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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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