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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     #§*%/~:...
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