Dr. Vitkor Pride was crazy. Genius. Decades ahead of his time in genetic engineering and the biological sciences, but also undeniably crazy. A veritable mad scientist, and not in a good way. Prideful, ironically, he was determined to be the first to create not just a new life form, but an intelligent one. To be the personal god of a new sapient species. He was also selfish and paranoid. Luckily he was also from a rich family, so he could pay for and work on his personal project in secret. He worked on it for a decade, filling a lab with failed genetic projects that would give the most hardened people nightmares. Perhaps the most ironic thing of all, he actually succeed not through any intentional action of his, but an accident that he was sure that would result in a non-viable specimen. He got much more than he bargained for...

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