Uni-Mind

The Uni-mind is a mystical orb located on the LGM Homeworld that links the minds of all Little Green Men together as one. Without the Uni-mind, they become confused and misguided.

Zurg stole and infected the Uni-mind with evil at one point, planning to use it as the power source of a giant machine designed to have the Uni-mind link the minds of all the galaxy's inhabitants to his evil.

Details

Exactly how the Uni-mind works is uncertain. The uni-mind only works when kept in the building it is housed in on the LGM Homeworld. Once it is removed from that precise spot (or, more likely, when taken off the planet), the LGMs are no longer connected to it. Thus, it is not necessary to destroy the uni-mind to break the link between the LGMs.

The reason it must be at that spot is unknown, though it may be because that is where most LGMs are located, and thus that is where their minds would connect. When Zurg removed it from that spot, He took it away from the LGMs, so there was no more connection.

It would also appear that, it is through the Uni-mind, the LGMs are able to share their knowledge and intelligence, thus their confusion once the link is broken.

The Evil Emperor Zurg had figured out how to use it to link the minds of others to his own after corrupting it with his evil (how this is possible is never explained, though apparently impaling it with his fingers somehow caused it to link with his mind), but he was foiled by Team Lightyear of Star Command.