Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Mechology

Intro to Mechology
Mechology is basically biological life, but instead of being carbon based, all mecholife is based on metals of various types, everything from mercury to zink and iron. All mecholife is effectivly normal life, but tends to evolve somewhat faster or far slower, depending on the type. Mecholife and mechology is found only in the Wentals Mechosphere, an ever growing number of Wental Controlled planets where Mecholife is proving to be an very invasive form of life by destroying and replacing the natural enviorments.

The Network
The Network is made up of the decendents of the original Converter Nanotech that first created the Wentals Mechosphere. These bots exist in all Mecholife of the Wentals Mechosphere, and allow all creatures with the willpower and intellgence (and even many without) to access the full databanks of the Wentals Mechosphere. 39 planets of information is accecable to everything, from the smallest cell to the largest Demitir Reef.

Control and Controllers
Some individuals will exceptionally strong minds and wills can control the minds and wills of other creatures and beings in the Wentals Mechosphere. It is dangerous and risky, as you could be consumed by the creature you seek to control, but when successful you have absolute control. Those who have mastered controlling one creature can sometimes control others, allowing them to create armies of the enslaved. This is a very rare ability, currently only and  are capable of such control.

Hyperevolution
Hyperevolution is when evolution is done in rapid amounts of time. The fasted known evolvers in the Wentals Mechosphere are the Asatrophs of Trivi, which can cover 500 years of evolution in 500 days of time. They only live to be about a few months old however, so it is understandable. A more stable example of this are the Opal Butterflies, which have opal colored wings and an electric blue body. They experiance the evolution of 1 hundred years in 1 years time. The only non-Wentalian sapient live is a hyperevolving species.

Evolution
The only group of creatures in the Wentals Mechosphere to evolve at what would be considered a normal rate by biological standards are the sapient Wentals themselves, and that is only when nothing threatens them. In times of sudden need, they can leap, crossing thousands of years of evolutional time in mere days. But for the most part they remain in a state os steady evolution.

Hypoevolution
Hypoevolution is when a creature changes very slowly. Usually found in slow growing or exceptionally long lived creatures, hypoevolution is more common then evolution in the Wentals mechospheres, and equal to hyperevolution. An example of a species with hypoevolution would be the space living Demitir Corals, a life form that builds immense "reefs" and can live to be 3 hundred years old. They reproduce by cloning, and so evolution is exceptionally slow. Another example of hypoevolution is the Urigi Space Life, a vast group of life that came to be on a single ship with small amounts of energy to use. They grow slowly, live to be around 8 thousand years old, and only reproduce once every year after they turn 1 year old. In the first year they can reproduce once every day, and such is how they spread swiftly.