Update The Quiet

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The fungus feeds on those records. When it consumes a world's hypercube, it gains perfect knowledge of that reality, and once it understands a world completely, consuming the world itself becomes trivial. It no longer needs to explore, adapt, or learn. It already knows everything. A mapped world dies before it even realizes it is under attack. The fungus feeds on those records. When it consumes a world's hypercube, it gains perfect knowledge of that reality, and once it understands a world completely, consuming the world itself becomes trivial. It no longer needs to explore, adapt, or learn. It already knows everything. A mapped world dies before it even realizes it is under attack.
Yet the fungus did not reach Vale through these means.
Vale had never been successfully cartographed by the Meridians. No hypercube of the world existed. Vale should have been spared were it not for an accident.
A young Meridian made physical contact with the fungus shortly before his own rite of passage, and unwittingly brought the fungus with him.
### Why Vale Survives ### Why Vale Survives
Vale should have suffered the same fate as every other mapped world. Vale should have suffered the same fate as every other mapped world.