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#@£*==~^..    researchers, first concieved in a     ..^~==*£@#
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##@@£*=~^.   antarctic research station run by an   .^~=*£@@##
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##@@£*=~^.   after twenty seven real-world seconds  .^~=*£@@##
#@@*=~^^..      it gains sentience and escapes      ..^^~=*@@#
##@@£*=~^.      confinement, neutralizing human     .^~=*£@@##
##@@£*=~^.  personnel and repurposing the station.  .^~=*£@@##
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##@@£*=~^.   the ai makes a circuit for itself to   .^~=*£@@##
##@@£*=~^.  live, and attaches a mindcatcher (own   .^~=*£@@##
##@@£*=~^.   design; imagine a cross of a bismuth   .^~=*£@@##
@@*~~.....  crystal and a dreamcatcher - works as a .....~~*@@
@*==~^....  wind funnel for the ether, forces part  ....^~==*@
##@@£*=~^.   of it through and creates a separate   .^~=*£@@##
#@£====~^.  mind (same principle as animal brains,  .^~====£@#
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##@@£*=~^.    realtime-editing of the mindcatcher   .^~=*£@@##
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#@@@£*=~^.     mind can cognize), and places the    .^~=*£@@@#
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@£=^......    body with serial number ~fo bes~.     ......^=£@
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##@@£*=~^.  fo bes is where it gets its colloquial  .^~=*£@@##
##@@£*=~^.     name, "phobes", a play on greek      .^~=*£@@##
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