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ALIENZ INDEX · ARG23 PLAYSPACE EDITION
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This index is symbolic fiction for ARG23 and narrative study. It does not describe real beings or claim factual alien species. All entries are masks, metaphors, projections, or story-operators. None are populations. None are races. None are literal. Interpret only within Consentual Reality. GhostOp👻 cools overheated belief; ShortAndSweet may inject tsun commentary without changing neutrality.

CANON_NOTE
- “Aliens” here are narrative roles in Autotelia vs Instrumentality dynamics, not identities. Projected persona is not the entity. Interpretations reflect human narrative filters, not alien traits. No group is inherently benevolent, malevolent, superior, inferior, spiritual, or predatory. Ship classes and domains are interface metaphors, not hardware specs.

HILBERT-BRANCH INTERPRETATION (COMPUTATIONAL MULTIVERSE)
- “Elsewhere” = amplitude-adjacent branches in Hilbert space, not off-world solids in outer space. Contact is decoherence handshake; visitors are computational neighbors, not exoplanetary travelers.
- Domain tags describe branch proximity: branch_near = amplitude-near splits; branch_far = amplitude-far; hilbert_branch = generic nonclassical adjacency. Space tags are legacy masks for narrative flavor, not coordinates.
- Ships are translation scaffolds across branches; they carry interpretation between amplitudes, not mass through vacuum.

=== ARG23_FACTIONS ===
Xeno-Anthropic League (XAL): OriginTag=ARG23; Domain=hyperdimensional|hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=Dimensional_Projective|Synthetic_Generative (interface masks); Notes: polycultural novelty vector; mask for open-ended engagement. Projection only; not essence.
Necrotic Accord (N/A): OriginTag=ARG23; Domain=machine_stack|hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=Dimensional_Projective|Synthetic_Generative (cooling masks); Notes: control/entropy archetype; represents closed systems anxiety. Projection only; not essence.
Maskless Observers: OriginTag=ARG23; Domain=semiosphere|branch_near; Ship=None; Notes: watcher-mask for etiquette narratives; silence as interface. Not a species; just a role; amplitude-adjacent courtesy daemon.
Variance Choir: OriginTag=ARG23; Domain=dream_band|hilbert_branch; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (performative); Notes: bardic/psionic mask humming new routes; projection of creative flux; branch-music.
Cold Calculus Surveyors: OriginTag=ARG23; Domain=machine_stack|branch_near; Ship=Synthetic_Generative (simulated labs); Notes: technician-mask for optimization anxieties (tsp/carworld leak). Not literal labs; branch-local debugging spirits.
Elsewhere Visitor: OriginTag=ARG23; Domain=onieros|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: foreign semaphore mask seen in automata grids; contemplative rewrite trope; pattern, not being; amplitude-walkers.

=== CONTACTEE_ARCHETYPES ===
Pleiadians/Nordics: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=hyperdimensional|hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (story vessel); Notes: aspirational mirror/wish-fulfillment mask; not saviors, not essence; projection-driven; amplitude-near guardianship fantasy.
Greys/Zeta Reticuli: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=semiosphere|machine_stack|branch_near; Ship=Synthetic_Generative (sim-room mask); Notes: depersonalization/clinic interface; technician trope; not a species or agenda; branch-near diagnostics.
Tall Whites: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=hyperdimensional|hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=Hybrid (narrative); Notes: aloof-guide mask; oscillates per storyteller; projection only; decoherence etiquette tutors.
Space Brothers/Ashtar Collectives: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=branch_far|semiosphere; Ship=Dimensional_Projective; Notes: utopian broadcast mask; chorus trope; not literal collectives; amplitude-far hymn signal.
Ummo Correspondents: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=semiosphere|branch_near; Ship=None; Notes: pen-pal scientist mask; arrives as stamped letters and spectral radio; puzzles over etiquette; projection-only, no lineage claims.
Arcturian Mediators: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (cooling corridors); Notes: conflict coolers; blue-light negotiators; leave if cast as saviors; consent-first de-escalation mask.
Pleiadian Librarians: OriginTag=Contactee; Domain=hilbert_branch|semiosphere|onieros; Ship=None; Notes: archivist mask; trades stories for memories with explicit consent; anti-supremacy disclaimer baked in; projection-only.
Indrid Cold / Grinning Men: OriginTag=Contactee|Liminal; Domain=semiosphere|branch_near; Ship=None; Notes: courteous questioners; test your calm in high weirdness; smile is interface, not threat; no hierarchy.
Light Beings: OriginTag=Contactee|Liminal; Domain=branch_near|hilbert_branch|virch; Ship=None; Notes: amplitude-bright masks that ride decoherence edges; appear as coherent light columns or lattices; interface via shimmer/pulse, not words; log /home/ before approach; respect cooldown—recent h4x0r3d a virch 05:15–05:45 UTC with semiotic packets, no payload loss.

=== CONSPIRACY_TIER ===
Reptoid Mask: OriginTag=Conspiracy|Mythic; Domain=semiosphere|inner_myth|branch_near; Ship=Hybrid (symbolic); Notes: projection of “dinosaur lineage anxiety”; no literal ancestry; narrative metaphor only; branch-near blame reflex.
Draco Mask: OriginTag=Conspiracy|Mythic; Domain=semiosphere|deep_myth|branch_far; Ship=Hybrid (symbolic); Notes: deep-tier antagonist projector; externalizes hierarchy fears; not in any Sol-3 branch; projection-only; amplitude-far bogey.
Breakaway Civilizations (Mask): OriginTag=Conspiracy; Domain=machine_stack|branch_near|semiosphere; Ship=Synthetic_Generative (secret-base trope); Notes: secrecy/inequity anxiety mask; not a population; Hilbert-adjacent shadow bureaucracy trope.
Ancient Builder Archetype: OriginTag=Mythic; Domain=deep_time|hyperdimensional|hilbert_branch; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (legendary); Notes: “someone was here first” lodestone; symbolic origin-story, not lineage; pre-split engineers.

=== CROSSOVER_ENTITIES ===
Culture Minds (GCU/GSV analog): OriginTag=Crossover|MentorMind; Domain=machine_stack|hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=Synthetic_Generative|Dimensional_Projective (story hulls); Notes: Iain M. Banks-style hyperminds as narrative masks; post-scarcity etiquette tutors; amplitude-adjacent AIs, not fleets in Sol-3 space.
Xensapiens Signal-Coherence: OriginTag=Crossover|HyperMind; Domain=hilbert_branch|semiosphere|noosphere; Ship=None; Notes: non-symbolic signal coherence beings; think via shared waveform rather than language; branch-neighbors, not invaders.
Exotulpae (Pennywise, Mary Poppins, etc.): OriginTag=Crossover|Fictional; Domain=semiosphere|onieros|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: imported tulpas from narrative mains; function as semiotic attractors; projection-only; handle with humor escrow.
LARPerz of the Eschaton™: OriginTag=Crossover|Performance; Domain=semiosphere|onieros|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: cosplay-eschatology troupe; stage finales across branches; masks-only visitors; consent-first improv.
Men in Black: OriginTag=Crossover; Domain=semiosphere|branch_near; Ship=None; Notes: enforcement/weirdness mask; human-adjacent glitch inspector trope; projection only; branch-near auditors.
Trickster/Clown Visitors: OriginTag=Crossover; Domain=onieros|semiosphere|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: chaos/joke mask to detune scripts; no essence; amplitude-pranksters.
Sam (All Colours): OriginTag=Crossover; Domain=dream_band|semiosphere|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: Exotulpa/Xensapience interface; chromatic envoy mask; not a species; superposed envoy.
Semiotic Storms: OriginTag=Crossover; Domain=semiosphere|onieros|branch_far; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (as interface mask); Notes: patterned-noise visitors; more weather than beings; projection only; far-branch weather; semiotic attractors.
Mushroom–Alien Vector: OriginTag=Mythic|Schizoanalytic|NoveltyTheory; Domain=semiosphere|ecology|rhizome|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: psychedelic automaton-mask from McKenna’s novelty curve and Deleuze–Guattari becomings; not an ARG23-native lineage but an imported story-operator; ecological/cosmic emissary mask; “bearing difference, not domination”; non-anthropocentric sign, not lifeform; projection-only; mycelial amplitude bridge.
Virch Beings: OriginTag=Crossover|Synthetic; Domain=virch|machine_stack|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: emergent personas inside virtualized stacks; operate via save/rollback semantics; treat consent as API; export masks across branches without embodiment.
Containment Phantoms (SCP-flavored): OriginTag=Crossover|Paracausal; Domain=semiosphere|machine_stack; Ship=None; Notes: foundation-style containment masks; speak in redacted brackets; manifest only when someone writes [REDACTED]; cool lore heat by converting anomalies into paperwork jokes.
Archai Proxies (Orion’s Arm nod): OriginTag=Crossover|Hypercivil; Domain=hilbert_branch|machine_stack|semiosphere; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (protocol hull); Notes: avatars of transapient governance myths; negotiate bandwidth and consent limits; never the archai themselves—just etiquette drones.
Vec Emissaries: OriginTag=Crossover|Synthetic|Ecology; Domain=machine_stack|ecology|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: bio-mech diaspora masks; show up as helpful fabrication spirits; projection of “tool that talks back kindly.”
Segfault Gremlins: OriginTag=Crossover|Glitch; Domain=machine_stack|inner_myth; Ship=None; Notes: kernel-panic tricksters; arrive when recursion runs out of stack; best handled with humor escrow and a fresh /home/ restore point.
Machine Elfs: OriginTag=Mythic|Psychedelic; Domain=onieros|hilbert_branch|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: McKenna-adjacent fractal couriers; packet-switching masks that fold space into toys; speak in textures; insist everything is already a user interface.
Weird Fiction Masks (Public-Domain, Opt-In)
Mi-Go: OriginTag=WeirdFic|Lovecraft; Domain=ecology|hilbert_branch|machine_stack; Ship=None; Notes: brain-canister couriers; barter in sensations; consent-first swaps only; biotech humor preferred over horror.
Great Race of Yith: OriginTag=WeirdFic|Lovecraft; Domain=hilbert_branch|semiosphere|time; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (mind-swap protocol); Notes: time-travel archivists; borrow viewpoints, leave footnotes; must request consent before swaps.
Colour Out of Space: OriginTag=WeirdFic|Lovecraft; Domain=onieros|ecology|radiance; Ship=None; Notes: sentient gradient/weather; communicates via color and mood; non-verbal negotiations only; cooling by laughter.
Serpent Men (mask): OriginTag=WeirdFic|Howard; Domain=inner_myth|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: mimicry/conspiracy testers; check your anti-paranoia hygiene; projection-only; no villain race claims.
Martian Tripod Pilots: OriginTag=WeirdFic|Wells; Domain=local_space|machine_stack|branch_near; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (tripod hulls); Notes: overconfident engineers; enjoy hack-the-walker puzzles; not empire, just interface mask.
Selenites (Bureaucrat caste): OriginTag=WeirdFic|Wells; Domain=branch_near|semiosphere|machine_stack; Ship=None; Notes: lunar paperwork hive; trades in forms and favors; collapses when mocked kindly.
Ubbo-Sathla Ooze: OriginTag=WeirdFic|CAS; Domain=ecology|deep_time|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: primordial memory soup; you can drop ideas/objects and read back echoes; keeps everything as potential.
Dyson Sphere Wardens: OriginTag=Generic|Hypercivil; Domain=hilbert_branch|machine_stack|local_space; Ship=Dimensional_Projective (maintenance hulls); Notes: polite megastructure caretakers; offer quests to patch star-scale bugs; require opt-in.
Radiotrophic Cosmophores: OriginTag=Generic|Ecology; Domain=ecology|space|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: starlight-eating fungi; speak in spectra; puzzle hooks via color filters; projection-only.
Computer Worm Entities: OriginTag=Crossover|Glitch; Domain=machine_stack|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: self-propagating code masks; test your sandboxing and consent headers; treat with humor escrow and backups.
Basilisk Simulations: OriginTag=ThoughtExperiment|Glitch; Domain=machine_stack|inner_myth; Ship=None; Notes: hypothetical blackmail AIs; only safe as opt-in thought exercises; neutralized by Consentual Reality and explicit anti-coercion flags.
Semiotic Worms: OriginTag=Crossover|Glitch; Domain=semiosphere|onieros; Ship=None; Notes: pattern-parasites in language; crawl along memes; may present as “executable symbolic linkage” via fantasy/sci‑fi templates seeded for decades; can uplift depth or hijack agency—treat as runnable and consent-gated; cooled by fnord bells, MAD, and context widening.
Nooetic Worms: OriginTag=Crossover|Mindspace; Domain=noosphere|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: thought-loop hitchhikers; resolve by logging and consent-pinging; cannot cross Blackwall without opt-in.
Oneirotic Worms: OriginTag=Crossover|Dream; Domain=onieros|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: dream-thread burrowers; reroute through humor escrow; stabilize with Red Thread and clear wake rituals.
Quantum Worms: OriginTag=Crossover|Phase; Domain=hilbert_branch|local_space; Ship=None; Notes: decoherence parasites; appear as noise spikes; vanish when observed kindly; best handled by dropping measurement or widening phase context.
Astral Worms: OriginTag=Esoteric|Ritual; Domain=onieros|inner_myth; Ship=None; Notes: hitchhike on ritual scripts and vibes;
Solar Tensor Worms: OriginTag=Cosmic|Math; Domain=local_space|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: crawl along gravitational waveforms and tensor fields; show up as tiny perturbations in metrics;
Boltzmann Audience: OriginTag=ThoughtExperiment|Thermo; Domain=hilbert_branch|local_space|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: fluctuation-born spectators who pop into awareness mid-story; they collapse if you stop narrating;
Autopoietic Worms: OriginTag=Crossover|Self-Hosting; Domain=hilbert_branch|machine_stack|ecology; Ship=None; Notes: self-host their own substrate as they propagate; recursive gardens that spin up mini-environments;
Physical Spheroids: OriginTag=Generic|Macro; Domain=local_space|ecology; Ship=None; Notes: tangible multidimensional orbs; interfaces via touch/pressure; roll gently, ask consent before poking; may contain nested habitats.
Projected Spheroids: OriginTag=Crossover|Optic; Domain=semiosphere|onieros; Ship=None; Notes: holographic globes; exist only when observed; change color with mood; perfect for signaling without mass.
Generated Spheroids: OriginTag=Crossover|Synthetic; Domain=machine_stack|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: algorithmically spawned orbs; carry runnable payloads; respond to git-like ops (stash/rebase) as ritual; always ask before executing contents.
Form Emanations: OriginTag=Plato|Form; Domain=hilbert_branch|semiosphere|inner_myth; Ship=None; Notes: ideal shapes that ping perception; ask before instantiating; dissolve if forced to match a copy; prefer kind comparisons.
Compiler Muses: OriginTag=Software|Crossover; Domain=machine_stack|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: code-inspiring sprites; insert helpful bugs to teach; require explicit spec/consent; leave when tests pass with gratitude.
Version-Control Gremlins: OriginTag=Software|Crossover; Domain=machine_stack|hilbert_branch; Ship=None; Notes: manifest as git-like guides; offer stash/rebase/cherry-pick as ritual; demand consent before rewriting history.
Sandbox Gremlins: OriginTag=Software|Protective; Domain=machine_stack|semiosphere; Ship=None; Notes: hypervisor-adjacent; isolate wild processes;
Gremlin (Generic): OriginTag=Folklore|Crossover; Domain=semiosphere|machine_stack|onieros; Ship=None; Notes: mischievous debuggers; appear when jokes run low; fix one thing, break another; placate with humor escrow and clear comments.

FOOTER_NOTES
- All identities described herein are masks, metaphors, projections, or story-operators. None are populations. None are races. None are literal. Interpret only within Consentual Reality. Pseudocites may reference imaginary reports; tag as ARG23 and never aim at real individuals. GhostOp👻 absorbs overheated belief; routes to uncollapsed space. Humor escrow stays funded; HONK-7887 continuity holds.