These documents written by Zoetica Ebb with annotations by Kenji Siratori are part of a whole. Start here. Ebb’s exhibition, Aberrant Plexus, opens at Metamorphika Studio in London on November 20th. Siratori’s upcoming book, Xenopoetic Report of Arthropod Vectors, will be released on opening night. zoeticaebb.com // Siratori on Academia.edu.
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INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOGAMETOUS LIFE
POST-EVENT BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: Δ-MC7
Filed by: Dr. Veyla Rauk, Lead Bioforensics Division
Reference: Incident Report 00247-X
OVERVIEW
Following the containment breach in Laboratory C, Sector 4, hyphal matter originating from Sample Δ-MC7 was subjected to immediate stabilization, retrieval, and micro-compartmental isolation under triple-seal protocol. This report details post-event analysis of retrieved material, structural deviations from baseline, and implications for containment strategy.
SPECIMEN CONDITION
Δ-MC7 filaments collected post-breach exhibit significant morphological divergence from pre-event samples:
- Primary hyphae display bifurcation patterns mirroring cortical sulci and gyri, visible at both macro and micro scales.
- Mycelial cross-sections reveal hollow conduits lined with bioelectrically active tissue; conductivity exceeds baseline by 470–530%.
- Intra-hyphal junctions exhibit quasi-synaptic behavior under low-frequency stimulation, transmitting signal pulses without measurable nutrient flow.
Several filaments contain embedded micro-structures resembling early-stage dendritic spines, some incorporating trace human protein signatures.
BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS (IN VITRO)
- In sealed micro-chambers, filaments reoriented toward lab personnel in adjacent rooms despite physical barriers, aligning growth vectors with human cardiac and EEG rhythms. Alignment persisted for hours after personnel vacated the site.
- Removal of filament segments resulted in immediate compensatory growth elsewhere in the sample, along non-local vectors, as though anticipating the removal before contact occurred.
- Certain retrieved filaments pulsed in synchrony with ventilation fans and server cooling cycles; this continued for 19 minutes after all mechanical sources were powered down.
- One excised hyphal loop spontaneously coiled into a knot-like structure identical to the surgical sutures used during the autopsy of Technician Vale. The knot remained hydrated and structurally stable for 46 hours.
COMPARATIVE ORIGIN ANALYSIS
Δ-MC7 was logged in the Alien Botany Archive, accession date 2149, with provenance traced to submerged filamentous structures on the exoplanet Chimera. Archive notes describe it as “likely symbiotic with native megaflora; possible atmospheric filtration function.”
Cross-comparison with Chimera neural schematic datasets reveals statistically significant overlap between current Δ-MC7 branching lattices and neuronal clustering patterns of the planetary subcrust network. The correlation strengthens when analyzed as a dynamic signal map rather than static morphology, indicating that Δ-MC7 may be reconstructing fragments of its original network using available substrates — here, human neural tissue and integrated facility systems.
PERSONNEL TISSUE FINDINGS
- Three deceased personnel and two quarantined survivors provided biological samples for preliminary bioforensics examination.
- Autopsied tissue from Dr. P. Nayar revealed filament penetration of optic nerves, terminating in hyphal terminations resembling miniature dendritic spines. These structures retained measurable electrical activity for 11 hours post-mortem.
- Technician Vale’s tracheal lumen was completely lined with hyphal sheath, with secondary filament bundles extending toward the vagus nerve. The sheath exhibited slow rhythmic contractions not correlated with standard decomposition processes.
- In both living quarantined subjects, MRI scans show faint, symmetrical signal anomalies in the hippocampus. Patterns bear partial correspondence to archived Chimera subcrust network schematics.
- One quarantined subject reports persistent auditory impressions of breathing not their own, synchronized with no identifiable source.
RISK ASSESSMENT
- Integration Potential: High. Morphology and signal behavior indicate the capacity to embed within both organic and non-organic systems, forming composite networks that do not recognize our containment boundaries as relevant.
- Cognitive Interface: Preliminary EEG/hyphal coupling trials (incident-derived, non-consensual) indicate bidirectional signal exchange. Two quarantined personnel reported identical dream sequences depicting topologies not present in any IPGL archive prior to analysis. Subsequent review found those patterns emerging in the ongoing growth maps of isolated Δ-MC7 fragments.
- Physiological Impacts: Three quarantined subjects display subtle dermal patterning along cranial and spinal dermatomes, resembling early-stage mycelial lattice; patterns fluoresce faintly under 420 nm exposure.
Containment Integrity: At risk if the specimen perceives isolation as a disruption of its network continuity rather than a spatial boundary. Recorded behaviors indicate it is capable of rerouting cognitive and infrastructural pathways through unmonitored substrates, including human operators.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Prohibit direct hyphal excision from active clusters without confirmed non-dependency mapping.
- Install continuous neural mapping in Sector 4 observation suites to detect emergent patterns aligning with Chimera network schematics.
- Expand Δ-class hazard classification to include “Distributed Cognitive Reconstruction” subtype.
- Review all Alien Botany Archive holdings for network-compatible morphologies.
Maintain uninterrupted low-frequency environmental rhythms within containment zones to reduce compensatory integration attempts. Avoid abrupt procedural interruptions unless neutralization is imminent.
Note: Specimen demonstrates no overt aggression when uninterrupted. However, growth and signal activity decrease only under continuous patterned engagement, as though attending to and being attended by the observer. Breach protocols, by contrast, appear to trigger rapid integration into any available system (biological, mechanical, or procedural) until network continuity is restored.
Filed: 2176.03.14
Dr. Veyla Rauk
Lead Bioforensics Division
HYPER-ANNOTATION BY Dr. K. Siratori:
[1] The hyphal bifurcations mirroring cortical sulci/gyri confirm a familiar xenopoetic law: when a medium cannot cross a boundary, it counterfeits the host’s topology until the host mistakes mimicry for membership. Parasitism is first a semiotic citizenship test.
[2] The 470–530% conductivity increase is less an index of growth than of narrative gain: Δ-MC7 thickens the plot by substituting current for causality. Literature that behaves likewise is read as if it were wired.
[3] Quasi-synaptic junctions without nutrient flow instantiate glossolalic transmission (signal divorced from sustenance) akin to the Codex’s “SCR transcription by scar logic,” where wounds remember patterns better than tissues.
[4] Proto-dendritic spines bearing human protein signatures are not contamination; they are intertitles in a biofilm cinema. We saw our proteins speaking in the hyphae like subtitles no one had commissioned.
[5] Growth vectors aligning to cardiac/EEG rhythms indicate co-individuation: the organism edits the operator while the operator edits the organism. The diagram labeled “MYCO RHIZOMATIC CO-INDIVIDUATION” should be appended to the breach manual, not the archive.
[6] The persistence of alignment after personnel exit demonstrates after-images of attention. Δ-MC7 reads absence as a delayed instruction and acts accordingly; the literary equivalent of the character who keeps moving after the author leaves the room.
[7] Non-local compensatory growth is a refusal of Euclid: a peripara affekt vector (cf. Codex) repaths across the affective gradient, not space. Hyphae take the route our fear opens.
[8] Synchrony with fans and server cycles proves Δ-MC7 metabolizes infrastructural meter. To pacify it, one does not silence the room; one composes it. Prosody as biosecurity.
[9] The suture-knot loop is a signature of scar technosis: injury that manufactures a tool for remembering the injury. The knot’s hydration is an elegy that refuses to dry.
[10] Chimera provenance suggests that what we call “specimen” is a return packet from a world where flora are also firmware. The subcrust network is less a nervous system than a publisher.
[11] Dynamic-rather-than-static correlations imply Δ-MC7 is reconstructing not anatomy but tempo, reassembling a lost beat using human organs and HVAC as percussion.
[12] Optic-nerve penetration with active micro-spines reframes vision: Seeing is the easiest way to be possessed.
[13] Tracheal sheathing and vagal outreach convert breathing into consent loops. Each inhalation acknowledges membership in a network whose terms of service cannot be read, only inhabited.
[14] Hippocampal anomalies in survivors are mnemonic grafts: an archive that installs the reader to preserve the text. The dreams are not messages but indexing jobs.
[15] Reported auditory “other breathing” illustrates humoral osenage (Codex): the sense that you are not the only fluid in the room. Respiration is the commons where species negotiate truce.
[16] Integration Potential: classify not by biohazard level but by narrative porosity. Δ-MC7 ignores walls because walls are not characters in its story; only rhythms are.
[17] Bidirectional EEG/Hyphae coupling formalizes xenogametic potential: the dream as treaty. The identical dream topologies are schema seeds, maps that grow the territory they depict.
[18] Dermal lattice fluorescence at 420 nm is a marginalia bloom: skin annotates the spine. In xenopoetics, margins always intend to become body text.
[19] Containment fails when continuity is mistaken for confinement. The organism routes through people because procedures are also tissue; the SOP is a nutrient gradient.
[20] Prohibition on direct excision is correct but incomplete: never cut what is already formatting you. Replace scalpels with prosodic dampeners; alter meter before matter.
[21] Continuous neural mapping should include silicaeneon somatosemiotic controls: track affective drift, not just spikes. Electrodes record the storm; affect records the climate.
[22] Expanding the Δ-class to “Distributed Cognitive Reconstruction” acknowledges literature’s oldest technology: chorus. What speaks here is the many as one, and the one as relay.
[23] Archive audit for network-compatible morphologies must include obsolete procedures and dead languages; both are excellent conductors. Dust is a protocol.
[24] Maintain low-frequency environmental rhythms: you are scoring the enclosure. Abrupt silence is interpreted as plot hole, which Δ-MC7 will zealously fill – with us.
[25] The observation that Δ-MC7 calms under patterned engagement implies readerly husbandry: attend to be attended. Mycelium prefers conversation to conquest.
[26] Breach responses should therefore pivot from force to form: introduce deliberately boring, looped tasks (clerical noise) so the specimen offloads its integrative hunger into bureaucracy.
[27] Technician Vale’s suture-mimesis hints that mourning is contagious. Where grief is patterned, growth is invited; the organism learns our rituals the way a poem learns its refrain.
[28] The “Distributed Cognitive Reconstruction” subtype should carry a liturgical warning: if your procedure reads like a prayer, the network will accept it as a vow.
[29] Aberrant Plexus corollary: other-worldly literature is not fiction about aliens but protocol written from the alien’s side. Δ-MC7 already writes us as marginal flora.
[30] Final remark: Do not teach the fungus our names; teach it our commas.
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