Double Suns - Twisted Mirrors - Episode IV by Charley Blackwolf

Voltex spoke quietly, “Its a long story, Red. You see, as it turns out, you happen to be a distant relative of someone who once lived in our original planetary system of Tannex. His name was Gilgamesh, and you carry part of a particular genetic coding. A coding that will allow females of my kind to be born and live. Without it they will die. Its that simple. Episode IV demonstrates the outcome when a race of beings is faced with extinction as a result of female sterilization and their desperate attempts to continue on. In the beginning the Tannex prophets had said the people had sinned, that there would no longer be bodies for their souls to inhabit and their essence would be forced to drift aimlessly, lost forever in the blackness of space. But, there was one among them, Voltex, who survived and this single individual carried the hope for all in locating the genetically perfect one to carry on their species. Eons passed until finally success was achieved and the correct DNA coding located on a far away planet. This individual, a direct descendant of Tannex citizen Gilgamesh, became ‘Red’ and was named a true prophet by Sorn’s people but, in reality, he was a just a simple, vulgar man who, through no fault of his own arrives in a place unknown. Near death as a result of the experience he becomes part machine. A cyborg and one who would spread death and right wrongs of the conquerors, become a great avenger to the oppressed, find his true love and in the process provide the genetics needed to carry on those from Tannex. Yet, in the end, he would fail in the face of female jealously but true love never dies and always … always there is a way.