'Though a quarrel in the Streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine' John Keats

The Psytech Culture sees warfare, like everything else, as an art-form. The interplay of mind and body, energy and matter, life and death. The path of War leads them to create beautiful but deadly engines of destruction - bending and twisting the forces of the universe in an effort to create machines that defy mundane logic while still being relentless in the execution of the Culture's martial needs.