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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     #@#§**~,,,
,,,,~**§#@                "phobos".                 @#§**~,,,,
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