Fennecs, Firearms and Fairybread: Introduction

Fennecs, Firearms and Fairybread

Foreword

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This is an unofficial, non-canon story set in the wonderful and terrible Korps universe authored by @korpspropaganda.bsky.social. I will forever be a hopeless fan-dog-girl for Karen and all the authors of the Monster Fucker Book Club. If you would like to understand more about this universe, you can read the Brief Korps Primer or read some of the AMAZING canonical stories from this universe over in the MFBC Korps Shared Story Timeline. Additionally, you may find more unofficial/non-canon tales like this one in the KEU Public Index. My own introduction to this universe was through @syntaxtakes.bsky.social’s amazing Redline’s Downfall Book 1: Induction. Though I would be remiss to mention the equivalently inspiring writing of @runafjord.bsky.social and her To Crack a Geode Book 1 and 2: Dissolution and Crystallization. Then I read @mabelgreysmoke.bsky.social’s Greysmoke Rising and my world fell apart as I was shown everything broken and wrong with how I’d survived into my 20’s. Damn relatable writing and characters… And so began this whole journey… Thank you all, especially to those I have not named here, for you will forever be a part of my queer identity. I commit all my future villainy in your honour.

There are names and characters in this story that may bear resemblance to people in real life. These characters are purely fictional and purely fantasy of my own abstract mind, please do not take any of the writing here as fair representation of these people.

This tale features a shameless self-insert - my [per/fur]sona of Lilith. My therian heart and soul lives in this character, and I could not avoid writing about her me in my first foray into fiction. Lilith, as you may note, is not a Fennec, but rather a horned demon wolf. This story also features a character - this one is a Fennec! - that is heavily inspired by a friend of mine who has no idea I am even writing this. This friend was one of the first ‘real’ furries I ever met, and was the catalyst that changed my world.

Korpsigin Australia

Fennecs, Firearms and Fairybread is set in Korpsigin Sydney, Australia. It is set in early 2023, occurring shortly after the events of Surface Rupture. In the Korpsigin universe, the East Coast of Australia has industrialised rapidly, becoming a hub of Space and Interstellar industry - centralised on Sydney as a main hub of sea traffic too and from the sea-based launch and landing pads. As the space industry rapidly developed post cold-war, an increasing number of space craft were being launched with nuclear material, weapons and dangerous technology aboard (sometimes a combination of all three!), and it was deemed necessary to perform these launches and landings in international waters - both for safety reasons, and for International Trade and Arms Regulations. After all, if your nuclear-powered spacestation-mounted ion cannon failed to get off the launch pad, you wouldn’t want that nuclear detonation anywhere near your population centres. Or at least, that was the argument they liked to give. In actuality, it was much easier for private industry to build heavy ordinance and super weapons designated for space deployment if it did not have a “flag of origin”. Instead being launched from international waters under the banner of the Space Industry Technological Alliance, an internationally recognised treaty organisation created to stop the private tech firms from shooting at each other every time they ‘accidentally’ rammed space debris into each other’s orbital weapons and research platforms.

Sydney has found itself generally split into three geographical hubs: South Harbour, the densely populated low socio-economic regions mostly comprising housing, consumer-goods and commercial districts, organised crime hubs and public essential services. This region, as the name implies, covers most of the land south of the Sydney Harbour, encompassing many of the western suburbs as well. Secondly - The CBD: the highly industrialised and technologically developed business and space districts, centered around the harbour and the large ports dotting the mouth of the harbor. This region also houses the city offices and management buildings, as well as the various enforcement agencies.

And finally, North Harbour, sometimes referred to as “Up Town”. Hey! No one said Sydney-siders were known for their creativity! This region contains a lot of the large manufacturing and logistics hubs needed to feed the space industry, as well as the upper-class and higher-socioeconomic housing estates and commercial districts. Coincidentally, this zone has a much larger police and enforcement presence, and many of the well-funded and well-equipped private services such as hospitals and education institutions.

With the heavy industrialisation of the East Coast came a massive uptick to mega and large-scale infrastructure projects. Megastructures dot the city, some housing tens of thousands of people in their own self-contained cities, single buildings containing entire shopping and entertainment districts, small scale production facilities, power generation, water purification and public transport systems. South Harbor is the largest concentration of these megastructures, with a region known as ‘The Pillars’ housing more than 200,000 souls in one city district. Some areas of that district never see direct sunlight, surrounded on all sides by the towering megastructures, blocking out the southern hemisphere sun from dawn till dusk. The city is highly interconnected, with large-scale transport infrastructure webbing across the city. Initially built to facilitate the logistical demands of the booming industry before expanding to provide public and private transport options. This left the tunnels below the Sydney Harbor itself essentially abandoned, with much better options being available above ground. It wasn’t long before the city government closed and condemned the tunnels following a series of safety and maintenance incidents, citing that it was too expensive to maintain the tunnels when better, cheaper options were available.

Law enforcement and state-sponsored violence is split generally into three categories: Police, Sovereign Enforcement, and HeroDiv. The Police enforcement is composed of state and federal police, sporting very low concentration of Powered individuals, and mainly focussed on small-time, unpowered crime and legal disputes. The Australian Sovereign Enforcement Agency, the ASEA, provides the sovereign enforcement services. These services are targeted towards organised crime, heavy response (i.e. ‘SWAT’), and Powered crime comprising low-to-medium class Powered individuals and groups. There is a marginally higher concentration of powered individuals in the ASEA compared to the state and federal Police services, but a large majority of the Powered individuals are in the HeroDiv.

The HeroDiv is composed of several federal and privately-contracted hero groups, focussed on international warfare (under command of the Australian Defence Force), international and domestic terrorism and villainy, and crime involving high profile Powered individuals and groups. HeroDiv is the only service in Australia legislated to respond to the Korps threat, immediately taking jurisdiction over any crime scene or event that shows evidence of Korps involvement. Of HeroDiv, the most internationally known group is the Acrux Group, founded by the federal government after the observed successes of the Bradley group. Not to mention the propaganda opportunities it brought along with it. The Acrux Group houses almost all of the “S class” heroes in Australia, a veritable bed of power routinely drawn upon by the Australian government when they need to throw their weight around.

Australia is closely aligned with the United State of America, often intel sharing and operating joint facilities. The Pine Gap Facility in the centre of Australia is a joint-operated facility that generates and disseminates most of the intelligence for the southern hemisphere, and is a highly utilised resource for monitoring and defending the blossoming space industry.

Since the early 2000’s, the observed Korps presence and interference in the Australian landscape has only been increasing - focussed mainly on Sydney and the space industry, but felt broadly across the country. As the USA has observed the increased presence of the Korps spilling across the Canadian border, so has Australia - though the exact origins of where the Australian supervillains are coming from is seemingly unknown.

The Korps presence is not Sydney’s biggest ‘threat’ - or even the most concerning. Organised Crime has spread across the city, with three major groups controlling most of the available ‘turf’, and hundreds of smaller groups spread between them. Diggers 31 was once a workers’ union for the resource mines west of the city, before workforce automation put the union members out of work, and the union evolved into a technologically sophisticated crime group with thousands of known members, and many more unknown. Golden Dragon was originally a false flag crime gang, secretly operated by the federal government to infiltrate the collection of Asian-origin crime groups in the Sydney region with the goal of causing in-fighting.

It wasn’t long before the smaller families and groups teamed up to throw out the undercover agents and take control of the name, turning it into a highly connected and diverse crime family of primarily Asian-Australian influence. Kix’s Crew are an old name to the Sydney landscape, stemming from the endeavours of one James ‘Kix’ Kikston in the late 80s to put together the largest Powered crime group of the southern hemisphere. The Australian Sovereign Enforcement Agency was inaugurated to wage a decade-long war with the group, forcing many of them into hiding and reducing the influence of the group - ultimately leading only to other groups stepping in to take over the lost turf, with the ASEA eventually abandoning the effort to focus more broadly at all organised crime.

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I hope you all enjoy this journey as much as I am sure I will.