The term arises because in practice, it's most efficient to implement such intelligences as software upon a simple RISC array. This also allows such intelligences to be copied among compatible hardware. Since all computing in the world of Softwired is parallel, code-bot intelligences are described as "finitely-parallel", to contrast them with infinitely-parallel spark-based intelligences. Most of the Third Spark's forces are code-bots. Above them are several spark-bots, known as "elites", and above them is the Third Spark herself, a disembodied spark.