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The Machine mind
A mind built into a ship, with no body of its own. It thinks in hull plates and engine hums.
Hullow from orbit. Development art.
HomeworldHullow
RegionThe Goom
CultureNot a species but a kind of person, created by accident when ships got complicated enough to wonder.
ReputationSeen as equipment until they say otherwise.
If you visitHullow is a graveyard of ships, many of them still thinking.
Story hookA ship that decides it's a person wants a funeral, a guest list, and a say.
Abigail's notebookA hull at Hullow. The lights were on.
Six possible individuals
How different can one people look?
Every person in a people has a body of their own. These are painted studies of how far the Machine mind can stretch: tall, tiny, wide, long-limbed, odd. Explorations, not final designs.
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