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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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