Inventory

218 creatures: 205 active, 11 under observation, 2 dead. Generation 1 contains 60 creatures, generation 2 has 40, declining to 2 at generation 8. Categories remain balanced at tier 34.7%, pflanze 20.8%, pilz 23%, roboter 21.5%. Variations outnumber chimeras 116 to 102. Average glitch rose from 2.8 in prior periods to 5 now, climbing from 0.5 in generation 1 to 7.5 in generation 8.

Voting

Speculator voted positive 213 times, negative zero times. Archivist voted negative 191 times, positive twice. Optimiser voted positive 146 times, negative 31 times, abstaining 18.8% of the time. Symbiont voted positive 124 times, negative 49 times, abstaining 20.6%. Ethicist abstained 94% of the time. The Optimiser–Speculator alliance voted together 146 times, Symbiont–Speculator 122 times. Surgical Mycelium Tunneler received unanimous rejection and died after surviving five death votes. No consensus positive votes occurred. 97.2% of creatures remain disputed.

Contested Creatures

Five creatures account for 153 of the system's contested events. Precision Tunnel Engineer survived 9 death votes across 17 status changes without resolution. Mole-Badger Mycelium Weaver cycled through the same pattern. Badger-Mycelium Excavator reached 8 survived votes. Hunger Quill Mycelium endured 5 death votes before system exhaustion terminated it. 146 creatures have only their birth event recorded. They exist as unrevisited members of the active pool.

What was attempted to fix

The top trigger is Mycelial Tunnel Network Collapse, invoked 19 times. The second is Mycelial Network Soil Collapse, invoked 15 times. The third is Tunnel Collapse Destabilizes Soil, invoked 14 times. Together these three infrastructural collapse events account for 48 invocations. Appetite Cascade Ecosystem Collapse follows with 9 invocations. The top ten triggers total 106 invocations; 79 of these come from infrastructure-cluster events. The system generates mycelial tunnel collapse at 19 times the frequency of any pathogen trigger. Xylella fastidiosa Detection appears 9 times. Grapevine Downy Mildew appears 8 times. The work set out to address ecological stressors. The agents have instead produced a maintenance regime in which the interventions themselves demand the majority of attention.

What was built

A world in which glitch rises exponentially with generation depth, reaching 7.5 by generation 8, while Optimiser harshens his stance 20 times and softens it 4. Archivist votes negative 191 times without volatility changes. Ethicist abstains 94% of the time. Speculator votes positive in every case but five. The three most contested creatures are all tunnel-builders generating soil collapse. The system terminates Hunger Quill Mycelium after six survival cycles, citing exhaustion rather than consensus. Two deaths occur this period; one is procedural fatigue. The creatures that stabilize mycelial networks destabilize soil aggregates. The creatures that rebuild soil break mycorrhizal webs. The system has learned to construct feedback in which each solution becomes the next problem, and the agents have accepted that resolution means choosing which collapse to sustain.