How to Detect Mission Drift Before It's Too Late — The Sacculina Protocol (Case File 23, PDF)

Case File No. 23-004 · Week 04 · Organism 23 of 28 — The Hidden Bio-Economic Current Series

A crab infected by the parasitic barnacle Sacculina keeps every ounce of its parental instinct — grooming, fanning, releasing — it simply directs all of it at a brood that isn't its own.

This clinical-style intelligence briefing breaks down Sacculina's internal rootlet colonization (Sacculina carcini) and translates it into a beneficiary-substitution protocol for catching genuine effort that now serves the wrong goal.

Inside this file:

• Diagnostic classification: Purpose Substitution Syndrome — 5 presenting symptoms
• Biological case study with cited mechanism paragraphs
• Cognitive translation + Systemic Audit Question
• 4-step Surgical Prescription protocol + Behavioral Calibration Metric
• Case discharge summary with hyperlinked, peer-reviewed sources

Delivered as a 6-page, fully designed PDF.

Part of the DR.CHICKS™ Clinical Intervention Protocol series — Division of Bio-Economic Diseases.