CAT PEOPLE
Overview
General Appearance: Feline-like humanoids
Home Planet: New Earth
Abilities: Retain claws and sharp teeth
Weaknesses: Susceptible to most human diseases
General Description and Background
Cat People are found nearly exclusively on the planet New Earth sometime around 5 billion years in the future. They are humanoid but are also descendents of today's domestic cats. Therefore, they retain the fur, sight, hearing, claws, and teeth of their ancestors. They are best known for their order of nuns/nurses/doctors – the Sisters of Plenitude. As a general rule they are no more dangerous than your typical human. That is, they have the potential to be exceedingly dangerous, but are more likely to entirely ignore you.
Abilities and Dangers
The Sisters of Plenitude are best known for their incredible medical knowledge and practice which claimed to be able to cure any disease. Unfortunately, they acquired their expertise and their treatments through the use of specially grown "flesh" – cloned humans meant to have little or no sentience. This highly unethical tactic was ended by the Doctor and former companion, Rose Tyler after the "flesh" was released and cured of the various diseases they carried.
However, the Cat People do possess cat-like intelligence and secrecy in addition to retaining claws and sharp teeth which they may use as weapons in extreme circumstances.
Weaknesses
Cat People in general are NOT harmful to humans. However, they are equally susceptible to injury by conventional weapons as humans are as well as being susceptible to most human diseases. Evidently such was the fate of many of the Sisters of Plenitude involved in the "flesh" scandal. When the "flesh" touched them… well, suffice to say, that many illnesses are not meant to exist in one non-carrier at one time. Wish I'd been there. Sounded like fun. Jeni, what part of OCD and germophobia do you not understand? That would have been funny. You'd have to bathe in hand sanitizer afterward. Jeni! Just to restate this: Cat People are NOT generally enemies of anyone. Therefore, you shouldn't have to know how to kill them. I'm not in the business of condoning murder. Yes. I know that. But this is a SURVIVAL guide and not a spotter's guide to alien life. I like spotter's guides! Lovely.
Author's Note: I went through and counted all the different alien races I intend to include in this survival guide of mine and found that I had listed over 40. That'll give you an idea how long this fanfiction will be.
In response to Aietradaea's review of the previous chapter: Yes I do intend to include Autons under Nestene Consciousness, which will be an interesting chapter to write. There's so much and so little to say about Autons without delving into the classic series. However, I'm sure there are some plastic related jokes to be made so who knows what I'll come up with.
A warning to those of you who would like regular updates - I'm sorry but I'm an absurdly busy person and working on fanfiction is not high on my priority list. The good news is that I'm writing these entries like I would an essay so it doesn't take more than an hour for me to write each entry. I can guess that I'll update in sporatic binges in which I add several chapters at once. How often these binges will occur and how many chapters each binge will contain... I don't know.
