Catkind


 * This article concerns the humanoid species. For the Earth species, see cat.

The Catkind were a race of humanoid felines that originated on the planet New Savannah but soon spread across the New Earth Empire. (IDW: Agent Provocateur)

Physical Appearance
Catkind had some similarity to the non-humanoid cats of Earth, though closer to the size of a Human. They had fur of a variety of lengths and colours, including brown, black and tabby stripes, (DW: Gridlock) They had retractable claws which they could use for defence. (DW: New Earth) Though physically similar, they were different in internal anatomy. (IDW: Agent Provocateur) They also did not have tails.



Life Cycle
Catkind reproduced in their teenage years, and often had litters of several kittens. They could also reproduce with Humans, with the kittens looking just like the kittens of conventional Earth house cats, though capable of speech.

Catkind could apparently live for at least 30 years, as Novice Hame, a member of the Sisters of Plenitude, was young in the year 5,000,000,023 at the time of the order's dissolution, and lived beyond the Face of Boe's death in 5,000,000,053. (DW: New Earth, Gridlock)

History
In 2010 the Doctor and Amy Pond saw a Catkind member eating at a Diner in New York City, Earth, which was famous throughout the galaxy. (NSA: The Forgotten Army)

Circa 4,999,999,740, Catkind lived on the planet New Savannah. They were a primitive people at the time, and their own natural resources were running low. This was when the New Earth Empire came to New Savannah, and brought it and Catkind into the empire. The agreement was to give the Cats autonomy until the year 5,000,000,000, during which time the control would be given to the New Earth Empire. Within 50 years, Catkind had reached the same level of technology as the Humans, and much of Catkind grew to distrust them. In order to avert a potential war, they left the Earth empire cities, which were then set up with empathic force fields, stopping any Cats from returning. Myths would spring up about these Cats, specifically about them being angry spirits.

In the intervening centuries, a cult sprung up to try to remove the Human influence. With the help of Bubastion, they were able to destroy the headquarters of Vedela Defense Systems, which controlled the force fields around the city. At the stroke of midnight at the beginning of 5,000,000,000, the forcefields were shut down and gigantic robots, disguised as undead Catkind, were allowed entrance to the city. Unfortunately, Bubastion had reprogrammed them to attack everyone, intending to use New Savannah for his own purposes. When Garrard Townsend, a member of the cult, learned they were being used, he was able to turn the force fields back on and deactivate the robots. (IDW: Agent Provocateur)

The Sisters of Plenitude ran a hospital near New New York on New Earth. They had cures for nearly every known ailment and were able to heal their patients with a remarkable success rate. Unfortunately, these amazing skills were gained by using thousands and thousands of grown Human clones known as "The Flesh". They were infected with every known disease and culled in the rare cases of them starting to show signs of thought. These disease carriers were released by Lady Cassandra and eventually cured by the Doctor, producing the New Humans. The Sisters were later arrested by the NNYPD for their actions. (DW: New Earth)

After the loss of the New Earth Senate to a deadly mood virus, several Cats were trapped in the Motorway, including Thomas Brannigan. (DW: Gridlock)


 * Presumably, all of the Cats in the upper levels of New New York were wiped out by this virus.

Behind the scenes

 * Though the name "Catkind", has not, to date appeared onscreen, the production team of Doctor Who has apparently made this the official name of the species.