In the Enantiodromia War

(Which was a war between two entirely different forms of matter)

A new breed of super-intelligent, self-aware and self-replicating weapon

Was developed

They were weapons of such a subtle and arcane nature

That they didn’t know themselves for what they were

They developed advanced civilizations

Cultured and urbane,

Some of these living weapons became philosophers, psychologists, post-modernists

Others poets

Some even became pacifists

Devoting their lives to the passionate and self-sacrificing struggle for world peace

These intelligent weapons

Were called

Humans