Story:The Last of The Kind

The Last of the Kind is a story about Erin, a young male Dairyon who is the last living member of his race. When catastrophe hits his home of Achris in the Dirpion-104 system, he escapes in a shuttle, the last of his race. Several trillion years later, he, still a young boy (Dairyon take an incredibly long time to mature physically, and therefore have very long lifespans), sets off on a quest to search for the remains of his people.

Chapter 1: Awakening
Erin's eyes fluttered open. His circuits were weak from months of trying to find the shuttle on which he crash-landed on the planet he now lived on. His tunic was torn from the harsh weather and his boots were breaking from the months of trekking through the O-oki Mountains. As he struggled to get up, he saw the planet's star rising from the west.

That's funny, Erin thought. This planet usually has its star rising from the east. He didn't give the western sunrise a second thought as he dusted himself off and slowly creaked his way across the red valley.

Erin, unlike the other Dairyon who lived on Achris before it was wiped out by its exploding star about 11 trillion years ago, was built to look like an ordinary human, the people who lived on Achris, and who were the masters of the Dairyon. However, Erin was different. He was designed to be the child of a human whose son, also named Erin, had died. A Dairyon 'clone' of Erin was created to comfort his father. Erin (the Dairyon) was given the capability to think independently, talk like an ordinary human and to learn.