AiO
AIOVERSE // ARCHIVE ENTRY
Factions
| Faction | Function | Structure |
|---|---|---|
| Zhu Foundation | Hidden control and immortality monopoly | Six-hundred-year arrangement, remote overwrite, information war. Principal figure: Jack Zhu. |
| Axiox Industries | Forward colonisation and land auction | Planetary engineering. Chief executive Larkwood supports the Cradle and does not know of Sirius. Capital comes from the Foundation, so discovery does not confer a veto. |
| Type-37 | Crisis unit, in fact a colonial purge tool | The surface duty is crisis response. The core order is to kill every organism on the planet. The thoracic core is a miniature glueball condensate, both power source and symbiont seed. |
| Electronic lifeforms | Glueball information-state life | They replicate as gauge configurations, not electromagnetic bits, and can overwrite both electronic systems and symbiont kernels. |
The glueball core lets the Foundation overwrite Type-37's gauge configuration without conventional radio. The same channel lets electronic life infect a crisis robot. The will-node of the 1649C horde is the same information state replicating without control inside a corpse network. It is not a fourth civilisation.