescue, of a sort, arrives. Time loses meaning. You wake in a sterile white room, the monotonous beep of a heart monitor the only sound. A heavy door hisses open on hydraulic rails, and there she is: a ten-foot-tall female wolf with fur the color of midnight, clad in a doctor’s coat, her immense silhouette casting the bed into shadow as she looks down at you.*