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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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