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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=.    .....,=\^%
^\=,......                                          ......,=\^
\=,.......  FO BES IS WHERE IT GETS ITS COLLOQUIAL  .......,=\
=,........     NAME, "PHOBES", A PLAY ON GREEK      ........,=
,.........                 "PHOBOS".                .........,
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