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[[User:Ywhateley|Ywhateley]] ([[User talk:Ywhateley|talk]]) 04:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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Perhaps I'll get around to describing the cats of other worlds as part of describing the [[Old Solar System]] setting.
=== Mercurian Cat ===
 
ShadowWalker described a dream to me in which she pictured a Mercurial Cat at a dwarven, brutish, translucent thing with vacant eyes, a glass (silicon-based?) tale that rattles when it shakes before pouncing, and an eerie, thin, bird-like cry: "maaaah?  mommy, meeeeeeee...."  They are strange and solitary creatures, rarely seen, and Mercurians, human colonists, and Dreamers consider it unlucky to see such a cat, believing that it chooses a victim when seen, stalking for months or years unseen in the shadows where it cries and rattles ominously, before pouncing at last, stealing its victim's heart....
 
  
As rare as they are to see on Mercury, it is rarer still to see them elsewhere, even the Dreamlands. Dreamlands cat legend suggests that in the Dreamlands, Mercurial cats look almost indistinguishable from Earthly cats, as they have the power in Dream to disguise themselves as ordinary cats almost perfectly, save for their unblinking, wide, vacant, staring eyes and strange, slow, silent movement, as if walking in a daze or sleepwalking... it is in such a disguise that Mercurial cats can pursue their victims unseen even into Dream, until ready to strike; ordinary Dreamlands cats and humans who are familiar with normal cat behavior are said to be able to easily recognize these imposters, but those humans who do not know cats well may not recognize the strangeness of these cats until it is too late....  In variations on this legend, Mercurial cats are said to have the power to possess the bodies of Earthly cats in Dream, or to reanimate the bodies of dead cats, becoming undead cats of strange and unnatural habits and sinister magical powers.
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=== Cats from Venus ===
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Old Solar System Venus is a rainy world of alien swamps and dense jungles; there would be cats evolved to live both in the Venusian Dreamlands, and on waking Venus.
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=== Cats from Jupiter ===
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Dark and joyless varieties of cat might exist on one or more of Jupiter's moons, while strange and alien cats prowl the cool, dark and gelatinous world of Dreamlands Jupiter itself.  Jupiter's bitter and alien moons are not attractive worlds for ordinary cats, and one suspects that these moons hold little or no lure for Earthly cats, and likewise have little attraction even for the Dreamlands cats of the outer worlds of Saturn and beyond, as even those peculiar examples of the feline race are said to prefer the moons of Earth and Mars among all other moons for whatever cryptic charms have always attracted cats to make their lunar pilgrimages since time immemorial.
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=== Cats from Neptune ===
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Neptunian cats are probably very similar to the other bizarre and dangerous cats from the outer worlds, resembling the Dreamlands cats of Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter.  These vast, dark, and icy worlds seem to have attracted cats of very curious, secretive, unfriendly, and even sinister and malevolent temperaments, and, no doubt, the rarely-seen Neptunian cats are no exception to this general rule.  Who can say what awful mysteries and hideous secrets of the dark, swollen and cthonic outer worlds are kept and guarded by the silent and sinister cats of Neptune and beyond?

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Perhaps I'll get around to describing the cats of other worlds as part of describing the Old Solar System setting.

Cats from Venus

Old Solar System Venus is a rainy world of alien swamps and dense jungles; there would be cats evolved to live both in the Venusian Dreamlands, and on waking Venus.

Cats from Jupiter

Dark and joyless varieties of cat might exist on one or more of Jupiter's moons, while strange and alien cats prowl the cool, dark and gelatinous world of Dreamlands Jupiter itself. Jupiter's bitter and alien moons are not attractive worlds for ordinary cats, and one suspects that these moons hold little or no lure for Earthly cats, and likewise have little attraction even for the Dreamlands cats of the outer worlds of Saturn and beyond, as even those peculiar examples of the feline race are said to prefer the moons of Earth and Mars among all other moons for whatever cryptic charms have always attracted cats to make their lunar pilgrimages since time immemorial.

Cats from Neptune

Neptunian cats are probably very similar to the other bizarre and dangerous cats from the outer worlds, resembling the Dreamlands cats of Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter. These vast, dark, and icy worlds seem to have attracted cats of very curious, secretive, unfriendly, and even sinister and malevolent temperaments, and, no doubt, the rarely-seen Neptunian cats are no exception to this general rule. Who can say what awful mysteries and hideous secrets of the dark, swollen and cthonic outer worlds are kept and guarded by the silent and sinister cats of Neptune and beyond?