You enter a vast chamber. Fibre-optic cables pulse with light, spreading out from an elevated podium on which rests twenty capsules, each containing a dormant human body, kept alive by the nutrient vat below, each brain linked by a series of cybernetic neural interfaces connected to the mainframe. Babbling robotic voices fill the air, heavy in debate.

You are in the presence of the Central Advisory Committee of Mondas - or, as they are more colloquially referred, the Committee.