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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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