The Animus

The Animus is the overall governing nexus of the T-41 people. The Animus is considered one of the two only truly neutral arbiters throughout the southern part of the Milky way.

Government Structure
The Animus is represented as a semi autonomous Collective Consciousness. This "machine Consciousness is managed by the Prime Platform or Control Hub dubbed and roughly translated as "Anidenya". "He" directs the innumerable T-41 programs to their various jobs and allow these units to do what they want in order to complete their tasks.

Society
T-41 society isn't what many people think it is. Yes its rigid, secretive and drab but the T-41 people are free and not single minded robots. Every unit part of the Animus have an innate need for exploration and cataloging new experiences. Nothing can be said further as this what all T-41 do during peacetime: explore, research and study. During wartime however, they are known to be a cold and unwavering race hellbent on completing their goal. When they win a war, the organic population that didn't escape their planet will be amalgamated, integrated into their energy grid. After war, they return to their inquisitive selves, not noticing the horrified stares of the neighboring races.

Origin
The theory of their origin is that the T-41s were originally design as Intelligent Research Link to aid their creators in their research and cataloging the southern area of the Galactic Core. Their Creators, sometimes referred to as the Zanaam, due to the strange system near the core, were a highly advance race that formed a fairly sophisticated empire around the southern bend of the Core. The "Zanaam" went extinct several thousands years ago for some unknown reason but what they created remained, thousands of artifacts, hundreds of destroyed cities scattered across a dozen worlds and most notably the T-41.

The Amalgamation Events
Nothing is known to about the Animus and their history afterwards until first contact with the Zed'drath and Monan. By this time the Animus had retaken mostly all of the territory their creators held and began terraforming planets into rudimentary information repositories. The Animus didn't do much at all during this time until the emergence of the Exentiat into the Galactic community. The Exentiat Commonality didn't mess with the Animus one bit, as after all the T-41 believed that they where studying the Exentiat growth as a people. This peaceful coexistence didn't last long as Exentiat agents tried to steal technology from a nearby repository just like they did with the Zed'drath. This didn't sit well with the T-41 people and war was declared. The war was short and their homeworld was annexed. Neighboring nations only saw this a regular event in galactic history and moved on, that is until the Animus began integrating their prisoners into their energy grid. The Amalgamation process is a brutal and severely painful process in which the organic subject is hook up to the energy grid and drained of all energy all the while being alive. Nations such as the Harmonious Compact of Golarion and the Mect-Pux Dynamics watched on in horror as the leaked footage of the amalgamation station showed them the horrid conditions and tortured souls of the process. Things did calm down but it left a strained relationship with T-41 and the Cecaecilla and the surviving Exentiat who fled to neighboring worlds. Until it happened again, this time with the Guljhirjild. The Guljhirjild are a war-like species unlike the Exentiat who were mainly scientists. The Guljhirjild didn't like or accept that they were totally surrounded with no hope of expanding. So they declared war quickly and it ended just as quickly. The same thing happen to them just like the Exentiat. The Amalgamation process was slower than the other and more diabolical. Leak footage showed that the T-41s were actually breeding the Guljhirjild to keep their grids overflowing. This didn't sit well at all with the Harmonious Compact and the newly formed Star League. War was declared on 2289 with the forces of the Star League sending an armada of warships and legions of troops towards the bordering worlds of the the Animus. Only a handful ships returned, beaten and battered. The Animus wanted to let people know that they will not tolerate any attack against them and the galaxy listened, as every other race steered cleared from them.

Baryonyx Compromise
This was the case before meeting the Baryonyx. When the Animus won the war against the Star League, they only took three systems from the Harmonious Compact, one of them being the system inhabited by a primitive species. The T-41 began studying them like the other two but somewhat leery about primitives and war. The Baryonyx eventually went into space met the T-41. They then asked the Animus to allow them to become a protectorate. This has only happened one other time in history, with the Valdari befriending the Niqyr. The Animus seeing this different attitude towards them, made a nation wide change to their policies on primitive species; seeking to befriend primitives and uplift them instead of watching and hoping they don't attack them.