Sources: Hiram Codd Professor Zou
All dates in UC.
2565 Albert Einstein publishes the Theory of Relativity, laying foundations for much later theoretical work on space and time.
2629 First crewed landing on Luna.
2662 First permanent orbital station established around Earth.
2682 Formation of the Septaverate
2685 Professor Sheldon Cooper codifies the Unified Hyperspace Theory. Though practical faster-than-light travel remains centuries away, the theoretical basis has been established.
2690 Luna City founded, the first permanent large-scale human settlement beyond Earth.
2695 First crewed landing on Mars.
2720 First permanent settlement established on Mars.
2740 First crewed landing on Venus.
2753 First permanent orbital around Venus
2760 Formation of Solar Space Patrol, the first space police force. Using small ships, the crews were formed from spacers from Earth, Mars and Venus Orbital.
2779 Helix Corporation founded as part of the ambitious project to terraform Mars.
2783 Large-scale Martian terraforming begins.
2790 Gustav Mald, entrepreneur and statesman born.
2803 First known Forerunner artefacts discovered on Mars, providing the first physical evidence that another technological civilisation had once existed in the region.
2820 Polymath and genius Jean-Luc Letappier born.
2829 Mongolian invasion of Australia defeated thanks to the personal leadership of Prime Minister Pickman Carter
2830 Mald Research Foundation created by Gustav Mald.
2831 The Second Great Dark Age begins on Earth. Terrestrial authorities increasingly lose contact with the expanding off-world communities.
2832 The Hellas Declaration announces Martian independence and the creation of the Helix Brotherhood.
2836 Beginning of the Great Solar System Expansion, as competing corporations, governments and ideological movements spread throughout the Solar System.
2838 The First Space War includes nuclear attacks on major Earth cities from orbit ( Washington, Peking and Bombay).
2842 First ever ship to ship space battle around Rhea (Moon of Saturn) between rival expansion corporations.
2850 Remote probe explores the Wolf 359 system and finds a habitable world.
2856 Earth United Nations re-open contact with space colonies.
2857 Battle of Oberon. Rival powers attempt to seize Professor Mek Semaj’s research into apparent alien communications and superluminal travel. Much of the Uranian colony is destroyed.
2858 Utopia Congress. Humanity adopts the Universal Calendar and agrees to share the surviving Semaj research. The settlement becomes an important foundation for later interstellar cooperation.
2860 Cameron Station, the first large Hyperlinium Accelerator, becomes operational near Earth.
2861 The Mald Institute founded.
2864 Nasa, Boeing, SolarTech and Mizu combine their space interests to form Terran Space Inc.
2867 The Humanity Foundation created on Great Spirit Q0
2870 Jean-Luc LeTappier’s Prometheus becomes the first practical faster-than-light spacecraft. Alpha Centauri is explored and the habitable world Gustav discovered.
2871 The first colonists reach Gustav, beginning permanent human settlement beyond the Solar System.
2872–2875 TheRazor-Blade War results in the political unification of Earth.
2875 Wolf Colony Ltd. formed in England (Earth) and successfully bids for the rights to the Wolf 359 System. Wolf Colony Trust of London (England, Earth) created.
2877 Nasa (Q0) settled by citizens of Europe and North America.
2879 Wolf 359 is settled by pioneers from England led by Princess Ophelia, beginning the community that eventually becomes the Wolf359 Commonwealth.
2880 The Solar Republic is formally established as the dominant political authority in human space. Gustav Mald, entrepreneur and statesman dies.
2881 The Humanity Foundation created on Great Spirit Q0. In the Sirius (Q0) system a planet with great potential was discovered and one-third was granted to the Martian Helix by the Solar Republic; the remaining two-thirds were reserved as a penal colony.
2882 Earther invasion of Mars. Mars adopted as a protectorate of the Solar Republic, but remained under the control of the Marian Helix. Steelyard (Q0) (later renamed High Land) settled by Incorporated Space Traders of Japan and Luna.
2885 Colonisation of Canaan by the Church of the Seventh Coming and the Venerian Exodus; the Church, and associated colonists of many types, accepting that the terraforming of Venus would take many more centuries, departed for a new world which they named ‘Promised Land’ or ‘Canaan’. Colonies on the solar inner planets of Mercury and Venus controlled by the Church are abandoned.
2891 Semaj Institute of Science & Technology founded on Doitall (Q0). Hsien-Tsu (Q0) (later renamed Glenn) was founded by Asian and Australasian settlers.
2898 Mir (Q0) was settled by people from Russia and Africa, with a presence by Incorporated Space Traders.
2899 New Luna (Q0) colony founded
2900 The AI Disaster. Rogue artificial intelligences devastate Gustav and Mars, killing millions. Gustav is destroyed as an inhabited world. The First Stickney Treaty prohibits sentient artificial intelligence throughout human space. Battle of Stickney on Phobos. Centaur Corporation closed Gustav as a colony world in memoriam.
2903 University of Great Spirit founded.
2905 Abdullah Da Silva elected as First Citizen of Solar Republic. Solar Republic makes interstellar colonial expansion their official policy.
2909 Survivors of Gustav establish New Gustav (later known as Jabneh), deliberately constructing a society without autonomous AI.
2911 Europe (Q0) colonised
2914 Novo (Q0) colonised
2916 Agama (Q0) founded by religious settlers, with heavy backing from Earthers and the colony of High Land. Mald School of Economics founded.
2918 Mesopotamia Station opened at Petra
2920-24 New Edo (Q0) colonised by a number of colonisation groups simultaneously.
2922–2923 TheWolfer Secessionist War ends after a disastrous Solar Republic naval defeat by the Royal Navy. The Estreham Protocol gives Wolf359 a high degree of self-governanace – effectively independence.
2924 Wolf359 colonises Barba and New Edo (later abandoned and re-colonised by the GFA). Agama breeding programme commences.
2925 Mald Democratic Foundation awarded exclusive rights by the Solar Republic to establish scientific colonies on Great Spirit, Lonely and Doitall. Haggai (q0) colonised.
2926 June 11th Revolution on Sirius. Repressed by Solar Republican forces after 6 months of particularly brutal fighting.
2927 Second Sirius Rebellion.
2928 Third, Fourth and Fifth Sirius Rebellions.
2929 Sirius Protectorate declared giving limited autonomy to the Sirius colonies.
2930 Wolf359 terraforming project completed. The Wolf359 Commonwealth is formally proclaimed.
2933 Xynam becomes the first permanent human colony in Quadrant 7.
2937 Good Credentials becomes the first permanent colony in Quadrant 8, marking continued expansion towards the edge of settled space.
2940 Shawal (q0) and A712 (Q0) colonised by Wolf359.
2940–2943 The Greater Secessionist War. Politically weakened, split by internal dissent, and shown to be weak in the Wolfer Secession – Solar Republic fails to control its rapidly expanding political sphere faced at the same time by considerable unrest on Earth – the republic starts to disintegrate.
2943 The much-reduced Solar Republic reconstituted as The Earth Empire – First Citizen gains additional executive powers. Martian Association of Free Colonies (Martian Union) formed. Union of Xyon formed.
2944 Earth-Mars War. Old Mars attempts to secede from the Empire, supported by the fledgling Martain Union. This failed, after considerable loss of life (mostly Martian). It was in this war that the Hyama Dome Massacre occurred – a subject of controversy to this day.
2945 Treaty of Io confirms Old Mars as part of the Earth Empire.
2946 First colony in Quadrant 1 (Pastpers)
2943-47 Sirius Free Revolutionary Socialist Republic (11th June Faction) declared. Sirius People’s Liberation Republic declared. Various other heavily armed political factions declared themselves. Sirius Civil War.
2947 Sirius Socialist Republic formed.
2948 Martian diaspora reaches its height, as unhappy ‘Old Martians’ emigrated in large numbers to new colonies (including, but not exclusively, the new Martian Union).
2950 Treaty of Bates establishes the modern Quadrant system and important conventions governing interstellar diplomacy.
2952 First colony in Quadrant 2 (Screwdriver)
2955 Archer (Q2) colonised by Wolflers
2957 The Alpha Centauri Company buys its independence from Earth and becomes the Centauri Conglomerate.
2959 First colony in Quadrant 3 (Hamlet). First colony in Quadrant 4 (Dog).
2960 First colony in Quadrant 5 (D’Has).
2961 Wolfers colonise Scott (Q5). Formation of the unofficial ‘Federation of Asteel’ within the MAFC.
2962 Id (Q2) colonised by Wolfers
2964 The Union of Xyon undergoes its constitutional “velvet revolution”, establishing the form of government largely retained thereafter.
2967 Wolfer King Albert VII dies aged 98 – Queen Elizabeth I ascends the throne.
2967 Wolfer colony Archer (Q2) rebels.
2970 Wolfers colonise Prtoprnss (Q7)
2971 Archer rebellion crushed by Royal Navy’s Grand Armada
2976 The Asteel War of Independence ends Martian authority over Asteel and creates the Greater Federation of Asteel (GFA). Vulkan in Q0 is destroyed by mass driving during the fighting.
2977 The Treaty of Geneva outlaws mass driving as a weapon. First colony in Quadrant 6 (Long). New Mars Constitutional Congress rewrites MAFC constitution.
2981 The Mald Democratic Foundation is internationally recognised as an independent polity at the Congress of Europ.
2984 Great Spirit Census Conference. Representatives of the major polities agree common conventions for recording colonial populations and broad levels of economic development, greatly improving comparison of colonial statistics between governments.
2988 Wolfers colonise V7 (Q7)
2990 Interstellar Communications Convention. Meeting on Great Spirit agrees common message-priority codes, routing conventions and emergency procedures for hyperspace communications between polities.
2993 An ecological catastrophe renders M’Drid III (Q7) uninhabitable. Interstellar treaty places the planet permanently off limits.
2995 Omelos (Q4) joins the Wolfer Commonwealth
2998 Outer Quadrants Shipping Crisis. The failure of several large merchant concerns leaves ships and cargoes stranded across Q4 and Q5. An improvised multi-polity rescue operation subsequently produces the first widely accepted rules on interstellar salvage and abandoned cargoes.
3001 Evangelou (Q0) declared a military colony by the Wolf Commonwealth. Masada (Q0) colonised
3002 Paramilitary force, the Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom created by the Wolfers. New Jerusalem (Q0) colonised.
3005 Q5 Anti-Piracy Agreement. A rise in attacks on lightly defended colonial shipping leads several governments to coordinate convoy information and naval patrols in Quadrant 5. The arrangement lasts only a few years but becomes a model for later local cooperation.
3008 Rimmer (Q0) declared a penal colony by Wolfers.
3010 Widespread forest fires in many remote areas of North American Continent on Earth Q0. Reportedly the worst in history.
3012 Wolfer Queen Elizabeth I dies, aged 90. King Andrew I ascends the throne.
3016 Baal (Q0) joins the Union of Xyon after a referendum.
3028 PO5 (Q5) colonised by Wolfers
3029 Centenary of Sirian independence. The SSR marks one hundred years since the 2929 revolution with major commemorations in Marx City. The surviving nuclear weapon captured during the uprising is placed on permanent public display as the “2929 Memorial”.
3045 A powerful illegal AI is destroyed at Cinder Seat (Q1) by a combined Earther, Martian and GFA fleet.
3048 Asvina (Q5) colonised by Wolfers
3050 Announcement of the Xyonist economic Golden Rule policy.
3051 First Temple of the Church of the Latter Day Mukuls opens on Takis
3053 Aggadah (Q0) votes to join the Union of Xyon.
3054 Tiel (Q7) votes to join the Union of Xyon (it’s first member from outside Q0).
3057 Gideon Braun becomes Prime Minister of Union of Xyon.
3060 Dubai (Q5) votes to join the Union of Xyon..
3070 Battle of Romulus – an Earther Punitive Expedition to a rebellious city on Romulus III – the ensuing harsh treatment of the local ‘Venerian Sympathisers’ to the growing republican movement inflamed dissent that eventually led to the creation of an independent Venerian Republic 25 years later.
3072 Wolfer King Andrew I dies aged 112 and King Stephen I ascends the throne
3074 Wolfer King Stephen I dies aged 85, Queen Anne I ascends throne. Queen Anne dies accidentally, King Marx I ascends throne. Planum (Q4) votes to join Union of Xyon.
3078 Venerian Refugee Crisis. Continuing martial law produces a sustained flow of political exiles and refugees from Venerian systems into sympathetic colonies in Q1, Q2 and Q5. Exile organisations later become an important source of money and political support for the independence movement.
3083 First Gorilla Conference. An attempt by neutral mediators to reach a settlement between Earth and Venerian representatives ends without agreement. Gorilla nevertheless gains a reputation as neutral diplomatic ground, contributing to its selection for the decisive Congress of 3095.
3087 GFA takes control of Sumter System from the MAFC.
3090 Dec (Q1) votes to join Union of Xyon.
3093 Rebellion of the Earth Empire’s 17th Imperial Fleet leads to the Battle of New Venus.
3095 Under pressure from Mars and Wolf359, the Congress of Gorilla recognises the independentRepublic of New Venus.
3098 Venerian forces suffer a major defeat against the Mald Democratic Foundation at the Battle of Doitall (Q0). It becomes the last major inter-polity war fought in the Home Quadrant until the fighting around Sirius in 3214.
3101 Cyborg Rebellion on Samhain (Q8) – major attempt of a large group of cyborg humans to overthrow the Sirius government on that world and gain independence. The SSR was forced to ask for assistance from the neighbouring Martians. The rebellion was eventually squashed, and many of the insurgents were shipped out and exiled to a distant subsistence colony in another quadrant. Colli and Gum (Q2) vote to join the Union of Xyon.
3103 Quoheleth and Hobbes (both Q1) vote to join the Union of Xyon. Samhain leaves the SSR and joins the MAFC.
3105 Punk Crisis – Earth and MAFC struggle over the Punk system in Q1. Colonial conflict between Mars and New Venus in Quadrant three leads to the transfer of G’Drog and Butler to the Republic.
3108 B’Krath Crisis (RNV v MAFC). RNV takes B’Krath and B’Narth from the MAFC.
3109 Redshoot and Bosrovia (Q2) leave the MAFC and join the RNV, following a minor revolt. Conflict in Q3 between Earth and Mars results in transfer of Geneva and Garesh to the Empire.
3114 Battle of Tinky. A Venerian Grand Armada defeats GFA colonial forces and occupies several systems.
3121–3124 The Ritchie Civil War (Q4) destabilises the region before outside mediation produces a settlement.
3124 Drazi (Q5) votes to join the Union of Xyon.
3125 Ritchie (Q4) votes to join Union of Xyon after UoX forces assist in bring a peaceful settlement to the Ritchie Civil War
3127 Martian forces intervene in the New Cydonia Crisis (Q8).
3132 The Glace Conflict (Q7) between Earth and the GFA results in GFA control of Glace and Big Greenie.
3134 Ritchie Relief Conference (Q4). In the aftermath of the Ritchie Civil War, several polities and private organisations establish a temporary reconstruction and refugee programme. It becomes one of the first large humanitarian operations jointly supported by rival powers during the Old Interstellar Order.
3137 Rebellion on Gryt crushed by SSR ground forces.
3141 The exploration ship ESS Odyssey departs on the first crewed mission towards the Galactic Core.
3144 Odyssey signal received. A scheduled transmission from the ESS Odyssey confirms that the expedition remains operational far beyond routinely travelled human space. Public interest in the mission, which had declined after its departure in 3141, revives sharply.
3148 The Braveheart Crisis results in Earth assuming control of Wolfer colonies in Quadrant 8.
3150 Wolfers colonise Tigris (Q2)
3151 Akhenaton (Q2) joins the Union of Xyon
3152 Martian forces suppress the Mannor Insurrection (Q6).
3153 The Bolton Incident – conflict between Venerian and Martian forces (Q5).
3155 Moll and Scorcher (Q2) colonised by Wolfers
3157 Skirmishes between Venerian and Martian focres of control of Terravision (Q5)
3160 Earth and Mars clash during the Paquito Conflict (Q6).
3163 The French Crisis (Q5) sees French and Eric leave the MAFC and join the GFA.
3164 V6 (Q7) joins Union of Xyon following accusations of Martian subversion.
3166 Samhain votes to rejoin the SSR and leaves MAFC.
3167 The Mesa Conflict. Martian Fleet skirmished with GFA forces at Mesa (Q7).
3168 Stone Place joins the Earth Empire.
3169 GFA and Earth skirmish over access to trade with Macross (Q6).
3170 Battle of Safeway Station. Earther forces retake control of a key orbital, initially captured by ‘unofficial’ Venerian forces, at The Long End (Q1). Wolf Commonwealth had over Lin Chung (Q2) to the GFA after a ‘misunderstanding’.
3171 The Blue Rok Incident – Venerian forces open fire on GFA ‘Peacekeeping Forces’.
3174 The Organian Atrocity – a group of rogue Venerian scientists set up a planet-wide medical/genetic experiment (the ‘Wild Card Virus’) that got out of hand and left 1.3 million dead or horribly mutated. Wolfer King Marx I dies aged 119. King Stabilo I ascends throne.
3178 Renowned Earther physicist Nevel Kingston-Brown dies. Famous for his seminal work on the technology of the Forerunner species.
3179 Civil war breaks out onY24 (Q7), with rival factions receiving backing from major external powers.
3180 Earther and Sirius forces clash at116AL (Q7). A separate civil war begins on 911RPU in Quadrant 6.
3181 Earth Empire forces skirmish with GFA Navy over arms blockade on 911RPU.
3182 Wolfer King Stabilo I dies aged 103. King Stabilo II ascends throne.
3183 Terravision joins the Venerian Republic.
3186 The Odyssey transmits extraordinary observations from the Galactic Core, including evidence suggesting another technological civilisation.
3187 Blue Rok (Q7) joins the GFA
3188 911RPU (Q6) Joins the GFA.
3189 Cordillia (Q6) joins MAFC.
3190 The Rok Crisis (Q7) ends with the RNV taking Red Rock, Rok and Roctoo from Earth following disputed referenda.
3193 Garibaldi Crisis – the system changes hands from MAFC to RNV in Q3.
3195 Venerian forces occupy three GFA systems inQuadrant 1, bringing the major powers dangerously close to a wider war.
3196 The Battle of Paquito and the official start of the Exterminator War. First confirmed Exterminator attacks strike outer human colonies. The destruction of entire settlements marks the beginning of humanity’s first existential interstellar war.. Freedonian Incident – Earth forces wrest control of Freedonia from the RNV in Q1.
3198 Major space battles against the Exterminators at Senta, Winky, Doggie, L’Fayet, Flypaper and Dyme. A large Exterminator base was destroyed at Granyt.
First major large find of ‘Forerunner‘ artefacts discovered at Tuskan in Q7. This find confirmed a great deal of speculation about the only sentient alien species known to have existed in the volume of space occupied by humanity.
3199 Major Exterminator battles continue at Begin and Peroxide. An illegal AI is destroyed on Over (Q5).
3200 Two gigantic Exterminator bases located, one in Q5 (Z’ha’Dum) and one in Q6 (Red Spot) – both bases destroyed by huge combined Human fleets.
Treaty of Old London agreed setting out the creation of a Supreme War Commander (Thai-Sho Musashi) and the commitment of fleets to a new joint command to fight the Exterminators. Battle of Tuskan where 16 ESBs were destroyed by a combined human fleet under Admiral Tryon. Existence of a forerunner AI confirmed. Forerunner AI destroyed.
3201 The ESS Odyssey returns from the Galactic Core, bringing evidence that another contemporary sentient civilisation exists somewhere in the Galaxy.
3202 The Avalon and Holm incidents (Q1) bring Venerian, Earther and GFA forces into confrontation. Separately, the ULTRON-VISION Crisis (Q3) sees a rogue AI temporarily take control of several human worlds.
3203 Dispatch of ‘Boldly Go‘ Mission to investigate alien signals. League of Non-Aligned worlds formed in Q0. First discovery of a Forerunner ‘city’.
3204 Arrival of alien trader from another Universe at the independent world of Gorilla (Q0). Henry Pymm, designer of the Vision AI device is killed during violence at his trial on Asteel (Q0). Discovery of putative Exterminator Home Systems from analysis of Exterminator Brain units.
3205 Intelligence analysis provides the first credible location for the civilisation that constructed the Exterminators, thousands of parsecs towards the Galactic Core.
3206 The Wing Crisis (Q0) threatens the supply of hyperlinium, potentially disrupting interstellar transport throughout human space. President Heinlein of the RNV lost in space. Lee Zhang re-elected as First Minister of Earth.
3207 The Amoss Crisis (Q6) begins as Earth and Sirius dispute control of the colony.
3208 First Minister Lee Zhang removed from office as a result of scandal, former admiral Ashanti becomes First Minister. Kudriavy becomes President of the RNV. Seven Wolrds Alliance intervenes on Lon Chaney Q1 to bring peace.
3209 The Amoss Crisis ends with Earther withdrawal, averting a wider Earth–Sirius confrontation.
3210 A new alien offensive strikes Quadrant 6. Unlike the automated Exterminators, the attackers are biological beings who become known as the Roaches, and later as theChosen/HEB. GFA’s President Alphie Potato re-elected
3211 Human fleets destroy extensive alien bases in Outer Sector EJ and fight major actions, including the Battle of Adobe (Q6).
3212 The Free Worlds Alliance intervenes militarily atZ155 (Q8) to overthrow its dictatorship. Three possible Forerunner homeworlds are identified elsewhere.
3213 The New Republic (Q7) and theFederated Worlds of the Outer Quadrants (Q1) are formed. A suspected Forerunner AI is destroyed at Mystery, while Disney World suffers a major alien attack.
3214 War breaks out between the SSR and New Republic in Q7. In Sirius (Q0), Martian and Earther forces invate the planet under the Stickney Treaty and destroy an alleged illegal AI in a nuclear explosion in the planet’s capital city.
3215 GFA’s President Alphie Potato re-elected.
3217 A catastrophic environmental disaster rendersOkus (Q7) uninhabitable.
3222 First sustained contact with HEB frontier communities. Grand Armada reconnaissance and diplomatic parties begin assembling a coherent picture of the civilisation ahead of them, revealing that the hostile forces encountered earlier represent only part of a much larger and politically complex society.
3223 After a prolonged expedition, the Grand Armada reaches HEB space. Major battles at HEB11 and HEB13 destroy significant Chosen forces; a hostile ancient Forerunner AI worshipped by the Chosen is located beneath their capital and destroyed.
3224 Organised Chosen resistance collapses after further fighting and political upheaval. The HEB War effectively ends, although human fleets and settlements remain in the region and the post-war political situation remains unstable.
3225 GFA’s President Alphie Potato re-elected.
3227 A surviving “stay-behind” Exterminator Viking unit is destroyed in Quadrant 7. Reports from distant HEB space indicate that human forces remain involved in stabilisation following the collapse of Chosen military power.
3228 The phenomenon known as Universe N is discovered in Quadrant 7, confirming the existence of another apparently accessible alternate universe.
3230 The Martian and GFA contingents of the Grand Armada return to their Homeworlds after the HEB campaign. The Martian force reports 8,096 dead during the expedition. A major new Forerunner site is also discovered atGranyt (Q7).
3230 GFA’s President Alphie Potato re-elected.
3231 The Venerian fleet returns from HEB space, completing the return of most of the Grand Armada. Human colonies and military enclaves nevertheless remain near the Chosen worlds, maintaining an extremely distant human presence.
3232 The extradimensional entity known as WARSPITE arrives in Quadrant 7.
3233 HEB / The Chosen Liaison Office established. With most of the Grand Armada home but human personnel still living in distant HEB space, an inter-polity office is created on Great Spirit to collate the extremely delayed reports from the enclaves and coordinate responses.
3235 An ancient AI is discovered atGander (Q7). On Earth, Lord Vidkun Armstrong becomes First Minister of the Earth Empire. GFA’s President Alphie Potato re-elected.
3238 Civil war erupts on New Mald (Q7) following the collapse of effective Centauri political authority. The conflict rapidly becomes one of the Quadrant’s principal humanitarian and diplomatic crises.
3239 Major powers in Q7 deepen intelligence and financial cooperation against the interstellar criminal conspiracy known as SPECTRE, following evidence of covert financing, falsified contracts and criminal networks operating across polity boundaries. Archaeological work at Tuskan also produces increasingly important Forerunner material.
3240 A clandestine project to construct an illegal sentient AI is uncovered on Y19 and destroyed before activation. Separately, the Avicenna Institute for Forerunner Studies is established at Tuskan, strengthening the world’s position as the principal centre of modern Forerunner research. GFA’s President Alphie Potato re-elected.
3241 Negotiations on New Mald make substantial progress: ceasefire arrangements, humanitarian coordination and provisional power-sharing begin replacing open warfare. The Avicenna Institute’s growing reputation draws researchers and institutional interest from across human space.
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