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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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