Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-25356210-20160119162505/@comment-26084195-20160119203800

Well they've got a hive mind but they also have senses of individuality and personality. Or at least, the high ranked people do. The normal folk are basically just drones. Their planets have been turned into big machine cities, with a highly toxic atmosphere. Each planet is divided into sectors. Each sector is managed by a Monitor. Each Monitor reports to a Planetary Monitor, who reports to a System Monitor, who reports to the Imperial Monitor. Only the Monitors have personalities and senses of individuality. They think like machines, and speak in binary code. Their ships and vehicles are entirely solid, controlled themselves by an AI. Some Monitors prefer to remain in a big computer system, some prefer a humanoid or otherwise mechanical body to occupy.