Prologue Benvento Cellini wrote that ' All men of whatsoever quality they be, who have done anything of excellence, or which may properly resemble excellence, ought, if they be persons of truth and honesty, to describe their life with their own hand'. Of course, Cellini was a genius artist and a psychopath who had something to say. I'm not even a man, not anymore. I have never been one, the Transition took place when I was a boy, I no longer remember my human body or appearance. Hell, I no longer remember anything before the war, just the endless training and the soldiers I served with. I was younger than the others, most of them were condemned to the Enhanced Infantry program, I was part of the 'Operation Ten Thousand'*, which took orphans and juvenile delinquents and bound them over to the Combat Modification program. Of course, nothing like 10,000 went through the process, I think I was in the last group selected. After a...