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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.
this changes everything, of course.
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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
to cut through mountain and metal.
$ 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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