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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      ..........
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