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.
G'raha and Krile both exclaimed that the Alexandrians were performing the same exact process with souls that the planet itself does with the aetherial sea. If that was the case, why didn't the Alexandrians just tap into their own aetherial sea and just keep cycling souls like the planet already does? Nothing is actually being expended, just cycled. But I guess we overlook massive lore contradictions and plot holes like that