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| - Research Station Amarax was the Magellan Corporation's deep-space long range parallax array platform. It was commissioned in 2173 and was situated outside the apogee of Pluto scanning deep space for singularities for possible commercial use. It was purchased and refurbished by Dr. Kenneth Farnstein in 2221 serving as his studio and laboratory, known as Farnstein Lab. He made it self-sufficient and attached hollowed-out asteroids as new modules. He repositioned it near Saturn until destroyed by an asteroid shower. The station had an advanced neurocomputer based on a new form of biotechnology whose resident Softweb housed Arthur. Several modules of the station, such as the research lab and much of the habitat wing, were sheared from the main frame by the space debris. Agent 5 visited the Station soon after its destruction to investigate the traces of any artificial intelligence. While there he downloaded Arthur in his JumpSuit therefore saving him from oblivion. In the later years the capacitance array was drained and the neurocomputer was dissolved. In February 2282 the space sweeper Lazy Jane patrolled low Saturn orbit while looking for ice mining platform, recognised Amarax by its beacon. The crew discovered the remnants of the neurocomputer core, and four globes of a similar biomass made of polymorphing neural matter, which they superstitiously considered the memories and ghosts of the dead crewmembers. The computer core was brought to Earth for study, which was understood only years later by the foremost technologists. Its architecture lead to the development of the ubiquitous Biochip technology. The self/here*LIFE sculptures which, when interacted with, they blossomed into multi-dimensional art pieces, astounded the art world and were recognised as masterpieces.
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