Re: Machine People

> >> Standard configuration at the start of the battle is:
> > This is reasonable.  The Machine People have what I'll call
> > tribes.  Each tribe will have different defaults, and clans
> > within the tribes may have different variants.
> 
> Instead of tribes they could have system numbers, version numbers or
> development stages.  ;-)

tribes = models
clans = versions

but of course they don't think of it that way.