Again, assuming and creating your own ideas here until proper background is released is pointless. The lore is being written and will be done sooner or later. Also you will find that once it comes out, this idea will become relatively pointless as it contradicts some stuff in there. Mindshare is something they need and something they require to function properly, why do you think they were all messed up when it got shut off? Drifting aimlessly through space, in pain and suffering. It's even explained through such things, even without the need for lore, only if one is not lazy and actually tries to look.