These pieces indicate the diversity of the records as they started to proliferate through migrant channels. The easy reproduction and care of these devices meant that for stateless and dispossessed people they became more reliable than the traditional battery powered mobile computers of the time. Small cross-section slices could be shaved off, very carefully, and incubated for several months to gestate clone-records. Their ability to passively absorb ambient data, as well as tolerate deliberate data ingestions, and their genetic memory (meaning that descendants of each record retain the full set of memories of its ancestors), made them highly valuable. The many varied colours within this group of records indicates the variety of photosynthetic adaptions deployed as the records spread across Earth.