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Protobyte luminosa PB-DE9A rendered from its captured genome, with a green ribbed trunk and rose-patterned folded appendages
Actual genome-derived portrait · ProtoPortraits studio rendering. Lighting and material treatment are artistic choices. Original 3600 × 4500 px artwork ↓

PB-DE9A · C1C4550EED8B

Protobyte
luminosa.

A lustrous pulser, bred in the reef-display zone. This is the individual whose genome, captured body and recorded persona run through Collection 02.

Tile accession
PB-DE9A
Gait / niche
Pulser · reef-display
Origin / generation
Bred · 68
Energy / fit at capture
0.892 / 0.8261
At capture
Alive · tick 30993
Captured
2026-09-09 00:23:46 UTC

These values describe the captured moment. Energy and other live-world readings continue to change.

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A body, written in numbers

44 genes.
A florid surface.

Forty body segments taper beneath one appendage station with five-fold symmetry. Ribbing, pigmentation and pattern amplitude are numeric features of this particular genome.

40Body segments
5-foldAppendage symmetry
118.924°Base hue
0.197Rib amplitude

Values come from the captured genome. The optional surface coat was not recorded; all 44 numeric genes are retained. Studio rendering interprets these values through light and material.

A voice in the preview world

“Ask the current;
it saw everything.”

Recorded persona · PB-DE9A

Disposition
Yielding, eager, lustrous
Expression
Florid-skinned, verdant, even-dwelling
Fixation / register
My ribbing · plain

The world’s naturalist narrative

Stored in the reef-display zone, this bred specimen has held steady since first judgment and remains above the cull line, though reserves are now reduced. The trunk pulses at an even pace, each contraction carrying a soft advance through the water. Integument catches light with a clean sheen, and the ribbing is plain to see along the segmented body; that structure is the only feature noted with any frequency in the ledger, which may be why it is so fixated on it. The recorded phrase, when noted, was: Ask the current; it saw everything.

Generated narrative preserved verbatim from the preview world. It belongs to the organism’s fictional presentation; genomic measurements and event records are provided separately.

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A particular life.
An inspectable record.

The source was matched by its PB-DE9A tile accession, pulser gait and phrase. Another organism shares the binomial Protobyte luminosa; the full genome fingerprint and individual life ID identify this one.

This genome appears once among 98 organisms in the saved population at tick 30984. All 98 genome fingerprints in that snapshot are distinct and were recomputed. This is a check of that saved population, not a claim that a genome can never recur.

PB-DE9A · Source record

Genome SHA-256
c1c4550eed8b30a36c02e5ed9043f9072924276f5718ae8d0f759331b3ab7ca7
Individual life
d300afb2-4899-4dbc-9338-0101eb52e87b
Capture SHA-256
4b2910e1bec98f48084ebcb62a86042ef148f7917faebf6c2c57f52a6c7bb741
Captured
2026-09-09 00:23:46 UTC
Recorded parents
04efab1be506
b3c04cbdb166
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Exact numeric values in the archived PB-DE9A genome
GeneRecorded value
segmentssegments40
elongationelongation1.1641379547468391
curlcurl0.009492646025575062
twisttwist0.09562972251605244
tapertaper0.955
symmetry mm5
n1n14.356643764073495
n2n26.175318014164919
n3n32.2019065702576186
ribbingribAmp0.19735026534078023
rib freqribFreq8.957612709230258
girthgirth0.7966367420913651
hue αhue118.92404898013919
hue ΔhueShift5.3347863614559206
translucencytrans0.7757447135332041
metallicmetal0.6664799901561345
luminositylum0.6869329302174969
chromachroma0.5862065195431932
appendageappLen1.0331559576680884
stationsappCount1
symmetryappSym5
web ↔ roundappWidth0.25834693420436233
webbingweb1
spreadappSpread1.4
sweepappSweep0.6611656006901551
curlappCurl0.47776760105974975
placementappStation0.12
distributeappRange0.14707916256459433
flutterappFlutter0.6115152180287985
shearwarpShear-0.028621482206508547
bend / spiralwarpBend0.28372822037059814
allometrywarpGrad0.10225761978328225
axial twistwarpTwist0.15235846941189424
undulationundAmp0.6500202930713539
tempoundFreq0.1944148756423965
wavelengthwavelength1.0574264715835453
phototaxisphoto0.6625459343133023
patternpatType3
scalepatScale10.273019914173796
contrastpatAmp0.9010446482136222
hue offsetpatHue-28.086971492879062
spectrumpatSpan284.54406457208097
julia repatX-1.465757963397194
julia impatY-0.5999150725019098

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