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The sexes never changed. Male, female, neuter. Neuters were usually the ones chosen to go into the military service and serve one hundred years as an Invader due to their lack of physical need for sexual recreation that had preceded the original invasions to expand Sune's Empire.

Their nearest living, sentient neighbors were on the second moon--Thyssyl. The first landing on the only atmospheric moon of the planet named Sune led the K'Kitsune to discover the large grey furry creatures calling themselves Kashǔn--their language for "the gentle ones." They lived in complete peace and in harmony with the grassy planet that sustained most life similar to that on Sune that had been extinct for hundreds of years. The K'Kitsune called their moon beautiful and the Kashǔn ugly, and immediately began making plans to wipe out the species.

They needn't have worried: a disease that the K'Kitsune as a species had long been immune to caused an outbreak of a highly contagious cancer among the Kashǔn.

The entire race was dead within three months.

When the K'Kitsune perfected space flight after colonizing the free moon, they rampaged through their solar system, invading and colonizing every planet with cold efficiency in order to keep up with the rising tide of births on Sune and the wanderlust that arose with most K'Kitsune. And the powerlust that came in enough to push the invasions.

Their reign over the new Sune solar system was a republic monarchy, with periodic invasions of nearby solar systems to bring in slaves or pleasantries.

Sixty thousand years after the establishment of the solar system of Sune there was a crisis.

In the beginning of the race of the K'Kitsune there were only K'Kitsune. Many generations after the main race of Sune solidified, there was a common mutation in a small number of newborn K'Kitsune due to a genetic susceptibility to mutate when presented with the combination of Virus 191 and F3CH1. Virus 191 and F3CH1 was intended as a medicine, but when their mothers were injected with the drug, something in their DNA structure shifted.

K'Kitsune born to the injected mothers emerged from the womb with yellow eyes instead of the standard brown, grey or red eyes. That would have been the end of the issue--genetic mutations were not unheard of in the species; after all, it had only been twenty thousand years since the mutation that allowed K'Kitsune to have white coats--but for the other mutation that came along with the eyes. The ability to shapechange without using dangerous DNA transformers. A natural ability. A common ability.

A mutation.

The general populace of the Sune system considered them just a myth--something to scare the kits with at night, and for many years they were considered an urban legend--until a group of suspect shapechanging K'Kitsune were discovered while training to control their shifting.

Instead of realizing how useful they could be to invade planets without using the dangerous genetic coding that was and still is the only option, the military leaders reacted harshly, whipping the inherent xenophobia of the K'Kitsune into cesspools of hatred.

The entire system of Sune responded with fear and anger at these K'Kitsune, and the flames of fear were fanned more by the rumors and advocations of a few popular phobic figures.

One well-known commercial showed a popular politician preaching about the dangers of the mutants. "What’s to stop them from taking the form of--say--a bodyguard and assassinating someone important? Or inciting revolution in forms trusted by those we have conquered? Or stealing things in one form and selling them in another, never to be caught?"

The answer was nothing, because the mutant K'Kitsune could not be caught; there was no way to detect that they were not as they seemed without having some piece of knowledge to test that the mutant would not know.

And so the public reacted with hostility, and after a week of near rioting in the streets, the then-monarch of Sune spent three days cloistered with his cabinet to make the decision of what was to be done with the mutants.

When they finally emerged, the monarch announced the fate of the mutant K'Kitsune.

Bowing to public pressure, he announced that the mutant K'Kitsune were to be immediately deprived of the K', denouncing them as merely Kitsune--less than K'Kitsune--and fit to be killed, for only the master race of the K'Kitsune had the right to live. They were outcast and free targets for those who hated them. In their xenophobia, the K'Kitsune killed as many of the Kitsune as they could find, and from that point on any child born with yellow eyes is doomed to die.

Few of the Kitsune are born and live, but when they do, they are rarely discovered, due to the surreptitiousness of liberal parents.

It seems that the Kitsune will ever be a hidden race, unless some day there is a change in the K'Kitsune ways of life.

The K'Kitsune still invade other solar systems, and their reach and rule grows increasingly larger. . .

--Taken from the writings of the Z'hili scholar Anzashet before the species was wiped out by a biological act of warfare.