The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, et., universally present in individual psyches etc. As he was loaded into the evacuation pod, Arktype steeled up a look of confidence and saluted the physicists and Engineers standing on the other side of the pods blast door. Ark gazed through the small round, three inch protective glass porthole as it slowly fogged up from his heavy breathing, he knew it was the last time he would see the human race... or at least, on Earth...