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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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