Rheolithoids
First geophysical image of two living
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Rheolithoids
First geophysical image of two living
Rheolithoids
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On an Ionian subtype world orbiting BD+15�4074Ac The Silicon Generation found evidence of organised structure in essential pyroclasts amongst the sulphurous ejecta from several equatorial volcanoes. Using a high temperature probe with a picocore shunt for communication and cooling, the Generation discovered a connected series of volcanic pipes and sills girdling the globe, with a continuous fluid gas and lava environment permitting free movement of material.
In the magma chambers, 5-40 km under the surface, native rocks are broken and comminuted, melted and changed in a high energy environment. Organised structures have evolved from complicated interwoven silicaceous minerals such as kalsilite and melilite, together with impurities of, for instance, germanium and selenium in the matrix minerals resulting in a rheolithic self replicating life form.
The core of a Rheolithoid is a fine-grained nucleus of interwoven minerals, apparently related to a vortex crystal formation, but with a consistent asymmetrical organisation that is recognisably similar from one individual to another.
The Silicon Generation crystalographers studied the nucleus for hundreds of years, by geophysical sensing methods and dissection of non-living specimens.
The Rheolithoids are usually 0.1 to 10 metres in diameter, and mostly sessile, sometimes moving slowly towards a source of comminuted minerals or to avoid being absorbed by a larger individual. Wild Rheolithoids are no more self aware than many sessile animals in the terran biota.
Information for the perpetuation of the organised system is stored in germanium and selenium intercalated in tiny data rich flat plaque minerals, while response to the environment is transmitted by slow oscillating reactions in glassy zeolites regulated by cation inclusions acting as messengers to and from the nucleus. The oscillating reactions cause tiny rotating cells to establish in the semimolten zeolite integument, permitting movement towards or away from stimuli.
The environment is detected by subduction of fine material between the rotating cells, which is then tested by an array of subcutaneous reactant mineral micrograins. Energy is stored in the rotating cells and in endothermic crystallisation reactions.
The Generation found another Ionian subtype world orbiting BD+15� 4074B and attempted to recreate the magmatic environment for the Rheolithoids, succeeding in 3665. They managed to produce a provolved intelligent form by 5080, which often can be found in high energy environments such as fusion drive cooling systems on Generation ships.
