Human

Humanity is a Spiral species, life built on the double helix and able to generate Spiral Power. Within the series they stand as the central race of the universe, with Earth as their home planet.

Before Lordgenome ever takes a throne, humans lead the Spiral races, flourishing openly on their power and covering Earth with cities, Spiral-driven machinery, and huge Spiral constructs. That progress draws the Anti-Spirals, beings of enforced stasis sworn to end all Spiral growth by any means available, mass genocide included. Amid the invasion, an exceptionally strong Spiral named Lordgenome finds a mini-gunmen that becomes the seed of the counterattack, leading armies of gunmen into battle, many of them topped with heads modeled on his discovery. Known first by the titles Spiral Warrior and Spiral Knight, then hailed as the Spiral General, he captains humanity's flagship, the moon-sized Cathedral Terra, with Guame perched at his shoulder.

The war stretches across Lordgenome's long life. Among its cruelest defeats is the Death Spiral Machine, an Anti-Spiral construct that drains Spiral Power and condenses it into dense space faster than any warrior can replenish it, leaving whole fleets of Spiral pilots lifeless in its sea-like expanse; many die against it while trying to reach the enemy homeworld. Neither side relents until the Anti-Spiral, a hive-mind woven from its race's collective wills, visits Lordgenome and reveals the truth behind the campaign, the danger it names the Spiral Nemesis. Thrown into total despair by that knowledge, Lordgenome joins the Anti-Spirals and slaughters his own kind with murderous ease. The scattered survivors are herded underground into hidden villages and patrolled from above by the Beastmen, animals Lordgenome mutates into soldiers, whose gunmen cut down any human who surfaces and keep the rest living in terror.

Spiral Power defines the race, fueling everything from sprawling cities and large-scale constructs to interstellar war. The gunmen stand as humanity's representative weapon, fielded in vast armies throughout the first conflict with the Anti-Spirals.