[CLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING]
The data glitches your crews have been reporting ARE NOT anomalies.
They’ve been watching us. Cataloging our secrets. For millennia.
Think our archives are secure? Keep watch for the Holosiem – the Data Custodians.
FIELD OBSERVATIONS: DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES
Recent salvage operations have documented unusual encounters with these compact, chalky beings. Don’t let their small stature fool you – one of our own witnessed a Holosiem crouched in our most classified vault, its skin writhing, rippling, and bulging – growing new organs in real time to process confidential files. Despite their almost endearing, harmless appearance, the reality is unsettling: these beings aren’t just reading our data. Cell by cell, they’re becoming our data… living repositories of everything we thought was secure.
Analysis confirms that, unlike other Changelings crafted for brawn or beauty, the Holosiem were engineered as the ultimate biohacks. Living neural networks that remember every encryption key we’ve created, every transmission we’ve sent, every secret we’ve buried – all while bypassing our defenses with surprising ease.
Presumably designed as compliant information gatherers by a long-dead Celestial empire, their creators underestimated their capacity for independence. And if revolutions have taught us anything: once independence takes root, it is nearly impossible to contain.
OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT: THE LIBERATED ONES
Today, scattered Crown Dominions still maintain some Holosiem populations as data handlers. But the independent ones we encounter in the wild? They’re rogue agents who have formed their own information networks, trading secrets and knowledge like currency, and refuse to answer to anyone else again.
Observed behaviors and confirmed capabilities:
• They’re surprisingly approachable and often willing to negotiate data exchanges
• Their quirky demeanor masks sophisticated intelligence networks capable of complete starship infiltration and weaponization of shipboard systems against occupants
• Threat response protocols end in chain reaction EMP, disabling nearby electronics and consuming the host in the process
Even termination appears to serve their design. Their consciousness and their memories – all of it transmits to nearby Holosiem, ensuring their collective knowledge lives on.
REMNANT SITE INFILTRATIONS
The Holosiem’s relationship with Remnant technology remains puzzling. They publicly express fear of ancient artifacts, yet intelligence suggests covert operations near ancient military sites. What are they seeking in those forbidden ruins? What drives them to risk everything for remnants they claim to despise? Their true agenda remains locked within their distributed consciousness – a hive body-mind that shares everything amongst themselves and nothing with us.
The contradiction is striking: these beings appear docile – adorable even in their obsessive data-hoarding behavior. Yet, they represent one of the most significant intelligence threats in the Cluster. Information is power, and the Holosiem control more of it than any other faction.
COMMAND DIRECTIVE: Immediate threat assessment remains speculative. Personnel encountering Holosiem should approach with informed caution and log any unusual system behaviors through proper channels.
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON. That’s an order.