Yeah I thought about this. You’ve worded it much better than I could have. However, the nine predate the arrival of the traveller in the Sol system, as shown in the “I Am Alive” Lore tab. This doesn’t directly disagree with this idea but it certainly throws a spanner in the works. My theory is that the true Nine are either the mysterious transmission, viral language, aspects of darkness or the shadows of a transcendent shape, which then infect or inhabit any groups of nine powerful individuals, such as the ghosts, sub minds, leviathan intelligences, firstborn awoken or cis-jovian survivors.