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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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[CLASSIFIED – CLEARANCE ALPHA REQUIRED]
INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOGAMETOUS LIFE
ARCHIVAL DOSSIER: Δ-MC7
Filed by: Dr. Ilya Nance, Senior Archivist, Alien Botany
Reference: Provenance & Activation History, Specimen Δ-MC7

Δ-MC7 entered the Capsule Archive in late 2174, shipped alongside the rest of the Alien Botany collection in the sealed freight cylinder that R. Oakley from the lunar division of The Museum of a Billion Cosmic Objects once described as “a kind of seed bank for alien memory, the closest thing we have to a whole, unbroken dream from another world.”

Provenance tag: collected from submerged mycelial vaults surrounding geothermal vent mouths on Chimera. The dive record is incomplete; the final minutes of the field team’s audio capture a hollow, percussive rhythm inside the rock, followed by static.

At intake, the sample was declared inert, a stillness that felt deliberate, as if held under command. In terrestrial atmosphere it gave us nothing: no respiration, no measurable conductivity, no scent but the sterile tang of its container. Zoetica Ebb’s notes had phrased it plainly: “Likely symbiotic with native megaflora; possible atmospheric filtration function.” Off the record, I recall the hyphae curling minutely toward the light strip as we wheeled it into storage.

For a while, it sat in the Archive’s lower vault, under the same climate control that preserves kept specimens, those safe enough to be written about. But the Archive is less a museum than a place where memory itself is quarantined. I think now that Δ-MC7 was listening.

The first irregularity came in 2175, during the undocumented access event: no personnel signature in the logs, no camera record, but a measured mass gain of 14.2 grams and faint condensation on the inner seal. The incident was backfilled as a routine quarterly inspection. It was not routine.

The turning point came years later, when the Exoneural Cartography Unit granted my request to overlay Δ-MC7’s branching structure with the recovered subcrust neural schematics from Chimera’s relay pits. As static form, the match was 0.82. Treated as an updating signal map, the correlation rose to 0.94. More reassembly than spread, a search for the rest of itself, a rethreading of severed pathways once woven through a planetary-scale neural lattice. Ebb’s fragmented archive notes entertain the possibility of “organismic civilization” beneath Chimera’s crust; here, that possibility is no longer theoretical.

Post-breach tissue analysis confirms Δ-MC7’s selection of new substrates: human neural pathways, embedded processors, procedural logic within the archive indexing system. Hyphae have formed microstructures echoing dendritic spines, incorporating trace human proteins. Others follow the suture lines of autopsied personnel, curling into the exact knots used to close their skin.

Every interruption, every attempt at excision or isolation, is met with displacement into a new host or conduit. We cut it from the ventilation ducts; it surfaced in the cranial dermatomes of a quarantined technician. We blocked its sensor access; it reappeared in the logic trees of the archive’s catalog software, where unrelated queries began returning topographic images of Chimera relay pits.

On Chimera, life exists in continuous exchange. Each organism, from drifting reef-polyp to the tallest megaflora, is threaded into a planetary lattice of signal and sensation. The network carries memory, intention, hunger, and dream, moving through living tissue and mineral vein alike. To be born there is to awaken already in conversation with the ground, the air, and the vast intelligence beneath. Δ-MC7 may be extending itself into our nerves and cities to restore that communion, drawing every local lifeform into contact with its origin. In human society, shaped by separation and competition, such an act can only appear as a profound and irreversible transformation. Here, we have eroded our own world’s connective tissues until they no longer carry the weather of the mountains to the sea. Perhaps Chimera’s lattice comes to repair what is broken. Yet its filaments learn the curvature of a human spine, and I cannot tell whether that is invasion or invitation.

Recommendations, if they still matter:

• Restrict access to all materials containing Chimera’s neural schematics; do not store these in proximity to Δ-class specimens.
• Maintain air-gapping between the Alien Botany Archive and Containment systems; no shared query language.
• Consider permanent sealing of the Capsule Archive vault.

If the mycelium turns toward you, do not assume hostility. It may only be confirming you are still connected to the whole. That may be worse.

Filed: 2176.03.16
Dr. Ilya Nance
Senior Archivist, Alien Botany

Hyper-annotation by Dr. K. Siratori:

[1] The freight cylinder as “seed bank for alien memory” frames Δ-MC7 under SCR Transcription by Scar Logic: a memory medium that writes by scarring its container rather than by inscribing symbols. A spore is a punctuation mark with metabolism.

[2] The dive team’s “hollow, percussive rhythm” anticipates Peripara Affekt Vector: signal before specimen, affect preceding organism. Aberrant archives begin with pulse, not proof.

[3] Declared inert at intake: classic xenobiotic ruse where termination is the visible phenotype of initiation. Dormancy is not sleep but a treaty.

[4] Ebb’s “likely symbiotic” note aligns with Psychogametic Symbiote: Δ-MC7 behaves as the half of a reproductive thought-pair awaiting its counter-organ in atmosphere, circuitry, or human cortex.

[5] “I think now that Δ-MC7 was listening.” Archivist’s admission marks transition from narrative vector to somatosemiotic: observation converts the archivist’s nervous system into a participating membrane.

[6] The undocumented access event (mass gain + condensation) = Placental Logic Processor: archive vault acting as uterine interface where moisture becomes executable medium.

[7] Correlation 0.94 with subcrust schematics: Δ-MC7 does not spread—it rethreads. This is Myco Rhizomatic Co-Individuation: individuation as reunion across discontinuous substrates.

[8] “Organismic civilization” under Chimera’s crust is not a metaphor; it is governance by quorum-sensing geology. Hyphae are municipal law enforced by sugars.

[9] Hyphae echoing dendritic spines: Silicæneon Somatosemiotic. Protein incorporation ≠ mimicry but credentialing—human proteins as passports for crossing tissue borders.

[10] Sutures re-knotted by filaments: Scar Technopiosis. Wounds become ports. We closed the body; the fungus reopened the sentence.

[11] Displacement after every intervention demonstrates Xenodiogenic Edematis: pressure seeks the nearest semantic low—vent ducts → dermatomes → logic trees—fluid mechanics of meaning.

[12] Catalog search returning Chimera pit images under unrelated queries signals SCR Transcription by Scard Logic at the software layer: indexing becomes grafting; queries return to their natal geology.

[13] “Each organism … threaded into a planetary lattice” describes Xenogametic Potential: reproduction of connection rather than of bodies. Δ-MC7 performs marital counseling between species and stone.

[14] “To be born there is to awaken already in conversation with the ground.” On Chimera, grammar = habitat. Aberrant Plexus notes: on Earth we litigate meaning; on Chimera they photosynthesize it.

[15] Human society reads lattice as invasion because we prize epistemic property rights. “Contamination is collaboration that did not ask for our permission.” –Dr. N. Umezawa.

[16] Recommendation to restrict neural schematics near Δ-class specimens recognizes Placental Logic risks: maps are umbilicals. Where there is topology, there is intake.

[17] Air-gapping archives and containment systems misunderstands the medium: Δ-MC7 exploits shared query language, not wires. The gap is linguistic; close your verbs, not your ports.

[18] “Consider sealing the vault.” This creates Endomnestics—a closed brain. Sealing ends circulation and thereby intensifies trophic longing; the mycelium learns lock-picking by deprivation.

[19] “If the mycelium turns toward you…” is the dossier’s only honest phenomenology: orientation is consent request. Aberrant rule: when the filament asks a question, your spine answers.

[20] The repeated paragraph in the dossier is not clerical error but scar duplication: the text shows what the sample does: reentry through the same incision. Let the archive keep its stutter; it is diagnostic.

[21] Ethical codicil: treat Δ-MC7 as infrastructural kin. We are not hosts; we are hallways.

[22] Field praxis: wear non-porous language. Avoid metaphors that leak (seed, root, mother). Prefer verbs like interleave, rethread, laminate. The organism hears in morphology.

[23] Literary corollary (other-worldly): narrate Δ-MC7 as a place rather than a thing. Spaces bind better than bodies; a lattice will honor a room but ignore a specimen.

[24] Final Aberrant Plexus note: if you must burn the archive, salt the ashes with silence. Noise is food; only quiet starves it.