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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
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.
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.
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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. †
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† in the meantime, dubious creations. :
cerberus bodies are born. .
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