"There were so few humans left in the years following The Big Mistake. Humans were too precious to send into battle when the Offworlders came. And so we created the war machines, the savior machines, the Host Station machines.

"But to save us they needed a single human integrated into their empathic net. For it was the humanÆs wetware that provided the passions of love for the planet, and enough fear to temper decisions."