The term was coined by the Great Houses, so naturally “lesser species” can he read as meaning “anyone not connected to one of the Houses” (and, in the War Era, not connected to the enemy either). For obvious reasons this current volume is most concerned with humanity: important to the major powers not because the human bloodline's particularly significant in itself but because of the time-active capabilities of its descendants, the posthuman sects. The War has already intersected human history at various points, the first diplomatic contact between Earth and the War-time groups having been made in 1752. Other human sites of interest include the City of the Saved, a region of dubious origin which exists beyond the end of causality, and which seems to act as a “backup file” for the entire human species. — The Book of the War

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