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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     ....,-**@#
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