Exodus began when Pepper, who had played with Poser for some years, decided she wanted to produce something more substantial than the portraits of role playing characters she had been doing. Posting "I want to start a webcomic" to one of the Furry bulletin boards and receiving no coherent offer to provide the writing, she started doing the whole thing herself. A later attempt at collaboration with a writer did not go well and the current story developed in a somewhat haphazard fashion as Pepper learned on the job. Many of the characters in Exodus are based on Pepper's friends in the Role-playing game Furcadia. Many can still be found there, and can be met at the The Pink Pussy Bar which is run by Pepper's friend Foxy Malone. Plot Exodus tells the story of a group of artificial people or bioroids derisively called "Furries" by their human creators. The plot assumes that sometime during the 21st century a judge hearing a case needed to define how a being could be classified as truly human - his decision to base this on the percentage of original human DNA passed into law and was used by later manufacturers to produce beings who were legally "property" rather than "people". The concept is heavily based on ideas from the film Blade runner and the Role-playing game Transhuman space. The characters in Exodus are attempting to win their freedom, and the personalities of some are loosely based on historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. A general unease with portraying anything which could be considered a form of terrorism led Pepper to decide that their general approach would be one of non-violent protest such as that advocated by Mahatma Ghandi. Much of the background and assumptions have been written up in the forums. This has been something of a problem as occasionally the story may be difficult to follow for a reader who has not browsed this background information. From it's original concept of Blake's 7 with Furries, the comic has begun to change more to Firefly crossed with Star Trek: Voyager. At the end of 2005 the cast escaped from the Terran controlled solar system in a cobbled together starjump capable freighter, and the emphasis of the most recent strips has been in the exploration of alien worlds as the cast search for a safe home. While Furrydom in general has an (occasionally deserved) reputation as being overly concerned with sex, Exodus does not depict blatantly erotic scenes. Pepper does not shy away from showing that the characters have sexual relationships: they just aren't explicitly shown in the comic. However some fan art and writing has been produced of a more risqué nature, and Pepper has produced some adult images which are only available for distribution to older readers. Violence is shown more graphically in the story: characters die, and their deaths are not usually hidden unless exceptionally gory. The webcomic is a story, and does not have an (intentionally) funny element to it.