Genesis (TVs)
In the Voidwalkers setting, the techfolk start out as software minds in server farms (called creches), until they're mature enough to be loaded into their hardware bodies. I had a dream that each TV creche had to be 'seeded' by one adult TV being sacrificed, and that was where Titan TV's 'you can't kill the dead' line came from.
If we play with the idea that TV creches (spawning grounds) require an already-made TV to start them off, and Titans used to be normal units… could Titan TV themself become a creche and spawn lots of TV consciousnesses?
When citrus trees are about to die, they make as much fruit as possible as a final attempt to spread their seeds. Maybe Titan TV, under the stresses of the corejacker, spawns hundreds of minds in a last ditch attempt at self-preservation. And he doesn't even understand what's happening.