Why can't they be war minds that are fully ai and aware. That made a compact with an alien race. In said compact the war minds bargained the ability to transfer there consciousness into a sentient body and then the war minds would then become the first. "Awoken" so to speak. Along with that think how Rasputin could fit in
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Edited by Fal Chavam: 12/31/2015 4:45:00 AMBut that would mean the awoken would have to already have existed. therefore the nine wouldn't be the first awoken.