Could you explain what the hell is sword logic? I still don't get it then may you explain it to me pls
Sword Logic is a philosophy that the Hive live by which is essentially the idea that you have to fight and kill to deserve to live and continue existing. If you lose and die, that means you're not worthy of existing, therefore you must always struggle and defeat others to prove your right to exist. This also includes the idea that if someone or something is too weak to defend itself, it should be destroyed rather than helped. From the Books of Sorrow:
Our universe gutters down towards cold entropy. Life is an engine that burns up energy and produces decay. Life builds selfish, stupid rules — morality is one of them, and the sanctity of life is another. These rules are impediments to the great work. The work of building a perfect, undying creation, a civilization everlasting. Something that cannot end. If a civilization cannot defend itself, it must be annihilated. If a King cannot hold his power, he must be betrayed. The worth of a thing can be determined only by one beautiful arbiter — that thing’s ability to exist, to go on existing, to remake existence to suit its survival.
The Hive practice this in a way to also gain power, as their belief in this Logic actually strengthens them and allows them to do stuff like make throne worlds. Throne worlds allow them to "die" but not permanently; since they earned their throne world from practicing the Sword Logic (killing those weaker than them), they're allowed to continue existing because they've proven they're worthy of that power.
This stems from the Witness' philosophy which is also heavily mentioned in Unveiling and the way it thinks of the Darkness. It's a way to reduce complexity in the universe and remove anything that is "useless," and the belief that there's only one true Final Shape of existence and that everything else has no meaning or worth so it must be destroyed. From Unveiling:
Think about it. Do you mourn the uncreated? Do you grieve for those who were never born in a nation that never developed around an ideology no one ever imagined on a continent that never formed? No! And from that self-evident truth, you must raise your eyes to the ultimate revelation: those who cannot sustain their own claim to existence belong to the same moral category as those who have never existed at all. Existence is the first and truest proof of the right to exist. Those who cannot claim and hold existence do not deserve it. This is the true and only divination, a game whose losers are not just forgotten but are never born at all.
