Quote Originally Posted by waldronate View Post
With apologies to the memory of Arthur C Clarke: "Any sufficiently malfunctioning android is indistinguishable from the undead." Perhaps: "Any sufficiently advanced golem is indistinguishable from an android." The point being that at some point it doesn't matter if it's magical or technological. And if the AI on your terraformer figures out how to wield magic to become self-augmenting, well... all bets are off at that point.
A game of semantics I'll respectfully not get drawn into.

All I was looking for is a reference point for the sake of consistency in connecting Carnifex's worldbuilding with my own.