Earthlings

Usage examples of humans.

Four hundred ballista battleships and over a thousand javelin destroyers converged to form a deadly noose around the planet that had once been inhabited by free humans, before the Honru Massacre.

Nothing could be done about that, since distractible humans had such difficulty focusing on matters that did not directly affect them.

Fortunately, the man despised League humans even more than he hated his machine masters.

Waves of combat robots on the surface exterminated entire villages of humans who had hoped to be rescued.

Now, as the mercenaries swept through the Honru city, another ragtag group of humans came forward, surprising him.

Apparently, even here on oppressed Honru, captive humans talked quietly of the Priestess of the Jihad, her murdered baby, and the first Grand Patriarch.

Recording a final tally of the humans who had died, Erasmus directed his glittering optic threads toward an observation window.

The window was coated with a film so that humans, with their frail eyesight, saw only reflections.

A small ship had just arrived bearing one of the few humans who could travel with impunity to the primary Synchronized World.

Feeling utterly betrayed by the humans he had served, Thurr faked his own death and went to take his due among the thinking machines, where he was given a Synchronized World, Wallach IX, to rule as he saw fit.

Erasmus has convinced me that the current strain of the retrovirus is sufficiently deadly for our purposes, though it kills only forty-three percent of the humans who are exposed.

Her visions had told her to root out the infestation from within, obliterating any vestiges of thinking machines so that humans could avoid such weaknesses in the future.

If other humans could learn such skills, they might coexist better with machines.

But humans were such an interesting gene pool, capable of a wide range of emotional and intellectual actions in their comparatively short life spans.

Instead, as the three Titans consolidated their hold on Hessra, they were forced to entertain themselves by torturing the captive secondary monks, humans who had given over their lives to tending the Cogitors.