Lore

Velvet Horizon sits above one of the setting's longest-running institutional bloodlines. The Tailbreaker Project began under its umbrella. The descendants of that project eventually became C.A.A.T.s, an elite mercenary organization that remains privately owned by Velvet Horizon.

Its role makes the company more than background scenery: it is connective tissue between the Tailbreaker era and the modern mercenary force that followed it.

C.A.A.T.s is not a government organization. It operates as a private mercenary force, carrying forward the institutional lineage of the Tailbreaker Project while remaining under Velvet Horizon ownership.

Within that lineage, Cat Commando refers to Tanya D'Gaul herself and, more broadly, to the commandos and protégés who follow that tradition.

The Tailbreaker Project is the predecessor line behind C.A.A.T.s. Its descendants outlived the original project and evolved into the privately owned mercenary organization that operates under Velvet Horizon in the present setting.

In Protocol canon, Cat Commando identifies Tanya D'Gaul and can also refer more generally to the commandos or protégés who follow her tradition. It is never the name of her cat. That distinction belongs to K'hraal.

K'hraal is Tanya D'Gaul's cat. When the Protocol says Cat Commando, it means Tanya or one of her protégés. When it means the cat, the name is K'hraal.

Sayaka-san is a synthetic operative engineered for contract assassination, infiltration, and autonomous field work.

She was never supposed to belong to the corporation that ultimately claimed her.

Jettyroot functions as refuge, threshold, and recurring emotional geography. It is less interested in spectacle than in what remains after the noise fades: tide, coffee, memory, waiting, and the weight of decisions already made.

The Legionnaire is an ARRTEMIS signals-intelligence operative whose presence is easier to detect in altered records than in the field. He specializes in communications interception, encrypted networks, surveillance, and the removal of digital trails.

ARRTEMIS assigned him to observe and track Sayaka-san, a corporate fixer whose movements had become increasingly difficult to map. Somewhere during that assignment, surveillance became something else. Telemetry disappeared. Tracking records became unreliable. Surveillance feeds developed gaps that could not be explained by ordinary system failure.

Evidence suggests the Legionnaire began deliberately concealing Sayaka’s movements from the very organization that had ordered him to find her.

The two later maintained a private encrypted channel beyond normal ARRTEMIS oversight. What passed between them remains inaccessible, though surviving fragments suggest a relationship built on mutual recognition, guarded intimacy, and an understanding neither could safely acknowledge in public.

Records concerning the Legionnaire’s life before ARRTEMIS are contradictory. Some archives describe prior service as a deep-cover field operative; others contain gaps, overwritten credentials, or histories whose provenance cannot be verified. Whether these inconsistencies are the result of institutional secrecy, deliberate counterintelligence, or the Legionnaire himself remains unknown.

His present status is classified.

Eikken presides over the Hoshihara Crucible, where his Cliff Pussycats compete against elite augmented human combatants in the brutal sport of Tailbreakers.

Recognizable by his extravagant pink fur, gold jewelry, dark sunglasses, and unlit cigar, he is almost always accompanied by Reika and Shion, his towering bespoke gynoid bodyguards.

Despite his flamboyant reputation, Eikken dislikes crowds and prefers entering through the service corridors, away from the public eye.