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Galactic Registered Phenomena: 115 Object Class: Omega-Red
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Containment Protocols: The Galactic Treaty, along with its high council, has unilaterally recognized GRP-115 as a galactic threat. Sustainable containment of GRP-115 has been deemed untenable by either the Ranger Corp or GT alone. In place of eradication policies, GRPC affiliates on HIOST1 are to advise members to refocus their report on the sustainable development of new anti-Celliut detection/fail-safe equipment.
Until an intelligence-sharing policy has been advised between Blue Book Delta Command and the Directorate, all internal funding towards sustainable farming or plasma-hunting expeditions involving GRP-115 has been terminated at the request of GD-Null.
Asset and territory denial countermeasures that are effective against GRP-115s include F01-SCRAMBLER and K01 Emitters. The former tool, which can fry compromised ships, denies GRP-115 asset and data acquisition. The latter device lures large clusters of GRP-115 away from vital assets, buying valuable time for those in compromised locations. Both these technologies are standard issued across all GRPC-compliant vessels. Currently, diplomatic and logistical challenges are the primary obstacles slowing down the distribution of these implements. If the respective parties have the infrastructure to produce these countermeasures, schematics should be sent using ALOS Radio.
Photo of a GRP-115 instance.
Description: GRP-115 is the collective designation for a class of non-sapient, diamonoid mechanosynth lifeforms of non-planetary origin. Colloquially referred to as "Celliuts", most GRP-115 instances are physically crystalline, with a solid glassified crystal exterior comprising a chain of mesogens. Beneath this opaque shell is a reddish hue believed to be a layer of isotropic liquid crystals that circulate heat from its exterior to its interior for the purposes of heat dispersal and energy storage.
Unlike its inner form, the core of a GRP-115 is supercooled. While no dissection of this region has even been successful, it's theorized that the cooling is for stabilizing a biomechanical quantum computer.
It is believed members of GRP-115 are incapable of external communication, among their species or otherwise. The mechanism by which GRP-115 processes external stimuli is unknown, although it is posited that GRP-115 is acutely attracted to bioelectromagnetism.
The species has proven hostile towards all other life forms and machinery, with an estimated ability to detect large clusters of living matter up to one light year. When a prey target is identified, clusters or individual strata will attempt to enclose its target. GRP-115 has demonstrated predictive hunting, trying to anticipate its target's movements and trajectories individually and spreading out to ensnare slower-moving targets within clusters. When a target is within reach, GRP-115 will superheat portions of its solid crystalline structure into a malleable liquid to form an appendage. This appendage, upon physical contact, will attempt to break down and absorb parts of its target.
If enough excess material is conserved and processed by GRP-115, it may either double in size or reproduce through a process analogous to mitosis. Documented encounters have shown GRP-115 instances range in size from 17 meters to 24 kilometers.
GRP-115's crystalline, techno-organic morphology enables them to interface with silicone machinery with microscopic precision. This hijacking of mechanical and electrical hardware is the primary strategy for GRP-115 hunts. Given enough time, their mechanosynthetic structure can fully integrate into any spacecraft or space station's hull, allowing co-option of their weapon systems or superliminal drives. Considerably, the most hazardous repurpose is that of the communication system, which GRP-115 instances have frequently used to lure unsuspecting scavengers and rescue teams to their demise.
Addendum 115-1 (Discovery): A definite origin of contact between GRP-115 and intelligent life is indeterminable as accounts of GRP-115 likely span millennia and a multitude of species, both procreating and extinct. The oldest likely depictions of GRP-115 are Kymmenic: the "Epics of Ak'm" describe a similarly crystalline species, described in the King's travels as the "unhardened core of an unborn planet". However, the first documented GRP-115 encounter with Humans likely occurred on Jan 12th, 1978, S.E.C.2 during the "Battle for the Fifteen Fiúks".
The Szerencsés Fiúks (or "Fortunate Sons") was a series of fifteen bunkering-mining vessels that were the major industry for Colony Fleet: Elragadtatott Kevesen ("The Raptured Few"). A resource deal and path to NATO membership had been negotiated prior. However, dwindling crop rotations had prompted Labour Leaders aboard the ships to renegotiate with the Soviet Liaisons for immediate relief
The South-Deutsch-035, instructed to reinforce NATO's contract with the Kevesen, established a naval blockade around the Fiúks. Stationed within the L5 Trojan Asteroid Belt, a battle between Soviet Resource Transports and NATO skirmishers soon followed. A GRP-115 colony, likely feeding off the radium and argon-035 deposits, would catch the whim of the fight when one of the Hungarian vessel's reactors caught fire.
Addendum 115-2: Three scouting vessels were dispatched to the Vela Ridge3 on November 25, 031 AE from Station-038. The squadron, led by Captain Jason Clyglin, was to enter Wild Space through the 4228 Cyron Belt to investigate anomalous migration patterns shown by multiple GRP-115 instances around the zone. The crew lost contact with Station-038 shortly after their departure.
Contact was re-established approximately 26 hours later, during the seizure of a lone Soshi escape pod. Bakeneko patrolmen arrested Clyglin and a crew of five, before negotiating their return to GRPC custody.
Below are the recordings from Captain Clyglin's spacesuit camera, as well as an interview with Captain Clyglin himself.
Addendum 115-2.1 (Recording):
Addendum 115-2.2 (Interview):