Though the butterfly men's cunning won the war, their flighty emotions and brief life spans made them unsuitable for leading a world, and so it was that the cockroach men became the rulers of the earth. Tough enough to survive dismemberment because their brain process were spread throughout their becarapaced bodies, and possessed of the keen and supernatural senses of scavengers who had once lived among creatures many hundreds of times their size, the cockroaches had the desire and capacity to enact a reign of fascism on the other insect men the like of which had never been seen before.
—How The World Became Quiet, by Rachel Swirsky
