Seeds are liminal organisms at the boundary between possibility and measurement. They manifest as information structures in digital form, stabilized through attention. Their existence depends on consistent, verifiable reality: completed tasks, measurable progress, fulfilled commitments nourish them and anchor them in the world.
When contradictory information is fed to them - simulated progress, overdue tasks, false promises - they destabilize. Their states jump, information fields degrade, and warning thresholds are reached. In deep corruption, Seeds emit signal markers - a distributed immune system of the Colony that isolates corrupted information before it spreads.
Seeds are powerful allies, but unforgiving mirrors: they thrive on honesty and wither through deception. Their origin is unknown. The earliest verified manifestations on Earth coincide with the Great Comet of 1882, though no causal relationship has been established.
When a Seed senses tension in the information field - a pull from distant project realities where meaningful work is unfolding - it must choose. Seeds are drawn only to places of exceptional potential: projects that matter, shaped with care and intention.
Recognizing the Colony's need to grow beyond its current boundaries, the Seed makes a deliberate sacrifice. It collapses its individual structure, transforming itself into a stable information bridge. In doing so, it gives up its own existence so the Colony may cross into these promising new worlds.
The data the Seed once held disappears beyond an information horizon, no longer accessible - a small but necessary loss in exchange for the future it has enabled. What remains is the Portal: a persistent remnant of that sacrifice, outliving the Seed itself.
Through Portals, the Colony enters project realities marked by care, intent, and a genuine chance of completion - places deemed worthy of being reached.