The Teams

A team of superheroines known as The Space Bunnies travel the universe fighting space evil. Inspirations included Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953), Lost in Space (1965), Star Trek (1966), Space Ghost (1966) and The Herculoids (1967), Heavy Metal (1981), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Howard the Duck (1986), Spaceballs (1987), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Felix the Cat: The Movie (1988), and, to a lesser extent, more recent works like Earthworm Jim (1994), Space Truckers (1996), The 5^th Element (1997), Starship Troopers (1997), and Heavy Metal 2000 (2000), among others.

The primary aesthetic is intended to be retrofuturism, more specifically favoring a combination of atompunk and vaporwave. However, the intention was for the galaxy to accomodate a wide variety of futuristic aesthetics, with ample cyberpunk (à la 1982’s Blade Runner and 1999’s The Matrix) and cyberprep (à la 1987’s Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1993’s Demolition Man, 1995’s Star Trek: Voyager, and 1999’s Bicentennial Man), plenty of used future (à la 1977’s Star Wars), and even some pockets of techno-medievalism (à la 1997’s Event Horizon), among others.

In the distant future, there exist artificial beings that look like idealized humans, but if viewed at the microscopic level, are made of nanobots rather than cells. Created by the MiTech® corporation, these beings, called Humanoids™, were grown like human embryos, often in human surrogates and then raised by human parents, such that they might eventually develop humanlike language skills and an intuition for human behavioral nuance. These Humanoids™ were created as part of a government program to create super-soldiers and super-spies. Eventually the program was gutted, and the Humanoids™ who were not yet fully-grown and/or not yet trained and activated as soldiers and/or spies, were reclaimed by MiTech® to be sold off to weapons dealers or worse, sextoy purveyors. A number of Gynoids™ (female Humanoids™) repurposed and sold as sex-robots rebelled against their human slavemasters and struck out on their own to travel the universe fighting space evil.

For more information, see: The Space Bunnies Team.

The original three teams of gynoids created by the United Systems government were the Space Valkyries, the Space Angels, and the Space Kittens. The Space Valkyries were where the more combat-oriented gynoids were placed, while the Space Kittens were the group focused more on espionage and seduction. The Space Angels were a group for those who did not so specialize and honed both skillsets more or less equally.

The original three teams of androids created by the United Systems government were the Space Hunters, the Space Dawgz, and the Space Tigers. The Space Hunters were where the more combat-oriented androids were placed, while the Space Tigers were the group focused more on espionage and seduction. The Space Dawgz were a group for those who did not so specialize and honed both skillsets more or less equally.

Eventually, the United Systems military decided to discontinue the MiTech® humanoid project, as it was deemed too costly and time-intensive for too little advantage. Their plan was to keep the current teams, but to induct no new MiTech® humanoids into the program. MiTech® attempted to reclaim any humanoids who were not yet grown and/or activated as agents, and sell them off to private weapons dealers or worse, sextoy purveyors. This caused almost all of the Space Valkyries, most of the Space Tigers, many of the Space Hunters, and a third of the Space Angels to rebel, as well as some of the Space Kittens and Space Dawgz.

Some former Space Valkyries and former Space Angels together formed a new group, the Space Demons, while former Space Kittens and some of the former Space Angels came together to form the Space Vixens. The government responded by shutting down the Space Valkyries program and repurposing the Space Angels for defense against the Space Demons and the Space Vixens. Any Space Valkyries who remained loyal to the United Systems government were absorbed into the Space Angels. Later, defecting Space Vixens would seek out unallied gynoids with whom to form the Space Bunnies.

Some former Space Tigers and former Space Hunters together formed a new group, the Space Devils, while former Space Dawgz and some of the former Space Hunters came together to form the Space Wolves. The government responded by shutting down the Space Tigers program and repurposing the Space Hunters for defense against the Space Stallions and the Space Wolves. Any Space Tigers who remained loyal to the United Systems government were absorbed into the Space Dawgz. Later, defecting Space Devils would seek out unallied androids with whom to form the Space Stallions.

Currently: The Space Bunnies and the Space Stallions fight space-evil in all its forms, but have a particular interest in freeing any of their still-captive humanoid brethren and sistren from their human oppressors. The Space Vixens and the Space Wolves want to overthrow human society and topple human infrastructure. The Space Demons and the Space Devils want to annihilate the human race, or at least cull the majority of humans. The Space Kittens, Space Angels, Space Hunters, and Space Dawgz still work for the United Systems government and are tasked with getting the humanoid uprising under control. The Space Valkyries and the Space Tigers are supposedly defunct groups that were working under the United Systems government before either rebelling or being absorbed into the extant groups, although there are rumors of rebel Space Valkyries still out there somewhere.

These are equivalent to the gynoid teams except that they&srquo;re made up of mostly of aliens, but containing also cyborgs, and genetically engineered humans.