The Vannian

The Vannian people were an interesting species, one of the most advanced races in the known systems and one of the oldest. They bore an Egyptian aesthetic that was too similar for humans to ignore but no one ever got a straight answer from their leaders or their people. That was neither here nor there in terms of your current situation, you'd wondered for years why you'd never seen any men while looking out your window, it wasn't until you did a bit of reading that you found out that the smaller charcoal skinned girls were actually the male of their species! Oddly enough they were built a lot like you were now!

Turns out they were as effected by this planet as you were. Whether by design or not that seemed to be the truth of it, you'd had a lot of time to read up on the culture and learn the language so it wasn't totally unknown but there were some parts of the culture that weren't written in the books... WELL the fact of the matter was that their digital network was only accessible through the neural network chips they all had. Offworlders weren't permitted the sacred right.

The majority of males were servile creatures, although there were the rare 'Anubians' large males that were very aggressive creatures... probably why the female population was wary of other male species.

While running over these details in your mind you finally came to the price of your very limited freedoms here. One being the clothing styles of these people were a bit scant, the climate didn't really require a lot by way of 'bundling up' against the cold... they had a weather control technology within the boundaries of the cities, outside it was considerably less tolerable with extremes of heat and cold. The clothes provided were for women firstly... surprisingly the men's outfits were even less modest... some wore see-through shawls or little more than ribbons and thin scarves.

The women of this planet followed a hierarchy of sorts based entirely on occupation, the more valuable to society you were the more authority you wielded over others. A guardian (the Local law enforcement) can treat the women below her like a male, but the Overseers above them and the Tribunal above them weighed abuses of power very carefully. The lower your status the fewer rights one had and as an Offworlder under detainment you were barely held in higher regard than the men. Luckily **** and theft was a high crime so that wasn't a concern but there were other things within reason... These people were kind of hedonists, pleasure was freely given and a passing intimate touch was as welcome as a smile or a wave.

So to recap:

-You had to wear women's clothes,

-Male clothing was worse

-Men were practically slaves and were happy that way

-revealing that lying to the Vannian's about your gender is a major crime!

-Offworlders were barely above men in terms of rights

-Going out into town put you at risk and at the mercy of the locals

-They were super touchy feely.

As a kid there wasn't much to worry about although you'd seen Alice get a bit of attention. Now you were an adult and you'd rarely gone out for fear of what might happen. Yet today you were willing to take a risk, Why?

Concert

Festival

Escape the maddening Embassy

Met someone(young love)

Smuggler to get you and Alice off planet.