Cain is like any good NCO or officer ,he looks out for his men and leads using example not rank .Someone you would follow .

Hey Majorkill. Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, The Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Thank you.

Unfortunately your sponsor is a little bit of a scam, they do not officially give you a noble title and just souvenir plots of land

They are the Rick and Morty of 40K...

Day one of asking majorkill to explain the differences/ pros and cons between metal, fine cast, resin, and plastic

Pretty much he is only man with common sense in the entire imperium. Prior to Guillimans resurrection and man do I want them to meet.

@@Historyfrek4ever My god, that would be glorious!

@@Historyfrek4ever what about Gaunt?

@@Historyfrek4ever Rowboat, upon meeting Cain: "I know you from somewhere..." Cain: "I thought you would be bigger..." Rowboat: "Uncle Malcadore? Is that you?"

@@steffanyschwartz7801 Any of the three meeting each other would be awesome or at least interesting but I think Gaunt was active too early in M41 for him to be alive with out some warp shenanigans.

*"Fuck."*

LotD Ferrus: ach, so this is the one we’ve been hearin about. Get up boy, now the fun begins *flaming warp portal opens You lads feel like piledriving tyranids?

Legion of the Damned sargent in sine-language: -Brothers meat our new commissar C. Cain the Hero of the IMPERIUM! Cain:- Noooo!

Cain as a warp ghost, because even the Sanguinor needs someone to look up to.

@@starhammer5247 I think you mean "Frak"

CAIN FACTS: Ciaphas Cain is probably a living saint now. Because not even old age and death could defeat Ciaphas Cain. Ciaphas Cain called Marneus Calgar a piece of shit to his face. And Calgar agreed. There is no Cainite school of thought in the Commissariat. There are those who listen to Ciaphas Cain's advice, and dead Commissars. Where Ciaphas Cain fights, the Inquisition cleans up after him. Saint Cain achieved something only the Dark Angels and Space Wolves have achieved - fuck with the Inquisition and live. Amberley didn't recruit Jürgen for the Inquisition because she was afraid he would put the Ordos out of business. When Tzeentch asked Kairos Fateweaver a question about Ciaphas Cain, the Oracle jumped back into the Well of Eternity. There are five stages of grief. When Ciaphas Cain hits anger, Khorne starts bargaining. Normal people fear Inquisitors. Ciaphas Cain either awes, sleeps with, or kills them. Ciaphas Cain was once told the nearest pot of tanna was on the other side of an Ork army. I don't see any Ork armies around here, do you ? Ciaphas Cain stared into the Eye of Terror. It blinked first. Jürgen once went to secure a nice room for Ciaphas Cain on an Imperial World. He came back one hour later having exposed and taken down a Tzeentchian cult. When heretics learn that Ciaphas Cain has arrived in the system, they surrender to the Inquisition. It's safer for them, and easier for everyone involved. Major Ruput Broklaw once woke up Ciaphas Cain after the Commissar had given strict orders not to be disturbed. He received the Star of Terra for his bravery and dedication to his duty. When the Thousand Sons tried to kill Ciaphas Cain, they saw Jürgen next to him, shrugged, and went home. The reason Tyranids got nerfed is because a Genestealer Patriarch tried to kill Ciaphas Cain once, and now the Hive-Mind is scared. There was a possibility Ciaphas Cain would have become a Chaos Champion. Tzeentch spent the entirety of M41 making damn sure it didn't happen, to avoid losing his job. Khorne wants Ciaphas Cain's skull. Unfortunately for the Blood God, the skull comes with the rest of Ciaphas Cain attached to it. The reason Guilliman didn't wake up until the Times of Ending was because he was waiting for Cain to die of old age so he could hog the glory. Unfortunately, reports of the Commissar's death were greatly exaggerated. When the Grey Knights aren't enough, the Ordo Malleus does not send Ciaphas Cain and his aid : they politely ask for his assistance. Gods plan. Ciaphas Cain laughs. A psyker once tried to get Ciaphas Cain to shoot himself. The Commissar dropped the laspistol and shot him instead. Ciaphas Cain and Amberley Vail once attended an Imperial gala infiltrated by sixteen different Chaos cults, three xenoists conspiracies and half a dozen Inquisitors and their retinues. The Holy Ordos call what happened next the "Night of Revelations". Cain called it a good date. Ciaphas Cain doesn't get lost in underground tunnels. Not because he has a good sense of orientation, but because the tunnels want him to get out as soon as possible. Ciaphas Cain weeps for every soldier who dies under his command. His tears are rarer than the Emperor's.

CI CI ciaphas cain, hero of the imperium!

Mood Kindred?

Sly marbo vs ciaphus Cain who would win ?

Cain would end up bringing Marbo to a Chaos Titan and then run away while Marbo solo’s said Titan.

I think it was said that if Gaunts Ghosts was Sharpe in Space, Cain was Blackadder

George MacDonald Fraiser's Flashman in the grimdark future.

Spot on.

And Jurgen is his Baldrick?

They said that's who they based him off when they wrote his character

Don't forget to keep yourself trained and always make sure there's an escape route ready.

Don't forget the all-important canteen of tanna.

@@arklaw8306 And that the Emperor seems to protect those who take steps towards protecting themselves.

Sly marbo vs ciaphus Cain who would win?

@@jo_ken life on the throne can be boring, why not bless one of the few creatures that seem to still have a functioning sense of self-preservation. If anything, it’s quite a laugh and we all know Big E likes a bit of trolling

Wait...there are movies in the WH40K universe? That's pretty weird

⁠@@voxpopuli7910It sounds like you have a poor grasp of 40k’s scale. The imperium has over one million planets. There are hundreds of thousands of earth-like planets in the imperium. When I say earth-like, I mean planets that have similar technology, population, and living standards as our modern day earth in real life. There are giant hive planets with trillions of people crammed into nightmarish sci-fi slums, there are feudal planets where they live life just like we did back in the 1200’s, there are forge worlds where the population consists solely of servitors (to work the factories) and tech priests (to oversee the servitors), and there is everything in between. Most Imperial citizens will never see an alien, demon, or space marine. Many imperial citizens don’t believe that aliens exist, because they’ve never met anyone who has met anyone who has seen an alien. So not only are there movies in 40k, but there are books, tv, video games, and a huge assortment of sci-fi hobbies that people enjoy. There are probably enough movies in the Galaxy of 40k for everyone on real-life earth to watch 500 of them without any movie being watched twice

@@voxpopuli7910 the are And Cain has at least one movie based on his actions pretty much from each campaign he fought in

​@@voxpopuli7910I mean It's probably work like north Korea💀

​@@voxpopuli7910technology are very diverse on each planets in Warhammer 40k. Some are still in the Medieval ages, some in the WW1 ages, and some are even set in a world that looks like the Cold War era Soviet Union.

Heard it was because the cover was drawn by imperial artists and overblown it. But, can't judge them. Cain is awesome!

@@Directo13 that would explain the popeye arms

@@Directo13 pretty much like how Gaunt carry a Chainsword on his new artwork and Mini but in lore he using a power sword

@@Madjo-qj2ge and basically one of best power sword as it was 10000 years old issued only to imperium army commanders or space marine chapter master.

There is quite a bit of evidence that at least most of the Cain book covers are propaganda, since he's always depicted with his coat ripped to show off his bulging muscles, or carrying a bolt pistol, or a ridiculously oversized chainsword. Then there's the Greater Good cover where the fire warrior has 5 fingers, so is likely a human in costume.

Sad

He has a strange self hatred syndrome.

a lot of it feels like it's self depreciation and a guilty conscience because Cain didn't "think" the right way, it seems like he makes up excuses after the fact to "justify" why what he did was cowardly even in situations where he was purely heroic. I'm sure he doesn't lie about being terrified and that makes him hate himself and cast his every action in the most negative light.

Not cowardice just cautious

He obviously is a worshipper of Tzeentch. Otherwise, he'd be stupid, incompetent, and callous.

To be fair, necrons are a threatlevel for the astartes. Retreating is the only correct course of action.

Oh, how did he put it again? By all means correct me on the quote if anyone remembers better than I do, but I THINK his statement was "Even if we were up to our chins in green-skins, Eldar, and a side of Kroot, I'd turn my back on the lot of them to kill a single Necron."

Believe it's the Flayed Ones that really scares the crap out of him... I mean... reasonable phobia...

Was it because of the Pariahs, or the Flayed Ones? Both are nightmare fuel in themselves.

He wasn't too happy about Tyranids either, pretty much borderline panicking and demanding the regiment contact everybody they possibly could for immediate reinforcements the moment he thought they were even a possibility. It seemed pretty universal that the enemies he "feared" the most were the ones he couldn't really talk to. The Eldar, Tau, Chaos, even Orks he was fine with, at least to a certain degree. Tyranids and Necrons though, he'd avoid as much as possible. I think he even mentioned that at some point when justifying his "fear" to another commissar when the idea of going toe-to-toe with some Necrons came up.

Sly Marbo: excuse me? Silent King: bruh

Dante: ...

All three of those have less personality than Cain's left nut so I'm still sticking to Cain being the main protagonist, you call Sly, Dante and the SK when you need shit to be fucked up, not when you want a good story.

​@@orrorsaness5942Guilliman : Sup b*tches

When your luck stack drops so low that reality hits an error and sets it all the way to max

so its *a number that is the closest to infinity scenario* but the number cancels it self in just a way that benefits comissar Caine like an glitched stat bonus to his already high specs as a scolar progenium honor member and that stat is his "*luck*"

Cain’s luck keeps him alive, it is balanced out by Cain being put in constant danger no matter what he did.

interger underflow on cain's luck

Cain's luck score is so low it caused a integer overflow and loops around to being high

And then he accidentally repaired an STC by having it factory reset, so that all the garbage data that accumulated got wiped and it operated at peak performance.

And that is why imperial guard troops are more badass than Space Marines.

@@kazansky22 Yes exactly! Of course a Space Marine is more powerful, but he doesn't need the kind of "courage" that an ordinary guardsman needs to fight the horrors of the galaxy.

Channeling fear can be the greatest strength. Absence of fear is definitely a great road to death or freezing from fear while aiming fear provides enhanced senses.

As I soldier I was always afraid in combat. Eventually I accepted that death was inevitable and then used that fear to fuel adrenaline production and the adrenaline let me perform at peak capacity. I think the smarter a person is the more fear they feel in combat but you know the only way to survive is to fight as hard and as smart as possible. The only way out is through.

Thats from an anime i cant remember the name of not you :D

Gross, don't mix star wars in with good shit.

He’s a mix of James Bond, Solid Snake, Courage the Cowardly Dog & Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart This is more accurate

Nothing wrong with Courage the "Cowardly" dog; Courage embodied his name by doing his best to protect Muriel and Eustace, despite being terrified.

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He's not wrong, cain is a mix between all of those

And it was started by soldiers from the Tallarn regiment headed by a commissar that _hated_ Cain. Tomas Beige spent half the book trying to undermine Cain’s authority and get him arrested.

(Cain pulls off one of his crazy-ass stunts) Tzeentch: "OH, WHAT THE FUCK, REALLY?!" The Emperor: "Hehehe, that's my boy!"

We even have a quote from the book of Cain that goes: "And the Prophet Spake, FRAK THIS! Get thee behind me Deamon, for my faith is proof against thy blandishments"

And the best part is that it was both by accident and without him knowing about it! 😆

@@DVAcme actually, it could like the orcs and khorne, with tzeench like: "OH BOI THAT WAS A SICK TURN OF FATE LOL LMAO"

let's not forget that he has dealt with chaos astartes and won

@@henrypaleveda7760 to be fair, he managed to hold of said chaos marine until Jurgen delivered the killing blow.

@@thewerdna dealt with and overcame are two different things but yes

@@thewerdna The second one he pretty much killed on his own, although it had been pretty severely wounded by Khorn cultists beforehand

He blocked/deflected two or three strikes from a Khorne Berserker before Jurgen blasted him with a melta gun. Still very impressive as a feat though. When the berzerker charged him shouting 'blood for the blood god' he shouted back 'harriers for the cup!'

And this kind of move, is why Cain is an S-Level duelist in 40k. God, if that man was Astartes he would be Chapter Master level.

@@ambrosiogiovanni6952 giga chad feigns suicide to kill the enemy

Which book is this from?

@@gregtoja it's one of the short stories

"Minecraft" himself?

😂

When he appeared to be fleeing*

what short story is this??, i wanna read it FUUUUCK seems good

@@320466 You just read it.

@@jimmysmith2249 I just made it up

I mean all Cain would have to do is ask

@@palharaldrindal4871 Caín would give him a chair to do so

@@palharaldrindal4871 And Jürgen would just say "Yes sir!" and go about it like just another day in the office.

To be fair, he actually has (more or less), while trying to get some Tanna Tea for Cain from a basement.

"And here comes a demon of khorne ready to smash Cain's face i-! BUT WAIT, ITS JERGEN WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!!!!" Emps, the holiest of announcers

I have always assumed that is the case since his "halitosis" seems to exactly overlap with his anti-psyker aura but is it ever truly confirmed?

@@jasperzanovich2504 There was one time when he saw someone's secretary who was very much taken by him, she thought he was a pretty acceptable but he blew her off to go look at nudies on his data slate. He might have been startled, or just didn't recognize, that a lady was interested since everyone he ever met was unkind to him. She apparently didn't notice anything wrong with him...she might have been a blank too, or so low on the psychic scale that he didn't set her off. That along with what you said makes me believe that his perceived repulsiveness is really other people's psychic-minds telling them that he ain't right....it's not really him, it's them.

Cain once admitted that as soon as Jurgen dried himself off after taking a bath or shower. He would instantly start to smell again. Cain eventually stopped coercing Jurgen to take extra showers, since no one could tell.

Actually, he does have them, but most people don't even see them because his Blankness makes them instinctively keep their distance. Cain is the only one who seems to notice, which is either him having such willpower that he can actually bear to be in Jurgen's vicinity or it gives credence to the theory that Cain's a latent psyker. It doesn't help that Jurgen's bad hygiene is in part a result of people's refusal to deal with him, so he doesn't see the use of trying to be presentable, which is kinda sad, really. It also explains why Jurgen is SO ride-or-die for Cain, since he's the only person that really takes the time to know him and treat him as a person.

@@DVAcme if Cain were to be a latent psyker he would SUFFER in jurgen vicinity XD

Right now lets hope no one decides to make a Cain movie or series. We have too many gender swaps, Mary Sue lady bosses and emasculated men in entertainment already. If they'd make it it would probably focus on Kimberley as the bestest evah, making Cain a supporting role in his own series.

I would prefer Thomas Jane, he played detective miller in the expanse and I think he would play Cain perfectly

Also helps that Henry Cacill is a hige Warhammer fan and has a huge Custodes army that he painted himself.

@@eleventhprimarch5303 He doesnt really have the smug cunning aura that makes Cain who he is, he played secret agent in UNCLE and acion scenes were perfect, but I don't really think he would be good Cain

@@gregtoja It's called "Acting". I hear Cavill is pretty good at it.

Emperor’s Finest He is

Cai-Cai-Ciapass Cain, Hero of the Imperium ~!!!

@@LORDOFDORKNESS42 Cai-Cai-CIiaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM

The Cain novels are only second to the Eisenhorn/Ravenor novels in my opinion, but they are so different it’s hard to compare them…

not just that, but the Imperium is also written far less Grim derp in general in his books. Like the Imperium is still dark and awful in those, but not to the point of stupidity as it is in a lot of 40k stuff

@@stoops187 Hello id really like to read Ciaphas Cain novels, could you please recommend me some?

@@victorv1151 all of the Cain novels are a good read. Just look up the series book order, and go from there.

@@kazuya1337 can you recommend a site to get the book order? Apologies for bothering but I'd also like to read the Ciaphas Cain novel

Think of the pictures as pure propaganda and nothing more. Besides his biceps aren't that big either.

@@benjaminnorris5540 They might be. If I remember correctly from character descriptions Cain is pretty tall/beefy compared to most other humans. Plus you don't have noodle arms swinging around a chainsword.

@@christopherozouf According to Caves of Ice, the second Cain book, he is just under 2 metres tall

He has mentioned posing for propaganda shots with a bolt pistol so those ae probably stagee

@@benjaminnorris5540 exactly

I think Ciaphus Cain and Ash Williams would get along really nicely if they were to met together.

Cain would body Gaunt in a 1v1. Just saying…

I want the crossover. They don't have to fight, or maybe just a training duel. But it would be pure Hersey not to have them meet.

I’d say Cain is the better fighter and commissar while Gaunt is the better military leader. They are both phenomenal.

@@PIJIM0N i mean no question, but no need for a competition is there?

Have them both on a mission with both their units…more than a few books could be written about those encounters…

Yes. But at the same time, he does have quite a few skills to back it up. Mostly, his Humanity.

You think if the Lamenters had Cain around would his bullshit good luck cancel out their bullshit bad luck?

I mean in the latest Cain novel a Farseer orders that Cain isn't to be killed, because if he is the Slannesh Deamon will win on that world So yeah, even Psychic Aliens bank on Cain's luck

Warlock: "I must ask this, is there a reason you have so much faith in this Mon'keigh?" Farseer: "I know it sounds mad, but this one is a rare blend of "expendable" and "invulnerable" that makes for the perfect HERO."

Yes 🙌🏽 just finished a Thousand sons and I have no idea that Azek Aruman was such a great character and person.

I thought Ahriman was the Chief Librarian.

@@robertnelson9599 It's the XV legion, he was both

A video about Saul Tarvitz would be cool. He (rightfully) sucks off Rylanor, but that leaves Tarvitz as criminally underrated. Either that or a video on Garviel Loken and Tarik Torgaddon (the loyalist half of the Mournival)

Fuck eidolon

I think one of the books stated that blanks are still considered psykers, so a much much stronger psyker could still overwhelm a blank. So it's not impossible that Cain is a beyond Alpha Plus, latent psyker who isn't directly affected by the blank state of Jurgen. Although, I would imagine that daemons would flock around him much more frequent if this was the case, since even a latent psyker should have a much brighter warp-presence.

@@Deckaio afaik latent psykers don’t really show on the scale. They are latent, so they don’t have any active detectable abilities. That also means they are barely effected by blanks. Latent psykers afaik would have a very normal human imprint in the warp

@@jasutinborchert4418 isn't this more because all the latent psysker we saw were considered "weak" psysker? Based on my understanding, latent by the definition of the word and not any in-universe definition, doesn't have to mean weak. But I'm way behind any WH40K lore, so I'm probably way off anyways.

@@Deckaio “latent psyker” afaik refers to psykers with inactive powers, which therefore can’t be detected normally. For example Ravenor only noticed that the boy who would later become the grey knight Hyperion was a latent psyker because he somehow managed to detect Ravenors psychic communication with Nate. This led to the assumption that the boy is a latent psyker with the passive ability of mirroring psyker abilities. However he never got detected as one before, despite being tested. So some slight reality bending, as long as it’s only focused on himself, could be a latent ability that would to the outside be perceived as extremely lucky

why normal people would reject jurgen, psykers would suffer headaches in his precense but all Cain Could feel was his smell? thats why i think that theory is shit XD

Holy shit that makes sense

He does say that, but by now people should realize he isn't always the most reliable narrator. He says he doesn't give a frack about the people who serve under him, but if Casteen died in front of him does anyone think he wouldn't be extremely saddened by it? His aloofness is a defense mechanism to protect his mind from the ravages of war.

yeah except when he killed a chaos warmaster in the name of one his students/commissars.

@@evilabelincoln3787 just read that book, the footnotes are great. What was up with that chaos lord?

@@Alaric11 thats true. Its weird how he cant let himself do something good

@@thatromanfella8377 he was as psyker that controlled peoples minds who he came within range. he controlled one of his students turned commissars and Cain was able to free him with jurgen long enough for the kid to kill himself. Cain got his revenge for him.

Even when buried with full military honors.

@@benjaminnorris5540 Oh well 😅. In the grim darkness of the far far future resurrections are commonplace 😂.

@@orrorsaness5942 Yep, i mean, Big E likes to troll him so much, that i can see Cain coming back as a Saint, just for the sheer hilarity of it.

@@ambrosiogiovanni6952 IKR

@@ambrosiogiovanni6952 That’s actually a really great and hilarious way to keep him in the current setting

What in the emporer's nuts is a Sensei?

@@nothingunderthemask wow, I surprised no one answered.anyone. a sensei is a son or daughter of the Emperor. No, the Emperor children. No THE Emperor's CHILDREN. It all old Rouge trader first edition lore.

@@woaddragon oh shit. So they're his Bio sons?

@@nothingunderthemask Yep. Again this was/is pretty old lore,. But the the Emperor was rather "busy" and throughout the Ages and had many sons.and daughters. Most was normal, but a chosen few had a bunch of the Emperor 's such as immortality, physic power, limited shapeshifing, etc. If you hadn't heard of them, it because they (the inquisition aka GW) "probably" got rid of them.in the 3rd edition. Also, it kinda funny you said "Emperor nuts"

Tyranids are in book 1 in the form of genestealers.

@@raistlarn yup and they touch on the regiments fighting nids prior to the book itself. However I want to see full tyranid action. The gsc in the book were alright but definitely not full scale invasion

Traitor's Hand and Death or Glory are my favorite out of the series with Duty Calls being close. I still laugh when Cain insults a world eater in melee range.

Jurgen is underrated

Unfortunately by the time of the recent books he's *probably* dead and received a burial with full military honors, however faith and the warp being what they are combined with the fact that a splinter cult on Tallarn reveres him as the emperors will incarnate or sum such so it's an outside possibiloity for a ghostly/saintly commisar to show up in a future book.

@@jtfbreedlove even in death, Cain can’t escape

@@jtfbreedlove the cult thing ist my favorit part, I meen he woud hatte bis worshippers so much

@@gideonmele1556 my dude would become brother saint of Saint Celestine or a Member of the legion of the DANMED led by Ferrus manus at this point

@@jtfbreedlove actually his death is supposidly in early M42. So we are currently in the window of time where such a meeting is possible

Fragging but by another name

Seeing tens of thousands, no even millions of men personally die would no doubt take it's toll on anyone.

Aberly also mentioned the he wakes up screaming on the reg. So it gets to him

​@@QuantemFearyeah, and there are also several points in the books where he vividly describes being haunted by nightmares, especially of Tyranids, the Slaneshii wych who almost stole his soul and most of all, necrons.

Almost definitely. I believe that this survivors guilt is what actually fuels his imposter syndrome. The immense guilt of watching so many good people die, often as a direct result of them protecting him... "Emperor knows, far better men than me have fallen on the field of battle while I looked after my own miserable skin, on more occasions than I care to count"

😅

In combat or in “combat?”

@@HeIsAnAli Both

​@@HeIsAnAliFirst in combat, then in "combat"

Newly resurrected Saint Cain flops around with his new wings...and accidentally teleports and heals Primarch Sanguinius fresh from the Horus Heresy while simultaneously lobotomizing all the Tyranids in the local space sector: Saint Cain used Splash! It was VERY EFFECTIVE!!! Somehow...? Blood Angels: Sanguinius LIVES?!? What in the God Emperor's name?! Saint Cain: Wing cramp! Wing cramp! Wing cramp! Owowowowow...

TRUE!!!!

Would be imballansed)

Jurgen is the real hero who gets no credit due to being ugly and stinky

He is sadly dead, dying of old age (the absolute madlad) and being buried with full military honours. He's still listed as missing in action by the Munitorum though, as after miraculously reappearing after being presumed dead countless times they just fully gave up XD On a more somber note, I believe the entire framing device of the books, Inquisitor Amberly Vail editing and annotating his personal memoirs, is actually her way of mourning him, her one true love and a good friend. Hits me right in the feels...

You really don't have to play the tabletop to enjoy the lore. I certainly don't play or paint.

@@jasperzanovich2504 I know. Sadly I will have little time to do so. I have to focus on my fiance who is unwell.

@@ladosdominik1506 I recommend audiobooks. Not just for 40k, just in general.

@@ladosdominik1506 ayoo she good?

I think this was confirmed a while ago

@@HollowedKnight66 Only if Lucas himself has said so. I don't consider any of the Dishit to even be Star Wars.

There’s no way Sandy Mitchell wasn’t a fan of the flash man books. The first few pages of the Emperor’s finest immediately struck me as old Flashy goes to space. The glaring difference between the two is that Cain is actually a likeable person unlike flashman.

Yes he is based on Flashman

Sandy Mitchel said the inspiration for Cain was mainly Harry Flashman and Edmund Blackadder the forth(he even has his very own Baldrick)

There are no coincidences.

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