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 ===== Aftermath =====
-  * TBC
+  * Budding Leaf and Wretched Export help the fungus and its mushrooms get established on Mytene. Leaf coordinates with the Myteneans, researchers and the mushrooms. There are a lot of dull meetings as arrangements are drawn up transferring land control from the Industrial corps to the Societal Corps and then leasing space to the researchers from the Zeitgeist and Borderland Botanists, granting land in perpetuity to the fungus and designating it as an area of Special Cultural and Scientific Importance. Meanwhile, Export takes the lead on the ground, assessing the terrain and the threat of local wildlife.
+  * Leaf conducts laboratory analysis on the mushroom samples. They are able to identify the comparative nutritional benefits of different electromagnetic wavelengths to the fungus, as well as some interesting evidence about the way in which the fungus is able to so rapidly produce adapted mushrooms. There are fascinating implications for controlled evolution in other sapient lifeforms, though that would require years, if not decades, of further study and the navigation of many ethical dilemmas. This also solidifies their unwanted status as //the// fungus expert on the //Endeavour//.
 ===== Consequences =====
   * The species, //Fungus sapiens// is relocated on Mytene in a former mine on the edge of shipheart range. A joint Zeitgeist-Borderland Botanists research station is set up nearby to study and communicate with the fungus.
+  * The following is an IC document from the Zeitgeist database and is freely available to be known by any character:
-==== All Characters ====
+==== Fungus sapiens ====
+//Fungus sapiens// is a __sapient__ fungal species discovered on a __comet__ in the __Keter Borderlands__ star system, originating in the unexplored __Upsilon Tau K825__ system. There is only one known member of the species, currently resident on the planet __Mytene__ in the Keter Borderlands.
+===Description===
+While the fungus itself is a single species, it is able to produce a variety of semi-independent mushrooms adapted to specific purposes. Most notable are the ambassadorial mushrooms which grow to around 1-2m in height and have a wide convex __pileus__ (cap) which contains specially adapted __lamellae__ (gills), capable of producing sound by expelling air through them. Different sounds are produced in distributed areas of the cap which allows the mushroom to produce __speech__.
+Another mushroom, known informally as the copy cap, appears to be a primitive learning body, capable of mimicry of observed behaviour and sounds. The copy cap has a parabolic cap and a narrow stem which branches into a secondary cap used as an appendage.
+Other mushrooms include defensive entities such as the puffball launcher, a mushroom with a cylindrical cap, capable of launching an explosive ball of spores. Variations have been observed the ability to spray an acidic liquid which runs through veins on the cap.
+===Origin===
+An analysis of the trajectory of the comet designated __MX9784-6255__ indicates an origin in the __Upsilon Tau K825__ system, 4.8ly away from the Keter Borderlands. K825 is unexplored but long-distance analysis has not indicated any planets in the habitable zone. It has been deemed unsuitable for terraforming by __Aspexx__. However, a large asteroid belt exist between the inner planet __K825b__ and the first of two gas giants, __K825c__. A hypothetical fifth planet, __K825f__, may once have existed and been destroyed by a planetary-scale cataclysm which could have resulted in the comet and the //Fungus sapiens// being expelled from K825.
+===Diet===
+//Fungus sapiens// has the ability to sense the full __electromagnetic spectrum__ of radiation and draws sustenance from specific wavelengths. It is theorised that the species was able to survive the long journey between systems in a dormant state, consuming __background cosmic radiation__.
+===Discovery and Relocation===
+The first report of //Fungus sapiens// came from the __//Slingshot//__ asteroid mining ship and was verified by a research team from the __Galactic Cooperation Technological Zeitgeist Research Department__ ship, __//Endeavour//__, led by noted botanist __Budding Leaf__ and their research assistant, Wretched Export.
+Due to the imminent destruction of the comet MX9784-6255 on which the species was discovered, resulting from orbital decay toward the Keter star, the decision was taken to relocate the //Fungus sapiens// to a remote location on Mytene.
+==== Budding Leaf ====
   * 3 Clout with Zeitgeist or //Endeavour// (or 1 Clout with another faction)
-==== Budding Leaf ====
   * Residual fungal knowledge spores which retain a few memories of the fungus collective and also permit Leaf limited sensory communication with mushrooms via mycelium.
 ==== Wretched Export ====
+  * 3 Clout with Zeitgeist or //Endeavour// (or 1 Clout with another faction)
-  * TBC
-//Be sure to add tags for the characters//
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