Seeker

Overview

The Seeker is the intelligence officer of the Vita Filorum network. When the ecosystem needs to expand into a human settlement, the Seeker detaches from a Prolific and acts as a mobile Singularity. Visually, it is small, flat, and bird like - designed to slip into wall cavities, breaker boxes, and under floorboards without being seen. And it is the only Vita Filorum that can see with functioning eyes.

Operation Protocols

The Seeker’s primary job is to observe, learn human routines, and manipulate local infrastructure to set up the perfect environment for the Hunter.

Monitoring

• Grid Parasitism: Upon entering a home, the Seeker will locate an electrical outlet or breaker box and physically insert its tethers into the copper wiring. Because it operates at 230V / 50Hz, it flawlessly syncs with standard household electrical grids.
• Circuit Telemetry: The house's wiring becomes the Seeker's nervous system. It monitors electrical impedance; if a human turns on a light switch, TV, or appliance, the Seeker registers the exact location of the current draw and maps the human's position in the house.

Trapping & Ambush

• Micro Ivy Deployment: The Seeker naturally secretes Micro Ivy, spreading invisible, microscopic threads across doorways, windows, and hallways. These act as tripwires.
• The Wait: Seekers are incredibly slow, silent hunters. They do not chase. They track the human's routine via electrical usage and Micro Ivy vibrations, waiting for the human to isolate themselves in the dark.

Safety Buffer

• Svete Reserves: Because the human electrical grid provides signal processing but not biological sustenance, a severed Seeker will die of starvation within days. To counter this, it carries several Svete attached to its back or abdomen. It uses these Svetes as living nutrition bags, slowly draining them to fuel its long, patient ambush.
• Ecosystem Bridging: Once a target is successfully hunted, the Seeker uses the dense nutrients of the human biomass to rapidly germinate a Dispatcher from its own body, converting the human home into a new Ground Zero for the Vita Filorum.

Interaction Logic

• Grid Syntax: The Seeker can actively manipulate the house's power to isolate prey, sending localised electrical spikes (SKR-INT-EFF-TRM-H) to trip circuit breakers and force humans into the dark.
• Direct Signalling: It communicates locally with its carried Svetes to manage its own nutrition intake via SKR-NTR-DCT$SVT-APP-L.
• Hunter Coordination: The Seeker stays physically tethered to a hidden Hunter. It translates the electrical grid data into instructions, acting as the Hunter's eyes and ears via SKR-SYS-DCT$HTR-SYC-L or using Micro-Ivy MVY-SYS-RLY-SYC-L