Marine Science · Cold-Light Biology
Bioluminescence Index
Every confirmed light-bearer in the League's care. In the deep, light is not heat — it is chemistry: a substrate, luciferin, oxidised by the enzyme luciferase to throw off cold photons at near-perfect efficiency. Some make their own; some farm symbiotic bacteria to do it for them. All of it, the abyss does in the dark.
Cold light. Luciferin + luciferase + oxygen → light, with almost no waste heat. The same reaction the abyss uses to lure, signal, and hide is now the reporter chemistry behind half our molecular assays. See the luciferin entry in the Toxin & Venom Compendium. — Marine Science
Light-bearers
Mechanism register
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