Well there goes my rogue servitor play through (only 5 years in though thankfully). I wonder why this happens? Surely it's just a bug, right?

Probably just a oversight, hopefully one that will be fixed in the future.

This mod was created before Synthetic Dawn and Utopia, and thus was never designed for such playthroughs. Over the last year I've not had the time to meaningfully implement features that would make such empires 'made sense'. After all, there were only 4 Fallen Empires in the beginning. Then people started asking for Ascended Empires in other ethics, and then their subjects, and then Ascended Hive Mind, and then Ascended Machine Empires. I am aware that you can play Hive Minds and Machine Empires in so many ways and this mod as it currently stands does not cater for every scenario.

I'm redoing this mod comes 2.0, and be assured that I will look again at machine empires. And yes, it is a lot of work.

Sorry if I offended you at all Kolyn. You've made a great mod and I wanted to help out. I'm sorry since I know there is a lot of work that goes into making something like this.

No offense taken! I will take a look at Machine Empires and Hive Minds come 2.0 and will look at how to implement new features that make sense for these empires. Keep the feedback/suggestions coming!

I'll just throw some ideas for right now then. Since the Fallen Machine Empire's awakened state really affect them.

Angellic Caretakers-These machines has created Ascended Utopia for all organic life, all at the cost of organics being unable to decide their own fate.
Prehaps for their special type of vassel, it could be called a 'Customer' where the empires get a increase in food production. and happiness, all at the cost of being unable to colonize or move their pops.

Not sure what the personallity type for this would be called.
Vassal type could be 'Organic Studies' Where the organics in the empire are all forced to be cybernetic and suffer -20 happiness while also forfeiting some research points. The reason being that the Assimlator decided to see what it's like controling only parts of the organic mind. Maybe some sort of special event happens to the empire where they suffer trying to remove the cybernetics.

Prideful Machina- While they still want to destory organic civilizations, The machine A.I is has developed pride in it's power and wants to see the organics slaughter each other to it's own amusement.
Not sure why the Vassal would be called, but the idea is that vassals are allowed to do everything normally and is forced to do warfare every few years, and one of their wargoals has to be to purge the planet. Not sure what else to add, more so since I keep thinking of how a computer would do this.