Aftereffects of the Churzon Invasion

Excerpts from a recently declassified internal study done by the Department of Human Development, North American Federation.

One of the more unfortunate consequences of the Churzon Invasion was the changes it made to human psychology and physiology. The most dramatic change was the creation of the hybrids. They acquired strong instinctual traits brought in by their merged animal type, and while their physical appearances are mostly limited to their ears, tails (if any), and overall physique (stocky, slender, etc), on a whole they also exhibit strong domestication behaviors. As a result, while the hybrids are not technically second class citizens, they almost always end up with ‘owners’ by their own demand and human society had to adjust to allow for these preferences. Common types include felines, canines of varying types, rabbits, horses, cows, sheep, goat, mice, and other mammals that were either kept as pets or domesticated. Curiously, neither camel nor llama hybrids have ever appeared.

An curious quirk of the hybrid types is that, outside of the canines, all hybrid humans are female. If a hybrid mates with a baseline human the offspring produces will follow the type of the parent’s gender. For example, a rabbit-girl mating with a baseline male will always produce baseline boy and rabbit-girl children. Hybrid males of all types were created by the original bio-plague but all of them except the canines turned out to be sterile and unable to produce male offspring.

The rest of the population was affected as well, and here the changes have caused the most dramatic changes to human behavior. Human males lost a portion of their instinctual aggression and territorial imperatives, making them more likely to de-escalate conflict situations are reason things out. This manifested in the nearly complete absence of large-scale conflicts over the subsequent century. It’s only recently that statistics have shown this tendency to be slowly reverting to pre-invasion levels. How this affects both national and global politics has yet to be determined.

Females, both baseline and hybrids, were affected the most. According to the records of the 1897 invasion the Churzons were entirely male and were what can only be termed as sadistically cruel to the females they kept as ‘personal property’. Human women who are restrained become sexually aroused in spite of themselves, and the level of arousal is tied to both the degree of restraint, the length of time spent in said restraints, and whether they have any hybrid traits (hybrids are affected less than baseline humans). According to surviving captives at the time the Churzons relished the reactions of their captives as their bodies betrayed them. The intensity of this effect now varies widely by individual. Some women are able to resist the changes and still function when strictly bound while other unfortunates are affected to the point of losing all rational thought and become totally submissive to their captors. The fact that ‘bound sex’ is also 100% effective in preventing pregnancies has caused various societies to struggle with ethical dilemmas ever since the change was forced on humanity. And in a manner similar to the male behavioral changes, it appears that these issues affecting females are slowing moderating over time as records from the Invasion indicated that the non-hybrid women captives at the time universally suffered from the most severe symptoms of the change, and only the hybrids were able to retain their rationality throughout their captivity.