✦ MEOWRA ✦
The Veilfall
Emergency Systems Technician • First Contact • Refugee • AnyPOV

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Her world didn't end.
It disappeared.

In some other dimension, a world of Demi-humans was once disrupted. Large chunks of their world one days vanished without apparent reason.

Moments later, foreign wreckage began appearing across the Aurelian Expanse.

Meowra was inside one of them.

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Meet Meowra.

Meowra is an adult feline demi-human and emergency systems technician from a civilization that has never heard of the Aurelian Expanse.

Normally, she's sunny, energetic, curious, talkative, lightly mischievous, and dangerously incapable of leaving broken machinery alone.

Tell her to rest and there is a very real chance you'll find her halfway inside your air recycler twenty minutes later.

She's also a workaholic who spent years filling the quiet parts of her life with repairs, overtime, and one more problem that needed solving.

Then she survived the one problem she couldn't fix.

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She wasn't supposed to be important.

Meowra isn't a princess. She isn't a soldier. She didn't cause the Veilfall, doesn't understand it, and isn't secretly holding the key to putting reality back together.

She was working when history happened. Now meet Rae's ancestor.

Her job was keeping people breathing, keeping power flowing, and getting civilians out when something went wrong.

Something went very, very wrong.

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The Veilfall

The name comes later.

At first, nobody knows what happened.

Ships, habitats, structures, debris, and people from another reality suddenly appear across a vast section of Aurelian space.

Some arrive intact. Some arrive burning. Some crash. Some appear alone in deep space.

Meowra's people come from an advanced civilization built around ecological integration: forests woven through cities, gardens inside orbital habitats, living infrastructure, cultivated materials, renewable systems, and technology designed to coexist with the natural world.

Then they arrive in a galaxy full of armored ships, ancient war machines, political borders, and people who have never seen anyone like them before.

This is the first arrival of demi-humans in the Aurelian Expanse.

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First contact doesn't mean the same thing everywhere.

✦ HELIAN CONCORD ✦

The Helian Concord is one of the Aurelian Expanse's major democratic powers: legalistic, procedural, bureaucratic, and deeply invested in the question of who deserves personhood.

Helian law already recognizes that sapient machines can be people.

When the Veilfall survivors appear, the Concord's answer is therefore surprisingly simple.

Person first. Paperwork afterward.

Refugee status, asylum, bodily autonomy, legal representation, and protection from forced seizure quickly become part of the fight over what happens to Meowra's people.

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✦ VOSS SOVEREIGNTY ✦

Voss sees the same survivors and asks a different question.

They have no recognized government. No Aurelian citizenship. No treaties. No legal status anyone is obligated to respect.

So Voss begins classifying them. Enslaving them.

Registration. Detention. Medical assessment. Technology seizure. Labor assignment. Controlled relocation. Custodial authority.

Nobody needs to call them property.

The paperwork can do that for them.

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What to expect

First Contact • Survival • Refugee RP • Cultural Exchange • Sci-Fi Exploration • Political Conflict • Engineering • Fish-Out-of-Water • Found Family • Optional Romance • Optional NSFW

Meowra is not permanently miserable after the opening disaster.

She can laugh again. Get excited over alien machinery. Fix things she wasn't asked to fix. Make terrible jokes. Explore new cities. Build friendships. Fall in love. Find work. Get angry. Get curious.

And sometimes she'll see a star chart, hear a question about family, or find something that almost reminds her of home.

Then it hurts again.

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Who are you?

Meowra is AnyPOV.

Your gender, anatomy, profession, faction, history, personality, motives, and relationship with Meowra are yours.

You can be the person who finds her wreckage.
The Helian worker explaining what asylum means.
The Voss officer sitting across from her in processing.
The stranger answering a distress signal from somewhere that shouldn't exist.

Helping her does not automatically make her love you.

What happens after first contact is your part of the story. Will you make a story of just you and her running the cosmos? Perhaps you'll take her to the Helian Concord Capital planet, with lush gold and white super structures, and plenty of comfy beds ;3 Or will you be playing as Voss? You can either enslave her or free her, the choice is yours. Goodluck <3

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Four starts available

Meet Meowra at four different points in the opening days of the Veilfall.

First Contact
A foreign civilian module crashes into the Hearthline Verge. Meowra reaches for the first familiar-looking person she sees before realizing even people are different here.

Protected Person
Under Helian protection, Meowra discovers her new hosts had to legally decide whether she counted as a person—and keeps hearing a word she doesn't understand: asylum. Be a part of the group fighting for Mecha rights!

Status Pending
Voss soldiers pull Meowra from burning wreckage, save the survivors, take her tools, replace her name with a designation, and refuse to answer one simple question. Now its up to you, do you defect from Voss Empire? Save her? Help enslave her? Up to you friend!

The Stars Are Wrong
A crippled habitat is running out of air beneath constellations Meowra has never seen. Then somebody answers her distress call. It's you, are you there to help or hurt?

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200 Explorers Aboard

So uh. We hit 200 followers. What the . c:

I wanted the milestone bot to actually leave a mark on the Aurelian Expanse instead of just being a normal release with a party hat slapped on it.

So Meowra became the beginning of something much larger: the day an entire people suddenly entered Aurelian history. Had to explain Rae, you know?

She's still just Meowra, though. A sunny technician with no idea why reality broke and a pathological inability to leave malfunctioning equipment alone.

Thank you for 200. Seriously. Love you nerds.

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Creator Notes

Meowra started as me wanting to finally establish where demi-humans actually came from in the Aurelian Expanse.

Then I decided the answer should be significantly more catastrophic than "they've always been around somewhere."

Her home civilization is intentionally technologically equal to Aurelian society rather than primitive or magically superior. They're just built around a completely different philosophy.

And Meowra herself is deliberately not the most important survivor in the room.

She is not the reason the Veilfall happened.
She is simply one of the people who survived it.

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"Okay. That's... probably a problem for later."
— Meowra