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+ | ====== The Adrian Martin, Episode 1: Hired for a Secret Salvage Mission ====== | ||
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+ | Narrator>>> | ||
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+ | Sandhia is just milling around with the rest of her crew in her work coverall when the owl and snow kitty arrive. | ||
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+ | Bella glides along quietly, listening to the old owl talk. He secures himself to the ' | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Yes, that's me." Sandhia nods and wanders over to the fountain. | ||
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+ | White Ears moves past the jungle gym, apparently in the wrong clothing for the job, but he decided to go really light for this work apparently, that and it can be rectified easily enough. He spots the brief meeting between an irbis and a mare... but merely ignores it while looking around for someone he was meant to meet. | ||
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+ | Bella then leans against the structure, looking for who else is supposed to be here. She spys Jace (ooo goody, the kitty from the bar), walks over to him, and offers him an electronic cigarette with a cheeky smile. | ||
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+ | Jace just kind of lingers, clad in his flight suit but he has it unfastened down the front exposing his undershirt. | ||
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+ | White Ears looks to the irbis as she stands in his way, then is whispered to, making his way to the rail with the other two. | ||
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+ | Sandhia looks at all the various handrail loiterers and wonders if they are here for the same reason she is. | ||
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+ | Bella glides along the railing with a cold smile and speaks to the three of you, ' | ||
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+ | The owl clears his throat. | ||
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+ | Jace swaggers a little as he saunters toward the jungle gym, but he remains holding on with one hand, flicking his eyes between those assembled and listening to the instructions. | ||
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+ | White Ears follows and keeps his hands in sight, not difficult to do really, but keeps silent, following, listening. | ||
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+ | Bella eyeballs the horsey, the cat and the wolf. She doesn' | ||
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+ | The owl continues... "This mission is dangerous. | ||
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+ | "Why me?" Sandhia asks. | ||
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+ | The owl says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears turns his head to the mare, giving her an odd look, shrugs. " | ||
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+ | The owl says, "You have all done work on old dilapidated equipment. | ||
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+ | "Ya forgot ta send me the specs on 'er hull an' engines, mate. Ya wanna tight scheduled flight, an' not givin' me them specifics then yer gunna have t'just trust me once I'm behind the stick. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "This mission can't be done any other way. You were chosen because you're a good pilot, and this mission takes a good pilot, one who can think well in all five dimensions - time and every direction. And one who can fly by the seat of his pants and handle the small stuff as long as the big picture is taken care of. And one who can fly by the seat of his pants and handle the small stuff as long as the big picture is taken care of." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "How big is the bonus?" | ||
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+ | Bella narrows her eyes at the leopard. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Bonus is double the mission pay if you all do well. If you all do crappy, we'll all be dead and you won't need the pay." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Oh, and we can take the bonus in salvage too? Will we get a good value?" | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Yes, an excellent value, since it's all outdated gear anyways." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Okay I'm in." | ||
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+ | White Ears nods, keeping quiet, " | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Is everyone in then?" | ||
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+ | Bella smiles at the old owl and sums it up neatly, 'Three for three.' | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Okay, the mission starts tomorrow at 8. Be prepared to spend a few days in cramped quarters. | ||
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+ | Jace grunt somewhat, "Ya can keep yer bonus. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Be sure and bring your tools. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "All right, if that's what you want. If you pull this off, I'll be sure you get the glory. | ||
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+ | Bella smirks quietly. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Be at docking bay 14 at the New Philly space port tommorrow, 8Am, and we will start." | ||
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+ | Jace reminds the owl employer, "I wanna see the ship first, mate. At least one hour before we's takin' off. Wanna run diagnostics on 'er so I know what she can do. We gunna be flying tight on time, so I'm gunna be pushin' | ||
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+ | The owl hands out about a quarter of your mission salary in cash. " | ||
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+ | White Ears takes it, nodding, "Will do sir." | ||
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+ | Later, the boss will tell Bella that there is a small possibility of unwanted guests at the mission sight, people that might not care that we arrive first and steak a salvage claim. People that might not mind leaving a few corpses to get what they want. She tells the old man she'll bring them back alive. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | 8 AM rolls around and you see Sandhia at the docking bay door with a bunch of crates of tools and parts on a trolley. | ||
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+ | The owl arrives. | ||
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+ | White Ears wears something a little more fitting as clothing, carrying a two bags of tools and spare parts which he thinks will be needed on this mission. | ||
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+ | Bella doesn' | ||
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+ | The owl takes out a cell and dials Jace's number. "I hope you are close enough that you can get get to docking bay 14 within five minutes; we're on a tight schedule. | ||
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+ | Jace actually isn't so proactive, instead drifts into Docking Bay 14 about a minute before his phone rings. | ||
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+ | "This way," the owl says. He takes everyone to docking bay 17 and ushers them onto a utility shuttle. | ||
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+ | White Ears follows along, pulling his items along with him. | ||
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+ | Bella bored after the owl and looks very very grumpy still. | ||
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+ | [Narrator] After loading | ||
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+ | White Ears meeps, silent for now after getting strapped in, but just looks around. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "About fifty years ago a ship, The Adrian Martin, took a shortcut through a tight field of asteroids. From earth, this field probably looks like a single asteroid, but it is actually composed of a multitude of smaller asteroids. It was loaded with high grade iridium. | ||
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+ | Jace makes himself cozy in the captain' | ||
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+ | The owl says, "Once we dock with the Adrian Martin we have only a few days to load as much high grade iridium as we can, and take whatever else seems of value from the ship. Then we will make our exit." | ||
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+ | White Ears nods. "Fair enough." | ||
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+ | The owl says, "The course will show on your navigation computer, do not deviate from it more than a few hundred meters in order to dodge the smaller asteroids or shoot them. | ||
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+ | Jace naturally waits for the boss to finish what he's saying. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "One final thing. | ||
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+ | Bella grunts mildly amused at the announcement and seems even more curious about the mission. | ||
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+ | The owl says, "The third window opens a few days later, and if we miss it, we have a five year wait until the next one." | ||
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+ | Jace has ship's data scrolling over his helmet' | ||
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+ | The owl says, "The first part of the mission while we go through the fringe should be easy warm-up. | ||
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+ | [Narrator] Jace notices as they follow the course, that this guy must really be a mathematician, | ||
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+ | White Ears nods slowly " | ||
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+ | Jace finally snaps his visor up and blinks his eyes twice, rubbing them with his fingers, and puts the ship on manual controls. One hand settles on the throttle stick and slowly pushes it foreward. | ||
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+ | Sandhia sits strapped into her chair, hour after tedious hour watching the proximity weapons that are manned by robotic brains. | ||
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+ | White Ears watches the display, seeing the plotted course. "No kidding.. although.. they' | ||
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+ | [Narrator] It takes quite a while and the train gets hit a few times, but eventually you make it through into a sort of null zone near a large asteroid -- There you see the Adrian Martin - It's got a few holes in it, but it looks to be in pretty good shape, considering. More specifically, | ||
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+ | The owl says, "White Ears, if you can deploy our communications dish, we should be able to send our salvage claim as soon as we dock!" | ||
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+ | White Ears nods as he unlatches from his seat, moving over to where the console is for the dish, then starts to key in commands to deploy the dish, then starts to transmit the salvage claim over the ship. | ||
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+ | Jace coaxes and guides the vessel through the perilous asteroid gatherings, breathing slowly and calmly as his free eyes search out the routes through the seeming impossible mess of rocks. | ||
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+ | White Ears nods as he had been strapped against the console, continuing to tap commands in to keep check on the subsystems. | ||
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+ | Right between those humungous scary rocks, a gap is right there... The sensors picked it up while Jace was replotting like a proper hotshot pilot. | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | The owl says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears smiles to the owl. " | ||
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+ | Jace releases the flight yoke after thrusting to a halt directly next to the Adrian Martin. | ||
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+ | [Breach Spider Robots: These robots are hull-repair welding robots that have multiple " | ||
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+ | Sandhia sends the breach spider robots [ over to the bridge area [of the Adrian Martin] first even as the recon ones go out. -- She lets White Ears do more surveillance and checking the ship as a whole while she directs the breach spiders to seal up the bridge and the path from the airlock to the bridge so it will hold atmosphere. | ||
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+ | [Narrator] "White Ears finds that most of the compartments of the ship are depressurized, | ||
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+ | White Ears continues to check, sending a few into the ship to search it, "Looks clear from within. One main breach at the rear with a few smaller ones on the far side." He starts to direct some other probes to now point outwards to keep an eye on the surroundings just in case. | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Okay, the Spiders have caught a few micro fractures now that we are pumping atmosphere, but they are sealing them, and there is nothing big left. We should be good to go in." | ||
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+ | Jace monitors the systems of the ship closely, though he does relax entirely, not even paying attention to the robot-work going on. Instead he's questioning the owl on the tonnage they' | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears nods. " | ||
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+ | Sandhia stays at the robot monitoring consoles on the choo-choo ship, but you can hear her on your radio. Sandhia says, "How does it look in there?" | ||
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+ | [Narrator] You can see a few small cracks and holes in the bridge but they have been welded up by the breach spiders. | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears radios back. "Looks ok in here... Nothing badly damaged... | ||
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+ | The owl says, "We may be able to take parts of the ship, if we have time, but the entire girth will not make it without severe damage. | ||
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+ | "We can't be drainin' | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Can you get the bridge consoles functioning or some of them? Particularly the ones pertaining to the reactor? If we can open all of the doors without running power to most of them, it will save us time." | ||
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+ | White Ears radios, "Sure. I'll see what I can do." He opens the panels under the console.. "Oh wait.. here we go." He then fiddles with a few tools he brought up with in. "I think I got it!" He then presses a few buttons, "There is enough fuel to power the ship for a few hours. Can someone hook the power cables across?" | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "If you can fix the reactor, the ships retros and engine may be usable, and that may give her a fighting chance to get out at least partly intact. Otherwise she's dead weight that cannot be maneuvered." | ||
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+ | Jace blinks his bright orange eyes thrice as he listens to the radio. | ||
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+ | White Ears ponders. "Try and transfer a little bit of power over. 2MWh if you can afford it. The engineering console reads that it needs that much to start up the reactor." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Give us reactors and an engine, and we may be able to remove the Adrian Martin from this field, but without the ability to maneuver she is dead weight and will, in all likelihood be destroyed utterly rather than be severely damaged. Oh, the autopilot shut down the reactor? | ||
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+ | White Ears nods. "The panel that I opened next to the main bay doors. I have the lights on around it I think." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Okay, on it." | ||
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+ | White Ears says, "Ok.. it looks stable.. raise it up slowly." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears keeps an eye on the levels. "Looks stable. The capacitors are charging." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | Jace instead just relaxes on the pilots chair, his helmet off on his lap and decides to just wait instead of talking any more. He folds his hands behind his head and closes his eyes for a little while. | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "There is an engineering conduit that runs from the bridge back to the reactor. | ||
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+ | White Ears tinkers with another panel to get that to display. "Ok. Looks good." He then presses a few more buttons. "Okay. I'll wait." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears says, "Got it!" He then looks at it through the tablet, "Tell me when you have it pressurized." | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Do you register anything on the reactor console on the bridge? Can you start her from there or does she need a little loving care before we should try it?" | ||
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+ | [Narrator] Part of the console registers, and what it registers is a bit of age damage. | ||
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+ | White Ears hmms. "Let me head down there" | ||
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+ | Jace catches a little catnap while it's all going on, resting his mind for the most part, though he's still half awake and triangular shaped ears twitching now and then at the distant noises of the radio. | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, "Okay, I've got spiders in the conduit inspecing and I'm running an air hose from our liquid atmosphere tanks." | ||
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+ | [Narrator] Time passes but eventually the conduit gets sealed and pressurized, | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | [Narrator] As you were working the boss sent out the salvage claim -- on several vectors, and he continues to do so, checking his calculations every so often... | ||
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+ | White Ears opens the door. " | ||
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+ | [Narrator] A robot arrives with a few canisters, packed old style. | ||
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+ | Sandhia says, " | ||
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+ | White Ears yays and takes the containers, adding them to the store carefully. "Thank you" He then makes another adjustment, then pops the panel back in. " | ||
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