Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
It's not an "unrecognized form of life"; it's literally straight-up explained as an AI simulation of what a person once was, only it requires actual aether to power it...aether that the Alexandrians' world had run out of, so now they're going around killing actual life to power the AI's. It's not a question of how we "see them" - it's literally killing real life to power AI simulations.
It's not an "AI simulation". Origenics literally shows that it's the memories and conscious of the very same person that gets sent to Living Memory. It's only the body that then gets "simulated", but the part that matters is still the same person.

It's pretty similar to the Omicrons who also used to be organic beings but who then uploaded their memories and conscious into robots. That doesn't suddenly make them not "real life", it's just a different kind of life than we're used to.