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The basic history is that there were some scientifically advanced aliens that were dying from a degenerate disease and decided to make some helpers. First they brought humans from earth, next they created plantigrade then digitigrade to help them, taking DNA from Earth animals and splicing it with Human DNA (or is it the other way around?). Next, this group of aliens, called Cyantians, were enslaved by the Moulin Phedra ([[Unusual Euphemism|squid]]), who genetically engineered some of them to be [[Blood Sport|fighters in a ring]], editing them to have strange characteristics, such as [[Healing Factor|regeneration]] and [[Techno Wizard|manipulating energy]]. After driving the squid off the planet, they set up a [[Cosmopolitan Council|patriarchal government]]. And that about takes it up to the current storylines.

* '''[http://cyantian.net/akaelae/ Akaelae]''': Involves the main furry characters of ''Campus Safari'' in high school. Akaelae was recently split to follow the side characters of the story, while the main story will be covered in Darius. Akaelae is still recommended as the first story to read though.

* '''[http://www.cyantian.net/ Darius]''': This is the true "Akaelae" comic. It was recently split and re-focused on Darius, who is the main character in Akaelae.

* '''[http://cyantian.net/sos/ Sink or Swim]''': This follows the adventures of kangaroos in space.

 

The following are no longer available online, but can be bought through [[Indy Planet]]:

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Silver and Celina best embody this trope. Quinn will, once she does more than spar with family and friends. Chatin, Cilke and a few others cover this trope to a (very slightly) lesser degree.

* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Averted and played straight, depending on the situation. Most of the Cyantian characters speak Cyantian (derived from Latin) but they are required to speak English at the Mars Academy.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Alpha Akaelae. Although, Alpha Akaelae IS a leader in a culture of anthropomorphic wolves. Not to mention that "Alpha" becomes a title after the original Alpha Akaelae dies.

** Though since it's a [[The Wiki Rule|wiki]] there are some inconsistencies and outright errors (Darius's relationship to Alpha for example, most pages say Alpha's his paternal grandfather while others say he's his maternal grandpa).

* [[Alphabetical Theme Naming]]: The C-Group Skunks have names that begin with "C". They are: Cisco, Cilke, Chrome, Chatin, Calle, Cam, Carrde and possibly others.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: ''Cesilee's Diary'' was meant as filler and was once only about 10 comic strips long. It is now scheduled for a rewrite and the original was merged into ''Campus Safari'' because it was that popular.

** Chrome is another example.

* [[Attention Deficit Creator Disorder]]: Maaaybe...

** Two active, around a dozen inactive and in the works. Plus three others unrelated to the core Cyantia storyline (as of May 2010)

* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Darius during Campus Safari.

* [[Empathic Environment]]: It always rains when Vin is sad, {{spoiler|because of his powers}}

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: ''Gralen Cragg Hall''. Complete with [[Royal Brat]] and [[Spoiled Brat]].

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Tira, during ''Campus Safari''. {{spoiler|Because she was blinded by a gas that was designed to induce temporary blindness in humans that causes permanent blindness in cyantians. Tira actually sees through her technofamiliar and has very good hearing.}}

* [[Evil Minions]]: Niram and Filaire to Rama.

* [[Face Hugger]]: Chrome's miniwhip, Aurla.

* [[Fan Service]]: Occasionally seen in comic, but mostly reserved for holiday or donation drive wallpapers.

* [[Fantastic Caste System]]: The Fox, based on fur color.

** Pre-revolution: Whites = rulers, Silvers = nobles, Blacks = elite guards or artisans (depending on how they use their powers), Golds = guards, Blues = scientists, Reds = commoners.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Quinn demonstrates a little of this in ''Akaelae''. Collin does too.

** Quinn demonstrates a certain amount of this in ''Darius'' too. Unfortunately, this is Quinn, so she also demonstrates a some [[Genre Blindness]] too. Fortunately, Brody has enough sense to protect Quinn from herself and some of the dangers she wouldn't normally heed.

* [[The Glomp]]: Cesilee frequently pounces Marcus in ''Campus Safari'', much to Marcus' chagrin.

* [[The Greys]]: Cil in their natural form, and the Rumuah.

** Cisco is a subversion, as he's still Cisco.

** Syrys = Sigh-russ not Sir-iss.

* [[Karmic Death]]: There's a well deserved example during ''No Angel''.

** There's also a less deserved pair of karmic deaths during Akaelae. Actually, only one of the two deaths in question was actually deserved.

*** Pure: A Sci-Fi Western, which also deconstructs perfection based societies before it travels out to be a western.

*** Shivae, in all three of it's incarnations. (All 3 are part of The Cyantian Chronicles, just placed significantly far off in the past.) Shivae includes a Subversion of [[Infant Immortality]] in its first Arc. Which makes sense as it's about [[Better Than It Sounds|fuzzy sentient alien raptors living in the wild on another planet]].

**** It must be noted that The Cyantian Chronicles does have a serious storyline and violence. The violence is typically handled with a [[Villainy Discretion Shot]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Including technomage familiars and pets, [http://shivae.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Cyantian_Chronicles_Characters the current count is well over 200]. There might be a few more than that if the current crop of cameos hasn't been added in yet.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The Cyantian Chronicles does consist of romantic Sci-Fi dramatic comedies. Or is that comedic dramas?

** Akaelae is bearing the brunt of this trope. Even with [[Plot Armor]], trepidation abounds.

* [[Mugged for Disguise]]: Used twice so far.

* [[Multicultural Alien Planet]]: Cyantzium itself.

* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: The Akaelaes are implied to ''own'' most of the Akaelae lands and significant portions of the industry there as well. Not to mention the whole fighting wars and protecting the populace from certain past mistakes.

* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: Averted for the various avian and reptilian species. (Thankfully.)

{{quote|'''Ciphyr''': I will never understand how [[Lampshade Hanging|two curved masses can render some males into slobbering animals]]! They are '''gills!''' }}

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted. Sheana, and potentially ''any'' Cyantian female, can get very moody at "That time of the year." This potentially turns them into a [[Menstrual Menace]].

*** Ditto for Quill and Needles, who also escape.

* [[Unobtainium]]: Cyantium is a rare metal with antigravity properties that makes the bones of Cyzantium's fauna stronger and lighter than normal. Off-worlders will often invade and slaughter whole herds and clear cut entire forests and occasionally dig open mines to get the stuff.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Squid!" for the F-bomb and a number of other swear words.

** In the Sink or Swim story line we have Nil, who uses machine terms for almost everything because she was a biocomputer that the main cast of that story line found in a derelict ship and as result her responses to otherwise normal things can be a little funny.

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