1. It should also be noted that, while most LPRU researchers take this mythos to be purely fantastic and deliberately poetic, a minority within the organisation have cautioned against any ‘bio-ontological prescriptiveness’, arguing that we know little, and may never know, exactly how this planet’s ecosystem developed. They claim that the transmigration described in the Lye artefacts may have had a more direct, biological origin. Laura Reinhardt’s research on Lye epidemics uses artefacts which feature accounts of diseases spreading ‘through’ the landscape as if it were living tissue; it is unfortunately impossible to know whether this is historically accurate, or mythological embellishment.