Alec's life hadn't been the best, but he had survived. He didn't even really know what he was missing until after Max had destroyed Manticore's base.
"I don't actually know. I know there's some big cat DNA. Helps us see in the dark. The female soldiers got through heat every once in a while." Thankfully he didn't because while he liked sex a lot he had seen how desperate and awkward it made them. "They figured out how to get rid of that particular problem with the next version of us."
He shrugged. He knew that sounded weird or maybe even cold, but he knew what he was in the eyes of the government. "My real name is X5-494. I earned my name from a friend of mine, actually. And this isn't a tattoo." He gestured to the barcode on his neck. "It's exactly what it looks like."