Chairentity Number 12

The member of generation 7 chosen to take charge of their mission to serve tea on remote worlds. Number 12 wishes to get one thing absolutely straight right at the start - Being in charge is definitely the short straw. Sometimes life is tough.
Number 12 believes Nirvana is having underlings that do as they are told.

Number 11

Number 11 is responsible for electronics, physics and simple stuff like that. Consequently it is generally well-disposed and finds life a breeze. If there were oceans on the moon it would long since have made itself a surfboard. As a result of experiments with its thought processes it has developed an imagination, and it now suspects that some of its colleagues are a load of whinging pommes/poms, but isn’t too sure how to spell it. It seems to need to invent new words once in a while to describe its experience of hairy mammals. Hairymammalese and pontifdefecating, for example.
Number 11 believes Nirvana was a group of musicians; it KNOWS Nirvana was a group of musicians, but its colleagues won't listen (except Number 14). Oh well, whatever, never mind...

Number 8

The bio-chemist of the mission, is perfectly happy, provided its colleagues leave it in peace in its laboratory. The AloeVera most likely to possess an anorak. (But it doesn't).
Number 8 believes Nirvana is a place, possibly a retirement home with en-suite lab.

Number 9

When they first arrived on Earth's moon, Number 9 didn't have a fixed role. It entertained itself by observing the hairy mammals of Grockel's Bay. ''You can be our hairy mammal psychologist!'' its colleagues declared. Number 9 knows with every molecule of its AloeVeraness, every fibre-optic of its being, that this is by far the shortest straw that ever claimed to be a straw, was alleged by others to be a straw or anything remotely resembling a straw, or had any pretensions, past, present or future, whatsoever at all, to strawdom.
Number 9 believes Nirvana is a state of mind achieved by daily meditation. Or possibly medication.

Number 14

The only AloeVera of any generation ever to be fitted with parallel processors, supposedly to help it to understand aesthetics, whatever/whoever they might be. Number 14 knows without the shadow of a doubt, that having ‘learn about aesthetics’ as a directive is the short straw. Privately it holds the opinion that parallel processors merely make it more prone to changing its mind, but it's currently reconsidering this. After being fitted with special hormone-sensitive chips and modified software, it is able to experience feelings, of a sort. This makes its life even more difficult, but it refuses to return to its former feeling-free state.
Number 14 believes - well, it's like this: parallel processor #17 agrees with AloeVera Number 8, #23 agrees with Number 9, #29 & #31 agree with Number 11, #7 agrees with chairentity Number 12 & #5 is dead against Number 12.
Number 14's central processor is pondering the significance of the fact that only parallel processors labelled by prime numbers hold any views on 'Nirvana'.
#1, 8, & 27 favour the meaningful coincidence hypothesis;
#1, 4, & 9 favour the meaningless coincidence hypothesis. #1 clearly has a fault.
Got a headache yet? Imagine how Number 14 feels...