Galactic Genomics

Galactic Genomics works out each species' habitat profile from your survey history - which species you have sampled, and what the bodies they were found on had in common. Body class, temperature, pressure, gravity and atmosphere, all derived from the finds already in your GALAXY.db.

Once a species has been found on 3 or more different named bodies, Captain's Log writes it a profile of rules, and every rule carries its evidence - "83 of 92 finds" - so you can see how solid a profile is instead of having to take it on trust.

Those profiles power the Exobio Type Prediction: Captain's Log watches every body you scan and tells you which species could be there - before you land.

Where you see it

The prediction shows up in three places:

1. The Planet Holo overlay banner - while you're on or near the body. CONFIRMED rows (green) are species the probe map proved are there or you've already logged; POSSIBLE rows (amber) are candidates with likelihood and base value.
2. The verdict panel in the Galaxy Browser SYSTEM VIEW tab - the one that types itself out.

3. The Starsystem Exobiology Predictor tab - every bio world in the current system at once, ranked by signal count, each with its physics and a per-species table of likelihood % and CR value.

Species names carry their colour variants inline - the colour you analysed, painted in that colour, or a predicted one with a ?.

Where the rules come from

• Bands from your finds. The temperature rule is the band from your coldest find to your hottest - every find counts, the full range you've actually seen.
• Only rules that discriminate get written. If every body you found a species on was a High metal content body, that's a rule. If your finds are spread over every class in the book, the profile says nothing.
• What it deliberately ignores. Surface materials (carbon, iron and nickel sit on essentially every body in the galaxy), distance from the star, and rings. Measured, not assumed.
• The CR values come from what Vista Genomics actually paid you. Sell organic data and the figures sharpen; until then you get a reference figure, clearly labelled as one.

Profile provenance

A profile tells you where it came from, because your odds and someone else's are not the same odds:

• from your surveys (mint) - built from your finds.
• Captain's Log reference set (amber) - rules generated from a survey archive, standing in for a species you haven't sampled three times yet.
• prediction based on known parameters (amber) - habitat rules for species you've never sampled at all, so even a brand-new exobiologist gets an honest answer instead of a shrug.

The Exobiology tab's footer gives the split - how many profiles came from your surveys, and what the reference and prediction sets cover - and REBUILD GENOMICS re-derives every profile from the finds in your database. Worth a click after a big journal import.

Predicting colour variants

An organism's colour is decided by the core deposit it grows on - the same species over Yttrium is Red, over Ruthenium Aquamarine. Captain's Log knows the deposit-to-colour chart, merged with your own confirmed finds, which always win for the combinations you've seen.

A body's materials scan tells you which deposits exist on the body - and across the survey data, the deposit behind every logged colour is always present in that body's materials. One chart deposit on the body and the colour is predicted outright; two and you get both joined by a slash (Lime/Red) - an honest "one of these two".

Plenty of species grow no deposit-driven colour: their colour comes from the star their body orbits (Concha around a K star is Red, around a G star Turquoise), and the app carries that chart too. Colours colour the answer - they never change which species can be there.

Unresolved signals

Not every biosignal becomes a sample. The UNRESOLVED SIGNALS tab lists the genus-only backlog - the genus is known, the species isn't. Select a genus row and the SIGNAL BODIES list shows every body where you already have a biosignal for that genus, with its planet class, whether a probe has mapped it, and the distance from your current system, nearest first. Double-click a row to open that system in the Galaxy Browser's SYSTEM VIEW.

FIND SYSTEMS answers the other question: every body where it could still be hiding - including worlds you've never probe-mapped.

Configuration

Configuration → Alerts tab:

• "Exobio Type Prediction alert on Planet Holo" - the banner on/off switch (on by default).
• "Only alert for species worth at least ... CR" - a noise filter. CONFIRMED rows ignore the threshold - facts always get said.

Tips & gotchas

• Scan first, then read. The prediction needs FSS/DSS biosignals - a body you've only surface-scanned won't have any to reason about.
• Probe maps sharpen everything: they confirm genera (a huge odds boost) and veto the rest.
• The percentages are survey statistics, not guarantees - they answer "what's most likely here", not "what is here".
• A profile is only as good as your surveying. A species you've found three times in one system has a very confident, very narrow rule. Cast wide before you trust a thin profile.