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,......... 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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^:~,...... currents and thus how/what the trapped ......,~:^
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~,........ entire assembly inside a biped cerberus ........,~
,......... body with serial number ~fo bes~. .........,
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