From the very first years of the five-year simulation, the reluctance of humans, with only a few exceptions, such as the old, good free campers with dugout canoes, to travel through the dangerous void, whether by crafts, tunnels, or bridges, made it necessary to create a new kind of worker.

A new species, ideally expendable, capable of rapidly covering the distances between fragments, while at the same time supporting humanity, with the strongest and cheapest labor hands imaginable — in the titanic effort that humans had self-appointed themselves to undertake.

The species of bipedal Kynanthro bears clear design influences from the human body and the canine head, and was given the declared purpose of selfless service to the humans.

A genetic byproduct of the new technological capabilities widely deployed at the time, within the framework of unprecedented state support for their populations, these modified hybrid beings possessed interspecies advantages and were characterized by the absence of inconvenient traits.
The whomans believed they had created a god of servants.

Yet its sole weakness persisted, as it had in both ancient humans and dogs: hypertrophy leading to degeneration, a condition for which the only alternative treatment was lifelong educational training. This unresolved issue would later become a burning concern, said by many to be capable of leading even to the first interspecies war in space.

The species was expected to evolve rapidly, escape Human control, and seek its own deification, touching upon radical revolutionary movements. Nevertheless, the powerful genetic programming endured, for now, rendering their presence indispensable aboard Ships, in autonomous aquaponic habitats, and within Educational Facilities and Prisons, as workers, carriers, instructors, and guards.