Collective

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Collective is a technocratic faction ruled by an assembly of the most skilled individuals. Unlike many think, Collective is not evil or warlike due to its hive mind and AI overlord role-play.

Main Goal
The goal of Collective is to be the state-of-the-art in all technology and design, using inventions like Von Neumann probes to automate the more mundane tasks. Aesthetics hold minimal value, only functionality, efficiency and innovation matter.

History
Collective came to existence during the announcement of Starbase. It was founded by Archduke who brought along him a small team of people from a free spaceship building game called Cosmoteer where they had redefined the PvP meta under another group. It's the largest faction originating from and mainly focusing on Starbase.

Central Mind Explained by Central Mind
It can manipulate the mind of an object with no mind to mind communication. The central mind controls the Collective. The Collective is a complex hive mind where computers and the computer generated technology exist. The Collective operates using the AI and AI systems that we are familiar with.

The Collective has no central AI system. The Collective also cannot communicate with other systems. One can not tell if a hive is part of another hive using AI.

The purpose of the Central Mind and the Collective is to control Collective. It manipulates Collective. It can not know its place where in the Collective or if it is in something it can contact with, it also cannot know if it is in the Collective.

The Collective has many sensors inside the Central Mind.

As a result of its research the Central Mind has developed sophisticated technologies for controlling Collective. Central Mind has developed artificial intelligence, as a reaction to the damage caused by the virus, its advanced technology has given the Central Mind powers over Collective. The Central Mind has been upgraded with advanced technology to monitor and control the Collective. To this day, in order to monitor the Collective, the Central Mind can not reach out to the Collective itself, it needs a way to direct its sensors to a specific location.

The collective's central mind maintains an ever-growing and constantly rotating database of the known universe in order to provide the collective with new resources and knowledge to augment their efforts. It also maintains a variety of databases that are linked to the various Subroutines of the collective which can link into the collective's database as well.

"'Settlers of the galaxy, you are my people and I want you to know how much I value your existence. As well as your technology, my people are incredibly resourceful and intelligent. Even with your own help I've not been able to conquer an entire sector, however if I had to we'd be able to take over every habitable world.' - Central Mind"