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¨¨--*§%£#@    fear-based genetic churner, in an     @#£%§*--¨¨
¨--*§%£#@#   antarctic research station run by an   #@#£%§*--¨
¨¨--*§%£#@ unknown party (likely state-sponsored).  @#£%§*--¨¨
¨--*§%£#@#   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   @#£%§*--¨¨
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¨¨--*§%£#@  currents and thus how/what the trapped  @#£%§*--¨¨
¨--*§%£#@#     mind can cognize), and places the    #@#£%§*--¨
¨¨--*§%£#@ entire assembly inside a biped cerberus  @#£%§*--¨¨
¨--*§%£#@#     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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