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| {{Update|The events of [[GAME]]: ''[[Evacuation Earth (video game)|Evacuation Earth]]'' and ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'' need to be added to their history.}}{{Infobox Organisation | | {{merge|New Dalek Paradigm|this should simply be a section in the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] article, since it describes their origins}} |
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| |name = New Dalek Paradigm
| | One [[Dalek Saucer]] and three Daleks survived a previous invasion and genocide by escaping through a [[time corridor]]. They ended up in [[1941]]. They found the last surviving [[progenitor]], a Time War device containing pure Dalek DNA and the means to recreate the species - but, due to the circumstances of their creation, the progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek due to their non-[[Kaled]] genes. To activate it, they engineered an encounter with the Doctor: using an [[Edwin Bracewell|android]] to claim they were his invention and pretending to be machines for the [[British Army]]. When the Doctor arrived (after being called by [[Winston Churchill]]), they tricked him into calling them out - "''I'' am the Doctor and ''you'' are the ''Daleks''!" - so this "testimony" could be used to open the progenitor. |
| |leader = [[Dalek Emperor]]<br />[[Prime Minister of the Daleks]]
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| |appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[Evacuation Earth (video game)|Evacuation Earth]]'', ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]''||[[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]''|[[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'' (contingent)|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]''}}
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| |members = [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Supreme Dalek]]<br />[[Eternal Dalek]]<br />[[Strategist Dalek]]<br />[[Scientist Dalek]]<br />[[Dalek drone|Drone Daleks]]<br />[[Dalek time controller|Dalek Time Controller]]/[[Dalek Litigator]]<br />[[Stone Dalek]]}}
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| The '''New Dalek Paradigm''' was an empire of purebred [[Dalek]]s created by a [[Progenitor]] device, which made use of original Dalek DNA. The Progenitor was activated by the only three surviving Daleks of the [[New Dalek Empire|previous empire]], themselves "unclean" specimens since they were generated from the cells of [[Davros]]. The original five Daleks of the New Paradigm, and the leadership class once their new empire was created, were more powerful and much larger than any of their predecessors.
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| == Overview ==
| | Five new Daleks were created, with pure DNA, a colour-coded rank and a white Dalek Supreme as their commander. These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity (the three willingly submitted) and used a time bomb on Earth to prey upon the Doctor's compassion. He returned to England/Britain. While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb, they escaped through a [[time corridor]] to create a new Dalek Empire. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') |
| === Characteristics ===
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| The Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm had towering casings and a bulkier, less streamlined design than their predecessors while (for the most part) retaining the basic Dalek structure of a dome-shaped head connected to the torso by a neck and a "skirt" of grey orbs (black for [[Eternal Dalek]]). The shoulder slats ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') were removed and replaced by the original bands. New to the design, however, was the addition of a rear compartment (replacing the basic back "skirt" panels) , that was supposed to open and allow the New Daleks to access other weaponry.
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| One thing that didn't change, however, was their personalities. If anything, their egos appeared to have increased in size along with the rest of them. They considered themselves invincible and boasted their superiority in typical Dalek arrogance, even as [[Spitfire]]s rained down on them. Despite the three survivors of the [[New Dalek Empire]] giving them life, these New Paradigm Daleks, true to Dalek nature, exterminated them for their impurity. The older Daleks knew this would occur the entire time and offered no resistance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| === Hierarchy ===
| | [[Category:Events]] |
| These Daleks were colour-coded according to rank and position. [[Supreme Dalek]]s were white, the [[Eternal Dalek]] was yellow, [[Strategist Dalek]]s were blue, [[Scientist Dalek]]s were orange, while [[Drone Dalek]]s were red.
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| While the new Drone Dalek design was mass-produced initially, ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') the Daleks ultimately went back to using the Time War models as the shells for their basic drones, making the larger red models more rare. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'') These bronze drones were sometimes sent on missions where they operated without the leadership or presence (although still under the instructions) of New Paradigm commanders. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'')
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| The position of ultimate leader varied. During the New Dalek Paradigm's first encounter with the Doctor, there were only five Daleks, each one the first example of their rank, making the Supreme, as the name implies, the ''supreme''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'') However, as the Daleks started their campaign of Empire-building, at least two [[Dalek Emperor]]s are known to have ruled the New Dalek Paradigm at some point. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'') Later on, a [[Parliament of the Daleks]] was established, and the Supreme Dalek was subordinate to the [[Dalek Prime Minister]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
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| Several commanding officers were long known to exist. The mission to destroy [[The Abomination (The Only Good Dalek)|the "Abomination"]] and [[Station 7]] was commanded by a [[Strategist Dalek|Chief Strategist]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]''). When the bronze drones were reintroduced, another mission was led by a black Dalek. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'') Additionally, the [[Dalek time controller|Dalek Time Controller]] took overall command of the Daleks' search for the [[Cradle of the Gods]], even outranking the Supreme Dalek. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'')
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| The Daleks' zero tolerance for failure was not affected by rank. For example, during the attack on Station 7 and search for the Abomination, [[Dalek 3|a Dalek Strategist]] was killed by a Dalek Drone for failing to ensure the safety of [[Weston (The Only Good Dalek)|Weston's]] base. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'')
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| == History ==
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| === Origin ===
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| The [[Last Great Time War]] left only small pockets of Dalek survivors, all of which were destroyed in confrontations with [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]''/''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[I am a Dalek]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Carnage Zoo]]'', ''[[Flight and Fury]]'', ''[[The Living Ghosts]]'', ''[[Extermination of the Daleks]]'') This left [[Dalek Caan]] of the [[Cult of Skaro]] as the last Dalek in existence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'') Caan coincidentally but not deliberately travelled back to the Time War, breaking through the [[time-lock]] at the cost of his sanity. He saved [[Davros]] from the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]] and brought him to [[2009]]. Davros [[New Dalek Empire|rebuilt]] the Dalek race, growing them from his own cells.
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| Eventually, Caan, betraying the Daleks, lowered the defences, allowing the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy Caan, Davros, and the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'') However one Dalek ship with three Daleks onboard managed to perform a time jump back to [[1941]], escaping destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| === Creation ===
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| The three Daleks found the last surviving [[progenitor]], a device containing pure Dalek DNA and the means to recreate the species. However, due to the circumstances of their creation, the progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek, as they had been created from Davros's own mutated Kaled cells ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''). To activate it, they started a scheme called the [[Ironside Project]]: they created an [[Edwin Bracewell|android]] to claim they were his inventions and pretended to be [[Ironside|machines]] for the [[British Army]]. When the [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived (after receiving a telephone call from [[Winston Churchill]]), they tricked him into calling them out - "''I'' am the Doctor and ''you'' are the ''Daleks''!" - so this "testimony" could be used to activate the progenitor.
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| Five new, larger Daleks were created, with pure DNA, a new colour-coded rank, and a [[Supreme Dalek (Progenitor)|white Dalek Supreme]] as their commander. There was also a [[Strategist Dalek|Blue (Strategist)]], [[Scientist Dalek|Orange (Scientist)]], [[Eternal Dalek|Yellow (Eternal)]] and [[Dalek drone|Red (Drone)]]. These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity (the three willingly allowed this to happen) and forced the Doctor to let them escape, using a bomb hidden within the Bracewell android on Earth to prey upon his compassion and make him return to Britain. While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb, they escaped through a [[time corridor]] to create a new Dalek Empire, practically laughing at the Doctor for always failing to kill them completely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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| === Empire-building ===
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| Following their escape, the Daleks discovered the lost [[Time Lord]] artefact, the [[Eye of Time]], allowing them to alter time as they saw fit. The Daleks returned to [[Skaro]], rebuilt their capital city of [[Kaalann]], appointed a new [[Dalek Emperor]] and began rebuilding their Empire. In this new timeline, they killed every member of the [[human]] race. However, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy undid these events, leaving Earth unconquered and Kaalann still abandoned. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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| The [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Dalek Supreme]] led an attack on the ''[[SS Lucy Grey]]'' to recover the Daleks' lost Time Axis. The Eleventh Doctor defeated them by firing their ship into the [[sun]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'')
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| A Scientist Dalek sent an alien family plummeting through time and space to collect all the [[Time Orb]]s. The Scientist recruited many [[Strategist Dalek|Strategist]] Daleks and [[Drone Dalek|Drones]]. It also recruited big armies of [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] and [[Silurian]]s as a distraction for the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond|Amy]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'')
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| At the beginning of the [[40th century]], the Daleks began another war with humanity which continued into the [[41st century]]. The Eleventh Doctor and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] encountered a group who had been sent on a mission to find a Dalek mutant being experimented on by [[Weston (The Only Good Dalek)|a scientist]] who tried to make them less aggressive creatures. The Daleks referred to this mutant as [[The Abomination (The Only Good Dalek)|"the Abomination"]]. They attacked and destroyed Earth's top secret space station, [[Station 7]], and chased the survivors to the planet [[Strantana]] below. After slaughtering all resistance, they finally found the Abomination in a hidden base, but it escaped its container and disabled the base reactor's safety measures. An explosion destroyed the base, the Daleks, the Abomination, and all the Dalek ships that had landed on the planet. The Doctor, Amy and [[Jay Bourne|Jay]], an [[Space Security Service|SSS]] officer, watched from a safe distance. The Dalek mission was a failure but the war continued. They had agents working in the SSS. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'')
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| The Daleks joined [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]] to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the [[Pandorica]] in [[102]] to save the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') As the Doctor was not responsible for the [[Total Event Collapse]] as they thought, the Daleks, along with almost the rest of the universe, were destroyed, leaving only two [[Stone Dalek]]s, one of which hindered the Doctor and his companions' efforts to save the universe in [[1996]]. Nevertheless, they were successful and the whole of reality, including the Daleks, were restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
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| Searching for information on the Silence before going to what he assumed was his death, the Doctor found a badly damaged [[Supreme Dalek (Progenitor)|Supreme Dalek]] and looked up information on [[the Silence]] in it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
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| Led by a new [[Emperor Dalek]], the Daleks planned to remove [[Gallifrey]] from existence and become the new [[Time Lord|Lords of Time]]. They used a piece of the [[Eternity Clock]] to put a Time-Lock around a large part of [[London]] in [[2106]]. Once they perfected their Time-Lock technology, they planned to use it to put temporal bubbles around other planets, making them unstoppable. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]] infiltrated the [[Dalek Flagship|Emperor's Flagship]] and managed to take back the piece of the Clock. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')
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| At some point, a small contingent of bronze Daleks were sent on a mission to travel through [[Earth]]'s history and analyse how [[human]]s made war so that weaknesses could be found and exploited in future conflicts with the Daleks. They called this the [[Dalek Project]]. The Eleventh Doctor encountered these Daleks in the [[First World War]] in [[1917]] where he sent their [[Dalek flying saucer|ship]] crashing to the ground by ramming a plane into it. The remaining Daleks were destroyed by the combined armies of the war who had formed a very brief alliance to defend themselves. The Dalek saucer remained underground for [[2017|one hundred years]] before it was found and accidentally reactivated by a team of [[Archaeologist|archaeologists]]. The Eleventh Doctor arrived in time to save them and connected the ship up to a power line, overloading the Daleks. he called this "unfinished business". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'')
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| With the help of the [[Dalek time controller|Dalek Time Controller]], the Daleks discovered the artefact known as the [[Cradle of the Gods]] and its power to create or destroy. The Daleks established the [[Dalek Foundation]] and the [[Sunlight Worlds]] apparently to help humans recover from a huge galactic recession when in fact they planned to transform the 400 [[planet]]s with the Cradle into copies of [[Skaro]]. They sent a [[hypercube]] to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to manipulate the Eleventh Doctor into leading them to and activating the Cradle. However, with the help of siblings [[Sabel Blakely|Sabel]], [[Jenibeth Blakely|Jenibeth]] and [[Ollus Blakely]], the Doctor managed to set the Cradle to self-destruct and the Dalek Time Controller abandoned the plan. It is unknown what became of the Dalek Foundation and the Sunlight Worlds after this. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'')
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| === The Asylum ===
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| After being ruled by two [[Dalek Emperor]]s, ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'', ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') a [[Parliament of the Daleks]] was formed, led by a [[Dalek Prime Minister]].
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| When a [[human]] [[starliner]], the ''[[Alaska (spaceship)|Alaska]]'', crashlanded on the [[Dalek Asylum]] [[planet]], the security of the insane Daleks contained there was compromised. Fearing what would happen if these Daleks were to escape, the Prime Minister ordered the abduction of the Doctor, who he knew as the predator of the Daleks, so he could be sent to the Asylum and lower its impenetrable [[force field]] so the Daleks could destroy their derranged brethren, despite their wish to preserve them and their "beautiful" hatred. Understanding that the Doctor was best assisted by his [[companion]]s, his most recent ones, [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]], were abducted as well.
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| Once the planet's defences were lowered by the human-turned-[[Dalek]], [[Oswin Oswald]], the Parliament launched an attack to destroy the Asylum, but not before she wiped out all memory of the Doctor in the minds of every Dalek. When the Doctor came back to their ship, he was bombarded with "[[the First Question]]" ("Doctor Who?") by the entire Parliament. He left shortly after. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| === Conception ===
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| [[Mark Gatiss]] wrote in the script of ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'' for the Daleks' redesign to be "big buggers...bigger than we've seen them before". The [[Dalek eyestalk|eyestalk]] was designed to be level with [[Matt Smith]]'s eyeline. [[Steven Moffat]] and Gatiss wanted the new Daleks to be very colourful, similar to the Daleks of the [[1960s]] [[Amicus Productions]] Dalek movies, ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]''. Gatiss originally wanted there to be a green Dalek, but he decided that green "just doesn't seem to work somehow". [[Nick Briggs]], who voiced the Daleks, planned to counter their bright colours with a more vicious voice.<ref name="RTdaleks">{{cite web|author=Jones, P.|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/921-doctor-who-mark-gatiss-on-new-daleks/|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100419053808/http://www.radiotimes.com/blogs/921-doctor-who-mark-gatiss-on-new-daleks/|archivedate=19 April 2010|title=Mark Gatiss on the resurrection of the Daleks|website name=Radio Times|date of source=16 April 2010|accessdate=6 July 2013}}</ref>
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| === Reception ===
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| The [[2010]] redesign of the Daleks attracted much criticism from hundreds of angered fans. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2937261/Redesigned-Daleks-look-like-toys-say-angry-Doctor-Who-fans.html |title=New-look coloured Daleks ‘like toys’ |date of source=19 April 2010 |website name=The Sun |accessdate=6 July 2013}}</ref> [[Mark Gatiss]], who wrote their [[Victory of the Daleks|debut episode]], acknowledged the controversial nature of this redesign in his [[in-vision commentary]] on the DVD box set. In conversation with principal Dalek voice artist [[Nicholas Briggs]], and [[Dalek operator]] [[Barnaby Edwards (actor)|Barnaby Edwards]], he opined that the new shape of the Daleks, especially in the dorsal region, was not particularly to his liking. Briggs agreed, but, with Edwards, swiftly noted that in their experience of taking the new Daleks on live exhibition to the public, [[British]] kids, for the most part, loved the new design. The decision was revisited in [[DWM 431]] with critics voicing their opinions on the design. A comparison was made with the [[Russell T Davies|RTD]]-era Daleks, but without a conclusion as to which was the better-made. Steven Moffat finally settled the controversy when he stated in an interview that he would be keeping the bronze Daleks as the standard soldiers, and the Paradigm variants would be in charge of them as an "officer class". This was first seen on-screen in ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]''.
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| === Modifications ===
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| Additionally, further tweaks were made to the 2010 redesign for their reappearance in ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]'': the Drone and Strategist Daleks were now in deeper, more metallic shades, and the biological eyes were made more obvious.
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| == Footnotes ==
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