Chapter 2: A Day in the Life of an Officer

I woke up with a start and was gasping and panting for air. My eyes darted around the dark room, trying to make out where I was as my heart, even for a bunny, was beating extremely fast. I slowly began to regain my composure as I took notice of the familiarity that was my bedroom of my apartment. I then breathed in and exhaled with a sigh of relief upon realizing that what I had just experienced was a dream…or more like a nightmare.

But if I was dreaming, why was it so real I thought? The pain, the fear and even the deep voice of my attacker had all seemed so real that it almost brought me to tears thinking about it. I mean I know I'm a Systems Authority Officer, and that I do get thrown into situations almost every week that can become a life or death situation. I pulled back the covers and gazed at the display of my alarm clock. The holographic orange display cast a dim light into the room as I read the time on the clock.

5:00 A.M.

Well, gotta get up in 15 minutes, so might as well get an early start I thought while letting out a sigh.

I swung out of bed and gazed down at body to see that my purple tank top and my pajama pants were wet with sweat and my fur was almost soaked with sweat too.

I then spoke, "Wake up mode."

Suddenly, the lights to my apartment turned on and the blackout shutters to my bedroom window turned sideways to reveal the city outside. The lights would stay on for almost another hour since the sun would start rising in half an hour.

I smiled slightly, happy about the fact that I recently installed a Homeatron 3000 in my apartment. It wasn't cheap, but it automated nearly everything in my apartment from appliances and lighting even down to preparing meals for me when I was too tired, or just didn't want to.

I went into the kitchen and was greeted by the delicious aroma of fresh made pancakes prepared by the 3D Food Printer that was linked to the Homeatron system. While these 3D printers weren't exactly known for making the best tasting food, they still weren't horrible by any means. They just weren't something you'd order from a restaurant.

I grabbed the plate that had the two Pancakes on them and grabbed my bunny sized cup of coffee from the coffee maker that the Homeatron was also linked to.

As I began eating my breakfast, I turned on my Holovision and tuned into the local news station to catch the traffic report.

"Now, here's Jim with the traffic report" said the news anchor, which was a snow leopardess.

Immediately, the camera cut out to reveal the traffic report being hosted by Jim, a caribou. The caribou then said, "Thanks Jessie. Traffic seems to be flowing at an even and steady pace across the surface streets throughout most of the city, with only one reported accident in TundraTown caused by an overturned city bus. Systems Authority Officers are already on the scene redirecting traffic and we have no reports of any fatalities but there are some reported injuries. In the Sky Lanes above the districts, traffic is moving perfectly normal with the repulsor-lift vehicles having clear access across the city. The InterCity Skyways are clear leaving the city and entering the Sky Lanes with the only backup coming from a stalled Semi-Truck that is blocking the left lane of the southbound SkyWay. Mammals and aliens alike should have no issue going to where they need to on this beautiful Monday morning. Now, back to you Jessie."

I then turned the Holovision off and sighed with relief knowing that my commute to the Systems Authority Station took me nowhere near TundraTown.

I finished my breakfast and went back to my bedroom and changed into my Officers uniform. I was thankful that I was assigned to the Systems Authority Terrestrial Division and as such was assigned to the greatest city in the Zootopia Federation, the city of Zootopia itself. Most of my thanks came from not being posted in a station orbiting Earth and having to help patrol Earth space. The Space Division was a lot more dangerous as those Officers had to deal with covering 30 million meters of space surrounding Earth. Even with the frame shift drives that allowed ships to traverse space at speeds exceeding even light itself, it was still a lot of area to cover because in addition to marked checkpoints that were supposed to be the correct way of passing security to get to Earth, Officers had to deal with another issue.

Sometimes ships would try to bypass security screenings by just flying down to Earth. Most of the time, these ships got interdicted and stopped by the Systems Authority, but rather more often than not, those that got stopped were either smugglers trying to bypass security screenings, or were pirates looking for a quick hit and run on trade ships past the security screenings. Either way, these two scenarios became dangerous cause they didn't want to be arrested and have their ships detained and would then engage Systems Authority Officer vessels in combat.

Still, there was one thing that made it even more dangerous than that.

If the horrifying scenario of planetary invasion of the Federation's home world became a reality, it was up to the Systems Authority Fleets and orbital stations to push back the invading forces fleets until the Federal Navy arrives.

The former dangerous situation rarely had any causality, but the latter…

There was no telling how many of my fellow officers could die protecting us here on Earth.

As I finished putting on my uniform, which consisted of my light blue police uniform with my dark blue combat vest, I took a look in the mirror hanging from next to my dresser. I was completely ready for yet another day on the force. I then grabbed my tranquilizer gun and my Authority Officer issued laser pistol.

It may seem weird for an officer of Zootopia to be carrying two weapons, especially a lethal fire arm included. However, the laser pistol was meant for use against body armor and metal targets, mainly Suitrox Bio-Mechanical suits and the metallic frame and inner machinery of a Tramaggadon. I gazed over my sleep looking laser pistol with its sloped back design and black metallic sheen. I then put both weapons in the two holsters, my traq gun on my right hit and laser pistol on my left hip. Since I was right pawed, I kept my traq gun on my right hip since it was more instinctive for me to react to grab it than my laser pistol on my left holster, it prevented me from accidentally firing a lethal shot for a no-lethal situation.

I left my bedroom and opened the door to my apartment and then said, "Engage locks on door."

I closed my dull metal apartment door only to hear a locking click and a hiss as the door was secured.

I left my building and got into my silver sedan and started the fusion engine. I pulled out onto the road as soon as there was a break in traffic and made my way to the station. After 30 minutes of uneventful driving, I pulled into the precinct lot and shut the engine off. I opened the door and got out and turned my head towards the precinct front doors to see a very familiar friend of mine by the front doors. He wasn't a mammal however, but something rather uncommon to see in Zootopia.

An alien.

My friend was Tu'ulok, a Voretox I had known since coming to Zootopia to live my dream job of an officer.

Tu'ulok had light green skin instead of the usual tan skin that most Voretox had. He was about 5'10", which was the average height of a male Voretox, which made him tower over my short 3'3" stature. His face had the usual features of his race. No nose, but rather just two nostrils where a nose should be. No hair or fur anywhere on his head, or even his body. He also had an interior ear structure like that of a lizard, and two feline shaped eyes that were orange in color with no noticeable pupil, with eyelids that closed to meet vertically unlike mammals that closed to meet horizontally.

It was a shame that there weren't many Voretox in the city, let alone aliens in general. However, it made sense why when I really think about it. Mammals are a new collection of species to enter the galactic community which, according to my friend Tu'ulok, has previously been encompassed of only the six alien races: The Corgent, the Vicron, the Suitrox, the Voretox, the Tramagadons, and the Terraphim, for the past 3,000 years. Most aliens were still a little untrusting of mammals, almost to the level that some prey still doesn't fully trust predators. Most aliens see us as newcomers to the galaxy who have yet to prove of our worth and trust to the galactic community, and view us with the potential to disrupt the balance of power that has kept the six races at relative peace with one another for the last 3,000 years. As such, the Zootopia Federation doesn't see too much immigration by the alien races, even though we claim territory to 8 percent of the galaxy. To mammals who don't know the scope of the Federation's territory, it doesn't sound like much, but that 8 percent has over 72 billion of the 900 billion stars in the galaxy and has 576 billion planets, with a vast portion of them still unexplored. Hopefully, one day, we will not only see more aliens in the Federation, but may even be truly accepted as a true member of galactic society.

I began talking towards the station and when I got closer to Tu'ulok, I called out saying, "Hey Tu, what are you doing here?" 'Tu' was my nick name I had given him as his name was a little annoying to say all the time, so we agreed that I can just shorten it to Tu.

Tu'ulok looked up from the holographic smart watch that he had on his right wrist and looked at me for a couple of moments before a smile spread across his face.

He then started to walk down the steps that led to the Precinct towards me and then spoke up with a fairly light voice, "Ah, you're here Judy. I was wondering if I was going to have time to catch you before your shift began." His accent, which sounded exceptionally foreign and alien to me, made it hard to sometimes understand what he was saying.

I cocked my head slightly and asked, "Catch me for what?"

Tu'ulok came up to me and stopped in front of me and said, "To ask you if we're still on for meeting up for breakfast on your break. You know it's been a while since we got to hang out with one another."

I nodded and said, "Yeah, well normally I have every Thursday and every other Saturday off, but the Chief needed some extra mammal power to help with a drug trafficking case. I've been working the last two weeks straight, and I know that we haven't done anything together in a week prior to that…"

Tu'ulok held up his right hand with his three fingers and thumb out in a signal of "stop."

I gazed at him as he then spoke up, "Don't worry Judy. I know you have a very difficult job. So, we still good for that breakfast?"

I nodded and said, "Yeah, it'll be good to hang out with an old friend. I mean after all, we've known each other for the last three years."

He nodded and said, "Splendid. Well, I'll see you at 10:30 then."

I then saw him start to walk past me down the steps but I stopped him and said, "You know, you could have just texted or called me on my phone, right?"

He shrugged as his eyes blinked vertically and said, "Yeah, but I'm off from work today, so I really have nothing better to do."

I chuckled as I said, "Okay, fair enough."

I turned my eyes towards the building across the street where a big holovision screen was mounted on a clock tower and my eyed bugged out at reading the time being shown on the screen.

6:25 A.M.

I only had 5 minutes left to get to the bullpen.

"Hey Tu, I gotta run. I have only 5 minutes" I said.

"Gotcha" he said as we parted ways.

I sprinted towards the door to the precinct and heard Tu say, "Judy, wait. You dropped your pen."

I spun around and then saw him lift his hand out towards the pen as my pen started to levitate off the ground towards me.

I held my paw out and the pen dropped gently into my open paw. I then shouted, " thanks."

I was grateful…and amazed.

I was grateful that Tu was able to spot my carrot pen and return it to me before my shift began. My recorder pen was as much a part of my uniform as my combat vest and weapons were. Never know when you might need to record a confession I thought.

However, as I ran into the Precinct, I was still amazed at one of the things that separated Tu's kind, the Voretox, from all us mammals… a rather really big thing.

The Voretox and the Terraphim both possessed a natural gift of telekinesis. The Terraphims wasn't as capable as what the Voretox have been able to demonstrate with their telekinesis. Voretox soldiers and some other Voretox have been able to do remarkable things with their natural talent such as generating telekinetic barriers to deflect bullets, lasers, plasma and other stuff, or in other cases so finely tune their ability to be able to rip apart matter at the subatomic level. In the case of some extremely powerful individuals, they can even harness their talent to read other creatures thoughts.

I heard of the talent that both species possessed, but even still after Tu'ulok demonstrating this gift to me the first time, I'm still amazed and captivated by it. Tu's telekinesis was rather average, or maybe even somewhat below average.

I ran past the front desk and shouted, "Hi Clawhauser, bye Clawhauser."

The cheetah behind the reception desk was distracted with some app on his phone playing Gazelle music to really pay attention. He just said to me, "Hi Judy…"

He then went back to his phone. I laughed inwardly at my fellow officer's obsession with Gazelle.

I found it shocking that not only mammals had a fascination with music, but also some of the alien races did as well. Gazelle had a number of Voretox and Suitrox fans that spanned even into these two races' territories themselves.

As I kept running towards the bullpen, a quick thought popped in my head, which wasn't the first time this thought had ever occurred to me.

Being the fact that I'm 24 years old and even that I am a Systems Authority Officer, I was still relatively unfamiliar with most of the cultures having to do with the alien races, with the Voretox being a quazi-exception as my Voretox friend had informed me on many of the Voretox traditions and customs. What bothered me even more was that I have never been off of Earth or even outside of our Federation before.

Since I was a kid, I always thought that in the Zootopia Federation, anyone can be anything they want to be: an astronaut, a lawyer, an accountant, a teacher…even a rabbit can be a Systems Authority Officer, even more the first of her species to do it. This was true, but I found out after joining the force that the Zootopia Federation isn't the perfect place that I thought it was. There was speciesism, sexism, and xenophobia that reared its ugly head to threaten our Federation and our civilization that has stood all the way until now in 3302. My achievement of becoming an officer both shocked many mammals and even the two aliens that lived in BunnyBurrow when I was growing up, and brought concern to some other mammals that I knew, mainly my parents.

However, I was always fascinated with what lied beyond in the stars. I mean, I know we aren't alone out there, but these other species have existed for easily a thousand years before mammals relinquished our primitive savage ways and joined in relative peace and harmony. That would put the oldest civilizations of the Suitrox and the Vicron to be over 8,000 years old with 2,000 of those years being before they were space faring. I mean, these races have existed in relative peace with one another for 3,000 years and are centuries more advanced than we are. Surely, these aliens must get along with one another if they are that advanced. However, all this thinking brought me back to the meaning of my thought: I wanted to just buy a ship and explore the Black, to see all the culture, art, technology, and awe inspiring sights of the galaxy.

I let out a heavy sigh however and not just that I had only a minute left to get to the bullpen, but that this dream of mine would never come to fruition. I knew that when I took the call of duty as a Systems Authority Officer, some of my freedoms would be restricted by my job. My realizations that this dream was dashed by my other dream to be an officer, which was not only ironic, but it made my heart fill with disappointment and sadness.

(20 minutes later)

I had just received my assignment for the day from Chief Bogo, which was to patrol Savanna Central for any suspicious and criminal activity. The morning went by with little excitement as I was patrolling in my repulsor lift Authority Cruiser. Finally, 10:30 rolled around and I was truly relieved to be able to have my hour break not only to have breakfast with Tu'ulok, but to also to find some relief from this boring morning.

I was coming down Acadia Avenue towards where we had agreed to meet for breakfast and saw the restaurant we were going to.

The glass windowed façade of the restaurant reflected the light of the sun into my eyes for a few seconds before being blocked by a line of trees, and a Python frigate being launched from a nearby spaceport. It was the Savanna Escape, a well-known eatery in the city that catered to Predator, Prey and had recently run an advertising campaign for new cultural and traditional dishes for aliens.

It was one of the very few restaurants in the city to service aliens and mammals in any fashion as the demand for serving aliens wasn't high since aliens only made up almost 1 percent of the population of the city of Zootopia.

I pulled into the parking lot and powered off the 8 celled fusion engine that gave my cruiser some real kick to it.

I walked inside and my sensitive nose was hit by an aura of aromas, both familiar and questionable. I walked towards the hostess, a lioness, who was standing behind the podium. She was dressed in her work uniform and when I approached her she looked down at me and smiled, flashing her incisors.

"Hello Officer, seating for one mammal" she said with a cheerful tone.

I smiled back and said, "No, miss. I need a table for two, if my guest hasn't already arrived."

She then said, "Ah, and what was their name and species? Rabbit, I take it?"

I then shook my head and replied, "No, it would be a mister Tu'ulok."

Upon me saying her smile dropped immediately and she gave me a blank stare as of shock. I cocked my head and raised an eyebrow saying, "Is something wrong, miss?"

She then replied shaking her head, "No…"

She then dropped her voice and said, "Are you dining with an…alien?"

I then gave her a frustrated and perplexed stare as I then said with my arms crossed, "Is that a problem?" My foot then began to tap at a furious speed.

She was starting to sweat a bit under her fur I could tell, as she then said, "Not at all officer, but…is your 'guest' by any chance a…Vicron."

I felt myself get even madder as I then stared her dead in the eyes and said, "No, he's a Voretox."

She breathed out a sigh of relief as she then said, "Oh, that's a relief. I was afraid he was a Vicron. They are nothing but trouble."

Since I didn't know anything about Vicron, I was really curious by her remark, "But I thought you guys started serving aliens here too. Besides, what could be so bad about Vicrons?

She then said, "Well, Vicron are creatures that aren't merciful and feel no emotion towards anyone, not even each other. Also, they have been known to eat mammals if they get the opportunity to, and are just plain ugly to look at."

I was about to ask her a question, when I was then nudged from behind. I looked behind me to see a Honey Badger then say, "Come on, rabbit. You're holding up the line."

Indeed, behind me was a line of mammals waiting to be seated. I felt like verbally ripping into the Honey Badger for disrespecting an Authority Officer, but I didn't want to hold mammals up and cause a scene.

The Hostess then said, "Officer, if you'll follow me, I'll get you seated and your Voretox friend when he arrives."

She then led me over to a booth in a corner that would easily seat me and Tu.

She gave me my menu and said, "Your server will be with you in a few minutes."

I turned my eyes towards the menu that they had and noticed printed on the front were three words that were bolded and underlined.

Mammal Menu: Prey

The three words didn't really surprise me that much as it was to clearly designate whom the menu was catered to.

About two minutes passed and I heard a set of footsteps approach me and I looked up to see Tu'ulok coming over to our booth. When our eyes made contact, he smiled at me and I waved back at him with a slight smirk.

He sat down across from me and the hostess gave him his menu that had a different set of words printed on the front of it in bolded and underlined wording.

Alien Menu: Voretox

I was impressed on how they had menus dedicated to serving each type of palette.

Tu'ulok then said, "Hey Judy, how's your shift today been?"

I glanced over my menu at him and replied, "Fine, it's been a very quiet day. Actually, I'm quite surprised by it."

Tu then nodded and said, "Yeah, well you sure earned it my friend. I mean working for 2 weeks straight? You deserve an easy day."

I went back to looking at my menu, and replied with a chuckle, "heh, yeah. Well, I'm hoping it stays that way today."

There was a little bit of a pause between the two of us, which was broken by Tu'ulok saying, "So, what are you thinking of getting Judy?"

I scanned the menu a bit more and found my choice, which seemed quite appetizing to me. "I was going to have the blueberry pancakes with a side of hash browns and some sliced fruit."

I then gazed at Tu'ulok and asked, "What are you getting?"

He then scratched his chin with his right hand and said, "I was thinking of having the Atamulok."

My curiosity peaked at what he had said and I raised an eyebrow at him and said, "And that is...?"

He then chuckled and said, "I'm sorry Judy. I should have realized that you wouldn't really know what that was."

Tu then set his menu down on the table and said, "It's a favorite breakfast dish of mine. It's a traditional Voretox dish that has fried Gazmilc eggs seasoned with a few spices that are grown on our home world, and the eggs also have some Blog Rat meat mixed in. I was also thinking of having Viluc Toast with it."

I gave him a slightly nervous and yet still curious look as he waited for me to respond, but he then quickly added in, "Judy, it's basically your cultures equivalent of seasoned fried eggs. While I know you guys don't eat meat other than fish and insects in your culture, it has meat from a small animal on our home world in it."

He then sighed and said, "Also, I know in your culture it is considered taboo to eat non-fish and insect meat. However, please don't be afraid of my…taste Judy. I would never consider hurting you or any other mammal here to just…well, you know. My people are omnivores, but we aren't savages."

I let out a sigh of relief, which caused Tu to relax as well. I then chuckled and said, "Well, at least you're a Voretox and not a Vicron."

To this Tu suddenly got a blank expression and then said in a flat tone, "and that would mater why?"

I could tell that Tu's response wasn't just driven by confusion, but by something else I couldn't quite put my paw on.

"Tu, you do know that Vicron are emotionless creatures that have been known to eat mammals right" I said to him?

He gave me a blank stare and I could see the irritation build in his face. I was beginning to think that I had hit a sour spot with my comment.

"There's more to it than that, isn't there" I asked?

Tu then sighed and said with clear frustration in his voice, "If it wasn't for the fact that I know you have never been around Vicron and have never been exposed to their…culture, I would have just left this booth right now."

He then leaned towards me and said, "Judy, that is not only far from the truth, it isn't even close to anything true. Who in the God's names told you that pile of garbage?"

I then sheepishly said, "The hostess who works here."

Tu then rolled his eyes and said, "Of course, lies spread by mammals who don't know the truth."

He then said, "Judy, "I'm going to let you in on a bit of a crash course on Vicron. First, they are not emotionless. They have just as much feelings and personality as you or I do. It is however, their culture that puts out that aura towards those around them. The Vicron are a collective species, where the rights of the many are sacrificed for the progress of the 1 collective. It's been their government for the last 500 years, and while not everyone likes it, they are forced to endure it. This has led to many Vicrons being called "Emotionless" when bad things happen to their kind in the Collective because they know it is just how their society is now run, so they don't fight it, oppose it or anything. They just accept it and go with the flow. On a personal level however, a Vicron can be a great friend if you are comfortable with their insectoid appearance, and they are exceptionally loyal to those they care about. Second, Vicron are strictly a carnivorous species and unfortunately, an event that occurred in Vicron Collective space has branded them with this stereotype. A Vicron freighter suffered reactor plant failure and was stranded in space for a few days awaiting rescue. They were transporting cargo, cargo which was mammal meat. They were transporting it not to sell it as food somewhere, but to sell it to a research lab that was working on a way to be able to regrow lost limbs for mammals, you know to replace a limb if a mammal suffered an injury. It was a joint project between a Vicron research facility and a Zootopia Federation medical corporation. Anyways, when rescue was delayed by a few more days, the crew was forced to eat the mammal flesh to be able to survive until rescue. Even though this whole situation was well documented and well explained in GalNet news, apparently some narrow minded Dumvitets don't get it."

Tu then slinked back into his seat and said, "I'm sorry Judy, I shouldn't be cussing. However, xenophobic stereotypes make me so angry."

I just nodded whole heartedly understanding and said, "No, its fine Tu. I'm…just glad you opened my eyes to the Vicron people."

Tu's smile returned just as our server had come to take our orders. Our server was actually another alien, which surprised me not in the fact that an alien surprised me, but our server was a Vicron. I felt relief wash over me that the Vicron wasn't here for our little conversation.

"Hello, you two. What can I get for you today" spoke the Vicron in what sounded like a female voice.

Our Vicron server gave me a good idea as what her species looked like. She had four insect shaped legs coming out of her abdomen that then had her thorax, which looked more like the shape of a mammalian torso than a thorax, coming out at a vertical posture giving her upright position to her. She had four arms that came out of her torso, two on each side. The two bottom arms had what looked like clawed pincers to them, which seemed to be for grasping and holding things, as she was doing with her holographic tablet she would take our order on. Her two upper arms ended in a sharp point to them, which made them look like they would be used for stabbing things, but the sharp point tucked in under her forearms. Her head was shaped more similarly to the shape of Tu's head, more rounded, but her mouth was instead a pair of pinching mandibles and she had two eyes that were green, but what drew my real attention was that they were compound eyes, not eyes like what mammals had. The green stood out sharply from her dull orange-ish skin color.

Tu then said, "Yes, miss. I'll have the Atamulok with a side of Viluc toast."

She then tapped her tablet screen and made a few swipes and taps with her folded in left top arm.

"Alright, and for you Officer" she said?

I then said, "Yeah, I'll have the blueberry pancakes with a side of hash browns and diced fruit."

She made more swipes and taps with her pad and then said, "Alright, it shouldn't be more than 20 minutes. Can I get you something to drink? It seems our hostess forgot to start you with some drinks today."

Yeah, forgot that and forgot how to not be a narrow minded stereotypical little bitch I thought.

Tu'ulok then said, "You go first Judy."

I then said, "I'll have a glass of carrot juice with ice please."

Tu then said, "I'll actually be daring today. I'm going to try some of that Orange Juice that seems to be a popular mammal choice for breakfast."

Both the Vicron and I looked at him with a curious gaze. I heard the Vicron make some clicking noises with her mandibles as she then said, "Are you sure, sir?"

Tu'ulok then said, "Yeah, it won't hurt me. I'm not dextro-amino acid like the Terraphim and the Corgent are."

She nodded and said "Very well then."

She then turned to walk away, all four of her legs scurrying in rapid succession to move her towards the kitchen.

Tu'ulok then turned to me and smirked saying, "So, what do you think of your first encounter with a Vicron?"

I shrugged my shoulders and said, "About as surprised as when I saw my first Voretox."

He then said, "You mean me, right?"

"Actually, no. We had two Voretox who were living in my hometown of BunnyBurrow" I said to my friend.

"Really, I'm surprised how well my people get around" he said with a chuckle.

I giggled at his response, "Yeah, it is I guess."

Later, our food had arrived, and mine looked as suspected. Tu'ulok's however was quite…different looking. His egg dish was different in that the eggs were a reddish tint to them, with some brown chunks of meat in the eggs. The sight of cooked animal meat made me slightly gag, but I contained myself out of respect for Tu. His toast was a dark brown with a yellow crust to the slices.

Tu was glancing at my food and I could see that he was giving it some questionable glances, albeit nowhere near to what I was with his food. I mean his had…animal meat in it.

We then began eating and were engaging in small talk with one another about things like work, which Tu explained some things that happened to him recently with his job working in the Zootopia water purification plant such as troubles with his boss and that stuff. In addition we talked about good movies we've seen lately and other small talk.

When we were about finished, I suddenly got a call over my channel on my Authority Officer Wrist mounted holographic computer. The orange holographic screen lit up and a voice belonging to my fellow officer Clawhauser came on saying, "All Savanna Central Units, we have a crime in progress. Ship detained at the Umbrella Spaceport for suspected smuggling crimes. Spaceport security has restrained the smuggler, but Systems Authority Officers are needed to handle the area and proceedings. Any available officers in the area please respond if you can handle the crime scene. Over."

I then picked up my wrist towards my mouth and said, "Officer Hopps responding to request for Authority Officer Backup at crime scene. I'm making my way over there now. How copy? Over."

Clawhauser then said, "Solid Copy, Officer Hopps. I have another unit reporting in saying they'll meet you at the Spaceport."

"Rodger, over and out" I said.

I dropped my wrist and sighed heavily. "So much for that easy day" I said to myself.

Tu then said, "Don't worry about it Judy, I understand. You have a job to do. I'll pay for us."

I then sheepishly looked at Tu and then said, "You sure? I feel bad you having to do that."

He then held up a hand and said, "It's no trouble, but can you do me a favor?"

I nodded and said, "Yeah, sure. What is it Tu'ulok?"

He then smiled and said, "Keep yourself safe, Judy."

I felt a friendly smile spread on my muzzle as I then said, "I plan on it, my friend."

I stood up to leave the restaurant and walked past the lioness hostess from earlier and silently shot her a glare of anger for earlier.

I walked out and said, "I'm on my way right now, Clawhauser. Can you give me a description of the suspect? Over."

Clawhausers voice then replied, "Spaceport security said that the suspect is an orange-reddish fox of average height and he has a record on file."

"His name is Nick Wilde."

(A/N: There we have it, the end of chapter one of Starbound Conspiracy. I know it might have been a long and confusing chapter for some, or maybe many of you. I wanted to make sure I took the time to flush out the universe I have blended together here from Zootopia, Elite: Dangerous, and my own personal sci-fi series I am working on. In case you all are wondering, yes the aliens mentioned in here are all of my original idea and design with their own governments, cultures, militaries, histories and religions. None of my aliens and OC's may be used for any other story without explicit permission from me before doing so. I am sorry if it seems like I focused more on aliens at the end of this chapter. I just wanted to present the social problems that both the mammals of the Zootopia (Federation) and the alien races have been facing in the universe, such as stereotypes, discrimination, and cultural taboos. I promise that after the next few chapters, the focus will go more back towards the characters of Zootopia, with a lesser, but still visible and immersive mention and usage of the Elite: Dangerous universe and my own sci-fi series.

Now comes the important news. Because of how much I want this story to be good and be interesting, yet approachable by fans of Elite: Dangerous and Zootopia while still including my own alien races, updates for this story will be random and will not be set at determined times. I want to ensure that all the time needed to make it a presentable and immersive story has been met. I will not be shooting for writing perfection as grammar has never been my strong suit. If you wish to continue reading as soon as new updates come out, then I would strongly recommend following and/or adding this story to your favorites. While I am not expecting a story like this to draw whole heap loads of attention on this fandom, I'm hoping to at least get some constructive feedback as to what needs to be improved or fixed. Feel free to also leave a review if you just want to say that you like the story, or whatever you want to leave that is not full out flaming of the story. I'm happy to respond to questions or comments having to do with my own sci-fi series as there is not exactly a wikia for it online, just be aware however that my series is still a work in progress and as such may have some things be changed in it for a good reason, or purely for aesthetics. Also, for those of you thinking that there may be some chemistry between Judy and Tu'ulok, I will assure you that future information will assure you on whether or not that may or not be the case. Lastly, if any of you caught the reference to Dextro-Amino Acid, then props to you for that. If you don't understand what it means, then just go online and type up 'Mass Effect Dextro-Amino Acid' and you'll probably find all you need on it.

Until next time, stay creative and safe my fellow readers and writers. Also, if you play Elite: Dangerous, then see you in the Black, Commanders.)