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little cato - detailed history
Little Cato is from a rough and tumble sci fi future. Originally born the Crown Prince of the planet Ventrexia, Avocato, the royal family's trusted general, shot down the king and queen's ship on the command of the Lord Commander, an interplanetary dictator who promised Avocato he'd bring an end to suffering in the galaxy through his control. Avocato found Little Cato as the lone survivor in the wreckage, and reminded of a son he lost in the war, raised him as his own, never telling him the truth of his origins.
Now the genocidal general of Lord Commander, Avocato raised Little Cato partly on Ventrexia, and later on Tera Con Prime, the fractured planet base that served as Lord Commander's center of power. While his father could be loving in many ways, Cato was raised with the skills of a soldier, in keeping with with their war-like Ventrexian heritage and the rigid and violent dictatorship run by Lord Commander. He grew up on a world where people were sometimes casually executed in the street for not having their identification.
3 years before canon, Lord Commander demanded his generals kill their firstborn as a sign of loyalty. Little Cato watched the other children get executed around him but Avocato refused to kill his adopted son, attacking the guards and Lord Commander instead to try to save him. Lord Commander stopped him, however, and imprisoned Little Cato as a hostage to control Avocato and use him as a bounty hunter. Little Cato was trapped this way for three years, suffering occasional verbal and physical abuse from Lord Commander and his right hand, Viro.
Shortly after the start of canon, petty criminal Gary Goodspeed helped Avocato free his son, and after Avocato died, took care of him, eventually formally adopting him. Little Cato is now part of a ragtag crew of criminals, outcasts, and oddballs, who have been drawn together against Lord Commander and the cosmic evils he's allied with. They've tried to stop the threat of "Final Space," the very last realm of existence where spacetime goes to decay and die, the place where the evil eldritch giants, the Titans, and a giant cosmic Big Bad named Invictus dwell.
The group has engaged in heists, fire fights, and prison break outs a-plenty in their quest to save their dimension from the threats of Final Space, suffering many pyrrhic victories along the way. Little Cato has dealt with continued tragedy after his kidnapping and loss of his father during his rescue. Since then, he regained Avocato through time travel but had to try to kill him when he got possessed; got trapped alone in a pocket dimension for 60 years until going insane, and was devastated by finding out his life is a lie, discovering the truth of Avocato killing his biological parents.
Recently the crew failed in their quest to keep Invictus and the Titans out of normal space, losing several crew members in various ways: Fox to his death, his sister Ash to Invictus' manipulation, and Mooncake to his possible death. Little Cato is being pulled from the moment where the threat of cosmic annihilation loomed as Invictus broke into normal space.
Now the genocidal general of Lord Commander, Avocato raised Little Cato partly on Ventrexia, and later on Tera Con Prime, the fractured planet base that served as Lord Commander's center of power. While his father could be loving in many ways, Cato was raised with the skills of a soldier, in keeping with with their war-like Ventrexian heritage and the rigid and violent dictatorship run by Lord Commander. He grew up on a world where people were sometimes casually executed in the street for not having their identification.
3 years before canon, Lord Commander demanded his generals kill their firstborn as a sign of loyalty. Little Cato watched the other children get executed around him but Avocato refused to kill his adopted son, attacking the guards and Lord Commander instead to try to save him. Lord Commander stopped him, however, and imprisoned Little Cato as a hostage to control Avocato and use him as a bounty hunter. Little Cato was trapped this way for three years, suffering occasional verbal and physical abuse from Lord Commander and his right hand, Viro.
Shortly after the start of canon, petty criminal Gary Goodspeed helped Avocato free his son, and after Avocato died, took care of him, eventually formally adopting him. Little Cato is now part of a ragtag crew of criminals, outcasts, and oddballs, who have been drawn together against Lord Commander and the cosmic evils he's allied with. They've tried to stop the threat of "Final Space," the very last realm of existence where spacetime goes to decay and die, the place where the evil eldritch giants, the Titans, and a giant cosmic Big Bad named Invictus dwell.
The group has engaged in heists, fire fights, and prison break outs a-plenty in their quest to save their dimension from the threats of Final Space, suffering many pyrrhic victories along the way. Little Cato has dealt with continued tragedy after his kidnapping and loss of his father during his rescue. Since then, he regained Avocato through time travel but had to try to kill him when he got possessed; got trapped alone in a pocket dimension for 60 years until going insane, and was devastated by finding out his life is a lie, discovering the truth of Avocato killing his biological parents.
Recently the crew failed in their quest to keep Invictus and the Titans out of normal space, losing several crew members in various ways: Fox to his death, his sister Ash to Invictus' manipulation, and Mooncake to his possible death. Little Cato is being pulled from the moment where the threat of cosmic annihilation loomed as Invictus broke into normal space.