Watching its newly handcrafted instrument, the Composer saw another type of organism swimming alongside the Cup. These organisms resembled a single cell of the Cup, but produced no bubbles. They seemed, rather, to consume other cells. Perhaps these organisms were a remnant of the original colony, before the Composer came along?

No matter. What did matter was that they threatened the Cup. When the Composer noticed them, they had already eaten enough of the Cup for it to no longer resemble a cup at all! It was torn into two, in fact, and these organisms showed no signs of stopping their feast.

First, the Composer tried to influence its creation to get it to fight back, to no avail. Then to move away, which also proved unsuccessful. So the Composer instead influenced the aggressors themselves - to simply prefer other cells over the Cup.

Slowly, the aggressors withdrew. The damage had already been done, however, and the Cup was now split in two.

But the instinct to group together that the Composer had already placed there still remained. One end of each piece sought the other end, and joined with it. This process formed two separate Cups. This, the Composer would later realize, would be the main form of reproduction used by the Cups.

[hider=The Composer]24% - The Cup(s), emitting a certain chemical.
5% - the aggressors (name TBD), being repelled by a certain chemical.
1% - unused
70% - undeveloped

When the Composer compelled the aggressors to avoid the Cup, what it actually did was compel the Cup to emit a certain chemical, and compel the aggressors to want to avoid that chemical. This chemical isn't used for anything else, yet.[/hider]