When did Servitors first appear in the lore of 40k, and how did the concept evolve? What the lore says

 To round of a trilogy of posts about Servitors, here is a final offering on the history of the concept of Servitors within the lore, and how the concept solidified into the current notion we recognize today.

To start, let’s establish the more general definition of the word ‘servitor’ outside of 40k, where it refers to somebody bound in service to another/others – though this is now a very archaic term. Collins English Dictionary, for example, defines it as:

Archaic

A person who serves another

Word origin

C14: from Old French servitour, from Late Latin servītor, from Latin servīre to serve

You can see how and why it was used for Servitors in 40k.

But, perhaps surprisingly, given how much of an iconic and ubiquitous element of 40k they were to become, back at the launch of 1st edition (Rogue Trader), Servitors (as in the mind-wiped cyborgs) did not yet exist. Indeed, the only use of the word in the original rulebook was here:

The Adeptus Mechanicus are the servitors of technology, they are often known as the Tech-priests.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987), p. 139.

So, it was used to just mean people who served technology, i.e. they act to gather and protect knowledge and maintain technology. It was used to refer to people who served something more nebulous than another person, basically. In a metaphorical manner, technology was their master. That the term was used in relation to the Ad Mech is interesting.

There was a concept related to the later idea of Servitors though, in the form of Techomats:

The Adeptus Mechanicus is the guardian body of Earth's ancient technological past. Its ranks comprise thousands of servants researchers and technicians entrusted with knowledge of the commonly feared ‘old science. Whilst the more senior pitted to experiment and revise their inheritance, the mundane task functions which successfully maintain the statusquo are the preserve of the Technomats. Technomats do not require any special all their knowledge is implanted directly onto their cerebellum by means of a conductive mesh called an electrograft. The electrograft changes the recipient's personality and memory. This has the effect of enforcing the technomat’s loyalty as well as ‘programming’ the servant with select information. Unfortunately the elctrografts tend to degenerate in time, causing memory loss, personality disorders and even mental breakdown.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987), p. 146.

You can see how this concept was pushed further later on, resulting in the Servitors we know and love (to be disturbed by) today.

Interestingly, the Adeptus Mechanicus was generally portrayed quite differently back in Rogue Trader:

Their organisation is monasterial and ascetic, their devotion to technical research is sustained by a driving dedication which may be likened to religious zeal. In the Age of the Imperium science and technology walk hand-in-hand with magic, mysticism and superstition - not least in the colleges of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Consequently, the Tech-priests are regarded by many as devilish wizards, dabblers in the old sciences left over from the Dark Age of Technology. The principal colleges of the Adeptus Mechanicus are on Earth, and most Tech-priests live on the imperial planet. Their chief duty is the servicing, maintaining and operating of the machinery that gives the Emperor life, a task which is becoming increasingly arduous as the millennia pass. Tech-priests wear a simple uniform that echoes their monastic life-style, comprising a habit (usually white and often double breasted) and sandals. Their hair is tonsured as a symbol of their status.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987), p. 139.

For a start, they were based on Mars, not Terra (which was actually often still referred to as Earth back then!).

And, in line with this description, some of the very earliest artwork depicted them in white labcoats, rather than the red robes which became their signature: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ffirst-description-of-the-adeptus-mechanicus-from-the-first-v0-fo01tmaehxpd1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D519ec3d4ba6d2cb24542a4f65e8b16bfa33368b2

Though there was also a drawing included which made them look like horrific cyborg enrobed freaks too: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVpzDbZjcv1KHP8gzqrLsHG8b1jyPaTydCBA8lPS8PZnaXSY5LFHf7P8s7N2CJ7GPkHEDixn7qglXf5gZ_bxeaHPpp_jKLVasWfzBJIsGmCIeaTFAejL3Fvok5hZJAkIa7V0TxXtqS/s1600/121156381-Rogue-Trader-1987-1st-Ed-Rulebook144.jpg

And a painting of presumably a Tech-Priest in the signature red robe: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZq1kAwrj9riM0km_O9qI1OnhQWYpp3kTtPVWGUjNbh041JZ0Qp4Wd5_9OFIHv5apbxgiLIs9ZvwGx96-0v6KjbiSWCCOg3-pv3AvsTt-RRMlgDaD66OnykdI9KPEkfmEu3yIxXX3s/s1600/121156381-Rogue-Trader-1987-1st-Ed-Rulebook193.jpg

But the notion of their religious zeal and that by the year 40k technology has become surrounded by mysticism and superstition was already established.

Following the original first edition rulebook, the word ‘servitor’ then appeared multiple times in the Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness the following year, where it was used to describe Chaos entities which served a greater power, whether lesser daemons who were bound to serve more powerful daemons, or daemons and Champions bound to serve a Chaos god. For example:

SERVITOR

Lesser Daemons are always the appropriate type for the Chaos god of the Greater Daemon. The number of Lesser Daemons in service (to a Greater Daemon is the same as the Chaos god's number…)

Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness (1988), p. 19.

Somebody at GW obviously liked the word (probably because of its archaic nature), and it was thus to be re-purposed elsewhere and made into a specific ‘concept’…

We then got a shift from the terminology of Technomats to Servitors as regards cyborg workers appearing in the pages of White Dwarf:

Land Raiders are delivered to the Space Marines, the Imperial Guard, the Inquisition, the Adeptus Arbites, to certain Rogue Traders and to other, more secret and obscure Imperial bodies. Space Marine Land Raiders are handed over to a Techmarine, or Frater Astrotechnicus to use the proper title. In other cases, it will be accompanied to its new home by an Adeptus Mechanicus Technomat - a human machine programmed with the knowledge required to service his charge. For many technicians, the commission represents the culmination of years of training; learning how to divine the runes of engineering, memorising the liturgy of maintenance, and studying the routine of service.

White Dwarf 105 (September 1988).

And:

Servitors are able to directly interface with many items of machinery, literally plugging themselves into the equipment via surgically implanted sockets and linkages. In this way the Servitor is able to operate the machine more efficiently than normal Humans. Each Servitor may therefore take the place of two crewmen on any vehicle or item of equipment which he is operating - for example, a single Servitor can fly a Land Speeder in place of the usual two crewmen. In such cases, the Servitor model must obviously be in the vehicle or with the item of equipment he is operating.

White Dwarf 109 (January 1989).

And these earliest Servitor models from 1989: http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt4011adeptusmech/index.htm )

The notion of Servitors in the form we now recognize, as mind-wiped cyborg automatons, first appeared, as far as I can tell, in the 2nd Realm of Chaos book:

Life itself is of no intrinsic value to the Tech-Priests. This is most clearly seen in their use of humans as raw material from which they create the special cyborg machine-creatures called Servitors. Servitors are supplied to the various governmental and military organisations throughout the Imperium including the Administratum, the Space Marines and other parts of the Adeptus Terra. Typical Servitors are Technomats who operate and service machines, Holomats who act as holographic recordists, Lexomats who are like human computers with tremendous calculating powers, and Drones which are living robots - stupid and essentially mindless slaves ideal for menial work and little else.

Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (1990), p. 169.

As you can see, Technomats became merely a type of Servitor, and the modern notion of Servitor was born (or, perhaps I should say, built). The concept of Technomats was to be reworked later on too, but I will get to that near the end of the post.

Servitors then cropped up in the one of the first 40k novels, Ian Watson’s Space Marine. (As Hollownerox very rightly notes, they actually appeared in the very first 40k novel too, also by Waton, Inquisitor (1991). However, I only have access to the republished version called Draco which contains lots of edits, especially to things like the language used - so unforunately I cannot analyse that book here. Hollownerox remembers the concept being used, but no the actual term "Servitor"). The way they were presented in Space Marine was fascinating, and is worth delving into:

Techs who were expert in the Machine Mysteries, autonomous-minded slaves, administrators, ship crews – all the host of support staff for the Marine Chapter – slept in modestly comfortable dormitories… assuming that they needed, or could avail themselves of modest comfort during sleeptime. The task-adapted technomats, whose original personalities had been erased and replaced with electrografted data and blithe, benign personae, did, and could. So did the servitors who remained fully human. Others of those supplied to the Chapter by the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars were automata-programmed drones. Still others were specialised cyborgs, part-machine, who could never lie down on a bunk.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 24.

This description is very interesting, given how we have looked at how the terms Servitor and Technomat had been explained previously. We have Techomats as a type of Servitor, conforming to their description back in the Rogue Trader rulebook with the use of electrografts, but also mention of “servitors who remained fully human”?! The whole concept of Servitors, as presented here, seems incredibly diffuse and fluid. Could it be that “servitor” is being used merely as a description of a role here, rather than a form of being? Some servitors could be people who served, while others could be cyborgs tailored for specific tasks?

We get a description of a Servitor modified into a non-human form:

A servitor with a tracked, snail-like body and padded hands that secreted fragrant antiseptic polish was buffing the floor of the rib-vaulted passageway where electrocandles flickered on sconces in front of scrimshaw-framed ikons

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 28.

And we get the use of the word in its more real-world manner, concerning one person serving another/others, alongside talk of mind-wiped drones and cyborged servitors:

FOR THE FIRST six months, those who were further advanced towards full Marinehood had simply treated the latest Necromundan intake as juveniles, as sprats who might or might not grow into sharks. There was no question of the younger cadets acting as servitors to the older ones by, say, scrubbing out their cells, however.

…

Occasional mute mind-wiped drones trudged by on some robotic task, perhaps simply ordered to exercise their zombie limbs prior to cleaning out a toxic sump; and cyborged servitors trundled here and there.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 29.

We perhaps get an allusion to a character being servitorized (or, at least, being used by the Ad Mech for some kind of experimentation):

Neither of those two others had been Hake Bjortson. Indeed his fellows were not to see that cadet again. Bjortson’s instability had proved too extreme, so the group was informed before servitors distributed their victuals. He had been honourably mind-wiped; his body would be dedicated to research.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 37.

And we get a really weird scene, where an paraplegic Space Marine who is too damaged for bionics is looked after by two simian, ape-like servitors (are they actually a kind of ape, or merely ape-like people who were turned into Servitors? Are they even cyborgs? Who knows! Maybe their tasks suggest they might be bio-mechanical in some form, but it isn't wholly clear):

Steadfastly beholding one jaundiced sector of the cosmos, there lolled Kroff Tezla, Lieutenant of the Blood Drinkers.

That heroic total-amputee had been rescued at the same time as the sculpts of the Sagramoso dynasty were all reduced to dust. The limbless barrel of a man had been removed from his bronze flowerpot, freed from the loam of lead. Now his torso rested in a cup-shaped cart adorned with valour tassels and therapeutic seals. Two speechless simian servitors attended him, one to ingest his waste and cleanse him, the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window – from which he gazed out, praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way.

An astropath in the Librarium had messaged to Tezla’s own fortress-monastery on San Guisuga, a jungle world five thousand light years away, though it might be some years yet till that cousinly Chapter retrieved their Lieutenant. Meanwhile he remained a guest of the Fists, whose Chirurgeons deemed his scapular and hip scars too thoroughly cauterised to allow them to cyborg him. His vampiric metabolism – the gene flaw of his Chapter – was somewhat peculiar, besides. The Lieutenant had opted for seclusion in the Solitorium.

“Greetings,” Lexandro addressed Tezla as one of the apish customised servitors licked the Blood Drinker with its long tongue.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 76.

And yes, it seems like one of the simian servitors was cleaning Tezla by licking him with its tongue. Because the Watson 40k books always have these weird little details. And we get more along the same lines later:

A skeletal hand lay half-engraved upon the small worktable, beside the buffing wheel and a pitcher of paraffin. During the time-dilated absence of the Fists, dust had settled on these – dust which no servitor had dared to suck or lick up, though the floor and sleeping pallet were kept impeccably clean.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 135.

I just want to take a quick detour at this point to a very odd little curio. In 2001, Black Library reprinted the original 40k anthology of short stories, Deathwing (1990), with additional stories added. One of these was ‘Pestilence’, by a certain Dan Abnett. This was the only story in the book, old or new, to mention Servitors – and a damn strange take on them it was, too:

It was hot, and I spent my time below decks, reading dataslates. The sun and seawind of Symbal burned my skin, used as it was to years of lamp-lit libraries. I took to wearing a widebrimmed straw hat above my Administratus robes whenever I ventured out on deck, a detail my servitor Kalibane found relentlessly humorous.

…

‘Ring it/ I told him, and he did, cautiously, rapping his simian fingers against the metal dome. Then he glanced back at me, nervously, his optical implants clicking under his low brow-ridge as they refocused.

…

The launch pulled into a cove where an ancient stone jetty jutted out from under the trees like an unfinished bridge. Kalibane, his bionic limbs whirring, carried my luggage onto the jetty and then helped me over. I stood there, sweating in my robes, leaning against my staff of office, batting away the beetles that circled in the stifling humidity of the cove.

There was no one there to greet me, though I had voxed word of my approach ahead several times en route. I glanced back at the launch pilot, a dour Symbali, but he seemed not to know anything. Kalibane shambled down to the shore-end of the jetty, and called my attention to a copper bell, verdigrised by time and the oceans, that hung from a hook on the end of the pier.

…

Somewhere, distantly, I could hear sobbing, and an urgent voice repeating something over and over again. Hunched down at my side, his knuckles resting on the flagstones, Kalibane glanced up at me anxiously and I put a reassuring hand on his broad, hairy shoulder.

…

He was going to kill me, I’m certain, but I was slumped and my legs wouldn’t work. Then Kalibane, bless his brave heart, flew at him. My devoted servitor rose up on his stunted hind limbs, the bionics augmenting his vast forelimbs throwing them up in a warning display. From splayed foot to reaching hand, Kalibane was eleven feet tall. He peeled back his lips and screeched through bared steel canines.

…

Froth dribbling from his tusked mouth, log smashed Kalibane aside. My servitor made a considerable dent in the wall.

‘Pestilence’ (2001), pp. 72-73, 83-84.

So it seems the Servitor here is also some kind of ape, though definitely a cyborg one. Perhaps a case of Abnett drawing inspiration from Watson?

Going back to Waton’s Space Marine, I really like this melancholic musing as to what would happen to the Fists’ fortress-monastery were the Marines to all be killed (and we get an early reference to the Lamenters being beset by tragedy as well):

During the coming crusade the Fists might meet the same fate as the Lamenters – so that their fortress-monastery might fly onward eventually, empty of battle-brothers, bereft of command guidance, a castrated abode of servitors and cyborgs who would continue the rituals of maintenance in the lost monastery for millennia more, robotically, senselessly, alone in their corridored world of deserted firing ranges, forbidden chapels, taboo laboratories where dust would gather throughout aimless millennia… if the Fists failed.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 107.

Note that there is a distinction between servitors and cyborgs (though this is true in current lore too, as many cyborgs aren’t Servitors).

And this mention of what is perhaps a riff on, or mangling of, the Lexomats detailed in The Lost and the Damned:

Initially the pilot may have been uncertain whether the surface – of black upon black, with deepdown submerged glow-globes – was solid or deceitful. Now the surrounding squat towers of glossy darkness, with dully glowing hearts resembling X-rayed organs, were perhaps disorienting him – while overhead the sky was cross-stitched with hundreds of thinnest pulsing lines of coherent light, appearing, disappearing, rendering incandescent whatever atmospheric dust they stabbed through. Their origin, the city; their goal, incoming ships. The laser mesh shifted constantly, those two-dimensional searchlights knitting a lethal, spasming cat’s cradle, perhaps operated by computer-minded lexmeks cyborged and slaved to their weapons.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 45.

While Lexomats themselves also get a mention (Watson had obviously taken notes from The Lost and the Damned!):

Tezla obliged, and Juron digested the information, glazed-eyed like some lexomat, some datasponge.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 58.

And we get this passage which features early-era Tyranid weirdness (before the faction settled into its more enduring depiction), where some human stock have been repurposed into ‘Nid bioforms, which leads the characters to draw parallels with the Imperium use of cyborgs:

Slime from orifices that honeycombed the walls oozed slowly over the embalmed creatures, lending them a lustrous glaze in the light cast by…

…by several slab-footed stumpy humanoids with foetally large bald heads. Their arms had been abolished, becoming mere vestigial nubs poking back from the shoulders, as though otherwise they might attempt to tear off the parasitical organic machines that infested their faces. Tubes plunged into their mouths, their nostrils, and their eye sockets. A clawed foot held tight to the dome of their skulls. A single large eyeball, cinctured within a bony cup, rose above that foot-fixture… and beamed out leprous light… now bathing the intruding Marines.

“Blasphemy!” lamented Vonreuter, as those silent humanoid searchlights shuffled through the slime which drained across the pitted floor.

One of the Scouts vomited; and Lex rounded on him. “Moron! You’re putting your juices into this ship – to taste.”

The Scout apologised as if Lex was an officer.

Yeri stared at the armless searchlight dwarfs in a fascination of disgust – and of rage at the limited destiny so tyrannically engineered for these purpose-bred cripples.

“Human stock,” he muttered. “They come from human stock.”

“We breed cyborgs,” Biff reminded him quietly.

“Ah, but in the Emperor’s service,” Yeri retorted tightly. “That’s very different, isn’t it? That’s sacramental labour. Isn’t it? Isn’t it?” he demanded, his voice giddily trembling on an edge of hysteria.

“Of course it’s different,” Biff agreed. He hated the impious thunk which had prompted him to compare two such very different situations.

Ian Watson, Space Marine (1993), p. 120.

By the launch of second edition in October 1993, the concept of Servitors had firmly solidified into that we are now familiar with, and they would over time became an extremely common feature within the lore:

Servitors are the lowest form of bio-mechanical life – task-adapted slaves whose mechanical components are designed so that they can perform a single laborious function. There are untold millions of these mindless cyborgs on Mars, many working in hostile environments where an unmodified human body would quickly perish. Because they are specifically adapted they vary tremendously: some have mechanical legs or arms for lifting, others have computer terminals sprouting from their bodies where they interface with more complex machines. Many Servitors are adapted from artificially cultured drone bodies; others are mind-wiped humans who have committed some terrible crime.

Codex Imperialis (1993), p. 45.

And, focusing on Space Marines use of Servitors more specifically:

Servitors are created by the Techmarines as assistants and servants. They are weird combinations of men and machines, bio-engineered by the Techmarines to perform specific tasks. Their bodies are grown from human gene-cells in vats of artificial nutrient, and although physically strong and robust their minds are blank and incapable of development or of feeling much pain. Techmarines insert bio-programs into their Servitors’ brains, and replace parts of their bodies with mechanical contrivances such as huge metal claws, infra-red sensors for eyes, or whatever other specialised tools are required.

Codex Imperialis (1993), p. 22; Codex: Ultramarines 2nd ed. (1995), p. 50.

(A similar description also appeared for Tech-Thralls in the 1993 Codex: Space Wolves).

Servitors then received tabletop models the same year: http://www.solegends.com/citcat1996usz40k/c1996usz40kp0100-00.htm  

Now let’s now look very briefly at the development and consolidation of the concept of Servitors afterwards, and remind ourselves of a key passages from Rogue Trader and The Lost and the Damned:

Technomats do not require any special all their knowledge is implanted directly onto their cerebellum by means of a conductive mesh called an electrograft. The electrograft changes the recipient's personality and memory. This has the effect of enforcing the technomat’s loyalty as well as ‘programming’ the servant with select information. Unfortunately the elctrografts tend to degenerate in time, causing memory loss, personality disorders and even mental breakdown.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987), p. 146.

And:

Life itself is of no intrinsic value to the Tech-Priests. This is most clearly seen in their use of humans as raw material from which they create the special cyborg machine-creatures called Servitors. Servitors are supplied to the various governmental and military organisations throughout the Imperium including the Administratum, the Space Marines and other parts of the Adeptus Terra. Typical Servitors are Technomats who operate and service machines, Holomats who act as holographic recordists, Lexomats who are like human computers with tremendous calculating powers, and Drones which are living robots - stupid and essentially mindless slaves ideal for menial work and little else.

Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (1990), p. 169.

As previously explained, Technomats became merely a type of Servitor in the latter description.

Interestingly, there wassomething much later which echoed the original Rogue Trader concept of Technomats and the electrografts:

Cerebral Implants

Commonly used to repair a severely damaged brain or (hopefully) augment its abilities, these often-risky implant systems represent a major step from simply replacing a limb to altering a character from human to mechanism. Common-level implants can restore paralysed and brain-damaged users to a semblance of normality

…

Poor versions restore brain function, but destroy the subject’s personality and memories, rendering them no better than a servitor

Dark Heresy Core Rulebook 2nd ed. (2014), p. 182.

Maybe because, as is often the case, older concepts resurface in 40k lore, even if in new forms - or maybe it was just a convergent concept and I'm readint too much into it.

It is true that the creatorsof 40k lore look back to older material for inspiration, and especially sources which they themselves find to be particularly important or interesting (which is one reason I find the determination of some 40k fans to delegitimise older bits of lore and dissuade people from engaging with them so weird – if it is fair game for the people creating new official lore, then it should be for fans too, as long as we contextualize the status of the lore when discussing it).

This process of looking back (and, very likely Black Library’s loose editorial control), also leads to interesting examples of slightly older forms of lore appearing even as a newer interpretation has solidified more generally, as the use of Servitors and Technomats in Barrington Bayley’s Eye of Terror from 1999 showcases:

‘That is him, lexicanium,’ the technomat guard answered in a flat, amiable tone. ‘He was brought in thirty days ago. Despatched by the Schola Psykana.’

A technomat had only a rudimentary personality. Its mind wiped clean for some misdemeanour, or possibly grown in a vat to serve the purposes of the Administratum, it served only one function and knew only that function. It certainly did not understand the finer points of protocol when speaking to a person of rank.

Bayley, Eye of Terror (1999), p. 5.

And:

His entourage, consisting of two hundred persons - not counting the servitors, the holomats and lexomats on permanent loan from the Adeptus Mechanicus - was conveyed in a fast space barge escorted by a flotilla of cruisers.

Bayley, Eye of Terror (1999), p. 90.

So, those various types of Servitor described in The Lost and the Damned are utilized, though the way the Technomat was being described was by this point usually the way Servitors in general were described.

Technomats actually re-entered the lore a decade later with the publication of the Dark Heresy RPG in 2008 (again, I’d guess, because the writers of the RPGs had a great appreciation for older lore and sought to weave elements back in where they could), though they were presented a bit differently:

Technomat: Used to maintain and repair technological devices, but through rote memorization rather than true understanding or comprehension.

Dark Heresy Core Rulebook 2nd ed. (2014), p. 118.

And:

Repair Servitor

These servitors perform routine maintenance and simple repairs throughout the hive. Some serve directly under a Tech-Priest or technomat, while others operate autonomously under preloaded instructions. They are a common sight, unnoticed but vital to the hive’s innumerable mechanisms

Dark Heresy Core Rulebook 2nd ed. (2014), p. 397.

And:

Technomat: Used to maintain and repair technological devices, but through rote memorisation rather than true understanding

Rogue Trader Core Rulebook (2009), p. 88.

So now Techomats were merely the lowest-ranking Ad Mech members, whose duty is just to maintain machinery via the use of memorized rituals.

I hope you enjoyed this amble through the evolving history of Servitors (and Technomats) in 40k lore. It nicely shows, I think, the ways in which elements of 40k lore have dramatically changed, while other elements have been surprisingly enduring. It also showcases that some of the most iconic parts of the setting weren’t actually there from the start, and that older ideas often resurface, even if in a new form. And things being repurposed, brought back to life and augmented is very fitting indeed, given the topic at hand.*

*(Or at vice/drill/heavybolter/Servitor tool of your choice).

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