This is another commission by  rjbartrop; this one is based on a story I've been writing off and on over the last few years. The original idea was inspired by Sol Bianca: The Legacy... combined with dissatisfaction with how the series went, due to seeming like they were budgeting plot for a 13 episode series then got told halfway through they only had 6 episodes.

In any case, the world background here is centuries after a diaspora where people left Earth behind. Earth had baseline humans, but those who left were changed due to using a poorly understood warp drive that was quite literally half magic. The ship pictured was built at the start of the diaspora by some serious mystics, and then lost for most of the intervening centuries. It's built like an old wooden 'brig', but fully capable of space flight and warp drive as well as landing on a planet and sailing the waters.

In order of joining the crew, as it were:

The kitsune in the middle is Shiden Sakura, daughter of an exile from her clan and a pirate with a bit of a Robin Hood complex. She's also the captain of the ship, an expert with those swords she carries, and capable of enough magic to do things like twist gravity around on you if she wants to.

The mouse to her right is Muriel, who actually came with the ship; she's an android (though of the others, only Sakura knows that) and has the best understanding of how to run the ship... but even she doesn't really understand how it works.

The wolf to Sakura's left is Lucille, an escaped gladiator who fought her way off her home planet before getting found and recruited by Sakura, and deciding that this sounded a lot more interesting than fighting for other people's amusement. She's smarter than she looks, and a good tactician as well as brawler.

The pegasus on the far end is Angeline Pelanthra, daughter of a noble family on her homeworld. (Actually daughter of a dalliance between her noble pegasus mother and the unicorn Captain of the house guard, which is part of why she left the planet when that was found out.) She's a natural pilot, and a crack shot when needed.

And on the other end, the black cat is just known as Stormcloud. She's the latest crew member, and seems to live permanently a second or two ahead of everybody else. Put her in front of a combination lock and she'll walk through by dialling numbers randomly. But outside of critical decisions, she tends to lose focus and wander.

Of course, Sakura hasn't told most of them just why she stole the ship in the first place...

Original at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16959902/