In the IMF Recon Module, Rulen mentions cats.
Cats are only on our planet, right?
Or are there just cats scattered all over the universe, on all sorts of different planets?
Or just on Earth and the Spiral Knight's original planet?
Knights are from Isora, not Earth.
What if that's just their name for it...?
And a Wolvers eye couldn't be Earth, considering the space around us. Part of the Wolver's eye would be exposed when it opens it, right? Then we would see the rest of Cradle around us.
Then again, they never really do open their eyes when on-screen...
How do we know if they have eyes at all?
Pretty sure they had cats on Isora from the readings of Rulen's recon module from the Ironclad Munitions Factory.
Oh, and I remember those exact two sentences from memory.
This is a world designed to confuse its travellers. It wants to trap and destroy them. I'm starting to think it's like a cat, toying with its prey before delivering the final blow.
I hate cats.
Kats exist on Cradle.
Cradle is composed of various worlds.
Kats, therefore, probably come from some world in the great void of space.
Because Cats and Kats are noted to exist both in the memories of Knights and on Cradle, we can infer that feline creatures exist in more than one part of the universe simultaneously.
(My personal opinion is that the Sonic world exists in the same universe as SK, albeit galaxies apart. Metal Sonic suit and all)
Sonic must've played too much Sonic Lost World for that to happen.
I mean, if we're accepting the fact that life can evolve on other planets, then there is a chance for the exact same animals to come from completely different places. For all we know, every story ever envisioned is an identical retelling of an actual event that either has happened or will happen in the future, somewhere out in the cosmos, where the world follows that story's rules. Spiral Knights could be non-fiction.
It's a metaphor. When translated other languages and jokes into English, many translators translate out cultural references and replace them with our own cultural references. Such as removing -usa from the end of Lagomorph's sentences and replacing them with rabbit puns, the puns in Animal Crossing being completely changed, among many other things.
This is simply a case of that occurring, especially since the original alpha squad text was written long before most of the lore, during the period in which there were a crapload of silly placeholders like cardboard cutouts for dungeon elements, and when the names and icons for some things were super-generic.
It could be a star trek sort of effect where aliens are progenitors of certain animals and they spread them around evenly and protect their planets. Cats, humans, dogs, owls, etc.
"What's this? More wolves hungry for the blood of Almire? Our great kingdom shall never fall to the likes of beasts!"
-Lord Vanaduke
There can be cats and wolves and other animals on Cradle or from any planet that the Knights are from (I thought they were from Isora?). Just because there's savage monsters on Cradle that happen to take the form of common animals doesn't mean those common animals don't exist altogether on Cradle or Isora or wherever.
"What if that's just their name for it...?"
Sorry, but this argument holds no basis. I could very well say that Cradle is Earth and you can not reliably prove me wrong because you don't know that it's not Earth. Therefore any planet or, heck, even small biomes could be Earth (we don't know our relative size compared to Earth, we can just make logical guesses). A wolver's eye could very well be Earth, assuming a wolver's eye is round.
EDIT: You're also assuming that he was saying that there were cats on Isora, and that they didn't meet their first cats when they came to Cradle, which is another possible argument.