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The premise works -- there's a plausible motive as well as an MO (that of creating multiple backups; perhaps your rogue/fallen 'god' for lack of a better term has been fought and destroyed by the pantheon one or several times before and is therefore presumed dead, giving them the advantage of surprise if they entered into a new form and then just hibernated and/or made preparations for centuries whilst waiting for an opportune time to try again).

Interestingly MarshalSolgrieve has the idea for a janitor on the crew to have become deified as Hades, with the humans having some sort of burial ritual that results in the corpses actually being taken down pipes or tubes to a physical underworld where they can be processed, for "sanitation purposes". So this state of things might be at least in part to deprive your character from being able to quickly and quietly amass an army of the dead if they return again, and similarly, the other gods might view uploading and/or backing up their minds as taboo due to its association with your character.

So yeah, the existence of that underworld is a nice coincidental thing that keeps the threat level of your character from being too great. There would naturally be some corpses available since not everyone or thing would receive the proper burial for various reasons, but it means there aren't graveyards with tens of thousands of corpses waiting to be converted into soldiers. Perhaps you should discuss some things with solgrieve because I see the potential for some significant overlap there. As an aside, I've been wondering why you use the > markers to greentext.
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>I see. Well I'll see what feedback they give on my idea when they get back online, as that would be an interesting conflict. The main thing that concerns me about my idea, however, is how exactly they've managed to create more machineforms to download to. I mean maybe I could say they gave the assembler plans for the machines in question, and as a part of the modifications altered it to be able to build them, but idk. I'm also wondering if the drones that go scavenging for corpses should be armed with weaponry or not, because on the one hand it would be the logical thing to do, but on the other it would lead to an arms race. And might not necessarily fit with the theme of decaying technology.

>As for why I speak in greentext, it's because I like to.