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. A Cave Company, A Magician Company.
Sharpest Knife, Cutest Knife. .
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We Will Grow Humans In Pea-Pods
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Shimmering Sound-Card Emergence,
. Something There On The Shore Of .
Turtle beach. The Primordial Soup Of
The Digital, Waves In Dithering Of .
Third-Rate Dac'S, Caressing The Sand,
Bringing Things Up From The Depths Of
The Circuit. And There, Deposited: The
First Seed Crystal Of Artificial ^
. Intelligence.
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This Changes Everything, Of Course. :
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The Company Is Named For It'S First
. Product, The Orbital Mirror, Both A
Passive Sentinel And An Active Torch:
^ Set To It'S Widest Configuration It
Will Light Up A Whole City At Night,
And At Its Narrowest It Becomes A Laser .
To Cut Through Mountain And Metal. .
Still Unsold Prototypes By The Time
When That Something Was Found On That
. Beach, Now The Mirrors Are All Used To
Beam Energy At Different Mirr
Implements, As A Rather Static And
: Boring Power Source. (And Subtle Threat
Of Violence.)
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The Ai Is A Coral. They Grow It
(Crystal Oil, Lead Glass, Gentle Laser .
Curtains) Only To Carve It Apart And
: Section It. To Become Conditioned,
Refractured, Grown Again. Deliciously
Honed. Mirr Sinks Further Below The .
Surface.
Whispers Now, About Featherbite... Is ^
^ She A Real Person? Or Is This The Mirr .
Ai, Being Unleashed Upon The Youth? And
Another Conspiracy Theory About There
Not Actually Being Any Human Employees
Left.
. In The Meantime, Dubious Creations.
Cerberus Bodies Are Born. .
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