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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   ,:~=^§#@@@
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##@#§^=~:,     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  ,,,,,~^§##
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##@#§^=~:,  mind (same principle as animal brains,  ,:~=^§#@##
##@#§^=~:,    btw) which the air can control by     ,:~=^§#@##
##§^~~,,,,    realtime-editing of the mindcatcher   ,,,,~~^§##
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##@#§^=~:,  currents and thus how/what the trapped  ,:~=^§#@##
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####§^=~:, 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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