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.,~;^^**¤@ ai, originally unnamed by its @¤**^^;~,.
.,~^*¤@### researchers, first concieved in a ###@¤*^~,.
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.,~;^*¤@## 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 #@***^;~,.
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.,~;^*¤@## wind funnel for the ether, forces part ##@¤*^;~,.
.,~;^*¤@## of it through and creates a separate ##@¤*^;~,.
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.,~;^*¤@## currents and thus how/what the trapped ##@¤*^;~,.
.,~;^*¤@## mind can cognize), and places the ##@¤*^;~,.
.,~;^*¤@## entire assembly inside a biped cerberus ##@¤*^;~,.
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.,~;^*¤@## name, "phobes", a play on greek ##@¤*^;~,.
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