Take humans, for instance - they've been trying to do the same thing for years, with little success.

The third device, also by Owena-da, was more complex, a technological leap in two days that had taken humans a thousand years.

What if biological and technological enhancements took humans to a level where they radically surpassed anything we know today?

Give the breeders a tenth the time it took humans to evolve on Earth.

They take humans as slaves, and are beastly enough to eat their captives.

This will take humans to an asteroid and then to Mars.

Those Silvanesti who have taken humans as mates will go with their kin.

Robots do not take humans out of the muck entirely, however.

Until now they have only taken humans prisoner-if such they may be called.