Quote Originally Posted by Selrahc View Post
I bet most transcendiis are hanging around in the virtualverse rather than meatspace. If you're interested in radically redefining your perceptions, intelligence and experiences, doing it in the real world doesn't sound like it would help that much.
Hm, fair enough actually.

Quote Originally Posted by Selrahc View Post
The Sublime is all metaphysical concepts, and AI explicitly can exist in the sublime, and each individual copy of a personality will be combined into one so it doesn't matter how many you make. But we've basically excised the Sublime from this fic. Or alternatively, we're basically asking a hypothetical question about how people would react if the Sublime was evil.
I have decided that the Culture would not Sublime themselves (since they are suspicious of it). And that the 40k does not have the Sublimed that exist in the Culture is part of the assumptions.

Only a small set of ships come over. The Sublimed don't.

If you're referring to the Chaos gods as a kind of evil sublimed, they are a very limited kind of sublimed in that case.
The sublimed in Culture-verse were stated to start off by doing things like moving entire constellations. They could squish the Culture in an afternoon if they feel like it except that the other sublimed would stop them.