Lupe Bierak

Lupe Bierak, conceived during Rome's training session in the novel Rome's Evolution, is the most unusual girl in the world, perhaps the universe. Her mother is a mosdurece (half-blood) Vuduri woman named Rome. She has the normal 23 chromosome set as does all homo sapiens. However, Rome also has an additional chromosome, number 24, which she inherited from her mother. Rome also received an artificial chromosome, number 25, when she ingested a yellow pill created by OMCOM. This chromosome, too, became part of Lupe's genetic structure. Rome was also injected by the Vuduri on Deucado with a second version of the 24th chromosome. Rome was also injected with a third copy on Earth when she was kidnapped by Estar. Thus Lupe was born with three sets of the 24th chromosome.

Lupe has all the advanced characteristics of her mother including complex optics, a second internal iris and has a fully functional PPT resonance. She also inherited her father Rei's Essessoni build, Rei's sonar-vision and the EM-based "cell-phone" in the head shared by both of his parents. Her PPT resonance is so powerful, she was considered mankind's best hope for first contact with aliens using any means available for communication.

However, as unusual and powerful as Lupe appears to be, she grew up in the shadow of her "perfect" brother Aason. The only way that Lupe could carve out the attention she craved was to act naughty. Her mother knew she was going to be a brat, even before she was born. But she was a brat that her parents loved and her brother adored.

Lupe never missed an opportunity to tease her brother or manipulate yet Aason never held it against her. Lupe was Lupe and that's all there is to it.

As the daughter of an Essessoni, Lupe acquired a good measure of her father Rei's height. She towered over her mother at 5 foot 6 inches by age 16. She was destined to reach 5 foot 10 inches before she was kidnapped by the Creatures of Light. Her fate is up in the air. To find out what happens to her, you will have to read the upcoming novel The Milk Run which should be out early in 2014 AD.