I did find the use of this particular true slave model amusing, for both IC and OOC reasons.
Although I do wish I could get a look at the Sansha from 300 Rounds
In my vision of them, they were essentially like this guy, if there were hundreds of them, and a significant portion were botched or cannibalized by the others to improve their own efficiency, leaving them with a rudimentary level of operation. Since the obvious Borg similarity has been brought up, recall the retarded quasi-Borg that Lore built on the Planet of Yellow Filters.
The way I imagined it, the retarded cranially absent drones were just the picked-clean remnants; somewhere else on the ship were fully coherent True Slaves who, in the absence of connection to Sansha, reverted to Sansha-like behavior, i.e. employing others for your own selfish gain, but on a more rudimentary level. They were the ones responsible for breaking away the ship-tether. I wanted to specifically differentiate them from Borg in this manner, in that there are tiers of slave "usefulness", and a single rudimentary true slave has two priorities: multiply, then assemble a leader for the mob. One will, many bodies, just like Sansha wanted - and naturally, upon reconnection to the Sansha group consciousness, the leader defers to the big boss' will.
