Pt. 2

As I stood in the street covered with some kind of black and beige goo waiting for more challengers a drone popped out and displayed a hologram of a figure similar in stature to the others. It stood formally on its three legs and a had a long beige almost fish like face with four slitted emerald eyes. “I believe the translation nanites are functioning?” It asked expectantly in a AI default style voice.

I nodded with a very confused look on my face, not really sure what this was about. “We are the Granar people of Marturus.” It looked at me proudly like I was supposed to know who that was. “We did not intend on any hostilities with your people, our initial scans of this deathworld did not reveal your species”.

I sighed “Well your scans are correct at least, I’m the only one of my species left. Everyone else has destroyed themselves in war or was destroyed by the world itself.”

“So this wasn’t a deathworld for very long then? This apocalypse has happened recently?”

“No no, this has been an ongoing event throughout our long history. We destroyed ourselves in an effort to advance even further beyond. I know that there are others of my kind out there in the stars somewhere but they were sent on a one way trip. I’m the last one here.”

“Well…” the alien bowed their head in reverence. “…Your planet is one of the greatest death world planets that has ever been discovered to have intelligent life. The radiation, the heat, the cold, the gravity, the terrible conditions, how did your people survive it?”

“Well we endured. One of the things about my people is that, we just don’t give up. Some of us see a impossible challenge and work towards it just because it was thought to be impossible, or too dangerous. Sure a lot of people might die in the process but we constantly learn and adapt.”

“Well if you wouldn’t mind…perhaps your people don’t have to go extinct. Perhaps, you don’t have to be the last human on earth.”

My ears perked up “ What do you mean by that?”

“Well, our species has developed cloning technology. We can alter and edit a genome of a creature to be as good as it can get. We are out our evolutionary apex yet, you a simple human best us unequivocally. If you let us clone you and develop your genome, you could be the forerunner of your species, the direct descendent from which all humans from now on will descend from.”

For the first time I was given a shot toward greatness. My species as a whole depends completely upon my decision right here, right now. “I accept your offer, but there’s a lot of things I have to tell you about humans”.

My partnership with the Granar began. There were a lot of problems due to the incredible diversity of humans as a baseline. Humans are very original and creative and voraciously horny. There were incredible disagreements, differing ideals, and mindsets. With our help the Granar built a galactic empire which we stood at the right hand of.

Humans become the forefront of the galaxy and were considered to be one of the greatest species of the modern times. Our power intellectually and physically was unmatched and I got to be the father of it all. Anti aging technology is only so power, and you can only hold on for so long before you loose your grip on life.

I died happy, knowing that I went from a nobody to one of the greatest humans in modern history.