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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=.     ##@§%*\=~.
..~=\*%§@#                                          #@§%*\=~..
...~=\*%§@  fo bes is where it gets its colloquial  @§%*\=~...
....~=\*%§     name, "phobes", a play on greek      §%*\=~....
.....~=\*%                "phobos".                 %*\=~.....
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