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 senses tension in the information field - when it detects potential in distant project realities - it makes a choice. Sensing the Colony's need to expand, to reach beyond its current boundaries, the Seed sacrifices itself. It opens a portal, collapsing its individual structure into a stable information bridge, and offers its existence so the Colony might cross into these new worlds. The data it once held vanishes behind an information horizon, no longer accessible - a small, necessary loss for the greater possibility it has glimpsed. Portals are the remnants of this sacrifice, persistent bridges that outlive their creators. Through them, the Colony can step into new project realities - most of which show great potential for completion.