Every Biom is built from the same library — shapes, stains, organelles, lifecycle states. Below, each one isolated so you can see what it looks like on its own.
The structural shape of the colony. Inherited from how cells divide and arrange themselves under the microscope.
Each Biom gets one of twelve. These are real lab protocols — the ones bacteriologists use to read cell wall chemistry.
The bits inside the cell. Each one rolls independently. A Biom can show several at once, or only the capsule that everyone gets.
Cellular cargo — what the biom stores inside. Each biom carries one type of reserve, or none at all.
The moment in the cell's life this biom is caught in — feeding, dividing, sporulating, or fixing nitrogen.
Anomalies. Each shows up in roughly one to two percent of Bioms. A handful of specimens have more than one.