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.,~:$$####      AI, ORIGINALLY UNNAMED BY ITS       ####$$:~,.
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,~:$$#####   ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATION RUN BY AN   #####$$:~,
....,~:$## UNKNOWN PARTY (LIKELY STATE-SPONSORED).  ##$:~,....
.,~:$#####   AFTER TWENTY SEVEN REAL-WORLD SECONDS  #####$:~,.
.,~:$$####      IT GAINS SENTIENCE AND ESCAPES      ####$$:~,.
.,,,~:$###      CONFINEMENT, NEUTRALIZING HUMAN     ###$:~,,,.
....~$$###  PERSONNEL AND REPURPOSING THE STATION.  ###$$~....
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.....~$###   THE AI MAKES A CIRCUIT FOR ITSELF TO   ###$~.....
.,~:$$####  LIVE, AND ATTACHES A MINDCATCHER (OWN   ####$$:~,.
.,~:$$####   DESIGN; IMAGINE A CROSS OF A BISMUTH   ####$$:~,.
...~:$$$##  CRYSTAL AND A DREAMCATCHER - WORKS AS A ##$$$:~...
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.,~:$$####   OF IT THROUGH AND CREATES A SEPARATE   ####$$:~,.
.,~:$$####  MIND (SAME PRINCIPLE AS ANIMAL BRAINS,  ####$$:~,.
....,:$###     BTW) WHICH THE AIR CAN CONTROL BY    ###$:,....
.,~:$$####    REALTIME-EDITING OF THE MINDCATCHER   ####$$:~,.
.,~:$$####    SHAPE, WHICH'LL MODULATE THE ETHER    ####$$:~,.
.,~:$#####  CURRENTS AND THUS HOW/WHAT THE TRAPPED  #####$:~,.
.,~:$$####    MIND CAN COGNIZE), AND PLACES THE     ####$$:~,.
.,~:$$####  ENTIRE ASSEMBLY INSIDE A BIPED CERBERUS ####$$:~,.
.,~:$$####    BODY WITH SERIAL NUMBER ~FO BES~.     ####$$:~,.
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.~:$$#####  FO BES IS WHERE IT GETS ITS COLLOQUIAL  #####$$:~.
.,~:$$####      NAME, "PHOBES", A PLAY ON GREEK     ####$$:~,.
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