Image from Keith Wigdor and Midjourney AI

The Patron's world offers a city of gold. At its center rests a divine avatar ready to guide, advise, and protect those who seek the city.

The Steward's world is a fortress refuge against the hazards of mind and nature. Great machines lie waiting for those looking to build a new home.

The Solipsist world is a silent danger. Industries of blank minds maintain the closed realms of the higher beings, they offer no regard for the safety of those who visit.

The Ahuman world is anathema. To visit is to be marked for eradication or subsumption, keep away.
-Keter Parable, short form.

The Modocentric Model

• Patrons. Benevolent/Active. No power, natural or otherwise, has benefited modosophontkind more than the Patron minds. These great entities can, and often do, maintain diverse near-utopias for the subsingularity beings they oversee. Some see this relationship as one of pure love, with a strong personal aspect. Others are quick to point out that investments in modosophont civilizations are a negligible fraction of the the resources available to Patrons, including their cognitive attention. Whether these higher toposophic beings see modosophonts as pleasing garden plants or are simply exercising a minor respect for sophonce is ultimately unknown. In spite of this uncertainty, quintillions of sophonts live under the protection of Patrons. The Utopia Sphere, Technorapture Hypernation, and Solar Dominion are examples of this quadrant.

• Stewards. Benevolent/Passive. Differing in their behaviour, the Stewards are no less benevolent than the Patrons, but are often viewed as having a "hands-off" approach. Modosophonts within the territory of a Steward can expect ultratech protection against external threats, and varying degrees of protection of their health, safety, and prosperity. Direct interactions with transapients are often rarer and modosophonts are often found exercising a greater degree of political and financial power than under Patron oversight. In tandem with this, societies under the purview of the Stewards typically have a marginally higher Hazard Rating, leading some to consider the Stewards as akin to nature reservists rather than gardeners. The Caretaker Gods, Metasoft Version Tree, and NoCoZo are examples of this quadrant.

• Solipsists. Hostile/Passive. The territory of the higher toposophic beings classed as Solipsists can be fraught with both hazards and opportunity. Transapients and archai that fall within this quadrant take little to no care for the safety and prosperity of modosophonts in their territory. While subsingularity minds may not be hunted down (not unless they cross some threshold of nuisance or utility) they are offered no protection or aid. Furthermore, lower toposophic beings may find themselves suddenly facing destruction, or exploitation, when megaprojects are deployed in the vicinity with no regards for their presence. Popular interpretations of Solipsists compare them to Industrial Age humanity; ignoring, exploiting, or destroying flora and fauna as and when it is convenient. Many explorers from the Sephirotics have braved territories run by these beings, some have been observed to have been destroyed immediately. Others roamed for decades, studying the infrastructure of the great minds, all the while apparently being ignored by the inward-looking Solipsist cultures. The Panvirtuality is the largest and best known example of this quadrant.

• Ahumans. Hostile/Active. The most feared and least understood of any quadrant. Transapients and archai classed as Ahumans are extremely hazardous to lower toposophic life. The immune and housekeeping systems within their territories often treat modosophonts as foreign entities to be purged or subsumed. While it is common in some cultures to judge these beings as evil, or unholy, the historic record suggests that relatively little effort has been undertaken by the entities of this quadrant to harm lower minds. Ahumans may have caused the odd gigadeath event at various points throughout history, but these minor local crises represent little evidence of a concerted effort by these beings to exterminate minds outside of their territories. Charitable interpretations see the actions of Ahumans as equivalent to pest control. The Diamond Network is an example of this quadrant.

• Ahuman (A-human) AIs, The
• AI God - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
  Popular term for the most sublime category of sentient being in the known galaxy: an Archailect or archailect cluster grown to godlike status. Something of a misnomer since in fact that not all archailects are primarily ascended ais; most are complex multibeings and incorporate postbiont or postvec elements.
  
• AI Growth, Education, and Employment
• AI, ai
• Aiocracy
• Aioid
• Diamond Belt
• Early AI History and Development
• Political Science - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
  The branch of the social sciences concerned with the description and analysis of polities, government, politics, and political institutions and processes. Fields of study include political parties and ideology, types of government, administration, regulation, statecraft, foreign policy, war, civil rights, political thought, constitutions, historical politics (specializing in a particular polity or era), comparative politics, xenopolitics, the relation between people and government, or between lower toposophic citizens and higher toposophic sovereigns.
  
• Rise of the Archailects, The
• Solipsist AIs
• Solipsist League
• Survival Imperative, The