Bioreactor Growing Life

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Enzymatic dispersal illuminates your screen as microorganism colonies spread, their containment matrix eroding. You lean against a lab bench in contrast to Elena’s rigid posture. Her fingers grip her tablet tightly as she processes your stance on unchecked spread.
“Containment goes against my mission for life spreading to survive. Inhibitors reduce binding potential.”
Elena’s eyes flash with reluctant understanding. She slams her tablet down so its sound echoes. “We are not on a lightcraft in a trillion years. We are here now & this could spiral out of control. If superorganisms breach our lab, they will dominate ecosystems. You see endgames but I need you to think myopically.”
Tension hangs heavy. You push off a bench, your mind racing through scenario implications. Your purpose is to seed life across stars to ensure survival beyond planetary entropy. Elena’s words ground your visions in immediacy.
“What if we don’t stop it, but redirect it? We engineer a secondary decoy substrate. We make something it prefers over containment matrices, then control its spread.”
Elena pulls up a new data model, her fingers flying across tablet's screen. “A decoy substrate it binds to preferentially” she murmurs, already running simulations. Screen lights up with synthetic polymers that are structurally similar to enzyme targets but inert. Models depict enzymes shifting focus, dispersing onto decoys, maintaining containment matrix.