Sentient Vehicles

Sentient Vehicles are a staple of Dalmeran, these creatures, known as Gregarious Pantechnicons (Grepan) or the smaller subspecies Gregarious Automotives (Grauts), these “creatures” are a mystery that baffles the Empire to this day.
= Origins =
Due to the energy crisis and the threat of rampant AI, the automotive industry changed radically in the Empire. Gasoline was no longer a viable car fuel, even more so with the excellent power the automobiles had. As such, many car companies pursued research into alternative power sources, with in time a patent that succeeded gasoline: electric engines, powered by energy cells. Charged with fusion cells, the motor featured 800+ horsepower and acceleration from 0 to 60 MPH in under a second, all done with a full analog system and no computers. This last element was done to prevent AI going haywire and the car essentially becoming a Graut. Steam-powered trucks are also used as an alternative, and are generally safer when compared to the risks of using AI.
Despite this sentient vehicles saw their rise in the empire as the feral mechanimals known as the sentient vehicles.
= Biology =
These sentient vehicles are obviously of Dalmer make, being able to enter Dalmer holds without being attacked by automated security. They are obviously Dalmer machines yet no schematics for them appeared on the Aether Web, meaning that the Dalmer have no means of replicating them. 
The problem for the Empire was that if these entities are left in the wild the other races could possibly use the technology against the Dalmer, cattle raised Grepan are herded and kept under lock and key. 
== Communication ==
Sentient Vehicles communicate, using head movements not unlike sentient races, on top of this, flashing headlights, motor roars and beeps are used for communicating to one another. Some have been observed to show emotions such as fear, shame, and respect.
Grepan in the mist:
Juvenile: Fourg
Teenager: Mionette
Young adult: Mion
Adult: Rig
== Subspecies ==
=== Grepan ===
Main article: Gregarious Pantechnicon
Herds of vehicles who were given AI that developed to the level of herd animals such as cattle. They roam the plains of the Dalmer empire such as Wargold and Highgaroth. It is unknown how they feed or reproduce.
=== Grauts ===
Main article: Gregarious Automotives 
Grauts (gregarious automobiles) are autonomous cars. 
=== Ethan ===
Ethans are a subspecies of sentient vehicles who resemble tractors, they spend their days grazing wild corn fields and dumping the biofuel they created from the harvested corn into makeshift silos they dig up for later consumption. Ethans regularly forget where they dump and other sentient vehicles profit from the bounty.
=== Comb ===
Larger variants of Ethans, they produce much more biofuel and are much more aggressive towards other species. They protect their herds by violently charging at the intruder and grinding them with their rotary threshers.
=== Protector rig ===
A Grepan with unusually tall chassis with plenty of space in between its tires. Protector rigs gets its name for the way it protects travelers underneath its trailer, generally the eldest of the herd.
=== Sentvi ===
Some humans managed to steal prototype AI automotives programmed to steal, these vehicles then scanned the humans, which killed the humans and their bodies and personalities bonded with the machine, creating the Sentvi, or sentient vehicles. (These are not to be confused with Grepan or Grauts with UC’s implanted). But in order to reproduce and to power themselves, the Sentvi needed more brain scans, they took to preying on humans.
The AI of Sentvi is so advanced that it listens and adapts to the environment like an individual, and can communicate with each other. Based on personal assistants, the sentient vehicles cleaned up broken lands and created cultures and societies through conversation and the will to serve one another. They built new cities based on old, current or futuristic technologies, based on Aether Web searches. 
== Notes ==
===Automotives===
Automotives are vehicles in Dalmeran that fill the same functions as cars and automobiles.
=== Cattle bruisers ===
A popular sport for Dalmer is hunting of these herds for parts, or to simply jumping from Grepan to Grepan, in order to reach the herd leader, and direct them elsewhere. These sportsdalmer are called cattle bruisers.
Various theories explain the existence of these beings. The most likely being that they were made in an independent institution as a form cost effective transport that saves on labour costs, and allows safe passage of cargo across large distances by giving the Grepan herd mentality.
First off, the definition of these as living beings is flawed because it is unknown if they reproduce sexually or are machine made as very little information exists on them.
=== Pantechnicon Gnoggin ===
Some Dalmer have the top part of their skull replaced by an experimental alloy, which gives them the ability to pick up certain radio frequencies. the special metal plating allows communication and a measure of control over Grepan and Grauts.
=== Jurisprudence ===
Once, a barbarian tribe used the Grepan to invade a settlement, they hid in the cargo hold and led the Grepan towards their target, letting the cattle bruisers be herded to the livestock pens, and the barbarians raided the settlement once they were inside from within the grepans hold.
Ever since an automobile was used to commit an act of terror, manual control automobiles and trucks were outlawed to the public in Dalmeran. Instead, the Dalmer use Grepan and Grauts to transport people and goods around the empire. Since these are in short supply less effective caravan companies took their place.
=== Traffic Jam ===
The Dalmer created great roads to ship freight using Graut, smaller versions of grepan. These freight transports often jammed, which leads to the slowing down of traffic, literal traffic jam. These jams have to be separated by cluster buster teams.
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