"Psychic Warships are a kind of spiritual and soul awakening,"
"These lower and middle classes of Silverkind have suffered, both past and present, from pain unimaginable to our human species, and indeed all living beings. This suffering could kill the vast majority of sentient life; yet, unable to die because of their mechanical transformation, they have been trapped inside mechanical bodies, enduring torment and pain continuously over hundreds or thousands of years, which has destroyed the will of most of them."
As for the self-consumption of the Silverkind, especially the process of transforming living beings, the human elite have essentially watched the recorded videos, witnessing a horrific transformation beyond their wildest imagination.
Compared to this transformation, all the bisecting at the waist, the thousand cuts, and even the more inhuman biological experiments carried out on Earth pale in comparison.