{"schemaVersion":"1.0","language":"en","modifiedAt":"2026-11-13T20:45:55Z","record":{"id":"lore:mycelial-invasion-asteroid","kind":"lore","slug":"mycelial-invasion-asteroid","title":"Asteroid B-593858-C-436-A","intro":"A catalogued object turns a distant observation into an immediate question in the novel’s opening.","sourceWorkIds":["the-mycelial-invasion"],"evidenceBasis":"Supplied manuscript opening and original editorial interpretation","spoilerLevel":"introductory","sections":[{"title":"A designation before an explanation","body":"B-593858-C-436-A is the asteroid designation used in the opening of The Mycelial Invasion. Its approach becomes the subject of an institutional warning. The identifier gives readers a specific object to follow while the characters discuss what they can determine about it. A formal name can make information seem settled, yet naming an object is different from understanding everything about its movement or significance.","url":"https://paulhaedo.com/lore/mycelial-invasion-asteroid/#editorial-section-1"},{"title":"Keep uncertainty visible","body":"The opening conversation includes attempts to describe an expected event while details remain uncertain. Readers can follow those distinctions without receiving a summary of what happens afterward. This entry supplies neither an impact timetable nor a scientific model, and it makes no claim about a real astronomical object with this designation. Its focus is the role of observation in the story: what becomes reportable, who receives the report and what remains an open question.","url":"https://paulhaedo.com/lore/mycelial-invasion-asteroid/#editorial-section-2"}],"questions":["What does a precise identifier establish, and what does it leave unknown?","How does the scale of a distant object change when characters discuss an immediate consequence?"],"modifiedAt":"2026-11-13T20:45:55Z","websiteLanguage":"en","editorialAuthor":"Paul Haedo author website — AI-prepared editorial guidance","canonicalUrl":"https://paulhaedo.com/lore/mycelial-invasion-asteroid/","sourceEnglish":"https://paulhaedo.com/lore/mycelial-invasion-asteroid/","deliberateManuscriptQuotations":false,"scope":"Spoiler-light introduction. This complements the source books and does not reproduce their text.","sources":[{"workId":"the-mycelial-invasion","title":"The Mycelial Invasion","url":"https://paulhaedo.com/books/the-mycelial-invasion/"}]}}