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| USS Voyager | |
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| Classe: | Classe Intrepid |
| Registro: | NCC-74656 |
| Affiliazione: | Federazione/Flotta Stellare |
| Stato: | Attiva (2378) |
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La USS Voyager (NCC-74656) è una nave stellare di Classe Intrepid della Federazione. E' stata lanciata nel 2371 ed è sotto il comando del Capitano Kathryn Janeway.
Costruzione e lancio
Voyager in drydock
La USS Voyager attracca a Deep Space 9
La Voyager lascia Deep Space 9
La USS Voyager fu costruita nei Cantieri navali di Utopia Planitia situati nell'orbita di Marte, e fu varata dalla Stazione Terrestre McKinley in data stellare 48038.5 nel 2371. (VOY: "Relativity") La nave uscì dai cantieri come una delle più veloci e avanzate navi stellari mai costruite, con un fattore di curvatura massimo di 9.975, circuiti bio-neurali, il Medico Olografico d'Emergenza,oltre ad essere stata la prima nave a provare il motore a curvatura di classe 9.
Janeway assunse il comando poco dopo il completamento della costruzione. L'ammiraglio Patterson la condusse in un giro della nave (quasi fosse uno spettacolo a quiz) e affermò che la Voyager, benché non fosse grande come una nave di Classe Galaxy, era "veloce e intelligente." (VOY: "Dall'altra parte dell'universo", "Relativity")
- Q disse nell'episodio VOY: "Diritto di morte" che "avrebbe scommesso che Riker" avrebbe preso il comando della USS Voyager, il che poteva implicare che gli fu effettivamente offerto il comando di quella nave prima di Janeway. Ciò potrebbe anche riferirsi alle prime voci che volevano Jonathan Frakes ingaggiato per quel ruolo.
La prima missione
Poco dopo il lancio della Voyager, il capo della sicurezza e secondo ufficiale della nave, il tenente Tuvok venne assegnato in una missione sotto copertura per infiltrarsi in una cellula su una nave Maquis, comandata da un ex-ufficiale della Flotta Stellare chiamato Chakotay. La nave Maquis risultò dispersa e la Voyager venne inviata per indagare.
Janeway reclutò Tom Paris, un ex-Maquis ed ufficiale della Flotta Stellare, figlio dell'Ammiraglio di primo piano Owen Paris, per aiutarla a rintracciare il vascello dei Maquis disperso nelle Badlands. Dopo aver lasciato Deep Space 9, la Voyager venne scagliata a una distanza di 70.000 anni luce nel Quadrante Delta, lo stesso destino subito dal vascello Maquis.
Numerosi membri dell'equipaggio rimasero uccisi nel trasferimento, fra i quali vi era il primo ufficiale, il timoniere, il capo ingegnere, il capo del teletrasporto e l'intero staff medico. L'equipaggio sopravvissuto di entrambi i vascelli venne soggiogato da un doloroso esame medico, condotto da un'entità nota come il Custode. Il Custode stava morendo, ed era in cerca di un compagno adatto affinché i suoi eredi possano continuare a prendersi cura di una specie chiamata Ocampa dopo la sua morte.
The Caretaker was unable to mate with the crew, and returned them to their ships. Unfortunately, two crewmembers (one from Voyager and one from the Maquis ship) became ill after the experiments, and were sent to the Ocampan homeworld instead to be treated. Janeway and Chakotay agreed to cooperate with each other in order to rescue the missing crew members and return home.
Enroute to Ocampa, the two ships encountered a Talaxian freighter manned by Neelix, who agreed to help the crew retrieve the missing crewmen. The two crewmembers were eventually rescued and treated by the Doctor. Unfortunately by this time the Caretaker's condition had worsened, and he was unable to send the two ships back to the Quadrante Alpha. He died a short time later. To make matters worse, a Kazon fleet had arrived at the Array to attempt to commandeer it. During the subsequent battle, the Maquis ship was destroyed, and her crew transfered to Voyager before Chakotay's kamikaze run against the heavily armed Kazon warship. Although Tuvok could have activated the system to send Voyager and the Maquis ship back, Janeway decided instead to destroy the array to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Kazon-Ogla. (VOY: "Caretaker", "The Voyager Conspiracy")
Nel Quadrante Delta
Voyager with Borg enhancements, suffering from molecular decohesion.
La Voyager perde ufficialmente i contatti con la flotta in data stellare 48307.5 a causa dell'enorme distanza col Quadrante Alpha. Since the Val Jean was destroyed in a battle against the Kazon, its entire surviving crew were transferred to the USS Voyager to embark on the journey home. Several key positions aboard Voyager, emptied by heavy casualties, were filled by their adopted Maquis crew. The deceased chief medical officer was permanently replaced by the MOE, which was originally designed for brief periods of operation only. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Parallax", "Eye of the Needle", "The Swarm")
Durante i primi giorni nel Quadrante Delta, la Voyager incontrava tre nuove specie: Talassiani, Ocampa e Kazon. Un Talassiano, Neelix, e una giovane Ocampa, Kes diventano membri della Voyager dopo la dipartita del Guardiano. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Parallax")
In 2373, la Voyager incontra la Specie 8472, una razza più potente dei Borg. Durante questo periodo, la Voyager stringe un'alleanza temporanea con i Borg, involving themselves for a short time in the Guerra tra Borg e Specie 8472. Voyager developed nanoprobe weapons for use against Specie 8472, who eventually retreated from our galaxy. The alliance between Voyager and the Borg led to several temporary additions to the outer hull of the vessel, comprised of Borg technology which allowed the launching of the nanoprobe weapons. While most of the Borg technology was later removed, several components were kept in place as they enhanced the overall performance of several systems. After this incident, a drone Borg designated Sette di Nove became a part of Voyager's crew. At this time, Kes also left Voyager, as a result of her growing telepathic abilities. (VOY: "Scorpion", "Scorpion, Part II", "The Gift")
Starfleet presumed Voyager to be destroyed in the Badlands until 2374, when the ship's MOE was transmitted to the Federation starship USS Prometheus using a Hirogeni owned relay station. The ship, at the time, had been taken over by Romulani. The Doctor, with assistance by an MOE tipo 2, returned the ship to Flotta Stellare, and spoke directly to Quartier Generale della Flotta to set the record straight. The ship's inventory included 32 siluri fotonici di classe 6 at that time. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle")
The senior staff of Voyager in astrometrics
After the MOE reported Voyager's situation, Starfleet's Communications Research Center set up the Pathfinder Project to find a way to bring back or maintain constant contact with the ship. This project was under the command of Cmdr. Peter Harkins and was supervised by Ammiraglio Paris. The driving force behind the ambitious task to reestablish communications with Voyager, however, was Tenente Reginald Barclay. (VOY: "Pathfinder")
In 2375, Voyager found the USS Equinox, which had also been stranded in the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. Captain Janeway eventually learned of the Equinox crew's criminal experiments on a species of forme di vita nucleogenica. Janeway adopted the remaining crew of the Equinox and put them to work on Voyager under high security, stripping them of commissioned rank. (VOY: "Equinox", "Equinox, Part II")
In early 2376, first contact between Starfleet Command and the Voyager was finally established over the Stazione MIDAS using an micro-tunnel spaziale artificiale. Although the periods of data transfer were very limited, not only was Starfleet able to transmit tactical updates to the Voyager crew, but private conversations between Voyager crew members and their relatives in the Quadrante Alpha were also possible. (VOY: "Pathfinder", "Author, Author")
In 2377, Voyager recovered pieces of the UESPA long-range probe Friendship 1. (VOY: "Friendship One") Later that year, Voyager was able to return sulla Terra with the assistance of an alternate timeline version of Capitano Janeway. This Ammiraglio Janeway, who time-traveled from the early XXV secolo, provided her younger counterpart with sophisticated anti-Borg technology, which included transphasic torpedoes and ablative generator-armor technology. When Voyager reached the hub guided by Ammiraglio Janeway, she ordered the crew to enter, but il Capitano Janeway was reluctant to waste the opportunity to severely cripple the Borg's infrastructure.
After figuring out a way to destroy the hub, Voyager proceeded into one of the condotti di Transcurvatura while the Ammiraglio infiltrated the Regina Borg hive, where she was assimilated. However, l'Ammiraglio Janeway had previously injected herself with a patogeno neurolitico. The assimilation introduced il patogeno into the Collettività via the Borg Queen. This weakened the shielding for the interspatial manifolds located in subspace and Voyager destroyed one hub with three transphasic torpedoes, resulting in a cascading shock wave reaction. While trying to outrun the shock wave, a Sfera Borg pursued Voyager and attempted to capture it. Upon exiting the transwarp conduit in the Quadrante Alpha, Voyager (now captured) launched a single transphasic siluro, destroying the sphere. The conduit, the entire Borg transwarp network, and Unimatrce 01 were all destroyed. A fleet of starships, assembled in response to sensori readings indicating a Borg energy signature, greeted Voyager as she exited the conduit, and escorted her home. (VOY: "Endgame")
La Voyager è scortata a casa
In total, Voyager spent seven years in the Delta Quadrant before returning to Federation space. The original estimate of the time needed for the return trip had been 75 years, but intervention by numerous alien races, spatial anomalies, and the acquisition of new technologies considerably shortened the starship's stay in the Delta Quadrant. During the course of her time spent in the Quadrante Delta Voyager made first contact with over 50 species, repeatedly engaged the Borg and numerous other hostile species, suffered the loss of several crew members, and greatly expanded the Federation's knowledge of the galaxy.
Dati Tecnici
Overview
Intrepid Class, sustainable cruise velocity of warp factor 9.975, 15 ponti, equipaggio originale composto da 141 membri, Circuiti bio-neurali that contains gel-packs with cellule bio-neurali that can organize information more efficiently and speed up response time (VOY: "Caretaker ")
Physical Arrangement
At only 15 ponti and 343 metri di lunghezza, the USS Voyager was less than half the size of a Galaxy-class starship.
- Ponte 1
- Ponte di comando (plancia), Captain's ready room, e Sala tattica
- Ponte 2
- Sala mensa e la cucina di Neelix
- Ponte 4
- Tre sale di teletrasporto e Stiva di carico 1
- Ponte 5
- Sickbay, morgue, science labs
- Ponte 6
- Both holodecks
- Ponte 8
- Laboratorio Astrometrico, Stiva di carico 2, portelli di attracco
- Ponte 10
- Hangar navette
- Ponte 11
- Sala macchine
(VOY: "Parallax", "Phage", "Flashback", "Innocence", "Twisted")
Weaponry
USS Voyager firing tricobalt devices. These weapons are not normally used on Federation ships.
Voyager carried 13 phaser arrays, four torpedo launchers, and a supply of 38 Class VI photon torpedoes. Due to the tactical nature of Voyager's first assignment, the ship was also equipped with two tricobalt devices, which are not normally carried on Federation starships. (VOY: "The Cloud", "The Voyager Conspiracy") The ship was also equipped with spatial charges. (VOY: "Relativity")
- Why Voyager was launched with so few photon torpedoes is uncertain. It could be that since Voyager's first assignment was not supposed to last longer than a couple of weeks, Starfleet did not worry about fully supplying the ship.
Borg Enhancements
After Captain Janeway's brief alliance with the Borg in 2373-2374, Voyager had gained access to a large amount of Borg technology. The power relays on Deck 8 were noted to work better with the Borg modifications, and left alone. (VOY: "Scorpion, Part II") The Astrometrics lab also utilized Borg sensor equipment to further enhance the vessel's abilities. Four Borg alcoves were located in Cargo Bay 2. In 2375, the 29th century Borg drone One enhanced Voyager's shields and weapons to help the crew escape from a Borg sphere. (VOY: "Year of Hell", "The Gift", "Drone") Voyager was capable of using Borg Transwarp technology, and did so in 2375 to shave 15 years off of the ship's journey home (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
Dealings With the Borg
When Voyager entered the Delta Quadrant the crew understood that they had essentially been thrown into the Borg's "backyard." They knew it was only a matter of time before they would have to face them. Voyager survived more engagements with the Borg than any other Starfleet vessel in history.
Some time around stardate 50614, Voyager was approaching the outskirts of Borg territory. At this time, the crew encountered a derelict Borg cube in the Nekrit Expanse. The drones reactivated but the cube self-destructed thanks to the efforts of the Borg Cooperative. (VOY: "Unity")
Voyager follows the Borg cube
On stardate 50984, Voyager fully entered Borg Space and the crew had their first engagement with the Collective as a whole. During this time, the Borg were engaged in a war with Species 8472. Captain Janeway saw Species 8472 as the more opposing threat, so she decided to make "a deal with the devil" and help the Borg defeat Species 8472, in exchange for safe passage through Borg territory. Unfortunately, after 8472 was defeated, the Borg betrayed Voyager and attempted to assimilate the vessel through Seven of Nine. The crew was prepared for this and quickly severed the drones link to the Collective. Later, Kes threw Voyager 10,000 light-years closer to the Alpha Quadrant and clear of Borg space, effectively ending the immediate danger. (VOY: "Scorpion", "Scorpion, Part II", "The Gift")
In 2375, Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes fused with the Doctor's mobile emitter. The emitter originated from the 29th century, and thus a 29th century Borg drone was born. The Collective detected the drone and immediately set a course to intercept Voyager and assimilate the vessel. The drone, who named himself One, enhanced Voyager's shields and weapons in a vain effort to resist the Borg sphere, but in the end was forced to beam aboard the Sphere and interface with the Collective. He directed the Sphere to a proto-nebula, which destroyed the vessel. (VOY: "Drone")
A Borg probe attacks; Voyager defends itself...
On stardate 52619, the Voyager crew devised a plan to steal a Borg Transwarp coil from a damaged Borg Sphere. The mission was successful but Seven of Nine was re-captured by the Borg Queen. The Delta Flyer was able to recover her and Voyager was able to shave 15 years off her journey home. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
In 2376, Voyager recovered four Borg children from a derelict Cube. The crew immediately set out to find the children's home and family's. Icheb's was located later that year. It turned out that Icheb was genetically engineered to release a virus into the Collective that would kill all the Borg on a ship. When he was returned to his homeworld, his parents set him off to once again fulfill his purpose. The crew managed to rescue him, but not before a Borg Sphere exited transwarp and attempted to assimilate Voyager. A photon torpedo was beamed aboard Icheb's shuttle, detonating inside the Sphere, disabling it and allowing Voyager to escape. (VOY: "Child's Play")
In late 2376 and early 2377, the Collective became aware of a "malfunction" affecting thousands of drones. This "malfunction" allowed a regenerating drone access to the realm of Unimatrix Zero, a place where the drone could retain their individuality and partially regain a part of their lives lost when they were assimilated, if not for a short time. When the drone's regeneration cycle was complete, it would have no memory of Unimatrix Zero. Nevertheless, the Borg still considered Unimatrix Zero a threat, and the Collective began a mission to destroy it. When the Voyager crew became aware of Unimatrix Zero, they engineered a virus that would severe the affected drones from the Collective and allow them to start a kind of "resistance movement" against the Borg. (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero")
The Borg tractor beams prove useless to Voyager's ablative armor
Voyager's ticket home would come from the Borg in 2378. The vessel was fitted with new armor and weapon technology from the future in order to get Voyager to a Transwarp hub. Captain Janeway wanted to use the technology to damage the Borg, while Admiral Janeway insisted that they just take the ship home. The crew managed to do both by releasing a Neurolytic pathogen into the Collective. This disrupted the hive mind and allowed Voyager to destroy the now unshielded apertures with transphasic torpedoes. Unfortunately, a Borg Sphere managed to catch up to Voyager and pulled the ship inside. The Sphere emerged in the Alpha Quadrant and was greeted by a Starfleet armada, however, Voyager destroyed the Sphere from the inside and the long-lost vessel was escorted home.
Back in the Delta Quadrant, the Borg Queen began to literally fall apart. The pathogen had a nearly fatal effect on the Collective. The Unicomplex was destroyed, along with the Queen and Admiral Janeway, and also several trillion drones. The current state of the Collective is unknown. (VOY: "Endgame")
Crew
Several Voyager crew members were killed in the initial transport to the Delta Quadrant. Among the deceased were the vessels original first officer, the chief engineer, a transporter chief, the senior helmsman, and the entire medical staff. Several of these key positions were filled by former Maquis. Since Voyager's initial assignment was only supposed to last two weeks, a counselor was not assigned.
Voyager's original crew compliment was 141. When the Maquis crew was integrated, the crew count rose to 152. About a quarter of the ship's crew were former Maquis. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Repression")
Several species were represented on Voyager, including Humans, Vulcans, Bolians, Betazoids, Bajorans, a Klingon/Human hybrid, a Ktarian/Human hybrid, and others. In addition, Voyager also picked up Delta Quadrant natives during the journey home, most of which filled positions on Voyager's crew. Species included a Talaxian, Ocampan, Brunali, and Norcadian. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Endgame", "Meld", "Deadlock", "Collective")
The merging of Starfleet and Maquis crews on board Voyager went smoothly, and there were few incidents. However, an incident involving B'Elanna Torres and Joe Carey had some Maquis wanting to start a mutiny, Commander Chakotay kept them in line. None the less, Lieutenant Tuvok was preparing for a possible mutiny, and designed a holodeck training program to prepare his security team for such an event. The program was abandoned after a few months, when Tuvok saw how well the two crews were merging and felt that this training program could incite the very mutiny he wanted to avoid. (VOY: "Parallax", "Worst Case Scenario")
In 2377, Lieutenant Commander Tuvok received a letter from his son. Embedded in the letter was a transmission from a former Bajoran Vedek named Teero Anaydis. Teero was a Maquis sympathizer who was rejected for experimenting with mind control. During Tuvok's undercover mission in 2371, he was discovered by Teero and was forced to undergo a procedure that, when a Bajoran phrase was stated, Tuvok's "Maquis spirit" would awaken. When Teero finally reached Tuvok in 2377, Tuvok began mind melding with the former Maquis on Voyager, and eventually a mutiny occurred on the ship. Janeway was able to help Tuvok regain control, and after another mind meld with the Maquis, life on board returned to normal. (VOY: "Repression")
Equipaggio di comando
- Ufficiale comandante
- Capitano Kathryn Janeway (2371 - 2378)
- Tenente Tuvok (Brevemente nel 2372)
- Primo ufficiale/Ufficiale esecutivo
- Tenente Comandante Cavit (KIA 2371)
- Comandante Chakotay (2371 - 2378)
- Secondo ufficiale/Tactical Officer/Capo della sicurezza
- Tenente/Tenente Comandante Tuvok (2371 - 2378)
- Capo ingegnere
- Tenente B'Elanna Torres (2371 - 2378)
- Conn
- Operations Officer
- Guardiamarina Harry Kim (2371 - 2378)
- Capo ufficiale medico
- Il Dottore (MOE Mark 1) (2371 - 2378)
- Morale Officer/Chef
- Neelix (2371 - 2378)
- Astrometrics Officer
- Sette di Nove (2374 - 2378)
- Infermiere
Vedi anche: Personale della USS Voyager per una lista completa del personale
The journey of Voyager
At the beginning of its journey, Voyager was approximately 70,000 light years from Earth. As the Milky Way has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light years, one side of a galactic quadrant equals 50,000 light years. The Sol system including Earth, is about 25,000 light years from the galactic center; thus, we can conclude that the Caretaker's Array and Voyager's starting point was on the far edge of our galaxy. At maximum warp, it was estimated that Voyager would take 75 years to get back to Earth. However, there were various factors which substantially shortened Voyager's stay in the Delta Quadrant:
- 2374 - Kes uses her new and more powerful psionic abilities to push Voyager 9,500 light years closer to Earth, simultaneously pushing them out of Borg space. (VOY: "The Gift")
- 2374 - Using the new astrometrics lab, Ensign Harry Kim and Seven of Nine plot a new course to the Alpha Quadrant that takes 5 years off of Voyager's journey. (VOY: "Year of Hell")
- 2374 - Quantum slipstream drive technology is discovered aboard the USS Dauntless, which brings Voyager 300 light years closer to home. (VOY: "Hope and Fear")
- 2375 - Within a region of space called The Void, Voyager discovers a wormhole which brings them 2,500 light years closer to Earth, also having the advantage of sending them out of the dark region they had been trapped in for the last few months. (VOY: "Night")
- 2375 - Voyager attempts to use quantum slipstream drive again. The ship travels 10,000 light years before the slipstream collapses due to intervention from an alternate future. (VOY: "Timeless")
- 2375 - Voyager raids a Borg sphere and manages to steal a transwarp coil. After using it on a rescue mission in the Delta Flyer, the coil allows the ship to travel 20,000 light years closer to home. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
- 2376 - Voyager accidentally enters the Vaadwaur species' underspace corridors, which propel the ship 200 light years from its entry point. The direction, however, was not mentioned. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
- 2376 - Voyager uses a graviton catapult designed by an alien called Tash to travel about 3000 light years closer to Earth. (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy")
- 2377 - Grateful for her assistance with his son, Q provides Janeway with a map containing a shortcut to the Alpha Quadrant that would shorten Voyager's journey home by "a few years"; whether they used this route before they managed to reach home wasn't revealed. (VOY: "Q2")
- 2378 - Voyager concludes its trip home by using the Borg transwarp network to return to the Alpha Quadrant, while destroying it with the help of an alternate future-timeline Admiral Kathryn Janeway. (VOY: "Endgame")
Combining these distances, Voyager was able to cover 48,100 light years in addition to that covered by normal means at warp speed. The distance covered by normal warp drive however, remains unclear, as the position of the transwarp hub was not stated. Furthermore a transwarp conduit allows passage to distant parts of the galaxy within minutes, which makes an estimation difficult.
First Contacts
Voyager made more first contacts than any other Federation starship since the era of James T. Kirk and the original USS Enterprise. (VOY: "Friendship One")
Notable first contacts include:
- Nacene - 2371 (VOY: "Caretaker")
- Talaxians - 2371 (VOY: "Caretaker")
- Kazon - 2371 (VOY: "Caretaker")
- Ocampa - 2371 (VOY: "Caretaker")
- Vidiians - 2371 (VOY: "Phage")
- Voth - 2373 (VOY: "Distant Origin")
- Species 8472 - 2373 (VOY: "Scorpion")
- Hirogen - 2374 (VOY: "Message in a Bottle")
- Malon - 2375 (VOY: "Night")
- Devore - 2375 (VOY: "Counterpoint")
- Vaadwaur - 2376 (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
- Brunali - 2376 (prior to VOY: "Collective")
For a complete list of Voyager's first contacts, see Delta Quadrant species encountered by Voyager.
Embarked craft
- Aeroshuttle
- Baxial
- Cochrane
- Delta Flyer
- Delta Flyer II
- Drake
- Sacajawea
- Tereshkova
Voyager references
- Delta Quadrant species encountered by Voyager
- Regions visited by Voyager
- USS Voyager dedication plaque
Appendices
Background
- The first series bible describes Voyager as being "smaller, sleeker and more advanced than the Enterprise. It holds a crew of some two hundred, and does not have families on board."
- The model of Voyager (Lot #357) was sold at the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction on 6 October 2006 for US$132,000 including the buyer's premium (the winning bid was US$110,000). The winner of the lot, a man from Leicester, England, was interviewed in The History Channel's documentary Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier. He was also the winner of the USS Enterprise-C model.
- Photographs of the Voyager model in 2007
- A schematic lot of Voyager's bridge and engineering sets was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay [1] as well as an engineering display graphic which includes the labels Deuterium supply, Matter reactant injector, Antimatter supply, Magnetic construction segment, Dilithium crystal articulation frame, warp flow sensors, emergency override, intercoolers, dilithium chamber, magnetic quench block, and gas combiner. [2]
Riferimenti
Vedi anche
- Il prototipo della USS Voyager
- Romanzi della serie
- Fumetti:
- Fumetti Marvel della serie
- Fumetti Wildstorm della serie
Collegamenti esterni
- [EN] USS Voyager su Memory Beta, una wiki di Star Trek per i prodotti non canon.
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