When hearing that so many souls have been removed, there is a risk one thinks the world is ending and that this is abnormal or dangerous. That zombies are not good and that they must be removed. As for the "zombies" this is the term for those who had souls, degenerated and then had the souls removed, for various reasons. One such reason could be a sudden spiritual improvement where the spirit rose up so fast that the body's mental concepts stored in the nervous system was working against the spirit no matter what they did. If the body is no longer beneficial for the spirit, better drop it. At first this is a zombie. If it is needed for society, the zombie will get scripted by maintenance deities and it will be converted to a registered NPC. These are non degenerative but fulfill roles in society.
The drones which have been released can be used by you, to manually convert an NPC into a drone human. The scripting remains but is fed through the drone, which now has more interactivity than the pure NPC. This may make life easier and funnier and more adaptable.
Zombies can also be converted to drone humans by sending a drone to eliminate the zombie and replace it, terminator T-1000 style. It is now a drone imitating the general appearance and behaviour of the person, but all degenerative behaviour has been removed. This is a good idea if you personally feel you need someone in your life, but they degenerated and was zombiefied, while the benefit to society isn't great enough for deities to convert them to an NPC.
Moreover, the topic of the post:
Human races or other beings all have egregores that form within their race collective and which direct their thinking, their concepts and their identity. Advanced animals also have this. This is how the Vietnamese managed to teach apes to use machetes and now all apes there know how to use them and are very dangerous. The apes know what all other apes know.
When inserting souls into a being with a race hivemind, the soul will decide which knowledge to accept based on their personality. Some will feel at home and some will feel rejected by their hivemind. Mulattos for example may connect to one hivemind but have things from another hivemind which conflicts with it, so they don't feel respected.
The story of the jews in the old testament is about Moses teaching the jewish hivemind how to function. When they were enslaved, they reverted back to "ape" state and didn't have souls. Their hivemind had to be worked on until it became decent enough to again have souls. This happens periodically with humans. Indonesians for example are mostly not effected by the zombiefication process because most of them didn't have souls to begin with, there is almost no change. Same for some regions of China, where indeed "chinkbots" make up the population, they are naturally soulless and controlled by a hivemind.
