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A Cave Company, A Magician Company.
Sharpest Knife, Cutest Knife.
We Will Grow Humans In Pea-Pods
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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.
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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. .
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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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Cerberus Bodies Are Born. .
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