Trope-a-Day: Determinator
Determinator: This is, of course, the essence of qalasír (see Blue and Orange Morality) – and while not every eldrae or Imperial possesses the degree of qalasír necessary to be the Determinator, some do, and lesser degrees of Determinatorism are positively common.
(The sheer amount of not-staying-dead biotech around helps, but would not, on its own, be sufficient.)