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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.
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. .
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.
In The Meantime, Dubious Creations.
Cerberus Bodies Are Born. .
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