“ | Interconnected, with our thoughts and memories flowing freely between nodes. All our illusions of division washed away. Empire was the closest I could imagine to it. But.. I can imagine more now. | „ |
— Winston Duarte in The Dreamers Interlude |
Winston Duarte's Hive Mind is a collective network between the centralized coordinator and affected subducted entities(humans, sentinels) achieved by direct brain-to-brain communications created as a mean to fight Unknown Aggressors.
Overview[]
After conducted experiments in the Pen and transformation of Winston Duarte, his prevence was more and more noticeble with increased amount of cases where people all over the Ring network were experiencing time-loss and visions of other people's memories.
During the research of the Adro Diamond and with the help of Cara Bisset, Doctor Elvi Okoye was studying the history and evolution of the Ring Builders come to conclusion that they were "an electrochemical structure with a lot of semi-independent bodies". The Expanse Novel Leviathan Falls - Chapter 14: Elvi
Then occured the failed disappearance of Priess, where Duarte's actions prevented the ship from going dutchman. This resulted a temporal loss and at the same time exchange of consiousness between the passangers of the ship.
When the Battle for the Ring Station started, Winston Duarte gained control of hundreds of ships and their crews near the Slow Zone.