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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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