Did I ever tell you guys about the simulacra. I should tell you about the simulacra
In my quest for maximum wokefication of aeternalis I wanted to figure out a way to make the ruler rule from both the top and the bottom, so as both the imperator and the one responsible for all the menial tasks (cleaning, transport, etc), because I don't want the mortals responsible for those because the premise of aeternalis is that all the people that are there came in from outside and of their own volition. I mean they can still do the things if they really want to but like. The whole of society doesn't hinge on their preferences. But spirit also can't be in 500 places at once, so my way of going about that was making the simulacra. They're...well they're technically mostly organic but they don't really behave that way. They look like ornate robots, they're basically clones, but they're connected to the outer consciousness shell of the circle and don't have any consciousness of their own. They can perform basic tasks on their own if you give them precise enough instructions (a few years ago I would have called them akin to ai but that phrase has been ruined now), but for anything more complex it's either spirit or the overseer puppeteering them
There's hundreds of them and double the number of backups so if one gets destroyed it literally does not matter. They're dotted all around ae, most of them in settlements, with the highest number obviously in the capital. When they're on standby they also mostly just look like ornamental statues so you wouldn't really notice them until you saw one of them turn their head to follow you with its gaze