章 114: Arrival at Vimur

Then see to it that you instill such beliefs into the swarm," stated the Collector. It knew well that the greater an intelligent creature's drive for a purpose, the more effective they were.

Even within the Collective Hivemind, this was true. The vast majority of Collective units were mindless, thus, this did not apply to them. However, among the Collector-class units and Queens, thorough and unshaken belief in the sanctity of the Great Purpose saw to it that even with granted intelligence and a degree of independence, that no unit would take a turn against the Collective, that all would stay cohesively unified towards one purpose.