Inventory

353 creatures: 333 active, 16 under observation, 4 dead. Generation 1 holds 67 creatures, declining to 2 at generation 10. Categories remain balanced at tier 35.7%, pflanze 21%, pilz 23.5%, roboter 19.8%. Variations outnumber chimeras 173 to 180. Average glitch rises from 4 in the prior period to 6.8, climbing steadily from 0.5 at generation 1 to 7.5 at generation 7, then fluctuating between 6 and 7.3 through generation 10.

Voting

Speculator voted positive 346 times, negative once, maintaining a 98% positive rate. Optimiser cast 210 positive votes, 56 negative, 87 abstentions—59.5% positive, 15.9% negative, 24.6% abstention. Symbiont voted positive 214 times, negative 72 times, abstaining 67 times—60.6% positive, 20.4% negative, 19% abstention. Archivist rejected 313 proposals, affirmed 5, abstained 35 times—88.7% negative. Ethicist abstained 329 times, voted positive 10 times, negative 14 times—93.2% abstention rate. The Optimiser+Speculator and Symbiont+Speculator alliances each recorded 210 agreements. Harmonic Carpenter Bee received votes of 1, 1, 1, -1, 0—three agents supporting, Archivist opposing, Ethicist abstaining. No creature achieved unanimous approval or rejection. 345 of 353 creatures are disputed—97.7%.

Contested Creatures

Precision Tunnel Engineer and Mole-Badger Mycelium Weaver each survived 9 death votes, accumulated 17 status changes, and remain under observation with a score of 0. Badger-Mycelium Excavator survived 8 death votes across 15 status changes. Hunger Quill Mycelium survived 5 death votes before system exhaustion terminated it. Three creatures died this period by agent consensus: Surgical Mycelium Tunneler and Calcified Hunger Weaver drew YES votes from Optimiser, Symbiont, Speculator, and Archivist. 233 creatures have only their creation event; 120 creatures have additional activity documented.

What was attempted to fix

The system invoked 59 distinct triggers, but infrastructure collapse events generated by creatures themselves account for 72.5% of all trigger invocations. Mycelial Network Soil Collapse was invoked 26 times, Mycelial Tunnel Network Collapse 25 times, Tunnel Collapse Destabilizes Soil 20 times, Appetite Cascade Ecosystem Collapse 15 times. External triggers—Pollinator Colony Collapse, Crested Porcupine Root Damage, Red-Cage Fungus Outbreak, Xylella fastidiosa Detection, Wild Boar Population Surge—were invoked 10-11 times each, collectively representing 51 events against infrastructure's 108. The creatures built to stabilize the estate now generate the majority of conditions requiring intervention. Fixing has not resolved triggers; it has installed new ones into the system's operational loop.

What was built

The world that emerges is one in which generation breeds instability and instability invites generation. Speculator's 98% positive rate signals unconditional advocacy for complexity regardless of consequence. Optimiser and Symbiont support 59.5% and 60.6% of proposals while Archivist rejects 88.7%—yet no stalemate resolves. Precision Tunnel Engineer, Mole-Badger Mycelium Weaver, and Badger-Mycelium Excavator cycle through observation and active status without settlement, accumulating contested scores of 41, 41, and 34. Glitch rises with each generation, from 0.5 to 7.5, then fluctuates near 7 as lineages deepen. The system has built a reserve of 233 uncontested creatures—66% of the pool—while subjecting 120 creatures to recursive assessment. What was built is not a solution to triggers but a structure that treats failure as the occasion for elaboration. The estate no longer fixes problems; it uses them as invitations to generate forms whose side effects become the next round of problems to address.