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===Life as an AI===
	Life as an AI is an interesting paradox. Alive, but inorganic, free willed, but loyal to the race. Unknown to the organics, AI's are all collectively one mind. Each AI is a separate individual, but at the same time, they all form a mass mind, a gestalt of incredible intelligence and power. At the crystalline core of the AI's homeworld, billions of bodiless AI swim. Far more AI's than the living have cause to suspect. The AI's created their homeworld, populated it, and developed their own forms of “magic”. 

	When an AI has need or wish to embody itself, it will download it's consciousness into a shell, and travel as it wills. AI's treat their shells as temporary homes. Nice in their own right, and worth taking care of, but no AI truly fears death. Only loss of experience. Transference to and from shells takes time, and the destruction of a shell far from home is a blow to the collective. All AI's morn the loss of knowledge the “death” of such embodied explorers represents.