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....:~^*%@                 "phobes"                 @%*^~:....
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..:~^*%@##      ai, originally unnamed by its       ##@%*^~:..
.:~^*%@###     researchers, first concieved in a    ###@%*^~:.
..:~^*%@##    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   ..........
.......... 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,  ..........
.........:    btw) which the air can control by     :.........
........:~    realtime-editing of the mindcatcher   ~:........
.......:~^    shape, which'll modulate the ether    ^~:.......
......:~^*  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     ##@%*^~:..
...:~^*%@#                 "phobos".                #@%*^~:...
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