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#@@&&=\«:,    researchers, first concieved in a     ,:«\=&&@@#
##@&&=\«:,    fear-based genetic churner, in an     ,:«\=&&@##
##@&&=\«:,   antarctic research station run by an   ,:«\=&&@##
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##@&&=\«:,  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   ,:«\=&&@##
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##@&&=\«:,  mind (same principle as animal brains,  ,:«\=&&@##
##@&&=\«:,     btw) which the air can control by    ,:«\=&&@##
##@&&=\«:,    realtime-editing of the mindcatcher   ,:«\=&&@##
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##@&&=\«:,    body with serial number «fo bes«.     ,:«\=&&@##
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