What that genetic engineer had gotten was a race of playful kittenish near humans. Who happened to be cute, stacked, cheerful, friendly as all get out, and about as subtle as a load of high explosive.
Trying with foxes and a few other species had added sub-breeds, but the results had all fallen a bit short of expectations apparently.
The races had been left behind, to see if fearless warriors would develop. The world was slowly becoming less and less habitable, and the pressure should have caused them to fall upon each other.
Instead they'd gotten together, figured out ways to use the left behind technology, and begun exploring space to find a new home. Why they'd been left behind was something the races themselves didn't quite understand.
Nekomimi ("Catears") Tribe were the most common. Of the fifty one survivors, thirty one were catgirls. There were six foxgirls, two dolphin-girls, a catboy, and eleven others. Representitives of their respective groups actually.
The reaction to cute (and somewhat gravity defying) long-legged girls from outer space was entirely different to what it might have been had they been tentacle monsters. There were no strange alien powers involved in the sudden outpouring of sympathy for the shipwrecked aliens, simply human nature at work.
The agreement was eventually hammered out, helped by the proximity to the United Nations. The amount of alien technology that these others possessed would be shared by the Security Council members equally, though much of it was not duplicatable by the aliens themselves or by human technology of that time.
The aliens themselves became refugees and their dying world abandoned for a new home on Earth.
Using what was now available, plans were made to colonize the moon, erect orbital space colonies, and begin terraforming Mars.
Though in 1961, something happened that rocked the scientific community and had repercussions throughout both refugee and human society. A member of the Nekomimi Tribe named K'tae became pregnant after mating with a human male. Eight months and four days later, a baby Nekomimi was born, though she didn't have a tail. Kizna was a celebrity from her first day, and a photogenic diva as soon as she could coo at the cameras.
Religions tried to fit this into their worldview, geneticists tried to come up with a rational explanation, philosophers debated, and photographers snapped lots of pictures.
The next was a Wolf Tribe member in Australia. At which point things began snowballing as it was realized that most of the races involved were more than capable, and most perfectly willing, to cuddle up with humans.
Some insisted it was all a sinister plot. Despite that those actually associating with any of the Nekomimi would attest to their complete lack of guile.
By the time the 1980s and the two Saotome's arrival rolled around, it was normal to find an Alien amongst the human populace and their numbers had gotten greater than ever. In some areas there was still some remaining prejudice. In most they were accepted.
It was also in the 1980s that:
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