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#@#¤@†=~.¨       ai, originally unnamed by its      ¨.~=†@¤#@#
##@¤@†=~.¨     researchers, first concieved in a    ¨.~=†@¤@##
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#@#¤@†=~.¨   antarctic research station run by an   ¨.~=†@¤#@#
#@#¤@†=~.¨  unknown party (likely state-sponsored). ¨.~=†@¤#@#
#@†††=...¨  after twenty seven real-world seconds   ¨...=†††@#
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##@¤@†=~.¨  personnel and repurposing the station.  ¨.~=†@¤@##
##@#¤@†~.¨                                          ¨.~†@¤#@##
##@#¤@†~.¨   the ai makes a circuit for itself to   ¨.~†@¤#@##
#@#¤@†=~.¨  live, and attaches a mindcatcher (own   ¨.~=†@¤#@#
##¤¤@†=~.¨   design; imagine a cross of a bismuth   ¨.~=†@¤¤##
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#@#¤@†=~.¨  wind funnel for the ether, forces part  ¨.~=†@¤#@#
#@#¤@†=~.¨   of it through and creates a separate   ¨.~=†@¤#@#
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##@¤@†=~.¨     btw) which the air can control by    ¨.~=†@¤@##
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@¤@†††=~.¨    shape, which'll modulate the ether    ¨.~=†††@¤@
@¤¤@††=~.¨  currents and thus how/what the trapped  ¨.~=††@¤¤@
#¤††~~...¨    mind can cognize), and places the     ¨...~~††¤#
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@##¤@†=~.¨    body with serial number ~fo bes~.     ¨.~=†@¤##@
#@#¤@†=~.¨                                          ¨.~=†@¤#@#
@¤¤¤@†=~.¨  fo bes is where it gets its colloquial  ¨.~=†@¤¤¤@
###¤@†=~.¨      name, "phobes", a play on greek     ¨.~=†@¤###
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