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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      ......:-^%
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