User blog comment:Admiral Phoenix/The Enlightened/@comment-27797576-20150105162441/@comment-10700122-20150105163050

Exactly. Yes, but there are various sentient AIs needed in the culture, mainly as yet another augmentation protocol, but also for better ships and such. Yeah, but hovertanks are pretty much all they can have at the moment, and most of those don't work. There are, naturally, antigravity landing protocols on the smaller ships such as the Seraph, but these are long broken.