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"It is an ill-omened place, my lord. Cursed, they say, a fount of witches and other foulness. A chalice of corruption, haunted by a dead sun. They say it is but a matter of time before the stars align and the entire place is torn asunder by daemons. Of course, they say that about a great many places. But in this case, master, the Tarot indicates it is actually true."
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The Calixis Sector is an Imperial sector of the Milky Way Galaxy that serves as the setting for the Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy role-playing game, which focuses on the actions of Imperial Inquisitors and their chosen Acolytes and Throne Agents. The Calixis Sector is located in the Segmentum Obscurus on the northern edge of the known galaxy, near the Halo Stars and the Eye of Terror. To the trailing edge of the galaxy, the Calixis Sector is bordered by the hazardous territories of the Fydae Great Cloud and to spinward by the Scarus Sector. Bordering to coreward, its immediate neighbour is the Ixaniad Sector. To rimward lie the contested and unregulated Imperial frontiers of the Halo Stars where Humans and xenos mix in the quest
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So I'm fairly new to 40K as a franchise. I've read a couple novels, scoured the wikis, and watched quite a few batreps on Youtube. But there's a ton of stuff I still don't fully get. And one of the biggest ones is Feudal Worlds.
My understanding is that  Feudal World is a world belonging to the Imperium of Man that is essentially in its own Middle Ages. The Wiki says that some have reached black powder tech levels, but mostly they're still very agricultural and low-tech.
So how does that work with tithes? Is the whole planet really still using swords and shields and chain mail? Is the planetary governor a king from that planet, or do they get assigned someone from the greater Imperium? How much does the general population know about the Imperium? If someone came down in a spaceship would they think that person is an angel or something?
I've seen people mention feudal worlds having PDFs. Are those guys using "modern" tech? Or are they meant to defend the planet with crossbows and leather armor?
And also, why does the Imperium want a world filled with a bunch of backwords savages who haven't even figured out indoor plumbing? Why don't they build them up to hive worlds or give them tech for better farming?
I'd be very grateful to anyone who could answer these questions for me. Feudal Worlds sound interesting, but they also confuse the fuck out of me.
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Sepheris Secundus
The world of Septeris Secundus as seen from orbit.
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Type
Mining World / Feudal World
Orbital Radius
Unknown
Gravity
Unknown
Temperature / Climate
Arctic; global blizzards are common
Population
12,000,000,000
Planetary Governor
Queen Lachryma III
System
Unknown
Sub-sector
Golgenna Reach
Sector
Calixis Sector
Segmentum
Segmentum Obscurus
Tithe Grade
Exactis Extremis
Sepheris Secundus is a feudal Mining World located in the Golgenna Reach Sub-sector of the Calixis Sector in the Segmentum Obscurus. Sepheris Secundus is a world of immense mineral wealth, city-sized mines, billions-strong hordes of serfs and the sharpest divide between the elites and the masses in the Calixis Sector.
It is a grim place of snow and twilight, feral mutants and lives spent in back-breaking labour deep beneath the ground. The Imperium's eagerness to exploit Sepheris Secundus' vast resources is such that the planet is at the same time the richest and poorest world in the sector.
Sepheris Secundus' climate is cold and stormy, its surface obscured by a mantle of cloud. It has no oceans save for the small polar seas, so the moisture in its atmosphere comes from below the crust, spewed out from failed mine workings or natural geysers that pockmark the planet like pustules.
Its surfa
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Sepheris Secundus is an Imperial Mining[1a] and Feudal World.[3a]
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Name:
Sepheris Secundus
Segmentum:
Segmentum Obscurus[1a]
Sector:
Calixis Sector[1a]
Subsector:
Golgenna Reach[2]
System:
Unknown
Population:
12,000,000,000[1b][2]
Affiliation:
Imperium
Class:
Mining World/Feudal World
Tithe Grade:
Exactus Extremis[1b]
Contents
1 Overview
2 The Suffering Kingdom
3 Planetary Data
4 Gorgonid Prime
4.1 Cults of the Gorgonid
5 Contact with Other Worlds
6 See Also
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7 Sources
8 Uncited
Overview
Sepheris Secundus is a world of immense mineral wealth, city-sized mines, billions-strong hordes of serfs and the sharpest divide between the elites and the masses in the Calixis Sector. It is a grim place of snow and twilight, feral mutants, and lives spent in back-breaking labour deep beneath the ground. The Imperium's eagerness to exploit Sepheris Secundus's vast resources is such that the planet is, at the same time, the richest and poorest world in the sector.[2]
Sepheris Secundus's climate is cold and stormy, its surface obscured by a mantle of cloud. It has no oceans save for the small polar seas, so the moisture in its atmosphere comes from below the crust, spewed out from failed mine workings or natural geysers that pockmark the planet like pustules. Its surface is split between the vast open mines like deep scars in the crust and the dense, snow laden forests broken only by the ruins of failed kingdoms that tried to claim Sepheris Secundus in the past. With its endless blizzards, widespread ignorance and antiquated methods for doing everything, Sepheris Secundus would be a meaningless backwater were it not for the enormous mineral wealth beneath its surface.[2]
The Suffering Kingdom
Queen Lachryma III of Sepheris Secundus
While the whole Imperium is a feudal empire, feudalism is an extreme on Sepheris Secundus. Everyone born on the planet must have a master to whom they pay nine-tenths of everything they produce, which for most citizens means the ore they hack from the rock faces of the planet's mines. Queen Lachryma III, the planet's absolute monarch, sits at the top of this feudal system. The rights to the labour of these billions of serfs belong to the barons appointed by the queen or to noble families and business consortiums that purchase them from the crown. The queen's own master is the Imperium, to whom she hands over truly staggering amounts of ore, metals and raw fuel to fulfil the planet's tithe. Sepheris Secundus's tithe is the highest in the Calixis Sector, and without its immense output of raw materials, the economy of the whole province would be badly unsettled.[3a]
Two principal forces maintain Sepheris Secundus's feudal system. The first is the weight of tradition: every serf labouring in the mines is doing what his father did and his grandfather before that, often at the same rock face. The second force is physical violence. One of the reasons that Sepheris Secundus's culture is so primitive by many standards is that weaponry and other technology is monopolised by the crown. The queen's Royal Scourges are equipped with lasguns, grenades and chainblades, contrasting with their gaudy, stained-glass-like armour. Though few in number, the technological advantage that these troops possess has been enough to put down a great many uprisings in the mines of Sepheris Secundus, and the planet's history is littered with massacres where thousands of serfs fell to volleys of lasgun fire.[3a]
Planetary Data
Galactic Position: 52/34/CS/NNE.[2]
Orbital Distance: 34.88 AU[1b]
Gravitation: 1,12G[1b]
Average Temperature: 3°С[1b]
Aestimate: A777[1b]
Satellites: Three moons, none inhabited.[2]
Planetary Governor: Queen Lachryma III.[2]
Economy: Chips or Lumps - In the mines and villages of Sepheris Secundus life revolves around endless mining, to the point where chips and lumps of ore are sometimes used as a default currency.[2]
Principle Exports: Sepheris Secundus is the largest exporting planet in the Calixis Sector. Without its massive exports of ore, metals and fuel, the trade of the Calixis Sector could not function.[2]
Mirror Shield: Used by the Royal Scourges on Sepheris Secundus, the shield is a large rectangular shape that will cover about two thirds of a human sized body. The shield is made from layers of stained glass, a material used in large quantities by the barons of Sepheris Secundus, this gives the shield a mirrored effect that has been known to repel las-weapon shots of a low strength.[2]
Principle Imports: Sepheris Secundus relies on imports of food from the sector's Agri Worlds.[2]
Imperial Guard Recruitment: Sepheris Secundus's vast population makes it a potential supplier of Imperial Guard recruits, although a relatively small proportion
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Population: 12 billion.
Tithe Grade: Exactus Extremis.
Geography: Planet-wide overcontinent, small polar oceans. Mountainous, forested, extensive areas of open mine workings. Arctic climate, atmosphere moisture-laden and blizzards constant. Three moons, none inhabited.
Government Type: Feudal monarchy.
Planetary Governor: Queen Lachryma III.
Adept Presence: Very low. Some Adeptus Ministorum clergy, Adeptus Arbites Precinct-Fortress.
Military: Royal Scourges, Baronial armies, noble private armies. Poor/medium quality.
Contents
1 Overview
2 The Suffering Kingdom
3 The Rule of Law
4 The Traditions of Serfdom
5 Important Locations
6 Power Groups
7 Unique Equipment
Overview[]
Sepheris Secundus is the largest exporting planet in the Calixis Sector. Without its massive exports of ore, metals and fuel, the trade of the Calixis Sector could not function. Sepheris Secundus relies on imports of food from the sector’s agri-worlds. Its vast population makes it a potential supplier of Imperial Guard recruits, although a relatively small proportion of the population would be suitable because of universally poor health, along with the risk of exposing the subjugated masses to the possibility of life outside the mines. Sepheris Secundus is a world of immense mineral wealth, city-sized mines, billions-strong hordes of serfs and the sharpest divide between the elites and the masses in the Calixis Sector.
It is a grim place of snow and twilight, feral mutants and lives spent in back-breaking labor deep beneath the ground. The Imperium’s eagerness to exploit Sepheris Secundus’s vast resources is such that the planet is at the same time the richest and poorest world in the sector. Sepheris Secundus’s climate is cold and stormy, its surface obscured by a mantle of cloud. It has no oceans save for the small polar seas, so the moisture in its atmosphere comes from below the crust, spewed out from failed mine workings or natural geysers that pockmark the planet like pustules. Its surface is split between the vast open mines like deep scars in the crust and the dense, snow-laden forests broken only by the ruins of failed kingdoms that tried to claim Sepheris Secundus in the past. With its endless blizzards, widespread ignorance and antiquated methods for doing everything, Sepheris Secundus would be a meaningless backwater were it not for the enormous mineral wealth beneath its surface.
In the mines and villages of Sepheris Secundus, life revolves around endless mining, to the point where chips and lumps of ore are synonymous with Thrones. One of the native creatures of the planet is used as a beast of burden; its massive form is covered in heavy brown fur and they are equipped with four long trunks.
On Sepheris Secundus, the name of the Dionides Mine was expunged from records following a rising of the Pale Throng so powerful that, despite the damage it would do to the planet’s production, the mine was collapsed by atomic charges. In the purge that followed, any amongst the planet’s serfdom who had a connection with the area, however tenuous, was executed.
The Suffering Kingdom[]
While the whole Imperium is a feudal empire, feudalism is an extreme on Sepheris Secundus. Everyone born on the planet must have a master to whom they pay nine-tenths of everything they produce, which for most citizens means the ore they hack from the rock faces of the planet’s mines. Queen Lachryma III, the planet’s absolute monarch, sits at the top of this feudal system. The rights to the labor of these billions of serfs belong to the barons appointed by the queen or to noble families and business consortiums that purchase them from the crown. The queen’s own master is the Imperium, to whom she hands over truly staggering a
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Sepheris Secundus is a world of immense mineral wealth, city sized mines, billions-strong hordes of serfs and the sharpest divide between the elites and the masses in the Calixis Sector. It is a grim place of dry, arid lands, feral mutants, and lives spent in back breaking labour deep beneath the ground. The Imperium's eagerness to exploit Sepheris Secundus's vast resources is such that the planet is at the same time the richest and poorest world in the sector.
While Sepheris Secundus's climate is reasonable in temperature, it has no oceans save for the small polar seas, so the moisture in its atmosphere comes from below the crust, spewed out from failed mine workings or natural geysers that pockmark the planet like pustules, still providing no where near enough to maintain reasonable humidity. Its surface is split between the vast open mines like deep scars in the crust broken only by the ruins of failed kingdoms that tried to claim Sepheris Secundus in the past. Sepheris Secundus would be a meaningless backwater were it not for the enormous rare mineral wealth beneath its surface.
The Suffering Kingdom
While the whole Imperium is a feudal empire, feudalism is an extreme on Sepheris Secundus. Everyone born on the planet must have a master to whom they pay nine-tenths of everything they produce, which for most citizens means the ore they hack from the rock faces of the planet's mines. Queen Lachryma III, the planet's absolute monarch, sits at the top of this feudal system. The rights to the labour of these billions of serfs belong to the barons appointed by the queen or to noble families and business consortiums that purchase them from the crown. The queen's own master is the Imperium, to whom she hands over truly staggering amounts of ore and metals to fulfil the planet's tithe. Sepheris Secundus's tithe is the highest among the Calixis Sector's mining worlds, and without its immense output of raw materials, the economy of the whole province would be badly unsettled.
Two principal forces maintain Sepheris Secundus's feudal system. The first is the weight of tradition: every serf labouring in the mines is doing what his father did and his grandfather before that, often at the same rock face. The second force is physical violence. One of the reasons that Sepheris Secundus's culture is so primitive by many standards is that weaponry and other technology is monopolised by the crown. The queen's Royal Scourges are equipped with lasguns, grenades and chainblades, contrasting with their gaudy armour. Though few in number, the technological advantage that these troops possess has been enough to put down a great many uprisings in the mines of Sepheris Secundus, and the planet's history is littered with massacres where thousands of serfs fell to volleys of lasgun fire.
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Galactic Position: 52/34/CS/NNE.
Satellites: Three moons, none inhabited.
Planetary Governor: Queen Lachryma III.
Economy: Chips or Lumps - In the mines and villages of Sepheris Secundus life revolves around endless mining, to the point where chips and lumps of ore are sometimes used as a default currency.  Nobles use Golden Thrones as normal.
Principle Exports: Sepheris Secundus is one of the larger metal and ore exporting planet in the Calixis Sector. Most important are its vast deposits of rare metals, particularly osmiridum.
Principle Imports: Sepheris Secundus relies on imports of food from the sector's agri worlds.
Imperial Guard Recruitment: Its vast population makes it a potential supplier of Imperial Guard recruits, although a relatively small proportion of the population would be suitable because of universally poor health, along with the risk of exposing the subjugated masses to the possibility of life outside the mines.
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[Excerpt | Dark Heresy Core Rulebook] Things might get better on Sepheris Secundus
To me, one of the most interesting parts of 40k lore are examples of improvement; that things can get better. Perhaps not on a galactic or even a sector/sub-sector scale, but a planetary one. That rulers may be ruthless but some have compassion in them.
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Queen Lachryma III
The queen of Sepheris Secundus is an elderly woman who has successfully led Sepheris Secundus through numerous revolts, baronial uprisings and increasingly spectacular tithe demands from the Administratum. Now, however, she is getting old. Though her mind is still sound, her body is infirm and, some of the more ambitious barons say, she is losing the ruthlessness and willpower that once served her so well.
Queen Lachryma’s aged, underweight form is swamped by her royal regalia, with its voluminous gown made from thousands of panes of stained glass and its crown of white gold. Her voice is thin and shaky, and she no longer has the presence that once acted as an anchor for the feudal system of Sepheris Secundus. In her later years, the queen has sunk into the throes of a personal crisis. Why do her serfs have to live such grim lives of toil? Is there another way that Sepheris Secundus could be ruled? She has ordered her barons to investigate what actually goes on in the depths of the planet's mines, but her barons have resisted this and a few of them have sensed weakness and doubt in their queen. Though she would never admit it to anyone, Queen Lachryma is afraid of how she will be remembered, and knows that she is running out of time before she can get to the root causes of Sepheris Secundus' misery.
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Avarax
The Hive World of Avarax as seen from high orbit.
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Highly-urbanised, toxic wastelands produced by millennia of hive city pollution
Population
In the billions
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Unknown
System
Recidious System
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Exactis Secundus (C750)
Avarax is a Hive World of the Recidious System that was invaded by a splinter of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan during the Fourth Tyrannic War of the Era Indomitus. The Ultramarines 2nd Company and the Cadian Shock Troops of the Astra Militarum came to its aid during the Recidious Campaign.
Avarax was a major centre of industrial production in the region and the output of its manufactoria produced by its billions of workers was crucial to the continued defence of the Imperium. One of the primary hive cities on Avarax was called Fervastium.
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During the Recidious Campaign, Captain Sevastus Acheran of the Ultramarines 2nd Company ordered Lieutenant Demetrian Titus to go to the nearby Hive World of Avarax in the Recidious System to retrieve Archmagos Nozick Beta-12's apprentice, the Tech-priest Morias Lueze, who was the only person qualified
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The Icy Grip of Sepheris Secundus
Located in the Calixis Sector, Sepheris Secundus is a frozen world with a galactic position of 52/34/CS/NNE. This unforgiving environment is home to a hardy population of miners, laborers, and nobles, all bound together by a strict feudal system.
A World of Darkness and Toil
Sepheris Secundus is a planet shrouded in darkness, its surface perpetually hidden beneath thick clouds. The landscape is scarred by massive open mines, their depths plunging into the bowels of the earth. The air is thick with toxic fumes, and the ground trembles with the constant rumble of mining operations.
The Feudal System: A Legacy of Oppression
At the heart of Sepheris Secundus’ society lies a rigid feudal system, where every individual is bound to a lord or noble. The nobles, in turn, owe allegiance to the ruling monarch, Queen Lachryma III. This system has been in place for centuries, with the nobles maintaining their power through a combination of tradition, force, and control over the planet’s resources.
The Mutant Underclass
Beneath the feudal system lies a subclass of mutants, individuals twisted by the toxic environment and forced to live on the fringes of society. These mutants are often relegated to the most hazardous and menial tasks, their existence a mere whisper in the winds of Sepheris Secundus.
Inquisitorial Interest
Sepheris Secundus has attracted the attention of several Inquisitorial factions, each with their own agenda for the planet. The Rekongregatators see Sepheris Secundus as a key world in the sector, one that holds secrets vital to the reform of the Imperium. Meanwhile, the Monodominants seek to undermine the mutant population, viewing them as a threat to the established order.
Imperial Presence
Despite its importance, Sepheris Secundus is largely ignored by the Imperium, with only a token presence of Adeptus Arbites and Ministorum clerics. The planet’s distance from the Imperium’s core worlds has allowed it to maintain a degree of autonomy, but this independence comes at a cost.
A History of Bloodshed
Sepheris Secundus’ history is marked by countless uprisings and massacres, as the feudal system has been repeatedly challenged and reinforced. The ruins of ancient kingdoms dot the landscape, testaments to the transience of power and the enduring legacy of oppression.
As the darkness closes in around Sepheris Secundus, its people remain trapped in a cycle of toil and suffering, bound to the whims of their noble overlords and the crushing weight of the feudal system. Will the Inquisition’s interest in the planet bring about change, or will Sepheris Secundus remain forever locked in its icy grip?
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Planetary Briefing on Sepheris Secundus
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Sepheris Secundus is a world of immense mineral wealth, city sized mines, billion strong hordes of serfs and the sharpest divide between the elites and the masses in the Calixis Sector. It is a grim place of snow and twilight, feral mutants, and lives spent in back breaking labor hacking at the ground. The Imperium’s eagerness to exploit Sepheris Secundus’s vast resources is such that the planet is at the same time the richest and poorest world in the sector.
Sepheris Secundus’s climate is cold and stormy, its surface obscured by a mantle of cloud. It has no oceans save for a series of small equatorial seas; most of the planet’s fresh water is bound up in the great ice sheets that cover its poles. Its surface is split between the vast open mines that run like deep scars in the crust, and dense, snow laden forests broken only by ruins of failed kingdoms that tried to claim Sepheris Secundus in the past. With its endless blizzards, widespread ignorance and antiquated methods for doing everything, Sepheris Secundus would be a meaningless backwater were it not for the enormous mineral wealth beneath its surface.
Planetary history: The planet has been settled for a very long time. Perhaps as far back as the Dark Age of Technology. No surviving records of the early period has been found, making exact dating impossible. It really doesn’t matter – humanity has been around for thousands of years, long before the arrival of the Imperium here in the Calixis Sector.
Vern supposes that the world was once a much more fertile place than it is today, with great oceans and a more temperate climate. Starting about 4.000 years ago an ice age set in, an ice age that continues to this day (indeed, the ice age might actually be deepening). Perhaps this is but part of the world’s natural cycle or perhaps it is the result of some terrible calamity (like the one that befell Corax Secundus).
The onset of the ice age brought an end to sophisticated civilization on Sepheris Secundus, and for the next two thousand years the world devolved into a series of low-tech feudal domains. It was to this world Drusus came during the Angevin Crusade. Seeing the immense mineral wealth of the locals (who hardly had any mining skills at all) Drusus quickly recognized the value of the planet. Before moving on to new conquests he ordered a star fortress taken down from orbit and positioned over the most valuable mining real estate on the planet. Ore exports commenced shortly thereafter.
By early M40 the world was made an Imperial World and a Governor appointed. The old star fortress/mining station became the Governor’s capital. To ensure his complete control over the planet hi-tech was banned (except for Icenholm and the Governor’s own forces) and infrastructure kept at a minimum. At the same time it was arranged to provide for food imports and encourage the growth of the serf population. It was reasoned that a few billion men with picks, hand-drills, black-powder charges, and wheel-barrels could accomplish the same as a smaller hi-tech workforce. This arrangement stands to this day (with some minor tech-creep; most mines now use proper mining explosives for example), with manpower substituting advanced mining techniques.
Icenholm/the Gorgonid Mine: The capital city of Sepheris Secundus is Icenholm. Built around Drusus’ ancient star fortress this city of millions literally floats over the Gorgonid Mine. It is from here that the Royal House of Sepheris Secundus rules (with the ancient and decrepit Lachryma III as the current Queen). It is also where the Royal Scourges – the Queen’s hi-tech personal army – are based. Icenholm is a spectacular sight by any standard – a great floating city covered by mirrors, crystals and colored glass. Great metal cables in their thousands reach out from the city (one could suppose that they keep the city aloft, but this is erroneous – most of them hang down from the city) and into the massive mine beneath the city. The standard of living in Icenholm is not unlike that found elsewhere in the Imperium – it is the sole oasis of civilization on this world, and it is reserved for the nobles and their retinues.
The Gorgonid Mine remains the most important single mine on Sepheris Secundus, accounting for nearly 10% of the world’s Gross Planetary Product. Directly beneath Icenholm the Gorgonid is like a gargantuan tiered cone turned on its head – the greatest strip mine in Calixis sector, several kilometers deep and many scores of kilometers in diameter, all wedged in between jagged mountain peaks rising as high as 6000 meters. Floating on top is the glittering crown that is Icenholm, its many mirrors and colored glass faces turning the city into a dazzling sight (too bad the serfs are always looking down, or
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