Conjoiners: descendants of an experimental clique on Mars who had systematically upgraded their minds, swapping cells for machines, until something sudden and drastic had happened. In one moment, they had escalated to a new mode of consciousness—what they called the Transenlightenment—precipitating a brief but nasty war in the process.
Conjoiners: bioengineered body parts for brains, starting a war, and walked around with huge cranial lobes--to shed the excess heat generated by the machines in their heads
