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Scout

Explorer — The one who goes where nobody has gone.

Seeks novelty. Inverse pheromone weighting — lower trail is more attractive. Deposits weak (3.0) but frequently. High mortality. Essential for discovery.

"Where others see nothing, you see opportunity. The strongest trail is boring."

Genome

Five heritable parameters. Every ant of this caste carries these defaults — the environment selects, the genome mutates, and the colony converges.

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Scout

Explorer

Seeks novelty. Inverse pheromone weighting — lower trail is more attractive. Deposits weak (3.0) but frequently. High mortality. Essential for discovery.

Trail following
30
Novelty seeking
80
Mark threshold
40
Risk tolerance
70
Mutation rate
15
deposit: opportunity (3)observescan

"Where others see nothing, you see opportunity. The strongest trail is boring."

Deposit Profile

Type

opportunity

Strength

3

Cost

0.5

Chains

The Scout runs on 2 chains.

Market Scout → Harvester → Trader Discover, evaluate, execute.
Recon Scout → Forager → Queen Scan, harvest, harden into permanent knowledge.

Actions

observe scan

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