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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      -.........
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