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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    ####§%\~,.
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.,~\%§##@#    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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