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....##.... "phobes" ......####
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###....... 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, ####....##
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..####.... 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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