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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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