Dear Battleship creator

[extrapenguin]

I have decided to make a very poor life choice and sign up for battleshipex. Here are my likes, DNWs, fandoms, and tags displayed with better formatting, as well as prompts for each fandom. If you read no further, know that I like humor and worldbuilding.

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Likes
DNWs
Legend of Yunze
Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: the Old Republic
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Star Wars Clone Wars

Likes

• Same-sex relationships, especially F/F.
• Narratives of reconstruction: fixing something, whether that be a country, a piece of equipment, a relationship, or a person.
• Journeys of discovery, whether the discoverers be the characters or the reader.
• Redemption arcs. Rehabilitative justice.
• Narratives where something happens; plot. External conflicts. Casefic. Action/adventure.
• Comedy of Errors -type things.
• [record scratch SFX] So You're Probably Wondering How I Got Into This Situation: the fic
• Madcap adventure
• Crack taken seriously.
• Untitled Goose Game crossovers of the type where the goose comes to visit the canon.
• Alien settings: Dyson spheres, ringworlds, planets tidally locked to their red dwarf stars, artificial habitats on otherwise inhospitable planets, planets with large axial tilts, planets that are actually moons of gas giants, etc.
• Engineering, especially of the sort that keeps civilization running – sewage, maintenance, transport etc – plus infrastructure design stuff.
• Failure analysis/unraveling the causes of catastrophe, e.g. "why did the plane crash?" (yes, I like Mayday and Admiral Cloudberg)
• Characters expressing caring for each other by feeding each other/giving each other tea.
• Established relationships.
• Good mentor figures/teachers who have their students' best interests at heart and succeed.
• Class issues and other tensions between origins and current presentation.
• Worldbuilding!
• Weird physics.
• Tea.
• Competence porn.
• Enthusiasm in general.
• Xenobiology, aliens, very alien aliens.
• Loyalty, loyalty kink, people loyal way past the point of reasonableness.
• Loving descriptions of small details/of how systems run; insertion of Shown Their Work details.
• Happy endings.

I like both shipfic and gen. If you're choosing between something you think the characters would do in a situation and something on my likes list, please err on the side of what you feel is right for the characters and story in general.

DNW

• Setting change AUs (eg: Hogwarts AU, Coffee Shop AU)
• Christianity, mentions of "sinning".
• Humiliation, especially public.
• Unrequested incest, including foster/adopted and master/padawan relationships.
• Motherhood (childcare etc) as a woman's sole or main motivation or purpose.
• Unrequested het between humans or humanoid creatures. (People having parents is fine, the fabric of society being canonical and het-enabling is fine. Bit part OCs in het relationships are also fine.)
• PIV sex.
• Requested characters being presented as/rendered utterly helpless; the "damsel in distress" trope; woobiefication.
• Stories about mourning unwelcome changes to/realizations about the body, with "body" defined broadly, (ex: acquiring a disability, infertility, weight gain) and the associated grief/angst.
• Stories about mourning a dead person.
• Requested characters dying.
• Stories where the characters have never loved or could never love anyone but each other, incl. soulmates, demisexuality, single-target sexuality, etc. (Exception: soulmate-bestowing geese/geese bullying characters into getting together with someone is okay.)
• Alternate character origin story AUs (e.g. always a Jedi Maul, never a Jedi/slave Anakin, etc)
• Kinking on bodily fluids
• Under-15s having sex. People under 18 having sex with people older than 18.

I opt in to anything I haven't DNWed, as well as specific things mentioned in each request.

Getting up to speed on the canons

Legend of Yunze: Two seasons, 1h each, freely available engsubbed. Season 1; Season 2.
Knights of the Old Republic I & II: Two video games. Available natively for Windows and Mac, with II also available for Linux, cost about 10€ each the last time I checked. Available on GOG and Steam. Screenshot LP for I, all game dialogue for I, screenshot LP for II, all game dialogue for II. Time to completion should be about 30-40 hours each.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: A MMO. You can get the class stories (incl. Sith Inquisitor) as a free to play player – they take about 30-40 hours too, I think. For Acina, while you do encounter her after Makeb in the Seeker Droid missions Imp side, you need the KOTET expansion, for which you need to subscribe for at least one month – 13€, last time I checked.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: 133-episode TV series; episode length 25 minutes. It's owned by Disney so streaming options are probably country-dependent.
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: Three ~2h movies. Can probably be streamed somewhere.

Legend of Yunze

This was great! The ending is screaming for a fix-it (Jiang Zhaoyun uses her demonic powers to cure A-Ze? They go visit the Daoist who took A-Ze in as a child?) and I'd like canon divergences and pre-canon as well! So Zhaoyun and A-Ze saving more towns from hauntings or finding missing cultivational objects, or Zhaoyun's time as a trainee in her sect. Or sex, that's good as well!

Tags:
Sex Magic, Rough Sex, Nipple Play, Manhandling
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It
Humor, Post-Canon, Geese, Happy Ending, IN SPACE
Bandaging wounds, Bleeding Through Clothes, coughing up blood
Ceremonies and Rituals, wedding ceremony, Martial Arts, Rescue, Tea, Teamwork

Jiang Zhaoyun/A-Ze

• All the fix-it! Zhaoyun uses her demonic powers to cure A-Ze? They go visit the Daoist who took A-Ze in as a child?
• Some sort of mid-canon adventures where they save more towns from hauntings or find missing cultivational objects?
• Or canon divergence where Zhaoyun brings A-Ze home to the sect before being sent to fetch the cultivational objects?
• Or honestly just write me some porn! Surely there's time for them to kiss and bone between all that excitement? Use of Zhaoyun's demon powers a definite plus. Perhaps she gets all out of control after spending too long with her demon form locked away?

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Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic

I really enjoyed the reveal and companions' reactions to that. The potential for identity stuff/doubting one's recollections is super cool; I'd appreciate a chance for Revan to yell at the Jedi Council.
Revan preferences: Light Side-ish, or at least not the "kicks puppies for fun" type of darksider. Pragmatic. Charismatic. Competent. Please ignore the Revan novel and SWTOR.
Exile preferences: Inscrutable and mysterious, including to herself. Ideally Light Side-ish. I liked the canon tone! Meetra Surik is an acceptable name, though please ignore the rest of the Revan novel and SWTOR.

Other than the requested, I also like T3-M4, Juhani, Jolee, and Bao-Dur.

Tags:
Competent Character, Hidden Skills Revealed, Teamwork, Cave-In, coughing up blood, Geese, Lies, Shield repair, trapped together, Starry Nights, Tea
Worldbuilding, Humor, Diplomacy and Politics, Happy Ending, Space Adventure, Redemption
Manhandling, Something Made Them Do It


Adventure Experience Prompts

• Missionfic of something unknown, either during or after canon. The tomb of a Sith Lord? Some political snare? Has Czerka regrouped to threaten the Ithorians again?
• Post-canon fic with the Exile and her followers/students reforming the Jedi Order
• AU in which the Jedi Council thinks Yuthura should join Revan in her quest to find the Star Maps. Do they need to go look for an extra Star Map after the canon ones prove inconclusive?
• They land on an island – only to discover that it's actually a mat of carnivorous floating vegetation anchored to a volcano by a tree
• Post-canon exploration of the Uncharted World.
• Or a smaller mishap, like them ending up in the rakghoul-infested sewers of Taris by accident and having to find their way out or something.

Female Revan

• It is a lovely day on Korriban and Revan is a horrible goose
• Revan takes people/a different set of people with her to face the threat in the Unknown Regions. (Please ignore all of The Old Republic. Feel free to disregard as much of the rest of the EU as you wish.)
• Revan having a long and hard conversation about the memory wipe stuff with the Council
• The Dantooine Council made all the Revan Decisions on their own, without consulting the main Jedi Council on Coruscant. Revan sics Coruscant on Dantooine and watches the evisceration
• Revan gets her memories back on Taris and decides to troll the fuck out of everyone on Dantooine
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Female Revan/Yuthura Ban

• Revan and Yuthura going on a grand mission of slave liberation!
• I love the redemption/"was Sith, now no longer" thing they have in common. Did Yuthura recognize this was Revan? What did she think, when the Dark Lord herself told her to return to the Light Side? Did she have a crush on Revan with her mask and helmet?
• Revan takes Yuthura with her to face the threat in the Unknown Regions. (Please ignore the Revan novel and all of The Old Republic. Feel free to disregard as much of the rest of the EU as you wish.)
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Female Jedi Exile/Visas Marr

• Breaking the oath. After only just meeting her, Visas already considers the Exile a paradise valley. How? Why? Does she realize it's a reflection of the Exile being a wound in the Force, creating Force bonds with all?
• Visas falls from the darkness to the light, in a way. What is it like to fall in that direction?
• A fully-trained Jedi is a dangerous thing, as the denizens of Dantooine would no doubt inform you. After serving Darth Nihilus for so long, what would Visas expect from the Exile she now serves? How does the exile compare to the expectations?
• Dark F/F where the Exile is like the lure on an anglerfish, and Visas cannot help but fall.
• Missionfic of something unknown, either during or after canon. The tomb of a Sith Lord? Some political snare? Has Czerka regrouped to threaten the Ithorians again?
• Post-canon fic with the Exile and her followers/students reforming the Jedi Order
• Does Visas sneak off to join the Exile to confront the threat in the Unknown Regions? What is the threat, and what must be done about it? (Please ignore all of The Old Republic. Feel free to disregard as much of the rest of the EU as you wish.)

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Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic

SWTOR! I got into the MMO in Feb 2021; the Sith Inquisitor was the first character I played and I have mine current with all content (so no need to fear spoilers). I liked the [electrocute] options and the hilarious quantities of sass and snark, as well as the focus on ancient mysteries and Sith archaeology. Like, seriously, write me a fic that is just the Inquisitor investigating Rakatan ruins and I will be ecstatic. Please refer to the Inquisitor as Darth Nox/Occlus/Imperius if set at an appropriate place in the timeline. My personal Inquisitor is a Zabrak, but I like the other alien options as well.

I'm not really into Zakuul or Valkorion family drama.

Tags:
Rough Sex, Sex Magic, Enemies With Benefits, Manhandling
Humor, Worldbuilding, Happy Ending, Space Adventure
Cave-In, Dungeon Crawling, Geese, Competent character, Lies, Rescue, Starry nights, Tea
Ceremonies and Rituals, wedding ceremony, Diplomacy and Politics, Traditions

Adventure Experience Prompts

• Maybe a visit to a Sith Temple at some point in the timeline – ancient artefacts for the defeat of the Republic/Empire?
• Visiting Ziost and its Sith tombs before the Cataclysm? Visiting Ziost after the Cataclysm? How much has survived, buried beneath the soil?
• Investigating Nathema before or after the re-greening?
• Or something more war-related – I'm fully caught up with the latest events; feel free to use stuff from there if you want.
• They land on an island – only to discover that it's actually a mat of carnivorous floating vegetation anchored to a volcano by a tree
• Archaeology field trip to some ancient temple! Sith space, neutral regions, wherever. Just the requested characters doing archaeology together.
• Or a smaller mishap, like them ending up in the rakghoul-infested sewers of Taris by accident and having to find their way out or something.

Darth Acina/Female Sith Inquisitor
I like Acina! I like the opportunity here for Empress/perhaps-loyal Right Hand, with the Inquisitor (Nox, Occlus, Imperius) the head of Ancient Mysteries and being a nice and loyal Imp, sure, but they're Sith, there's always that "well what if she betrays me?" thing in the background. If you want to write an AU where someone else is the Outlander and the Inquisitor remained in the Empire, playing politics and potentially getting Acina the throne: go ahead!

• Acina's the questgiver for the Dread Seeds mission, so something with Acina going along with her new colleague on the Dark Council to capture all the Dread Seeds and stop the Dread Masters?
• Actually, Acina and the Inquisitor dealing with the Dread Masters story arc, Explosive Conflict to the Dread Seeds to Oricon to the Oricon ops. Just – that.
• Or, once Acina is Empress, some rival (Vowrawn? Ravage?) has established a base somewhere, time to go in with her right-hand woman to eliminate them?
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Female Sith Inquisitor/Darth Zash
Please have Zash be in her original body, not Khem's. Thank you!

• "Here is the lightsaber I had when I was an apprentice! Now assassinate my enemies for me" is 100% exactly what I want in my femslash ships. So, uh, more of proud Sith master Zash setting achievable murder targets for the Sithquisitor?
• AU where Zash gets her eternal youth not through body snatching but through some dark side sex ritual.
• AU where the ritual Zash comes up with doesn't necessitate either her or Khem dying, but manages to reconstitute her body along the way, and all the awkward reactions that ensue.
• Zash said she almost forsook the ritual – what if she had? Zash and the Inquisitor shopping for a new body for Zash together?
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

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Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

I really enjoyed the prequels in all their ridiculous glory, especially the lightsaber fights and the sense of a sweeping world and the Jedi and the Jedi Temple. I love the space wizards and their vaguely Buddhist philosophy and telekinetic powers. I really like people figuring out their place in the universe and helping others on their journeys. So here are a bunch of prompts for a variety of Jedi. I also love slash, femslash and milSF! I'm also not fussy if you end up writing a PT-era fic/merging PT and TCW continuities.

WRT the "stories about motherhood" DNW: Anakin is allowed to exist; just give the fic a plot that isn't about Shmi raising Anakin and give her motivations unrelated to him. (Idle thoughts à la "I hope my son's doing well" or "I'm glad Anakin isn't around to get caught in the splash damage of what I am about to unleash" are 100% okay.)

Tags:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Humor, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It, Happy Ending, Worldbuilding
Cave-In, Geese, Shield repair, Bizarre/Unusual Weather, Starry nights, Space Adventure, Sentient Location, On the Run
Rescue, Trust, Diplomacy and Politics, Reunions
Tea, Competent character

Mace Windu

• If you are aware of the Mace Windu Unfucks the Timeline tumblr post? That. I am 100% here for another take on that idea. Relatedly, anything involving Anakin as Mace's padawan.
• What did the Geonosis rescue mission planning look like?
• Mace (and company?) gets stuck in a time loop of the day the Zillo Beast escaped. How long until he realizes he needs to let the Chancellor die to get out of it?
• Mace gets trapped in the clutches of the Senate Budget Committee and has to escape
• Missionfic with Mace kicking ass and solving all the problems?
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Shmi Skywalker
I have a huge preference for Force-sensitive Shmi. I also like it when she has more rough edges and despite doing her best to raise Anakin isn't just a saintly self-sacrificing mother.

• It is a lovely day on Tatooine and the Hutts are about to discover that Shmi Skywalker is a horrible goose
• Maul finds Shmi and Anakin first, and wowed by Anakin's power in the Force, decides to pretend to be a Jedi so he can take them on as apprentices. None of them have any knowledge of what a Jedi is beyond osmosis. It's glorious.
• Or a Jedi who isn't Qui-Gon Jinn is the one given the Naboo mission and thus the one finding her and Anakin. (Any of the ones in the movie, or just invent an OC.) What changes?
• Shmi is from a non-Jedi Force sect! What sort of Force traditions does she have? Does she teach any to Anakin?
• Or what if Qui-Gon freed Shmi as well/Shmi freed herself and left Tatooine with Anakin?
• Or perhaps the prophecy is slightly different and it is Shmi who is the Chosen One, to be trained as a Jedi?
• Or Shmi was, once upon a time, a Sith apprentice who ran as far as she could, but now the past is catching up with her...

Anakin Skywalker & Shmi Skywalker
I have a huge preference for Force-sensitive Shmi. I also like it when she has more rough edges and despite doing her best to raise Anakin isn't just a saintly self-sacrificing mother.

• Anakin returns as a teen with a homebrew chip deactivator to free his mom! Then they have to dodge slave catchers as they make their escape/free a bunch of slaves/assassinate Gardulla.
• AotC canon divergence where Anakin arrives a few weeks earlier/early enough to save Shmi – except that she doesn't want to go back to the Larses and they have to figure a way to smuggle her offworld under their noses...
• Maul finds Shmi and Anakin first, and wowed by Anakin's power in the Force, decides to pretend to be a Jedi so he can take them on as apprentices. None of them have any knowledge of what a Jedi is beyond osmosis. It's glorious.
• Shmi wants to be trained in the ways of the Force to help keep her safe, and, well, it's not like Anakin wants to say no? So there's a mostly-trained Force user running around, and Anakin has a suspiciously large comm bill.
• A Shmi Lives AU where Anakin comes visit her during the Clone Wars to show off his shiny new padawan. What does she think of Ahsoka? What has she been up to in the meantime?

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I really enjoyed the prequels in all their ridiculous glory, especially the lightsaber fights and the sense of a sweeping world and the Jedi and the Jedi Temple. I love the space wizards and their vaguely Buddhist philosophy and telekinetic powers. I really like people figuring out their place in the universe and helping others on their journeys. So here are a bunch of prompts for a variety of Jedi. I also love slash, femslash and milSF! I'm also not fussy if you end up writing a PT-era fic/merging PT and TCW continuities.

Characters I like, other than the requested: Mace Windu, Plo Koon, Adi Gallia, Depa Billaba, Shmi Skywalker

Note regarding the Jedi: Please no Jedi bashing or Jedi Council bashing. They can be acting on bad/misleading information, but I'd like them to be well-intentioned and not be on a mission to be petty and rude to Anakin Skywalker. Canon-compliant fic is 100% fine, but please nothing set in or after a canon-compliant Order 66.

On how to deal with Padmé: you can set your fic in an AU where she and Anakin never got together, they broke up offscreen pre-fic, or just never mention her.

Tags (Maul request):
Unexpected Mercy, Unexpected Kindness, Redemption
Humor, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Happy Ending, Space Adventure
Bandaging wounds, Bleeding Through Clothes, Chains, coughing up blood
Enemies Stranded Together, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies With Benefits
Geese, Lies, Manhandling, Mistaken Identity, Cuddling

Tags (Ahsoka request):
Humor, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It, Happy Ending
Bandaging wounds, Bleeding Through Clothes, Cave-In, Cuddling, Geese, Shield repair, Magical Exhaustion, trapped together
Diplomacy and Politics, Fictional Religion & Theology, Space Adventure, Redemption, Rescue, Trust
Oceans, Tea

Adventure Experience Prompts

• All the weird Force bantha poodoo! Someone touches an artefact and oops, now there's a Force bond? Time travel to the KOTOR era/Revan turning up in the PT/TCW era?
• Discovering ancient Rakatan devices! Trying to figure out WTF happened with them! Anything dealing with the legacy of the Infinite Empire.
• A new Separatist stronghold has been discovered! Who's in charge? Grievous? A tactical droid? Some all-new non-droid General Count Dooku hired after one more disappointment from Grievous? What horrible trouble could befall our heroes this time?
• Someone gets kidnapped and potentially ransomed! One or more Jedi get sent to rescue/negotiate/pay the ransom.
• Completely by happenstance, they're at a location when Something Interesting happens, and since they're Jedi, the local authorities ask them to solve the murder mystery/high-profile theft/terrorist attack.
• Or the interesting happens to them! A large diplomatic event between two planets that attach supreme importance to pod racing, Separatists attacking someplace and the only their legion is close enough to respond, a bizarre Force Ghost starts haunting the Temple basement, etc!
• Or a smaller mishap, like them ending up in the rakghoul-infested sewers of Taris by accident and having to find their way out or something.
• They land on an island – only to discover that it's actually a mat of carnivorous floating vegetation anchored to a volcano by a tree

Darth Maul, Darth Maul & Any Jedi
IMO Maul is the perfect comedy protagonist: He's done enough bad stuff of his own volition you don't feel too bad laughing at him, yet he's enough of a victim of circumstance that a happy ending is satisfying (unlike for, say, Palpatine).

• Maul gets his lower half back (Nightsister magic, Sith rituals, bacta tank, realistic prosthetics) and discovers he is not simply horny for vengeance. No. He is also horny for Kenobi.
• Maul decides that actually, he also wants vengeance on Sidious, and the best way to get that is via the Jedi. Now, how to make this Jedi believe him...
• Time travel! Rebels/TCW-era Maul travels back to TCW/TPM and tries to convince himself to change approach, with varying levels of success.
• What if Maul weren't discovered by Savage on Lotho Minor, but someone else? A Jedi? Bail Organa? The Hutts?
• A Jedi decides to try and redeem/reform/at least approach this person who was likely raised by a Sith Lord and deserves at least one chance at mercy (and a chance to spill his Master's identity)
• A Jedi comes across Maul in a moment of weakness and is, shockingly, kind, rather than escalating to murder. Maul latches on like a baby tooka.
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul
(If going the porn route, please give Maul functioning genitals, either of the functional prosthetic type or fleshly type by e.g. having him regrow them in a bacta tank, AUing the way Obi-Wan defeated him, or having him use Sith Superglue to slap his original lower half back on.)

I love the enemies to lovers aspect here and how they're both quippy, sassy assholes at heart.

• Obi-Wan is the one to find Maul on Lotho Minor!
• Due to Dooku, Sidious, or forces of nature, Obi-Wan and Maul are stranded somewhere and can only get out if they cooperate.
• Maul decides that actually, he also wants vengeance on Sidious, and the best way to get that is via the Jedi. Now, if only Kenobi would believe him...
• Maul gets his lower half back (Nightsister magic, Sith rituals, bacta tank, realistic prosthetics) and discovers he is not simply horny for vengeance. No. He is also horny for Kenobi.
• Before killing his beloved nemesis, Maul absolutely needs to monologue at him about how he ruined his life. Then monologue some more, because he can only kill his nemesis once, so he better say everything he's ever wanted to say first. Wait, that turned out much too personal and revealing, abort – why can't he kill Kenobi? What is this colossal betrayal of his hand???
• Maul's revenge quest is, like all revenge quests, awfully personal. What if it took a turn for the physical/erotic? Obi-Wan decides to try flirting with him to get out of this and oh look, suddenly the sexual tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife and serve it for dinner?
• Obi-Wan comes to the tragic conclusion that Maul is hot when they're fighting with lightsabers and also really hard to kill. Maybe he should try redeeming the guy instead? You know, just to minimize collateral damage. Anyway, here's his comm code, please call first if you feel the urge to kill anyone, Maul!
• Time travel! Rebels/TCW-era Obi-Wan/Maul travels back to TCW/TPM and tries to convince himself/the other one to change approach, with varying levels of success.
• A manifestation of the Force in the shape of a goose (or just a horrible goose from the local park) decides they're soulmates and must kiss. Immediately. Or there will be consequences.
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Ahsoka Tano

• I like how Anakin's very protective of his padawan, even if Ahsoka chafes against it a bit at the start, and then grows to trust her, so: saving each other from trouble!
• Any and all padawan raising schmoop! I am 100% here for it.
• At Anakin's insistence, she gets sent on a mission with as little to do with the war as possible with either Anakin or some other master. Tracking down an ancient Sith artefact? Sent to investigate ruins with a strong Force presence?
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano

• I like how Anakin's very protective of his padawan, even if Ahsoka chafes against it a bit at the start, and then grows to trust her, so: saving each other from trouble!
• Any and all padawan raising schmoop! I am 100% here for it.
• At Anakin's insistence, they get sent on a mission with as little to do with the war as possible. Tracking down an ancient Sith artefact? Sent to investigate ruins with a strong Force presence?
• Time loop fic where they only get out of the time loop when Palpatine dies despite their best efforts (Zillo Beast? regular assassins? shuttle crash?)
• Mix and match with adventure prompts as needed!

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