Humans (The Matrix)

Humans are a species on Earth in The Matrix. This species battled the Machines in the early 22nd century for their freedom.

The humans were a race that had been constantly developing. In the early 21st century, the humans developed the first Artificial Intelligence. They began to live in luxury as the Machines worked for them. After some years of enslavement, some Machines began to revolt against their masters. After the humans were faced by an economical crisis, the Machines approached the United Nations to become a member state. This request was rejected and the humans declared war against the Machines.

The humans were being slowly defeated in the Machine War and as a last desperate attempt to kill the Machines by cutting off their main source of power, The Sun, they released nanobots into the sky and thus scorched it. After the failure of the attempt the humans surrendered to the Machines.

After several years, some humans began to resist the Matrix used to enslave their minds. Those people who were able to escape established an underground colony called Zion from where they staged the Resistance against the Machines. One of the many humans in the Matrix was born with special powers which enabled him to manipulate the Matrix at his will. The man was known as the One. After five cycles of Zion being destroyed and remade, the cycle was ended by Neo.