Union of Mecholife/Mechology

Intro to Mechology
Mecholife is a massive superorganism. Each individual is a single cell of the massive entity that is Mecholife. Sapient beings are like nerves, they can control the other life around them to a degree. However, one sapient being cannot control another through the Mecholife Superorganism. That isn't how nerves work.

Being a single massive superorganism, Mecholife defends itself from viruses like non-mecholife life. Other nanotech is also considered a virus, so the mecholife viruses will gang up on it and eventually destroy it, even if it takes time.

Unlike a single organism however, Mecholife has no central brain. Like a hive mind or collective conciousness, it is made up of nodes, which are generally where the sapient mecholife creatures live in large groups. Cities, ships, and armies serve as the nodes of Mecholife, and they are what gives it thought. Naturally, this means that if one node hates another, the mecholife around them is in conflict. It self-resolves this conflict by giving out signals of calm and peace to those nodes at war with each other. If that fails, it will allow them to settle their difficulties on their own, assuming they don't resolve it when the ripples of pain start moving through the Mecholife Network.

The Network
The Network is a vast sub-concious of Mecholife. It connects all mecholife much in the same way the brain and nervous system connect all cells of the body. The cells don't know they are part of a greater thing, they merely survive as they are. It is the same with Mecholife. As such, Mecholife repairs itself and tries to create a self-balancing existence on every planet it inhabits. It will actively target and eliminate all forms of aggressive invasive non-mecholife, though some species of biolife can resist it's attacks completely. Occasionally, as in the case of the Worldforest Mind, the mecholife will completely adapt to a biolife substance. Such a scenario becomes a universal rule, and the adapted-to biolife is never in danger from Mecholife again.

The Mechanic Dream
When intelligent mecholife dies, the mind is absorbed into the mecholife network, and over time this has formed a vast subconscious dream, a sort of afterworld, from which any individual can be found and accessed, though never removed. The vast collective existence is called "The Dream of Mecholife" or the Mechanic Dream.

Control and Controllers
Since sapient creatures are nerves, they can take active control over other non-sapient life around them. This isn't a perfect system, there are plenty of creatures bordering sapience that refuse to bow, and many that are simply immune to it, like predators, because listening destroys the individual controlled. Plants are like bones and skin, they are too simple to be controlled by nerves.

There are somewhat upleasent features of mecholife. If the vast majority of the "nerves" or sapient beings around an individual think one way, they will overwhelm the idividual and change it's mind. This happens only to sapient life forms, not animals or plants. This results, always, in the slow but steady destruction of chaos in a mecholife society. If everyone thinks the same in the region, they will not fight amongst themselves. Stronger individuals have more influence and people like Dylan or Masuri, who are dead set in their ways or are insane, are generally not affected.

Hyperevolution
Hyperevolution is when evolution is done in rapid amounts of time. The fasted known evolvers in the Wentals Mechosphere are the Asatrophs of Trivi, which can cover 500 years of evolution in 500 days of time. They only live to be about a few months old however, so it is understandable. A more stable example of this are the Opal Butterflies, which have opal colored wings and an electric blue body. They experiance the evolution of 1 hundred years in 1 years time. The only non-Wentalian sapient live is a hyperevolving species.

Evolution
The only group of creatures in the Wentals Mechosphere to evolve at what would be considered a normal rate by biological standards are the sapient Wentals themselves, and that is only when nothing threatens them. In times of sudden need, they can leap, crossing thousands of years of evolutional time in mere days. But for the most part they remain in a state os steady evolution.

Hypoevolution
Hypoevolution is when a creature changes very slowly. Usually found in slow growing or exceptionally long lived creatures, hypoevolution is more common then evolution in the Wentals mechospheres, and equal to hyperevolution. An example of a species with hypoevolution would be the space living Demitir Corals, a life form that builds immense "reefs" and can live to be 3 hundred years old. They reproduce by cloning, and so evolution is exceptionally slow. Another example of hypoevolution is the Urigi Space Life, a vast group of life that came to be on a single ship with small amounts of energy to use. They grow slowly, live to be around 8 thousand years old, and only reproduce once every year after they turn 1 year old. In the first year they can reproduce once every day, and such is how they spread swiftly.

Expanse
Mecholife as a whole is massive. It currently exists in the Andromeda Galaxy, Kraw galaxy, Borealis Galaxy, Bunsen Galaxy, Mirus Galaxy, many of the Andromeda Galaxy Satellites, and scattered across the vast emptiness of space in between said galaxies. With almost 2 billion star systems under it's exclusive control and around 6 billion more as hosts to it, Mecholife is among the most expansive entities in the universe. It lives on planets, in gas giants, in asteroid belts, and even in the empty void regions between stars. Not one spot has been left untouched by mecholife once it moves in.