Free will
Unlike in other nations, where free will is considered a positive thing - although most leaders try to carve it as much as they can - at the skat'ra, it is a defect. In skat'ra society, the rulership of the queens is absolute, and no individual can exist outside the hive mind.
If a skat'ra is not part of the hive mind, they won't respond to orders from the queens. Because of this, they don't know what to do, and they can interfere with the workings of the hive mind, or because of building frustration, they can go on a rampage and even become killers. Being outside the hive mind usually happens if their conditioning is faulty during their growth inside their egg.
Sometimes skat'ras have the urge to do something that their queens didn't order. Usually, these are one-off acts driven by emotions. The most famous skat'ra to do one-time activity is Groth'try, who gave food from the reserves to the workers during the famine.
Every skat'ra regardless that they are not part of a hive mind or did an act on their own, is labeled as deviant. Immediately, when their action is detected, they are captured and thrown into Prison hill. There, the queens try to recondition them to become dutiful members of skat'ra society.
However, the queens realize that because they must share Tacillia with other nations, they must grant some free will to specialized skat'ras so that they can act on their own. Warriors and sentinels can give orders to each other during combat, freeing up the queens to do tactical commanding. And envoys can go their ways to conduct their business with their foreign contact, and the queens don't have to supervise their every second. Of course, these individuals' free will only exist until the queens allow it, but even the queens must accept the value of it.
As a company leader, I understand that the queens want to control everything. But believe me; you must delegate
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