A heavily armoured, highly mobile and very capable central unit, a War Mind is a genius tactical AI built by the corporation CustomMINDS. The first War Mind was created for CustomMINDs in a secret space research station by a scientist called Aphrodite who discovered alien technology. That technology had not been completely mastered by the scientist, however, and the War Mind went renegade.
War Minds are able to deply servitors, smaller sub-units with lesser abilities built for remote surveillance and exploration missions.
CustomMINDS also builds other Minds -- Colony Minds, Farm Minds, and Police Minds.