Hivemind

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Natives of this world exist in a kind of mental gestalt, sharing thoughts and partaking of a single identity. Powerful pretech, exotic psionics, alien influence, or some other cause has left the world sharing one identity. Individual members may have greater or lesser degrees of effective coordination with the whole.

Enemies:
^{Who might be encountered who opposes the group}

• A hivemind that wants to assimilate outsiders
• A hivemind that has no respect for unjoined life
• A hivemind that fears and hates unjoined life

Friends:
^{Who might offer the group services or missions}

A scholar studying the hivemind

A person severed from the gestalt

A relative of someone who has been assimilated

Complications:
^{How might the situation on the world be more complicated}

The hivemind only functions on this world

The hivemind has strict range limits

The hivemind has different personality factions

The hivemind only happens at particular times

The world is made of semi-sentient drones and a single AI

Things:
^{What items might be found on the world}

Vital tech for maintaining the mind

Precious treasure held by now-assimilated outsider

Tech that “blinds” the hivemind to the tech’s users

Places:
^{What locations might be found on the world}

Barely tolerable living cells for individuals

Workside where individuals casually die in their labors

Community with absolutely no social or group-gathering facilities

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