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 ====== Hermaphroditic Feline-taurs ======
-Note: A huge amount of information is available about Chakats from Bernard Doove's website (The Chakat's Den - www.furry.org.au/chakat/ ), and particularly "An Introduction to Chakats" ( www.furry.org.au/chakat/Intro.html ). Anyone who wants to play a Chakat character on Furscape is invited to explore that site, but __THIS__ page is mostly concerned with summarizing the basics and explaining the differences between Furscape's universe and the official Chakat universe, and remains the official Furscape MUCK canon. Keep in mind that the same rules of physiology apply to chakats as to any other recom, and likewise the same physics (e.g. psionics [[verboten_tech|do not exist]] in the Furscape universe
+Note: A huge amount of information is available about Chakats from Bernard Doove's website (The Chakat's Den - www.furry.org.au/chakat/ ), and particularly "An Introduction to Chakats" ( www.furry.org.au/chakat/Intro.html ). Anyone who wants to play a Chakat character on Furscape is invited to explore that site, but __THIS__ page is mostly concerned with summarizing the basics and explaining some of the differences between Furscape's universe and the official Chakat universe, and this page remains the official Furscape MUCK canon. Keep in mind that the same rules of physiology apply to chakats as to any other recom, and likewise the same physics (e.g. [[verboten_tech|psionics do not exist]] in the Furscape universe).
-//No new chakat, chakat-kin, or other centauroid characters (regardless of gender) are being approved at this time. - Hagalaz)//
+//No new chakat, chakat-kin, or other centauroid characters (regardless of gender) are being approved at this time. - Hagalaz//
 ====== Physical Appearance ======
-Chakats are a predominantly feline centauroid-like variety of [[recom]]. The basic body structure comprises two main torsos joined at right angles at a common 'waist', with the head appearing on top of the upright upper torso in the same manner as upright bipeds. While technically quadrupeds, Chakats in fact have six limbs in total - the four walking limbs are attached to the lower torso, while the remaining two limbs function as arms and are attached to the top of the upper torso.
+Chakats are a predominantly feline centauroid variety of [[recom]]. The basic body structure comprises two main torsos joined at right angles at a common 'waist', with the head appearing on top of the upright upper torso in the same manner as upright bipeds. While technically quadrupeds, Chakats in fact have six limbs in total - the four walking limbs are attached to the lower torso, while the remaining two limbs function as arms and are attached to the top of the upper torso.
 The height of a fully grown adult Chakat is about 1.5 to 1.7 metres (5 to 5' 8" approx.), and an adult Chakat weighs between 180 to 220kg (400 to 480lb approx.). Life expectancy is approximately 150 years.
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 The team of scientists who created Chakats had members drawn from around the world: researchers who had become disgusted with the never-ending drive to create more efficient factory workers or more deadly soldiers. They wanted to prove that their craft could be turned to a higher purpose -- and so the Chakat species became a rebuke to the mega-corporations and the authoritarian regimes that controlled genetic engineering research around the rest of the planet.
-Like many other morphs, the Chakats are a genetically engineered species. However, unlike most others, they were not created from just one type of creature, but are a hybrid of the most ideal characteristics of many species. They were designed to be an ideal blend of physical and mental abilities intended to produce a superior being in an attractive form, with the dominant criteria for selection being survival characteristics. Anything that enhanced their ability to survive and prosper under adverse conditions was used to enhance their genetic structure.
+Chakats are a genetically engineered species. However, unlike most other recoms, they were not created from just one type of creature, but are a hybrid of the most ideal characteristics of many species. They were designed to be an ideal blend of physical and mental abilities intended to produce a superior being in an attractive form, with the dominant criteria for selection being survival characteristics. Anything that enhanced their ability to survive and prosper under adverse conditions was used to enhance their genetic structure.
 The name of the species is derived from the husband and wife partners who led the team who developed their species: Charles & Katherine Turner. They were nick-named as Chas & Kat's babies, a term which rapidly was shortened to Chakats and stuck because it suited such a feline-looking species.