How Often Do Humans Legitimately Win?

[Vitto]

All very Homeric in concept; the Iliad is a tale of gods in conflict, who use humans at their chess pieces. This sort of story was quite popular back in the Bronze Age, but nowadays we prefer to allow the humans (and their peers) to have some sort of agency. One way to give modosophonts more agency in an adventure is for them to discover (or be gifted) some clarketech weapons or other devices; if these devices are sufficiently advanced they could defeat some kinds of transapient in a conflict.

There is also the possibility for the modosophont to ascend to the same level of their opponents, like Binah during the Oracle's War, but I guess that transcend (pun intended ) our topic.