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Well, I guess a good place to start is why all of the individual groupings of animals wind up needing to work together, does something catastrophic happen? Or is it all just WIP?
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All the animals are going to be prisoners on a wolf ship, or wolves that are members of the crew on that ship. So almost any animal could be on that ship, either an actual prisoner or if they've been framed. So it would work even despite diverse backgrounds.