Collecting mechminds

Hey everybody, just got this game a few days age, so far love the idea and story to the game but kinda stuck early on with how to collect mechminds for capturing structures.

Do i just find them lying around or do i kill for them or is the only way to do mission, get enery and convince them ? start of the game was a bit lacking in explanation lol.

If you want to capture building, you must kill other gliers. There is VERRY little chance you can find machminds on the ground. If you want to capture base, you must collect 10 mechminds and convice them for E.C. in your hold (press "H"). If you conviced 10 mechminds, find free base (or building), go to the cluster and add all mechminds into cluster.