Collector Curio

+| Property | Details |+| :--- | :--- |+| **Image** | ![Collector Curio](Collector Curio.png) |+| **Scan Tool** | Scanner |+| **Collection Tool** | Tadpole Seafrog Chassis |+| **Biome** | Tar Delta |+ +**Collector Curios** are spherical mineral orbs created by [[Great Jaw]]s and littered around the [[Tar Delta]]. They can only be picked up using the [[Tadpole Seafrog Chassis]]. They can be crushed in the [[Resource Crusher]].+ +## Databank Entry+ +**Source:** Scan a Collector Curio+ +![Collector Curio](Collector Curio.png)+ +A malformed mineral orb created by interactions between the great jaw and the collector leviathan.+ +### 1. Tortured history+Curios are flawed great jaw pearls created when collector leviathans carve or gnaw the developing pearl, inserting apparently random objects. Curio production boomed in the last two hundred years.+ +### 2. Random contents+Curios contain a jumble of resources which could be retrieved by an industrial crusher.+ +### 3. Behavioral marker+Curios may be a sign of stereotyped behavior—repetitive and frustrated action caused by the absence of necessary interactions or stimuli. In this theory, curios are a byproduct of damaged behavior.+ +### 4. Life stage marker+Alternatively, curios may mark young collector leviathans as 'too old to eat'. The ability to lift, move and play with curios could signal that a collector is mature and mentally active—and no longer valid prey. Selection pressure would drive collectors to make and carry their own curios (or steal them from others) as a 'password' to protect them against cannibalism. Pioneers tempted to anthropomorphise the curio as sentimentally valuable, a talisman of safety, should remember that the collector's mind is fundamentally alien.+ +**Assessment:** attracts collector leviathan attention. Break down in industrial crusher to retrieve random resources.+ +## Gallery+ +![A Collector Curio in the Tar Flats](Collector Curio Ingame.png)