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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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