"So this is the Emergence?"
Standing over a collection of vaguely humanoid scrap metal, Ke was at a loss for words. Sure, she and her people had fought against the Emergence before, but that was only limited to larger, strange looking craft which spied at them from a distance.
These creatures were vastly more frightening for their failed mimicry of living beings.
"Yeah, or at least a part of it. The main body is a very long distance from here, think of these drones serving a central hive."
"Why do they look like this?"
"Humanoid? No clue, some researchers I know think it's because they absorbed so many humanoid creatures into its hive mind that the Emergence is starting to be affected by the collective subconscious impulses by the decaying minds in its system, but I think it's just a matter of convenience."
"Convenience?"