[hider=Nina Hart][hr]
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[color=Gold][b]Name[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Nina Hart[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Nationality[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]English[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Age[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]22[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Sexuality[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Heterosexual[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Birth[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]April 10th, London, UK.[/color]

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[color=Gold][b]Appearance[/b][/color]
[color=Silver] With fiery red hair, hazel eyes coupled with a delicate skin and a cute and pretty face, Nina can be considered quite an eye candy with a 'wild' and 'fiery' charm. Standing at 5'9" (a few inches higher than what she would normally have due to her bio-cybernetic legs), she has a well trained body with perfect proportions. Despite her good looks, the most striking aspect of her appearance is maybe her bio-cybernetic legs. Made by Nina herself, the uniqueness in their appearance betray the uniqueness in their function and design. When off duty, she often removes the armor plating in her legs, allowing her to even use tight fit pants to cover them (even though she still cannot wear normal shoes).

Normally wearing lightweight armor while on duty, when off duty she prefers wearing light clothes that let her move freely. She is known to  hate excessively 'formal' clothes but it is not uncommon to see her using summer dresses when going out or when she wants to wear something a bit prettier or, more commonly wearing things like shorts and other light, casual clothes. Even though Nina might prefer light and comfortable clothes to beautiful ones, she still cares about her appearance, mainly keeping her body in perfect shape, training and doing things like taking care of her skin & etc.
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[color=Gold][b]Height[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]5'9"[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Personality[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Normally, Nina is a very happy girl. Always seen with a smile on her face, she loves company (sometimes even having a tendency of speaking a bit too much), has a tendency to always see the good side of everything. Just like her hair though, she has quite the fiery temperament. With strong opinions, she isn't the type of woman who would go back on her own words or flee from an argument. Luckily, she isn't the type of person to hold grudges and is as quick to forgive as she is to anger. Even though it is considerably hard for her to completely lose her temper, when she does, she becomes notably hard to handle.

Curious and easygoing, it's not particularly hard to approach her, if she doesn't approach you first, that is. Despite her clear interest in weapons, cyberware and bioware, as long as one approach her with a sufficiently interesting subject, it is not that hard to keep her interested on the conversation.

Even though Nina's personality doesn't change that much on most cases while she is on stand-by on duty, when she finds herself in a situation that requires her full attention, she is much more serious and professional. Often keeping communication to a minimum when in combat, she always tried to be as efficient as possible in everything she does. Strangely enough, despite her highly inquisitive and curious nature, she doesn't question orders that often when in combat. Maybe a reflection of her training when she was part of the UK special forces.
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[color=Gold][b]Role[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Recon/Scout[/color]

[color=Silver]Despite her role being officially a Recon unit, in reality, Nina is quite flexible due to her equipment and skills. Excelling in mobility due to her legs, she can fill specific roles in situations where speed and precision is needed above anything else, in situations where one would need a more 'silent' approach such as reconnaissance or scouting or even taking a more 'supportive' role in an operation, akin to a highly mobile designated marksman unit while also helping in gathering valuable information about the area for the main team.[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Augments:[/b][/color]
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[*] [color=silver][b]Cybernetic heart and lungs[/b]: Due to the accident she suffered, her lungs and heart were punctured by metal shrapnel, making her lungs almost useless and her heart working only with a fraction of its original capacity. While the previous models were aftermarket ones, she found their performance unsatisfying and lackluster, ending up creating new ones with a better performance than most models on the market. Due to those augments, Nina has a much higher stamina and lung capacity than normal people, which made her not only able to run by a surprising amount of time without getting tired but also made her able to handle the strenuous effort needed to push her bio-cybernetic legs to it's limits.[/color]
[*] [color=silver][b]Bio-cybernetic legs[/b]: In the same accident that ruined Nina's heart and lungs, her original legs were ruined beyond repair. With most of her tendons severed and most of her bones, including her femur, broken and fractured in multiple places, complete healing was considered impossible, even with the current technology. The current legs Nina use were the result of her frustration and persistence after the accident and finding herself not being able to even stand up. Due to their ingenious and unique design, they are essentially part of Nina's own body, since her own nervous system is connected to her artificial legs, their removal is impossible without an incredibly complicated surgery. The drawback of having such an unique system and design is that repairing them is considerably more complicated. Nina is the only one that knows how they work since the pieces are almost all custom made. They allow the user to run at much faster speeds than they normally could.[/color]
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[color=Gold][b]Equipment:[/b][/color]

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[*] [color=silver][b]Semi-Automatic, scoped Crossbow:[/b] Semi auto, magazine fed crossbow modified by Nina herself. Even though this was once a standard model, it was modified and tinkered by Nina so many times that almost nothing of the original weapon remained. It is a mystery on how the NSF still considers this weapon 'standard' and lets her use it. The custom made parts and the exotic design makes it easy to wield and move around with. Silent, accurate and deadly, it boasts an unusually long range for a crossbow, as much as a DMR. It's penetration power is enough to rival common DMRs, despite it being completely silent. In return, it's ammo is limited.[/color]
[*] [hider=SMG 155]
[color=silver]Featuring an ergonomic design, an easy access place to store spare magazines while economizing space, this SMG is at the same time compact and incredibly effective. Due to it's compact size and special features, it makes an ideal sidearm for Nina, since she has little space to carry equipment or additional ammo other than the spare magazines for her crossbow. She often uses it with a silencer, carrying at least one magazine with only subsonic ammo in case she needs to be silent.[/color]
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[*] [color=silver][b]Standard issue NSF combat knife.[/b][/color]
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[color=Gold][b]Previous Careers[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]    [list]
    [*] Bio/Cyberware field specialist on the UK special forces.
    [*] Unemployed. Responsible for buying a suspicious amount of highly advanced cybernetic components and raw materials on Tokyo's black market. Due to this period of time, she has a few scarce connections in the black market. Far from trustworthy, but these contacts respect money.
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[color=Gold][b]Biography[/b][/color]
[color=Silver] Born in a relatively wealthy family, Nina was always an incredibly intelligent girl. Despite her wealthy family, her father, who was a retired officer from the UK Military was always rather distant. Still, he still provided her with the best education he could and raised her. Even though he was never the type of person to give her hugs and affection, she knew he cared about her. Enough to always tell her stories about his old days in the military or even to awkwardly try and start a conversation with her when she was too quiet or feeling down for any reason. All in all, Nina had a very good childhood, one that few people had the opportunity to have.

Growing in an environment filled with veterans, her father being one of them, it wasn't a surprise when Nina showed an interest in both weapons and bioware and cyberware fields. Many of the veterans she met had at least a few augmentations, from minor ones like cybernetic eyes to even entire limbs. Choosing to specialize herself in the Bio/Cyberware area, Nina quickly made a name for herself, being seen as a student with a promising future. That and, in a minor way, for being one of the best in gymnastics and track & field, going as far as winning some medium competitions. When she graduated herself, both her background as the daughter of a retired military officer and her thesis, which was an innovative view on cybernetic augmentations, including a fairly accurate system of a cybernetic limb that emulated the human nervous system, attracted quite a bit of attention, including from the United Kingdom Special Forces, who gave her a proposal to work for them as their specialist. Even though her father never said anything, Nina always knew that he was the one responsible for pulling a few strings in the background and speaking with a few people in order for her to receive such a good proposal.

The first years on the UKSF were harsh and difficult for Nina. Even though she was used in training her body and loved physical activities, the training she underwent was incredibly harsh. With time though, she got used to the routine and adapted to it surprisingly well. At first, while she was still in her 'training period' she mostly stood inside the HQ either offering support for those who had augmentations, researching on how to further improve the performance of the combat-oriented augmentations used by the Special Forces agents or even, some times, analyzing rogue or illegal augmentations that were apprehended from different sources. Due to her performance, her physical capabilities and the fact that she often tinkered with other agent's equipment and weapons upon request, raising their performance, she was quickly offered a position as a field specialist. Her presence on field would offer not only a tactical advantage when dealing with situations where knowledge about cybernetics was required and even being a surprisingly good designated marksman, but she also had a good effect on the team's morale due to her personality when off-duty, being quite a welcome to relief the psychological burden.

Unfortunately, in one occasion where Nina was together with the her unit in order to apprehend a cargo of highly illegal cybernetic parts after one of their informants told them where the supposed deal was going to take part, an unfortunate accident happened. The moment her unit approached the vehicle that was supposedly transporting such parts, she almost immediately went to the back of the vehicle to take a look at the supposed cargo after the driver was captured. What nobody could have foreseen was that, whoever was behind that particular cargo, was more prepared than they had thought. The cargo was armed with an explosive charge that would go off if whoever opened the cargo compartment didn't have a special identification device. 

As the explosion went off, Nina's unit was mostly intact, but she didn't have the same luck. Deep wounds caused from metal shrapnel pierced both her lungs and heart in multiple places, while her legs became almost completely destroyed, having absorbed most of the impact from the explosion. Due to her unit's quick decision, her life was saved, but when she woke up, months later, things were radically different for her. Her lungs had to be completely replaced by a cybernetic one, which didn't have the same performance as her previous one while her heart, was functioning with only a part of it's original capabilities. She was unable to walk or even stand up and any effort at all would almost make her pass out.

For obvious reasons, Nina was discharged from the UKSF for medical disability. Nina quickly became deeply depressed. For her, being in that state was almost like being in a cage. She wasn't able to even run, exercise herself. She was useless... Using the pension she received from the UKSF and her father's aid, who blamed himself for what happened with Nina, she went to the only place in the world that enough advanced technology and it would be easy enough for her to get a hold of them. Neo-Tokyo. After the nuclear warhead that exploded in the old Tokyo, it wasn't much of a secret that things were like a powder barrel, with ultra-nationalist factions rising in power and fighting against the local government, it would be the best place for Nina to do what she wanted to do.

For the following year, Nina used all her money while hiding herself in Tokyo's suburbs and buying suspiciously high quantities of both highly advanced cybernetic components and raw materials as well as a good amount of medical supplies and bio-cybernetic parts. Having worked for the UKSF, Nina didn't expect that the NSF would ignore such a highly suspicious activity forever, but luckily enough for her, when they finally caught wind of it, most of the modifications she had planned for herself were already completed. After having to run from the NSF in several occasions, afraid for what they would do with her new legs if they caught her, Nina was finally cornered after a surprisingly long game of cat and mouse. Surprisingly enough, instead of being thrown into a cell or having her legs disassembled and studied in hopes of possibly reverse engineer them, the NSF gave her an unexpected proposal. Nina's skills, both regarding bio-cybernetics and her skills to avoid and run from the NSF for so long, coupled with her background did give the NSF enough information and understanding on her circumstances for them to trust her and instead, offered her a position inside the NSF.

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[color=Gold][b]Affiliations[/b][/color]
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    [*] UK Special Forces: Previous employer. Still has some friends there.
    [*] NSF: Employer, after being caught buying huge quantities of advanced cybernetic components from the black market.
    [*] Elliott Hart (Father): Alive, still living in the UK. He and Nina have a complicated relationship.
    [*] Victoria M. Hart (Mother): Deceased. Died when Nina was still young.
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[hider=Nina Hart2]

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[color=gray]𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[indent][color=silver][i] Nina Hart [/i][/color][/indent]

[color=gray]Species:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[indent][color=silver][i]Human[/i][/color][/indent]

[color=gray]𝙰𝚐𝚎:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[indent][color=silver][i]25[/i][/color][/indent]

[color=gray]Gender:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[indent][color=silver][i]Female[/i][/color][/indent]

[color=gray]Ocupation:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[indent][color=silver][i]Ranger[/i][/color][/indent]

[color=gray]𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
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Fiery red hair, hazel eyes and a delicately white skin coupled with a cute face, Nina can surely be considered quite an eye candy to look at. Standing at 1,75m, she has an agile and athletic build, carefully maintained thanks to training and running.  Despite her good looks, the most striking aspect of her appearance is maybe her bio-cybernetic legs. Made by Nina herself, the uniqueness in their appearance betray the uniqueness in their function and design. When off duty, she often removes the armor plating in her legs, allowing her to even use tight fit pants (as long as they don't go below her shins) to cover them (she still cannot wear normal shoes).

When not using the standard, lightweight armored suit in her upper body and the armor plating on her legs, Nina's wardrobe is mostly consisted of practical, easy to wear clothes such as summer dresses, shorts, shirts and the occasional long dress, which she keeps in case she needs to attend to a formal meeting or something similar.

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[color=gray]𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
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Nina is a happy girl, despite everything that happened to her. Always with a smile on her face, she loves company and has a tendency to always see the good side of everything. Just like her hair though, she has quite the fiery temperament. With strong opinions, she isn't the type of woman who would go back on her own words or flee from an argument. Despite this fact, she is extremely smart and very rarely looses her temper enough to impair her logical thinking... Although she can and will probably get mad enough to give a serious cold shoulder if someone irritates her. Ironically enough, the best way to extract information from Nina is by being friendly  taking advantage of her easygoing personality. Around those whom she considers being her 'friends' she is sometimes careless regarding information that should be confidential.

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[color=gray]Backstory:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
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Born as the youngest daughter of a wealthy family of weapons and high-technology merchants in London, Nina was always an incredibly smart girl. Being gifted with both a healthy and athletic body and smarts, she began making a name for herself in the academic community due to her innovative ideas and the concept of bio-cybernetic augments and members that unlike normal prosthetics, which simply outright replaced a missing member or organ, aimed for a more... seamless transition between machine and human. 

Unfortunately, despite the vastly improved performance when compared to conventional prosthetics and augments, her ideas were considered to not be practical enough to be used due to certain complications such as possible rejection symptoms depending on the patient, the expensive, dangerous and invasive surgeries required and most importantly, the knowledge necessary for the maintenance and repair of such augments and prosthetics. It was exactly due to these downsides that Nina's research was not deemed worthy of investors or any further attention from the academic community. 

After being shunned by the academic community, she quickly lost the support from her family. Her many siblings all had many accomplishments to further raise the name and prestige of the Hart family while she was but a failed researcher. After much discussion, the elders of the Hart family gave her a choice. She would either be used in a political marriage or she would become a voluntary and to the ranger program the Tammerlane Exploration Company. In exchange, the family would keep supporting Nina, providing her with money and all the necessary technology she would require for her hobbies or even her bio-cybernetic augmentation research.

In the Tammerlane Exploration Company's Ranger program, Nina would quickly stand out from the rest thanks to her incredible dexterity, agility and speed. Her natural agility and dexterity would quickly earn her the eyes and attention from the instructors, who saw in her a diamond in the rough, despite the rather... difficult to dealt with behavior sometimes, when she wasn't allowed to do what she wanted.

Graduating from the Tammerlane Ranger program in the top of her class, Nina immediately started being deployed in missions through the solar system. Be it either scouting potential natural resource sites in one of the many moons or even escorting and protecting high value cargo from pirates and scavengers, Nina's was not only always brought good results, but she had quite the talent to boost the morale of the team with her easygoing behavior...

That was until a certain mission on Venus to bust an illegal mining operation, where she ended up stepping on an anti-personnel mine. Despite the high lethality of those mines, Nina was somehow still alive, although only barely. After being saved by her the other rangers in her team and quickly taken to the best Tamerlane-affiliated hospital in Venus, she discovered, much to her dismay, that the accident had completely ruined her legs beyond repair, severing nerves and breaking her femur in multiple places. Besides that, multiple metal fragments had also penetrated her chest. Amongst them, two became deeply lodged within her heart and lungs, damaging and making them able to work only with a fraction of their previous efficiency. Although she was not in risk of dying anymore, her condition was still... very bad. Walking was simply impossible due to her wounds and any physical effort would quickly cause further complications due to her debilitated heart and lungs.

Despite the terrible accident, Nina still kept her head up instead of falling into despair because she knew that she would have the support from both from her family and the Tammerlane Exploration Company. Both of them had invested just enough time and resources on her to just let her live the rest of her life in a debilitated state. Thanks to that, in a situation where most would have feel desperate, Nina found opportunity. After many meetings with both the elders of the Hart family, she finally convinced them in asking the Tammerlane Exploration Company for a favor. Instead of merely amputating her legs and replacing them for military-grade prosthetics, she would convince them to use an improved version of the prototype from years ago for a special type of bio-cybernetic legs, putting her own name, job and even any right she or her family would have for a compensation from the Tammerlane Company at risk.

While the surgery took almost days to complete due to both the surgeons and the cybernetic engineers having little to no knowledge of how Nina's prototype worked other than the detailed explanation she provided on how the operation had to be performed, in the end, it was successful. Unlike other cybernetic prosthetics which took time for both the body and the brain to get used to and often needed intensive therapy, Nina's prototype only needed about a week of medical supervision and therapy before she could use them to their full capacity. 

The moment she started resuming her trainings with her new legs, it immediately became evident that her previous research on bio-cybernetic augmentation was not something to be ignored. Despite the downsides, the difference in performance was incredible, to say the least. Coupled with the military-grade Variable-chambered heart provided by the Hart family, Nina quickly became an incredibly valuable asset to the Tammerlane Company Rangers. Before she could even go back being an active Ranger for the Tammerlane Company, Nina was formally invited to be on the Ranger team of the Jotunheim as one of the best rangers the Tammerlane Company had.

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[color=gray]Key Skills:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[color=silver][color=5F9EA0]»[/color] [i]Ranger Training[/i][/color]

[indent][color=silver]The harsh training Nina went through before she graduated as a Ranger taught her how to survive in most harsh places and situations. From Survival techniques both in urban environments and the wilderness to tracking and erasing one's tracks, she can both survive and move without being noticed in most situations.

Regarding combat, while Nina was trained and specialized as a Marksman, she was also trained in hand-to-hand combat and created a style of combat focusing in the usage of her augmented legs, should she need to enter in close combat.
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[color=silver][color=5F9EA0]»[/color] [i]Enhanced Mobility[/i][/color]

[indent][color=silver]Nina's augments only enhanced her already fit and flexible body. After she learned how to use them in their full capacity, Nina is able to move herself much faster and be much more agile than a non-augmented human, including climbing and free-running/parkour techniques.[/color][/indent]

[color=silver][color=5F9EA0]»[/color] [i]Bio-cybernetic specialist[/i][/color]

[indent][color=silver]Before Nina became a Ranger, she was a researcher specializing in bio-cybernetic augmentations. Having designed and created the bio-cybernetic legs she uses, knowing very well how to modify or repair them. Her knowledge also allows her to repair normal cybernetic augments, given enough time and assistance from more specialized members of the crew, such as doctors and engineers, when necessary.[/color][/indent]

[color=gray]𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗(𝚜):[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[color=silver][color=5F9EA0]»[/color] [i]Combat Knife[/i][/color]

[indent][color=silver]A normal, military type combat knife. Sharp, durable and reliable.[/color][/indent]

[color=silver][color=5F9EA0]»[/color] Custom made Crossbow [i][/i][/color]
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Semi auto, magazine fed crossbow built by Nina's request. The custom made parts and the unique design makes it easy to wield and move around with. Silent, accurate and deadly, it boasts an surprisingly long range for a crossbow, being possible to use it even in medium to long range shots without too much loss of penetrating power due to the elongated barrel and improved firing mechanism. All in all, it resembles a strange hybrid between a rifle and a crossbow, albeit with much less ammo capacity.
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[color=gray]𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚛:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]
[indent][color=5F9EA0]»[/color][color=silver] [i]Lightweight armor. Aiming to offer a good protection without weighting down the user.[/i][/color][/indent]

[color=gray]Augments:[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NwNNCCm.gif[/img]

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[*] Military-grade Variable-Chambered Heart and Lungs
[*] Bio-cybernetic legs (Made/modified by herself)
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[color=5F9EA0]»[/color] [color=silver] Augment Explanation [/color]
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Focusing more in speed and agility than brute strength, the main point of her bodily modifications is to further enhance what she was so proud of before suffering the accident that ruined her legs: her agility, dexterity, stamina and speed.

While her legs have a much better performance than normal cybernetic prosthetics due to their bio-tech design, they are significantly harder to repair than normal cybernetic legs due to how complicated their construction is, requiring something akin to an 'operation' (unfortunately, Nina is basically the only one who fully knows how they were built so it's very difficult for others to fix them without her orientation). The fact that her own blood and nerves runs through the bio cybernetic legs only make things worse, as blood loss can and will be a problem if left untreated. The light armor she uses on her legs offer a good protection against most 'common' threats such as piercing, slashing and even crushing wounds, to some extent.

Due to their ingenious and unique design, they are essentially part of Nina's own body, since her own nervous system is connected to her artificial legs, their removal is impossible without an incredibly complicated surgery.

Thanks to her variable chambered heart, lungs and relatively fast metabolism, especially when running, toxins, poisons and drugs are incredibly effective on her, acting and spreading much faster on her body. Lack of oxygen can also become a problem to Nina, especially on areas with too much smoke.

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