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A Cave Company, A Magician Company.
Sharpest Knife, Cutest Knife.
We Will Grow Humans In Pea-Pods
Shimmering Sound-Card Emergence,
Something There On The Shore Of
Turtle beach. The Primordial Soup Of ~
The Digital, Waves In Dithering Of
Third-Rate Dac'S, Caressing The Sand, .
Bringing Things Up From The Depths Of
. The Circuit. And There, Deposited: The
First Seed Crystal Of Artificial .
. Intelligence.
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The Company Is Named For It'S First
Product, The Orbital Mirror, Both A
Passive Sentinel And An Active Torch:
Set To It'S Widest Configuration It
~ Will Light Up A Whole City At Night,
And At Its Narrowest It Becomes A Laser
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. Still Unsold Prototypes By The Time *
When That Something Was Found On That
Beach, Now The Mirrors Are All Used To
Beam Energy At Different Mirr
Implements, As A Rather Static And .
Boring Power Source. (And Subtle Threat
Of Violence.)
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* The Ai Is A Coral. They Grow It .
. (Crystal Oil, Lead Glass, Gentle Laser
. Curtains) Only To Carve It Apart And ~
. Section It. To Become Conditioned,
. Refractured, Grown Again. Deliciously
Honed. Mirr Sinks Further Below The
Surface.
Whispers Now, About Featherbite... Is
She A Real Person? Or Is This The Mirr
Ai, Being Unleashed Upon The Youth? And ~
Another Conspiracy Theory About There
Not Actually Being Any Human Employees
Left.
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In The Meantime, Dubious Creations.
Cerberus Bodies Are Born. .
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