Overmind

According to the philosophy of the Bilar species, the overmind' was a metaphorical hive mind (or claqa) that encompassed all members of the Bilar species. This concept extended the close ties that bound individual constituents of claqa&mdash;groups of Bilars who shared a common intelligence and personality&mdash;to the species as a whole. Thus, the overmind concept prevented a Bilar claqa from engaging in violent behavior against another claqa.