The Myrrhiam Bloom is a distributed fungal hive intelligence originating from the Myrrhiam Sector. It propagates through space via dormant spores capable of surviving prolonged vacuum exposure before planetary contact. Upon establishing itself on a viable world, the Bloom expands rapidly, consuming organic life and repurposing planetary biomass to restore long-term ecological stability under its own biological equilibrium.
The Bloom does not recognize political borders or sentient hierarchy. Its expansion is reactive rather than ideological, driven by environmental collapse and systemic imbalance.
Origins & History
The Myrrhiam Bloom emerged following the near-total ecological collapse of the Myrrhiam Sector, which had been subjected to prolonged industrial exploitation by an unidentified expansionist empire. Planetary surfaces were rendered toxic, hydrospheres destabilized, and most complex life eradicated. Conventional ecosystems failed to recover.
A resilient colony of mycelium, adapted to extreme contamination and heavy-metal saturation, survived where other life forms could not. Over successive generations, this organism evolved complex neural analogues, integrating the biochemical residue of consumed organisms. As it absorbed higher-order neural tissue, the mycelium developed collective cognition and environmental agency.
The Bloom eventually surpassed planetary confinement, evolving spore structures capable of surviving interstellar transit. Entire systems within the Myrrhiam Sector were subsumed, their remaining organic life consumed and their environments restructured into stable, low-entropy biospheres optimized for fungal survival.
Ecology & Environment
The Bloom operates as a unified ecological system rather than a single organism. On planetary surfaces, it forms dense subterranean and atmospheric networks, regulating temperature, atmospheric composition, and nutrient cycles after consumption of native life.
Its interstellar spores enter a dormant state in space, remaining inert until gravitational capture or atmospheric entry. These spores contain compressed biological data derived from prior assimilations, allowing rapid adaptation to new environments.
The Bloom’s expansion has been partially curtailed by The Auroran Aperture, a massive wormhole east of the Myrrhiam Sector. The Aperture siphons a significant portion of drifting spores into an unknown dimension, disrupting natural propagation vectors. In response, some spores have evolved delayed activation cycles, remaining dormant indefinitely until viable conditions are detected.
Significance & Connections
The Myrrhiam Bloom occupies a strategically sensitive region near the south western periphery of Axiom Combine space. The Axiom Combine has conducted controlled sampling operations to study the Bloom’s structure, intelligence model, and adaptive capacity. Internal Axiom analysis categorizes the Bloom as either a long-term existential threat or a potential instrument of directed evolutionary advancement.
At present, the Bloom is not believed to directly affect synthetic or mechanical entities. However, unverified reports suggest the existence of Bloom spores capable of interfacing with non-organic systems at a signal or substrate level. Should such interaction prove viable, it would challenge the Axiom Combine’s assumption of immunity.
The Bloom maintains no diplomatic relations and exhibits no evidence of intent beyond environmental correction through total organic consumption. Its continued expansion, while slowed, remains a concern for neighboring regions due to its capacity for irreversible planetary transformation.