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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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