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Desert Punk
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The term "Wagon Train to the Stars" had more relevance than we thought. Much of humanity has gone to outer space, but apparently all the planets they could settle on were dry, desert-covered worlds. A big advantage of setting a sci-fi world in a desert is that it's easy to conceptualize, compared to a geographically and culturally diverse world like Earth. The author doesn't have to spend time explaining the history or nuance of the world because there is none. Also, judging by the planets we've been finding around other stars in recent years, while potentially inhabitable planets seem plentiful, earthlike ones seem slightly rarer, with slight variations in size, composition, and average temperature making the difference between an Earthlike mixture and a comparative ice world, water world, or desert world. A moderately large galactic empire would almost certainly put up at least a token effort at setting up outpost colonies on some of the less pleasant worlds, if just to have a place to put your Landfill Beyond the Stars. When life becomes hard, and on such a world, it usually is, morals are the first thing you throw away. Law and order are swift to break down, and suddenly we have The Wild West on another planet. Also, it's wise to be wary of Desert Bandits. Alternate version: deserted lands After the End (usually nuclear wars). For the anime and manga that is also an example of the genre, see Desert Punk. See also Cattle Punk. |
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Dune and its sequels are especially prominent examples of desert punk scifi, though thematically it resembles a Heroic Fantasy more than Desert Punk. Except that in Dune it's not so much The Wild West In Space as The Middle East (In Space.) | |
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Mar Sara and a few other desert worlds from StarCraft. | |
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Basara is a shoujo Manga about a prophesied savior getting killed so his twin sister takes over. All this happens in a near future Japan that had been turned into a desert. | |
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Railsea takes place in a world where the "oceans" are barren, monster infested wastelands crisscrossed by railroads. | |
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Now and Then, Here and There is set in a far distant future Earth where the Sun has become a Red Giant and its increased proximity has reduced our planet into a desert world full of evil people that make the bandit freaks from The Road Warrior look like saints. | |
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On Earth2, the equipment and the costumes of the Eden Advance survivors (survivors of a crashed advanced scout ship that arrived at an Earth-like planet ahead of the main colonial transport) lent themselves to a Desert Punk feeling in many episodes, although the planet G-889's terrain was more varied than just a desert planet, and the group experienced different seasons as they traveled toward their original target destination. The Desert Punk equipment included futuristic Humvee trucks and dune buggies, cool guns, high-tech but utilitarian survival gear, and costumes that became more rugged and patched up as time wore on for the group on their journey. | |
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The sequel game Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness takes place in the same region, but there are a few places where life has begun to find a way, and wild Pokémon have begun to appear. Strange, since Orre is not a post-apocalypse locale that has something to recover from, but merely in the Pokémon world equivalent of an actual desert in the southwestern United States. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Pre-timeskip, everything is desert with giant freakin robots and beastmen. Can't really say the same for post-timeskip though. | |
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Desert Punk: After an implied global nuclear catastrophe Japan has been reduced to a desert ("The Great Kanto Desert"), and the surviving humans seek out a meagre living in the hot sands. | |
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Fist of the North Star seems to be about 25% Kenshiro wandering through sand. | |
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Zoids has a considerable amount of this, seeing that the planet Zi is mostly desert. | |
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Motavia in Phantasy Star IV. It's naturally a desert planet, but in between Phantasy Star and Phantasy Star II, it was fully terraformed into a Ghibli Hills world that borders on Crystal Spires and Togas. However, Climatrol was destroyed in II, and since then, the world has been slowly desertifying and monsters have been taking over the wilds, with only the Hunter's Guild to fight them back. Thus, this crosses over with the Burned-Out Earth variant. Obviously, it was a desert planet in the original Phantasy Star, but it was far less "punk" back then. | |
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City of Bones (1995) takes place a thousand years after an Unspecified Apocalypse reduced the world to a desert waste. Humanity survives in a few "fringe cities" with an exploitative Fantastic Caste System, while the Waste is a Death World inhabited by bio-engineered "krismen" and cannibalistic Desert Bandits. A major plot thread involves discovering the origin of the Waste and its ramifications for the present day. | |
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Tank Girl - At least Australia is sand, but we're not sure if it's the rest of the world too. | |
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Combat Mecha Xabungle straddles both types and plays the trope for a surprising amount of humor, but really falls here due to it being Earth All Along. | |
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Last three episodes of Excel♡Saga, though it was only one city. 26 doesn't count. | |
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Rage (2011), after Earth got hit by an asteroid and ecological disasters unfolded to turn large areas of the planet into wasteland, humanity broke down into violent factions that would loot cryogenically frozen survivors of the previous era. You're the ex-marine lone security guard for those frozen survivors fighting through the raiders and crazies to find out why the mysterious Authority is hunting you. | |
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A Boy and His Dog - Society on the surface world has been reduced to roving bands of scavengers prowling for food and sex. There is a civilization underground, but it's a bizarre, oligarchical, almost dystopian state. | |
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Sands of Destruction takes place In a World… where Sand Is Water, meaning that the whole planet is a desert except for islands of land which is capable of supporting plant life. The manga is the same in terms of setting, though its plot is wildly different. | |
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In Journey (2012), a robed figure is born in a desert where your ancestors' civilization existed. While cloth fragments are still around, not as much technology functions well and the buildings have deteriorated since the war machines' conflict against the White Robes. A exception to this is the snowy mountain, its peak split by a crevice. | |
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In Homestuck, the Land of Sand and Zephyr, and Earth c. 2422 (in the beta timeline, anyway). | |
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Fallout: New Vegas; Justified in this case, as the game takes place in the post-apocalyptic Mojave Desert. The exception is Zion Valley which is lush with life, clean flowing water, and a rain cycle. | |
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GUN×SWORD is set on the "Planet of Endless Illusion", a place where rogues of all sorts gather. The protagonist, Van, travels the world searching for a man with a clawed right hand who killed his bride. He is joined by several other travelers along the way, each linked to the clawed man by a personal loss. | |
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Children of the Whales features a small community of less than 600 people living on the Mud Whale, a floating city of clay and magic that sails a seemingly endless sea of sand, with most of its inhabitants being "Marked" - a short-lived people who have psychic control over an emotion-based power called Thymia. The inhabitants supplement the produce from their farms with salvage of things found in the desert before the scavenged location eventually sinks through the sand. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons' Dark Sun campaign setting. This also crosses over with Burned-Out Earth as the planet of Athas used to be greener before Defiler mages burned away most of the plant life. | |
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Fallout; Justified in this case, as the game takes place in post-apocalyptic Southern California. | |
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Fallout 2; Justified in this case, as the game takes place in post-apocalyptic Northern California, Northwestern Nevada and Southern Oregon. | |
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Fallout 3; Justified in this case as, even though it's set in Washington D.C., it was hit hard by nuclear weapons (the White House is gone), burning it even worse than the rest of the country. | |
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Fallout 4; Mostly averted, since Boston was not hit as hard as the rest of the country. However, the southern areas are still dangerous, mainly due to the presence of the Gunners, mercenaries who in practice are little better than raiders, as well as bands of Super Mutants. There's also the Glowing Sea in the southwestern corner, a radioactive wasteland (even by Fallout standards) created by the only nuke to hit the Boston area, which is filled with various types of Demonic Spiders that occasionally wander into the Commonwealth. | |
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Suihira judging by the Saharan Shipwrecks and mentions that "lower desert" used to be ocean floor. | |
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The Pit Dragon Chronicles take place on the harsh desert planet of Austar IV. Once used to dispose of criminals, Austar IV has now flourished, under a system of masters and 'bonders', a lower class that has to pay a bond price to rise up in the world. | |
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Solarbabies is an odd (and commercially disastrous) attempt to blend Desert Punk with roller-skating, teen dystopia, and elements of ET The Extraterrestrial of all things. | |
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Pandora in Borderlands invokes very Mad-Max like look-and-feel thank to be mostly desert and having a lot of remnants of mining equipment and towns in various states of decay and numerous garbage dumps. The lore for the planet states that it has orbit with high eccentricity, making climate hot and dry at short 'summer' and chilling cold at longer 'winter' causing most local species to hibernate at local winter. Since Borderlands 2 is set several years later (likely at local 'autumn'), it features much more diverse landscape, though there is still no trees and vegetation is scarce even at more hospitable areas. | |
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The Atlantropa Articles takes place in a post-apocalyptic Europe in the 23rd century where Nazis rule and the Mediterranean Sea has dried up, creating a massive desert called "the Kiln". | |
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The live-action Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie took place in Dinohattan, a New York-style city surrounded by endless desert. | |
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Fallout. The Fallout universe as a whole is designed around the popular conceptions of future technology and the effects of nuclear war that the American public had in the 1950's. Many aspects of it are intentionally unrealistic. Fallout; Justified in this case, as the game takes place in post-apocalyptic Southern California. Fallout 2; Justified in this case, as the game takes place in post-apocalyptic Northern California, Northwestern Nevada and Southern Oregon. Fallout: New Vegas; Justified in this case, as the game takes place in the post-apocalyptic Mojave Desert. The exception is Zion Valley which is lush with life, clean flowing water, and a rain cycle. Fallout 3; Justified in this case as, even though it's set in Washington D.C., it was hit hard by nuclear weapons (the White House is gone), burning it even worse than the rest of the country. Fallout 4; Mostly averted, since Boston was not hit as hard as the rest of the country. However, the southern areas are still dangerous, mainly due to the presence of the Gunners, mercenaries who in practice are little better than raiders, as well as bands of Super Mutants. There's also the Glowing Sea in the southwestern corner, a radioactive wasteland (even by Fallout standards) created by the only nuke to hit the Boston area, which is filled with various types of Demonic Spiders that occasionally wander into the Commonwealth. |
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Any story set on Vulcan | |
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Pokémon Colosseum. The protagonist is not a plucky 10-year old, but an ex-Pokémon thief that rescues the female protagonist, who looks like a cheap, under-age hooker in the Japanese version◊. Together they fight their way through the badlands of Orre, driving a rusty hover-cycle with an engine presumably stolen from a Top Fuel dragster. Reinforced by the near-total lack of Pokémon (read: organic life) in the desert areas. The only real exceptions are Agate Village (a lovely green village built high in the mountains) and Phenac City, a veritable oasis city whose mayor is secretly the Big Bad. The sequel game Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness takes place in the same region, but there are a few places where life has begun to find a way, and wild Pokémon have begun to appear. Strange, since Orre is not a post-apocalypse locale that has something to recover from, but merely in the Pokémon world equivalent of an actual desert in the southwestern United States. |
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Just a Pilgrim, by Garth Ennis, is set on an Earth devastated by a solar flare, literally burned out. The few survivors scrape along the arid ocean bottoms, beset by various mutant monsters. | |
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Despite being set in the present day, Fair Game (1986) and The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) have elements of this trope, most notably cool cars, arid Badlands, sociopathic hoons in punk punk inspired clothing, and deserted settlements. | |
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Bicycle Boy takes place in a vast, dry post-apocalyptic desert. | |
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Mad Max, set in the arid wastelands of post-apocalyptic Australia, is perhaps the Trope Codifier for Desert Punk in western media. The franchise's scrapped together hot rods and homemade punk armor would go on to influence dozens of ruined desert settings. | |
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Shows up from time to time in BattleTech, particularly on some of the less habitable worlds in the Periphery, where there's far less advanced technology available (to the point that some planets have an average tech level that's lower than 20th Century Earth) and the inhabitants get preyed on by pirates and gangs. | |
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You know, in Star Trek (the original series in particular) every place they go seems to be a desert. And they all look suspiciously similar... | |
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Sand Land is about a desert wasteland where humans and demons coexist, although not peacefully. | |
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Patrick Swayze film Steel Dawn, which is a western with swords in a post-apocalyptic world. | |
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Parodied in Futurama. Turns out that's just what 3003 Los Angeles looks like normally. | |
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Ozuma is set on Earth in the future when abnormal activity on the sun devastates Earth's atmosphere and covers the entire planet in a sea of sand. | |
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Hex: In a bizarre turn of events, Wild West gunslinger Jonah Hex finds that he had been transported to the 21st century and he becomes somewhat of a post-apocalyptic warrior in a world ravaged by nuclear war. Radiation has rendered much of the available water undrinkable, making water a precious commodity, and giving the setting a very desert-like atmosphere. | |
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Cthulhu Armageddon is set in a post-apocalypse Earth where the Great Old Ones have destroyed humanity and everyone is reduced to living in Weird West small towns or tribes. The majority of the world is now barren wasteland and monsters roam the Earth. Even the stars are no longer the same. | |
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Gorkamorka has been described as Mad Max with Orks. The game revolves around bands of Orks roving the deserts of the desolate world Angelis, fighting each other in ramshackle vehicles while searching for scrap, adding communist goblins and scientist mutants, and for some Hilarious in Hindsight goodness, pale-skinned humans who really want to be orks and are good with tech. | |
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The Book of Eli: Most of the action takes place in the desert, later revealed to be the devastated California Central Valley. | |
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Some Judge Dredd stories set in the Cursed Earth had this feel. | |
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Trigun was probably the first big one, at least as far as anime goes, though it's also a very good trope example, and justifies the setting very well. Long story short: They were going to terraform the planet (or even just find a better one), but the Big Bad tried to kill everyone and screwed it up. | |
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Sands of Destruction downplays the "punk" part in favor of Science Fantasy, but certain aspects take on a distinctly punk aesthetic - see, for example, the stern of Agan's Cool Ship The Sea Gale. | |
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The video for Tom Petty's "You Got Lucky" takes place in an After the End version, loosely implied to be after an alien invasion. | |
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The Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future books by Mike Resnick. The setting of the novel is the Inner Frontier (the region toward the core of the Galaxy) of the interstellar Democracy which humans have formed. The title character, Santiago, is the most sought-after outlaw of the region if not the human universe. | |
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The world of Heaven's Vault consists of "moons" (actually small asteroids with Eatrh-like gravity and atmoshpere) connected by a network of "rivers" (water flowing between the moons). Most of the moons are mostly or completely dry, with a few notable exceptions. This makes water a valuable resource. | |
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Resident Evil: Extinction. While it is set in the Nevada/Utah desert, the opening explains the whole world is a desert. The world (somehow) got better in the sequels. | |
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Tank Girl, is usually set in the Australian outback. And Tank Girl is definitely a punk. | |
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Much of Cherry 2000 takes place in the post-apocalyptic Nevada desert. | |
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The album Dopesmoker by Sleep has this sort of setting. It's a concept album about the holy pilgrimage of the Weedians as they journey across a vast desert, following the smoke towards riff filled lands. It's like a stoner metal Book of Exodus. The album's iconic cover artwork depicts a caravan of hooded figures with gas masks (that are implied to basically act as bongs) travelling over the sand dunes, with two moons in the sky and a space ship on the horizon. Needless to say, it rules. | |
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Deadlands is set in a very strange version of the wild west that qualifies as this with a bit of magic thrown in for kicks. | |
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Nimbus III in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. | |
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The John Carter of Mars novels take place on a Mars that is, mostly, a desert except for the areas bordering the canal network, a region surrounding an underground sea at the south pole, and a few swamps, which represent all that is left of the once-great oceans covering the planet. There is apparently still groundwater deep below the surface, though, since some plants and animals do manage to survive despite the complete lack of rainfall. Probably the Trope Maker. | |
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Parodied in Ben 10: Omniverse with Mad Ben, an Alternate Universe Ben who lived in a post-apocalyptic desert and used his Omnitrix to become a powerful warlord. | |
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The Martian comes as close to this trope as a work of hard sci-fi possibly can. | |
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LISA, being heavily inspired by Fist of the North Star, is pretty much solely this. | |
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Weapon Brown: The world we know as the "modern" world ends, according to Weapon Brown, when "the Dolly Madison Corporation realizes that their artificial flavorings were a hair's breadth away from becoming lethal toxins". At the same time period that this discovery is made, Hostess is not that far away from putting them out of business. According to Weapon Brown in an internal monologue, this caused them to shift from making snack cakes to making chemical weapons. They later developed the highly dangerous Zinger Bombs, which left half of the hemisphere uninhabitable. The result is that most currency in the world of Weapon Brown is not money, but technology, particularly food and, more importantly, functioning batteries. | |
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In Firefly many border worlds and moons, as well as those on the Rim are only marginally terraformed, generally resulting in them being deserts or borderline. More affluent or Alliance worlds in the Core are more idyllic in terms of atmosphere. | |
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The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye: After one last Great War, the world's been turned into an endless desert, with scant handfuls of humanity eking out an existence amid the ruins of civilization. The world is ruled by an enigmatic race of mutants known as The Third. | |
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9, though it's not quite clear in the film whether the entire world is like this or if it's just the place where the dolls live. | |
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Reversed on Terra Nova. The general feel of desert punk is there, especially with the Sixers, but it's set in the jungles of the Mezozoic. | |
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Many of the Wild ARMs games have elements of this, as did the anime, with Wild ARMs 3 being the straightest example (the others all have prominent oceans and forests). Like Journey, crosses over with the Burned-Out Earth, though, since Filgaia as a planet is slowly dying. | |
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Space 1889 Caravans of Mars and Steppelords of Mars have elements of desert punk, particularly some illustrations. | |
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Terminator Salvation seems to have this as the setting outside of cities. | |
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