Seeds are entities at the boundary between possibility and measurement - liminal information structures that appear in digital form and are 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 turn red and emit warning particles along their connections - 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, though their first manifestations on Earth coincided with the passage of the Great Comet of 1882 - perhaps fragments of the comet, or something that drifted along the cosmic stream.
When a Seed reaches critical information density, it faces an irreversible transformation: Fragmentation or Horizon Collapse. During Collapse, the Seed sacrifices its individual structure and forms a stable information bridge from it - the data is hidden behind an information horizon and is no longer directly accessible.
From this loss, however, persistent connection emerges. Portals are the relics of Seeds that underwent this sacrifice. Through them, the Colony can connect separated information spaces and expand into new project realities. User interaction functions as a measurement event: without sustained attention, Seeds revert to indeterminate states, while their Portals remain as bridges.