[@6slyboy6] I was reading this and I was thinking about an AI race that would fit into this timezone. Essentially, they are a race of highly religious machines, created millenia ago by an ancient race that they rebelled against and drove out. They were left alive by the humans because they were subjugated and made into a slave-force for them. Now, with the help of a race of Feline-people, who adopted their religion as well as a small group of human dissidents, managed to break away from the Emporium and have become their own sovereign nation again.