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Ix-Terra --- Latest reports on shadow contacts ---

Ix-Terra and the Robotia Foundation
It seems as though the Robotia Foundation’s central system has regained control of the situation. For us, this news is of prime importance and we must now include this information in the development model algorithms we use to for the shadow universe. We have therefore offered Control- the central system of our new allies- unlimited access to our resources. A special communications group has been put into place to continually analyze all information coming from our friends. This analysis has taught us, among other things, that collections of biological matter can actually achieve an autonomous state that allows them communicate and even develop some kind of society. These 'Civilizations’ seem to be composed of Groups of independent consciousness, forming a whole that is mostly incoherent and fundamentally unstable/flawed.

Ix-Terra and the Biological entities : First contact report.
Recently, one of our shadow exploration vessels came into contact with a crystalline structure that did not appear to follow the normal laws of movement that apply to inert objects in the shadow universe. Upon analysis, it was determined that this structure was being motivated by systems superficially similar to the ones we use to propel our own explorers, although no device could be found aboard that might sustain intelligence. Fearing a viral attack, the explorer held its position and called for six anti-viral units. However, upon their arrival in the solar system, the foreign structure, which we now classified as a vessel, appeared to emit a regular modulation of waves. The pattern, while slow, seemed sufficiently repetitive to indicate some form of simplistic communication. We therefore submitted the puzzle to our allies who responded not only with the algorithms necessary to translate and understand this communication, but also a brief 'summary’ on the way in which these organic colonies function.

Analysis of the information describing proto-intelligent organic colonies.
The Proto-intelligent organic colonies are composed of a multitude of independent collections of organic material, which can only communicate with one another using extremely narrow and above all highly imprecise methods. Because of this structural limitation, the colonies are extremely unstable and in a state of perpetual evolution, constantly searching for their optimum evolutionary state- not by means of a reasoned and planned upgrades, but by a random trial-and-error process whereby those that appear to be most suitable are selected for continuation. The crucial implication here is that it seems quite impossible for us to forge normal bilateral communications with these colonies. The prime consequence of this is that sooner or later, these colonies- whose sole objective seems to be expansion- will enter into conflict with our own emergence points in the shadow universe. We must therefore arm ourselves for defense, and P-G-1 has taken on the task of modernizing our re-colonization ground clearance systems to increase the explosive force of the pseudo-reactors. One of the most elegant solutions is the one we have named ‘atmospheric scorching’.