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???: Welcome to all who joined us.
???: The conference will now begin.
???: You may start your presentation, Mr. Alves.
Mr. Alves: Thank you, Mr. D'eglantine.
Mr. Alves: I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you all.
???: The conference will now begin.
???: You may start your presentation, Mr. Alves.
Mr. Alves: Thank you, Mr. D'eglantine.
Mr. Alves: I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you all.
Mr. Alves: What do you all imagine when you see yourselves in ten years time?
Mr. Alves: It’s not hard to guess what that looks like for many of us.
Mr. Alves: Tragedy’s blade hangs over our necks from the moment we are born, where countless innocents should one day brace its swift carving.
Mr. Alves: In fact, this global omen has now empowered itself with monstrous aggression, multiplying its damage year by year, getting stronger, tougher to eradicate.
Mr. Alves: Eventually, outrunning it won’t be an option anymore.
Mr. Alves: Tragedy’s blade hangs over our necks from the moment we are born, where countless innocents should one day brace its swift carving.
Mr. Alves: In fact, this global omen has now empowered itself with monstrous aggression, multiplying its damage year by year, getting stronger, tougher to eradicate.
Mr. Alves: Eventually, outrunning it won’t be an option anymore.
Mr. Alves: As a consequence,
Mr. Alves: It’s been a shame to acknowledge that this edge has been stealthily advancing towards me for some time now, a morbidity that I no longer have the privilege to ignore.
Mr. Alves: This momentum alone is concerning enough that, eventually,
Mr. Alves: it will consume every last one of us.
Mr. Alves: Leaving me little time to continue my work here with you.
Mr. Alves: But this is only an ordinary case.
Mr. Alves: It’s been a shame to acknowledge that this edge has been stealthily advancing towards me for some time now, a morbidity that I no longer have the privilege to ignore.
Mr. Alves: This momentum alone is concerning enough that, eventually,
Mr. Alves: it will consume every last one of us.
Mr. Alves: Leaving me little time to continue my work here with you.
Mr. Alves: But this is only an ordinary case.
Mr. Alves: It is the grim truth that Earth and Mars global populations have seen an alarming decrease in life expectancy within the last ten years due to this pandemic-ultris.
Mr. Alves: Therefore, I’d like to take advantage of the remaining time I have on this world to end this shared struggle, to develop a real solution this time
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Mr. Alves: Therefore, I’d like to take advantage of the remaining time I have on this world to end this shared struggle, to develop a real solution this time
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Mr. Alves: Ahem.
Mr. Alves: As I was saying,
Mr. Alves: While I fully recognize Euoda’s best efforts…
Mr. Alves: We can see that our objective to resuscitate the declining population was predictably inefficacious.
Mr. Alves: Our resources have only become more scarce since our first undertaking, meaning any continuation of our restorative efforts would be wholly imprudent and disastrously fruitless.
Mr. Alves: Though, that shouldn’t stop us from attempting remediation.
Mr. Alves: There is always the prospect of discovering a remedy that could truly deliver us from this planet-wide suffering.
Investor: Sorry to interrupt. This is mighty interesting, indeed. But I need to get clarity on something.
Mr. Alves: While I fully recognize Euoda’s best efforts…
Mr. Alves: We can see that our objective to resuscitate the declining population was predictably inefficacious.
Mr. Alves: Our resources have only become more scarce since our first undertaking, meaning any continuation of our restorative efforts would be wholly imprudent and disastrously fruitless.
Mr. Alves: Though, that shouldn’t stop us from attempting remediation.
Mr. Alves: There is always the prospect of discovering a remedy that could truly deliver us from this planet-wide suffering.
Investor: Sorry to interrupt. This is mighty interesting, indeed. But I need to get clarity on something.
Investor: You do receive our healthcare benefits, correct?
Mr. Alves: Yes.
Investor: Then you have nothing to worry about.
Mr. Alves: I think despite having the privilege of receiving higher tier benefits, I am not intending to make this presentation about myself.
Investor: Then let's not dwell on personal problems, alright?
Investor: You should do something about those glasses, by the way. A bit old fashioned, isn’t it?
Mr. Alves: Anyway, the point I was going to bring you next applies to you and your collaborators.
Mr. Alves: These bio-ecological threats would have likely infested the locations of your sanctuaries if not for the safety of your sanitation domes.
Mr. Alves: But it would be unwise to stay satisfied with this. It is festering aggressively enough that these threats may even begin to breach them.
Mr. Alves: What you’re looking at in ten years is not the flourishing of your assets, your land, or your consumers' satisfaction. It is a collapse of the greater population, and could easily contribute to a mass extinction even further down the line if we don’t do something now.
Investor: Feh, they’ve been saying that for decades. We’re all still here, are we not?
Mr. Alves: We are all still here, yes, but more than half of your Earth sanctuaries would be completely defoliated if these conditions were to worsen.
Mr. Alves: Tragedy is bound to us.
Mr. Alves: But this doesn’t have to be true.
Mr. Alves: Yes.
Investor: Then you have nothing to worry about.
Mr. Alves: I think despite having the privilege of receiving higher tier benefits, I am not intending to make this presentation about myself.
Investor: Then let's not dwell on personal problems, alright?
Investor: You should do something about those glasses, by the way. A bit old fashioned, isn’t it?
Mr. Alves: Anyway, the point I was going to bring you next applies to you and your collaborators.
Mr. Alves: These bio-ecological threats would have likely infested the locations of your sanctuaries if not for the safety of your sanitation domes.
Mr. Alves: But it would be unwise to stay satisfied with this. It is festering aggressively enough that these threats may even begin to breach them.
Mr. Alves: What you’re looking at in ten years is not the flourishing of your assets, your land, or your consumers' satisfaction. It is a collapse of the greater population, and could easily contribute to a mass extinction even further down the line if we don’t do something now.
Investor: Feh, they’ve been saying that for decades. We’re all still here, are we not?
Mr. Alves: We are all still here, yes, but more than half of your Earth sanctuaries would be completely defoliated if these conditions were to worsen.
Mr. Alves: Tragedy is bound to us.
Mr. Alves: But this doesn’t have to be true.
Bored Investor: Uh, alright….
Bored Investor: What else is new?
Bored Investor: You think we haven’t been through this talk about the same old issue over and over by now?
Bored Investor: Euoda and many other competitors have tried to tackle this problem for decades already, and there were far too many roadblocks. Expensive ones. If it was possible, they would have made movements in this space by now.
Mr. Alves: The problem with these so-called “roadblocks” is that they aren’t real ones. Solutions are entirely possible. And always has been.
Bored Investor: What else is new?
Bored Investor: You think we haven’t been through this talk about the same old issue over and over by now?
Bored Investor: Euoda and many other competitors have tried to tackle this problem for decades already, and there were far too many roadblocks. Expensive ones. If it was possible, they would have made movements in this space by now.
Mr. Alves: The problem with these so-called “roadblocks” is that they aren’t real ones. Solutions are entirely possible. And always has been.
Bored Investor: Then we need a little more than just a clinical sob story. Sell us the oh-so perfect future and bright optimism we haven’t already heard a thousand times from so many other starry-eyed juniors.
Mr. Alves: …”Juniors?”
Mr. D'eglantine: Ahem.
Mr. Alves: I’ve been working on this moon for almost five years now. I’d prefer you not associate me with some of your usual, sloppy, desperate yes-men─
Mr. D'eglantine: Mr. Alves.
Mr. Alves: ...
Mr. Alves: Continuing forward.
Mr. Alves: On the more promising side, there are without a doubt solutions of perpetuity.
Mr. Alves: This is my proposal:
Mr. Alves: …”Juniors?”
Mr. D'eglantine: Ahem.
Mr. Alves: I’ve been working on this moon for almost five years now. I’d prefer you not associate me with some of your usual, sloppy, desperate yes-men─
Mr. D'eglantine: Mr. Alves.
Mr. Alves: ...
Mr. Alves: Continuing forward.
Mr. Alves: On the more promising side, there are without a doubt solutions of perpetuity.
Mr. Alves: This is my proposal:
Mr. Alves: I want to relaunch and re-examine the findings of the “Vitalis Project”.
Bored Investor: The Vitala-what project…? What’d they do again?
Unconvinced Investor: If I recall, it had some rather… explosive research!
Bored Investor: Hm, doesn’t ring a bell. Things explode in our labs all the time.
Bored Investor: Now I’m a little curious. Are we going to nuke the bacteria now?
Unconvinced Investor: Heheh, I’d love to see that.
Mr. Alves: ...No.
Mr. Alves: We are not exploding anything.
Bored Investor: Ahh, so lame.
Mr. Alves: I’ve come to learn that the Vitalis Project was halted to prioritize research for Mars colonization a decade ago. Much more could be uncovered if we are given the time.
Mr. Alves: There is vast potential here.
Mr. D’eglantine: First and foremost, please explain what the Vitalis Project is to our conference members.
Mr. Alves: Gladly. I’ve come prepared with documentation. I’ll start from its origins.
Unconvinced Investor: If I recall, it had some rather… explosive research!
Bored Investor: Hm, doesn’t ring a bell. Things explode in our labs all the time.
Bored Investor: Now I’m a little curious. Are we going to nuke the bacteria now?
Unconvinced Investor: Heheh, I’d love to see that.
Mr. Alves: ...No.
Mr. Alves: We are not exploding anything.
Bored Investor: Ahh, so lame.
Mr. Alves: I’ve come to learn that the Vitalis Project was halted to prioritize research for Mars colonization a decade ago. Much more could be uncovered if we are given the time.
Mr. Alves: There is vast potential here.
Mr. D’eglantine: First and foremost, please explain what the Vitalis Project is to our conference members.
Mr. Alves: Gladly. I’ve come prepared with documentation. I’ll start from its origins.
Bored Investor: Nah, I think we're good.
Unconvinced Investor: More lectures and long winded, science mish mash we gotta sit through today, huh? At least the other ones used the summarizer.
Bored Investor: This guy is way too old-fashioned for me, man.
Bored Investor: Can’t we just pop in your science docs into the computer and have it summarize it all?
Mr. Alves: I’d prefer not to do that.
Bored Investor: Listen, you’re the third conference today and me and the guys are losin’ steam. Make it quick, alright mate?
Mr. D’eglantine: Have more faith in your wisdom, my friend.
Mr. D’eglantine: You’re a smart one, aren’t you, our prized broker?
Unconvinced Investor: More lectures and long winded, science mish mash we gotta sit through today, huh? At least the other ones used the summarizer.
Bored Investor: This guy is way too old-fashioned for me, man.
Bored Investor: Can’t we just pop in your science docs into the computer and have it summarize it all?
Mr. Alves: I’d prefer not to do that.
Bored Investor: Listen, you’re the third conference today and me and the guys are losin’ steam. Make it quick, alright mate?
Mr. D’eglantine: Have more faith in your wisdom, my friend.
Mr. D’eglantine: You’re a smart one, aren’t you, our prized broker?
Bored Investor: Oh!!!
Bored Investor: Y-yes, I am, Mr. D’eglantine… Sir!
Bored Investor: (Total freakin’ honor to be here, by the way!)
Mr. D’eglantine: Then I trust you’ll understand what he is going to present, hm?
Bored Investor: You… trust me? Alright, then. Carry on, science man.
Mr. D’eglantine: Atta boy.
Bored Investor: Haha…ha!
Mr. Alves: ... Right.
Mr. Alves: I’ll begin by presenting the vial I have here, which contents originate from the moon we have built our facility upon.
Bored Investor: Y-yes, I am, Mr. D’eglantine… Sir!
Bored Investor: (Total freakin’ honor to be here, by the way!)
Mr. D’eglantine: Then I trust you’ll understand what he is going to present, hm?
Bored Investor: You… trust me? Alright, then. Carry on, science man.
Mr. D’eglantine: Atta boy.
Bored Investor: Haha…ha!
Mr. Alves: ... Right.
Mr. Alves: I’ll begin by presenting the vial I have here, which contents originate from the moon we have built our facility upon.
Mr. Alves: Here on Europa, there was a newly discovered element found underneath the uppermost ice layer.
Mr. Alves: The vial I am holding is just a small increment of its material. Notice its strange behavior, tilting on a different axis, and its unusual sheen.
Mr. Alves: Compared to our usual elements, it holds a unique feature our facility can exploit. Which will open the door to solving problems that were previously unthinkable.
Bored Investor: A new rock, huh? What does that make now? The fifth one we found since starting our meteoroid drilling projects?
Bored Investor: So what?
Mr. Alves: Those other elements were practically useless in every regard.
Mr. Alves: This one exhibits features unlike those found prior.
Bored Investor: So how do we get more of it? Can we sell it?
Mr. Alves: I haven’t gotten into its properties yet.
Bored Investor: Well, you’re right. Being from Europa, it does have potential. Could make a hell of a lot more than some pocket change, at least.
Mr. Alves: There is still quite a mass we have access to if more is desired.
Mr. Alves: But the extraction process took us several months. The frigid temperatures were mainly a factor, deterring our journeymen from being present at the site for too long.
Mr. Alves: At its discovery, attempting to study it was a different challenge, though. Force gauging was a bit of a learning process for the geologists to properly meter.
Mr. Alves: No amount of accessible machinery could produce so much as a split or crack.
Mr. Alves: It was stronger than any other ore we’ve seen before.
Bored Investor: Hah, nice try.
Bored Investor: We have synthesized shit that is stronger than steel and diamond combined. That market has been saturated to hell and back, so you’re a little late.
Sleepy Investor: As impressive as gold, I’d say.
Sleepy Investor: Sure, it’s a new rock but what good is that to us if we already have alchemized material like this?
Mr. Alves: What I am saying is that it has potential greater than the ones we’ve already alchemized. If you would let me elaborate-
Bored Investor: Alright, I’m gonna stop you here.
Bored Investor: We’re gonna give you another try.
Bored Investor: Skip the baby talk. Tell us what’s actually up with this moon rock and why we should give a sliver of consideration about it?
Bored Investor: Mr. D’eglantine really vouched for you at our last mixer, and I don’t want to have to doubt his usually pristine judgement.
Bored Investor: (Which I have never found a reason to, by the way, haha…!!!)
Mr. D’eglantine: Variance in opinion is necessary to our productivity. Anyone is always free to disagree with me.
Bored Investor: I wouldn’t dream of it!!
Sleepy Investor: Good grief.
Mr. Alves: Okay.
Mr. Alves: I figured most of you would have understood what I meant, given that I should be able to trust a room full of pedagogues of conglomerate wisdom. I shall adjust my discretion for you, sir.
Bored Investor: Hit me with it, Curie.
Mr. Alves: The vial I am holding is just a small increment of its material. Notice its strange behavior, tilting on a different axis, and its unusual sheen.
Mr. Alves: Compared to our usual elements, it holds a unique feature our facility can exploit. Which will open the door to solving problems that were previously unthinkable.
Bored Investor: A new rock, huh? What does that make now? The fifth one we found since starting our meteoroid drilling projects?
Bored Investor: So what?
Mr. Alves: Those other elements were practically useless in every regard.
Mr. Alves: This one exhibits features unlike those found prior.
Bored Investor: So how do we get more of it? Can we sell it?
Mr. Alves: I haven’t gotten into its properties yet.
Bored Investor: Well, you’re right. Being from Europa, it does have potential. Could make a hell of a lot more than some pocket change, at least.
Mr. Alves: There is still quite a mass we have access to if more is desired.
Mr. Alves: But the extraction process took us several months. The frigid temperatures were mainly a factor, deterring our journeymen from being present at the site for too long.
Mr. Alves: At its discovery, attempting to study it was a different challenge, though. Force gauging was a bit of a learning process for the geologists to properly meter.
Mr. Alves: No amount of accessible machinery could produce so much as a split or crack.
Mr. Alves: It was stronger than any other ore we’ve seen before.
Bored Investor: Hah, nice try.
Bored Investor: We have synthesized shit that is stronger than steel and diamond combined. That market has been saturated to hell and back, so you’re a little late.
Sleepy Investor: As impressive as gold, I’d say.
Sleepy Investor: Sure, it’s a new rock but what good is that to us if we already have alchemized material like this?
Mr. Alves: What I am saying is that it has potential greater than the ones we’ve already alchemized. If you would let me elaborate-
Bored Investor: Alright, I’m gonna stop you here.
Bored Investor: We’re gonna give you another try.
Bored Investor: Skip the baby talk. Tell us what’s actually up with this moon rock and why we should give a sliver of consideration about it?
Bored Investor: Mr. D’eglantine really vouched for you at our last mixer, and I don’t want to have to doubt his usually pristine judgement.
Bored Investor: (Which I have never found a reason to, by the way, haha…!!!)
Mr. D’eglantine: Variance in opinion is necessary to our productivity. Anyone is always free to disagree with me.
Bored Investor: I wouldn’t dream of it!!
Sleepy Investor: Good grief.
Mr. Alves: Okay.
Mr. Alves: I figured most of you would have understood what I meant, given that I should be able to trust a room full of pedagogues of conglomerate wisdom. I shall adjust my discretion for you, sir.
Bored Investor: Hit me with it, Curie.
Mr. Alves: Since you all really care so much about the intricate details:
Mr. Alves: Its properties are not just unusual. They are unparalleled.
Mr. Alves: Compared to other material its topology does not appear forged by naturally occurring friction or heat with it being nearly pristine in nature.
Mr. Alves: These implications required us to seek uncharted territory in our sciences due to this.
Mr. Alves: And they theorized that it may have grown within Europa.
Mr. Alves: Looking to the inner ocean as a possible source of its existence. Especially since there is no structural evidence of it ever having breached the ice.
Sensitive Investor: You’re not suggesting that it could be like… an alien thing… Are you?
Mr. Alves: Well, no, the opposite. It's possibly native to it.
Mr. Alves: Which I’d argue is even more significant.
Mr. Alves: There were structures within the mass that had some intricate mathematical designs. Designs that could not be matched with any other planetary material.
Mr. Alves: The team had to first define then dismantle some of its molecular geometry in order to properly break it down, which was not inexpensive.
Unconvinced Investor: This is starting to sound like some kind of fantasy talk, if you ask me.
Mr. Alves: They are interesting conclusions, yes. But this is less about its origins and more about what we plan to do with it.
Mr. Alves: This element is an enigma, but an enigma only we have possession of. Which is great for us. In fact, it’s a great privilege we could be the first to truly uncover its potential.
Mr. Alves: Its properties are not just unusual. They are unparalleled.
Mr. Alves: Compared to other material its topology does not appear forged by naturally occurring friction or heat with it being nearly pristine in nature.
Mr. Alves: These implications required us to seek uncharted territory in our sciences due to this.
Mr. Alves: And they theorized that it may have grown within Europa.
Mr. Alves: Looking to the inner ocean as a possible source of its existence. Especially since there is no structural evidence of it ever having breached the ice.
Sensitive Investor: You’re not suggesting that it could be like… an alien thing… Are you?
Mr. Alves: Well, no, the opposite. It's possibly native to it.
Mr. Alves: Which I’d argue is even more significant.
Mr. Alves: There were structures within the mass that had some intricate mathematical designs. Designs that could not be matched with any other planetary material.
Mr. Alves: The team had to first define then dismantle some of its molecular geometry in order to properly break it down, which was not inexpensive.
Unconvinced Investor: This is starting to sound like some kind of fantasy talk, if you ask me.
Mr. Alves: They are interesting conclusions, yes. But this is less about its origins and more about what we plan to do with it.
Mr. Alves: This element is an enigma, but an enigma only we have possession of. Which is great for us. In fact, it’s a great privilege we could be the first to truly uncover its potential.
Mr. Alves: This is already a convincing fact alone.
Mr. Alves: This material had likely been present within Europa for eons while the entire age of humanity had never been aware of its existence. And it was us who were the fortunate prospectors just ten years ago.
Mr. Alves: I can’t help but be a little personally motivated by this, honestly.
Mr. Alves: I sometimes even wonder if we could- THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY EUODA PROVISIONS! ♪
Mr. Alves: This material had likely been present within Europa for eons while the entire age of humanity had never been aware of its existence. And it was us who were the fortunate prospectors just ten years ago.
Mr. Alves: I can’t help but be a little personally motivated by this, honestly.
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Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: Just a moment.
Mr. Alves: Just a moment.
Bored Investor: Woah, woah, okay, let’s slow down a bit here.
Bored Investor: So no other sectors know that Euoda has acquired this…. new element? Let alone the globes?
Bored Investor: That’s a loaded thing to drop on us.
Unconvinced Investor: Yes. This is quite the pandora's box.
Unconvinced Investor: Seems a little suspect even.
Unconvinced Investor: To be told only now, ten years later, that our property was carrying such a unique resource before we had a chance to even have a say in its usage.
Unconvinced Investor: This is discourteous to our allegiance with you, Mr. D’eglantine.
Mr. Alves: Yes, it was a protected file. I understand why that may come across as underhanded. But it had to be done. For reasons I will explain momentarily.
Mr. Alves: Today’s declassification was the risk Mr. D'eglantine and I were willing to-
Mr. D’eglantine: Ahem. If I may interject with some reassurance,
Mr. D’eglantine: You all are our trusted partners.
Mr. D’eglantine: Euoda’s loyalty with you has, without a doubt, remained fiercely equitable. No matter how tortuous the proceedings our foundation has come into over the years, our allegiance with you remains unconditional, for we are driven to spread our brightness in a better future, not solely for our children of Earth and Mars, but to strengthen our shared technological industry no matter how big the leap, no matter the cost, and we would hope such loyalty from your ends would extend to Euoda as well.
Mr. D’eglantine: By our Sun’s brilliance, we have something exceptional here.
Bored Investor: Good enough for me, I guess! Lips are sealed.
Mr. D’eglantine: Please continue, Mr. Alves.
Mr. Alves: Thanks.
Sensitive Investor: Um… I have a question… Mr. Labguy?
Mr. Alves: Yes.
Sensitive Investor: Is this element… Dangerous? To us, I mean.
Mr. Alves: A lot of elements are dangerous, yes.
Sensitive Investor: Well, before it was shut down those years ago, there were rumors that this project resulted in some kind of explosion. And seeing how this element being involved is coming to light…
Sensitive Investor: I was just hoping for a little more transparency on the safety front-
Mr. Alves: Volatility is always expected within laboratories, but survival of necessary organisms and machinery will always remain the top priority.
Sensitive Investor: Geez, uh… I will say that is still pretty disconcerting….
Bored Investor: You’re not the one making potions in there, you sook. This guy does. He’s the one that gets his arms blown off and the soot all over his face while we get to sit back and relax, so what’s it to you??
Sensitive Investor: Well, I just wanted to-
Bored Investor: Eh, we’ll be peachy. Let’s move on, I wanna get this over with.
Sensitive Investor: Okay…
Bored Investor: So no other sectors know that Euoda has acquired this…. new element? Let alone the globes?
Bored Investor: That’s a loaded thing to drop on us.
Unconvinced Investor: Yes. This is quite the pandora's box.
Unconvinced Investor: Seems a little suspect even.
Unconvinced Investor: To be told only now, ten years later, that our property was carrying such a unique resource before we had a chance to even have a say in its usage.
Unconvinced Investor: This is discourteous to our allegiance with you, Mr. D’eglantine.
Mr. Alves: Yes, it was a protected file. I understand why that may come across as underhanded. But it had to be done. For reasons I will explain momentarily.
Mr. Alves: Today’s declassification was the risk Mr. D'eglantine and I were willing to-
Mr. D’eglantine: Ahem. If I may interject with some reassurance,
Mr. D’eglantine: You all are our trusted partners.
Mr. D’eglantine: Euoda’s loyalty with you has, without a doubt, remained fiercely equitable. No matter how tortuous the proceedings our foundation has come into over the years, our allegiance with you remains unconditional, for we are driven to spread our brightness in a better future, not solely for our children of Earth and Mars, but to strengthen our shared technological industry no matter how big the leap, no matter the cost, and we would hope such loyalty from your ends would extend to Euoda as well.
Mr. D’eglantine: By our Sun’s brilliance, we have something exceptional here.
Bored Investor: Good enough for me, I guess! Lips are sealed.
Mr. D’eglantine: Please continue, Mr. Alves.
Mr. Alves: Thanks.
Sensitive Investor: Um… I have a question… Mr. Labguy?
Mr. Alves: Yes.
Sensitive Investor: Is this element… Dangerous? To us, I mean.
Mr. Alves: A lot of elements are dangerous, yes.
Sensitive Investor: Well, before it was shut down those years ago, there were rumors that this project resulted in some kind of explosion. And seeing how this element being involved is coming to light…
Sensitive Investor: I was just hoping for a little more transparency on the safety front-
Mr. Alves: Volatility is always expected within laboratories, but survival of necessary organisms and machinery will always remain the top priority.
Sensitive Investor: Geez, uh… I will say that is still pretty disconcerting….
Bored Investor: You’re not the one making potions in there, you sook. This guy does. He’s the one that gets his arms blown off and the soot all over his face while we get to sit back and relax, so what’s it to you??
Sensitive Investor: Well, I just wanted to-
Bored Investor: Eh, we’ll be peachy. Let’s move on, I wanna get this over with.
Sensitive Investor: Okay…
Mr. Alves: If anything there is a far larger idea regarding this that overshadows your initial concerns.
Mr. Alves: The mathematical designs within the rocks center brought in some fascinating new insight that teetered towards esoteric research.
Mr. Alves: To put it shortly, it did not interact with other elements in a way that is usually predictable through typical atomic behavior, rendering these interactions incongruous and desynced at a molecular level. Which just shouldn’t be possible.
Bored Investor: Okay…? Did you expect us to get that? Or…
Mr. Alves: Well, what they ultimately determined was:
Mr. Alves: if it struggled to be fragmented, and we had to jump through various quantum hoops to make it break,
Mr. Alves: then it must not be guided by our order,
Mr. Alves: but it’s own.
Bored Investor: Nah, nah, no way. This still sounds like a bunch of magic shite. I’m not sending my precious coin into whatever cursed, space wizardry this is going to turn into.
Unconvinced Investor: Haha, you scared? Think it’s blasphemous?
Bored Investor: N-no! I just think it’s a little over the top, is all!!
Mr. D’eglantine: The element's details are besides the point. We have plans to make use of it rather than dwell on some of its origins or obscurities.
Mr. Alves: Exactly.
Mr. Alves: The implications of this are understandably hard to grasp. But either way, it exists. And we cannot ignore it once we have found it.
Bored Investor: So how does something like this even explode? Do we have to prepare for some kind of moon shattering nuclear bang by tinkering with it?
Mr. Alves: It’s not what you are imagining.
Mr. Alves: The organisms tested on were only at risk to themselves, not those around them.
Bored Investor: …Organisms?
Bored Investor: Oh, brother, here we go.
Sleepy Investor: Well, that's not worrisome.
Sensitive Investor: You don’t mean to say…!?
Mr. D’eglantine: (Sigh)
Mr. D’eglantine: A bit early, Mr. Alves.
Unconvinced Investor: BAHAHAHAHA!!!
Unconvinced Investor: What an absolutely wicked pipeline!!
Unconvinced Investor: You science types sure are an odd bunch! “Hey, why don’t we start testing this fairy fluid on living things now!”
Unconvinced Investor: I’d be laughing harder if it wasn’t so depraved.
Mr. Alves: Well, that was not my doing. It was the frenetic actions of a previous employee here, that I’m sure you all know the name of. Their projects were a bit on the aggressive side.
Mr. Alves: With methods I don’t condone.
Bored Investor: Right…
Mr. Alves: In any regard.
Unconvinced Investor: How reassuring.
Unconvinced Investor: That researcher didn’t have any real excuse for playing with our budget at the time of her firing. How could we trust that you’d be using this material for the right reasons then?
Mr. Alves: Suspicion is only natural. But I think her motivations highly differ from mine.
Mr. Alves: With the bioterrorism event that encircled many regions of the Amazon, there continues to be a lasting presence of diseases and cancers that still continue to populate the bodies of many genetic lines even today.
Mr. Alves: At the very least, her excuse for recklessness was solving this problem in a matter of months. Which no doubt guaranteed the impairment of their testing.
Mr. Alves: This is where our goals would have aligned, but eventually diverged.
Mr. Alves: This time I’ll be prioritizing the safety and optimization of our standard protocol.
Mr. Alves: Rats, pigs, mosquitos, whatever non-human organism is accessible to us will be used and properly disposed of. Full transparency would be delivered to you all, and all experiments would be accounted for.
Bored Investor: I guess rat tinkering is fine. If that’s all it's going to be.
Mr. Alves: I’d like that to be the case this time.
Mr. D’eglantine: We could certainly broach these historical findings and such, but I would hate to waste our guests' time on such a lengthy subject. It’s quite a long story-
Bored Investor: Wait, hang on a bloody second— “This time!?”
Unconvinced Investor: I'm afraid the term "liability" no longer exists in the Atropos wing anymore, huh? Bahaha!!!
Mr. D’eglantine: Transparency is important. I agree. However, perhaps we could put a pin in this discussion, as once again, looking at the clock, we don't have a lot of time to reminisce-
Mr. Alves: She wasn’t quick to give in.
Mr. Alves: The idea began when she discovered that the element was exhibiting conflicting properties with other matter. This material had only been tested with other elements equal to or above in power. But nothing organic.
Mr. Alves: Refusing to stay uncertain to this, she was drawn to explore routes less traveled. So it was then that she attempted to inject its liquid into rats.
Mr. Alves: And strangely, thanks to her inspecting, these were the only two dissimilar matters that interacted congruently. Which sounds like an oxymoron considering the previous results, but somehow, for reasons beyond everyone on the team, it was able to meld itself evenly with organic tissues.
Bored Investor: Huh.
Sensitive Investor: …So did anything happened to them after they injected it…?
Mr. Alves: Well…
Mr. Alves: ...
Mr. Alves: Many did combust.
Mr. Alves: Mainly to the fault of the dosage.
Sensitive Investor: Ack!!
Unconvinced Investor: Welp, there it is!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
Bored Investor: Isn't that just great, fellows!? How exciting for us to finally invest our wallets in something globe changing knowing this research will inevitably fail to deliver anything substantial and instead, repeatedly destroy our beautiful, expensive, high-grade equipment again!
Bored Investor: Why not! Why not give us more headaches, losses and whatever the hell else we gotta keep paying for!!
Mr. Alves: Failures are inevitable in experimentation.
Mr. Alves: That doesn’t mean it has to end there.
Bored Investor: Sure, mate. Let me make a note here to audit the absolute shit out of your lab wing, by the way.
Mr. Alves: Feel free.
Mr. Alves: I will say her private study freed us from future disastrous miscalculations.
Mr. Alves: Because some organic material DID survive in the end.
Mr. Alves: Those with proper dosages that were equilibrated to the rats exact mass did not combust but instead gained a baffling peculiarity.
Mr. Alves: Because after the injection,
Mr. Alves: their matter just simply froze,
Mr. Alves: meaning they would not desiccate, nor show signs of active decomposition.
Mr. Alves: A quote left on the document by the lead states "It was as if the matter itself was suspended in time.”
Bored Investor: Rat zombies, eh? Well, this has my ears perked.
Mr. Alves: Well, no. They were completely unmoving, no brain activity was detected.
Bored Investor: Christ almighty, can this get any more boring??
Unconvinced Investor: If not a drag to listen to, it just sounds like a creatively embellished story made for the sake of securing our interests. Perhaps fantasy talk was an understatement.
Mr. Alves: I can’t say I disagree with you about its bizarre features. This aspect I find the most perplexing, though the results have stayed true no matter how much I toiled every evening trying to debunk it.
Mr. Alves: So I have brought evidence.
Mr. Alves: The mathematical designs within the rocks center brought in some fascinating new insight that teetered towards esoteric research.
Mr. Alves: To put it shortly, it did not interact with other elements in a way that is usually predictable through typical atomic behavior, rendering these interactions incongruous and desynced at a molecular level. Which just shouldn’t be possible.
Bored Investor: Okay…? Did you expect us to get that? Or…
Mr. Alves: Well, what they ultimately determined was:
Mr. Alves: if it struggled to be fragmented, and we had to jump through various quantum hoops to make it break,
Mr. Alves: then it must not be guided by our order,
Mr. Alves: but it’s own.
Bored Investor: Nah, nah, no way. This still sounds like a bunch of magic shite. I’m not sending my precious coin into whatever cursed, space wizardry this is going to turn into.
Unconvinced Investor: Haha, you scared? Think it’s blasphemous?
Bored Investor: N-no! I just think it’s a little over the top, is all!!
Mr. D’eglantine: The element's details are besides the point. We have plans to make use of it rather than dwell on some of its origins or obscurities.
Mr. Alves: Exactly.
Mr. Alves: The implications of this are understandably hard to grasp. But either way, it exists. And we cannot ignore it once we have found it.
Bored Investor: So how does something like this even explode? Do we have to prepare for some kind of moon shattering nuclear bang by tinkering with it?
Mr. Alves: It’s not what you are imagining.
Mr. Alves: The organisms tested on were only at risk to themselves, not those around them.
Bored Investor: …Organisms?
Bored Investor: Oh, brother, here we go.
Sleepy Investor: Well, that's not worrisome.
Sensitive Investor: You don’t mean to say…!?
Mr. D’eglantine: (Sigh)
Mr. D’eglantine: A bit early, Mr. Alves.
Unconvinced Investor: BAHAHAHAHA!!!
Unconvinced Investor: What an absolutely wicked pipeline!!
Unconvinced Investor: You science types sure are an odd bunch! “Hey, why don’t we start testing this fairy fluid on living things now!”
Unconvinced Investor: I’d be laughing harder if it wasn’t so depraved.
Mr. Alves: Well, that was not my doing. It was the frenetic actions of a previous employee here, that I’m sure you all know the name of. Their projects were a bit on the aggressive side.
Mr. Alves: With methods I don’t condone.
Bored Investor: Right…
Mr. Alves: In any regard.
Unconvinced Investor: How reassuring.
Unconvinced Investor: That researcher didn’t have any real excuse for playing with our budget at the time of her firing. How could we trust that you’d be using this material for the right reasons then?
Mr. Alves: Suspicion is only natural. But I think her motivations highly differ from mine.
Mr. Alves: With the bioterrorism event that encircled many regions of the Amazon, there continues to be a lasting presence of diseases and cancers that still continue to populate the bodies of many genetic lines even today.
Mr. Alves: At the very least, her excuse for recklessness was solving this problem in a matter of months. Which no doubt guaranteed the impairment of their testing.
Mr. Alves: This is where our goals would have aligned, but eventually diverged.
Mr. Alves: This time I’ll be prioritizing the safety and optimization of our standard protocol.
Mr. Alves: Rats, pigs, mosquitos, whatever non-human organism is accessible to us will be used and properly disposed of. Full transparency would be delivered to you all, and all experiments would be accounted for.
Bored Investor: I guess rat tinkering is fine. If that’s all it's going to be.
Mr. Alves: I’d like that to be the case this time.
Mr. D’eglantine: We could certainly broach these historical findings and such, but I would hate to waste our guests' time on such a lengthy subject. It’s quite a long story-
Bored Investor: Wait, hang on a bloody second— “This time!?”
Unconvinced Investor: I'm afraid the term "liability" no longer exists in the Atropos wing anymore, huh? Bahaha!!!
Mr. D’eglantine: Transparency is important. I agree. However, perhaps we could put a pin in this discussion, as once again, looking at the clock, we don't have a lot of time to reminisce-
Mr. Alves: She wasn’t quick to give in.
Mr. Alves: The idea began when she discovered that the element was exhibiting conflicting properties with other matter. This material had only been tested with other elements equal to or above in power. But nothing organic.
Mr. Alves: Refusing to stay uncertain to this, she was drawn to explore routes less traveled. So it was then that she attempted to inject its liquid into rats.
Mr. Alves: And strangely, thanks to her inspecting, these were the only two dissimilar matters that interacted congruently. Which sounds like an oxymoron considering the previous results, but somehow, for reasons beyond everyone on the team, it was able to meld itself evenly with organic tissues.
Bored Investor: Huh.
Sensitive Investor: …So did anything happened to them after they injected it…?
Mr. Alves: Well…
Mr. Alves: ...
Mr. Alves: Many did combust.
Mr. Alves: Mainly to the fault of the dosage.
Sensitive Investor: Ack!!
Unconvinced Investor: Welp, there it is!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
Bored Investor: Isn't that just great, fellows!? How exciting for us to finally invest our wallets in something globe changing knowing this research will inevitably fail to deliver anything substantial and instead, repeatedly destroy our beautiful, expensive, high-grade equipment again!
Bored Investor: Why not! Why not give us more headaches, losses and whatever the hell else we gotta keep paying for!!
Mr. Alves: Failures are inevitable in experimentation.
Mr. Alves: That doesn’t mean it has to end there.
Bored Investor: Sure, mate. Let me make a note here to audit the absolute shit out of your lab wing, by the way.
Mr. Alves: Feel free.
Mr. Alves: I will say her private study freed us from future disastrous miscalculations.
Mr. Alves: Because some organic material DID survive in the end.
Mr. Alves: Those with proper dosages that were equilibrated to the rats exact mass did not combust but instead gained a baffling peculiarity.
Mr. Alves: Because after the injection,
Mr. Alves: their matter just simply froze,
Mr. Alves: meaning they would not desiccate, nor show signs of active decomposition.
Mr. Alves: A quote left on the document by the lead states "It was as if the matter itself was suspended in time.”
Bored Investor: Rat zombies, eh? Well, this has my ears perked.
Mr. Alves: Well, no. They were completely unmoving, no brain activity was detected.
Bored Investor: Christ almighty, can this get any more boring??
Unconvinced Investor: If not a drag to listen to, it just sounds like a creatively embellished story made for the sake of securing our interests. Perhaps fantasy talk was an understatement.
Mr. Alves: I can’t say I disagree with you about its bizarre features. This aspect I find the most perplexing, though the results have stayed true no matter how much I toiled every evening trying to debunk it.
Mr. Alves: So I have brought evidence.
Mr. Alves: They have remained unchanged for nearly a decade.
Mr. Alves: Never perishing for all those years. This was the development that changed the route of the entire project and why I came here today.
Bored Investor: Hahaha! Gnarly!
Bored Investor: So that was it? Give us a whole damn lecture then wave around some foul “Schrodinger” rat?
Mr. Alves: Schrodinger’s theory is not at all involved with this phenomenon. Or even an accurate description of this situation.
Bored Investor: Figure of speech just misses you, huh. Of course the intellectuals can’t read a joke when they see one.
Mr. Alves: It didn’t sound like a joke.
Bored Investor: Then go on, you cocky thing! Bring on the semantics then.
Mr. Alves: It didn’t sound like a joke because it wasn’t funny.
Mr. Alves: But let’s not stray from the demonstration here-
Bored Investor: No, you know what?
Bored Investor: I’m starting to get a tiiiiny bit fed up with this condescending tone being thrown at us in every direction from this guy!
Bored Investor: Acting like he’s the next Einstein, or.. or Nostradamus and what not.
Sensitive Investor: I thought he’s been quite cordial with us so far… also neither of those people are biologists.
Bored Investor: Oh, fuck off.
Mr. Alves: You were the one who asked me to adjust my discretion.
Bored Investor: Well, this isn’t a lecture hall. I didn’t come to this conference to be patronized about something YOU are supposed to sell to US.
Mr. Alves: I’d say I've been dumbing it down even more than I should have.
Bored Investor: What are you trying to say??
Bored Investor: That because we’ve spent most of our lives investing in our prosperity for YOUR future, which we don’t always have… you know, time to learn a bunch of this… brainiac nonsense, that it makes us inferior to you???
Mr. Alves: If that resonates then you answered your own question.
Bored Investor: So that’s how you wanna start off with us, eh?
Sensitive Investor: Oh dear.
Unconvinced Investor: Jeez, here we go.
Bored Investor: Then do me a favor and drown in the boiling grease water of your nothing planet, YOU SMUG, CLINICAL CUNT!!!!!
Unconvinced Investor: Pipe down. We talked about this.
Mr. Alves: If you’d like for this conference to conclude faster, it might be best we set our acrimony aside so that we could get to the point.
Mr. D’eglantine: I’d have to agree.
Bored Investor: Too bad you’re the big man's favorite, or I’d have you catapulted to that expired, cast off planet you earth waste love to keep on life support!
Mr. Alves: Earth remains necessary towards our modern research and advancement. Euoda is above preferential treatment towards particular colonies, especially in my case.
Bored Investor: Oh, please.
Bored Investor: Earth was always fated to be the stepping stone to true prosperity and heaven-born life. And we’ll drink it up dry if we have to. I mean there’s plenty of water to go around. I’m sure Florida has some to spare, heh.
Mr. Alves: And that planet continues to feed your martian economy.
Mr. Alves: Unless Mars could stand on its own, I wouldn’t even consider it a legitimate residence.
Mr. Alves: More like a glorified sandbox jerryrigged by some ambitious ideamen 60 years ago.
Bored Investor: KEEP MY MOTHERPLANET OUT OF YOUR DAMN MOUTH!
Mr. D’eglantine: Everyone, compose yourselves.
Mr. D’eglantine: Let’s try and speed this along, Mr. Alves.
Bored Investor: Please. I’m over this. We've got parties to go to and businesses to bust. Get to the point.
Mr. D’eglantine: Let us continue.
Mr. D’eglantine: And you can put the rat down now…
Mr. Alves: Anyway,
Mr. Alves: I’d like to move on to the real reason I’ve looked into this project, and what it has to do with my own proposition.
Mr. Alves: With the rats being in a suspended state, the implication was that their cells' mechanisms would suspend as well, effectively interrupting malignant cells to continue forming.
Mr. Alves: So the former project lead directed them to experiment with it on an actively participating terminally ill research patient, blighted with several highly aggressive cancers.
Mr. Alves: They injected it on the cancerous sites expecting it to freeze its cell growth. But it did not bring a satisfying result like they had hoped.
Unconvinced Investor: Heh. And how did that turn out for you all? No light bulb to shine over your curiosities? No fantastical celebratory eureka moment?
Unconvinced Investor: Nothing... quenching?
Mr. Alves: Unfortunately, no.
Mr. Alves: I wouldn't say so.
Unconvinced Investor: Heheh, then if I’m able to connect the dots…
Mr. Alves: ...
Sleepy Investor: ...
Sensitive Investor: ...
Bored Investor: …Well? Don’t act all humble now.
Bored Investor: We all know exactly what kind of deviant practices you greedy boffins like to meddle in. You wouldn’t have your guests say the quiet part out loud for you, now would you?
Mr. D’eglantine: I suppose if transparency is desired,
Mr. D’eglantine: Mr. Alves, why don't you just share the truth?
Mr. D’eglantine: It would put our regrets to rest. And it's been long overdue that we entrust our guests to the entire picture.
Mr. D’eglantine: Euoda has many secrets. But our partners have never been the kind to judge our sacrifices.
Mr. D’eglantine: Would you all say this is true?
Bored Investor: Of course, sir.
Bored Investor: The suns brilliance is kind to sin. It will always forgive your perverted leering.
Bored Investor: So go ahead, Mr. Alves. Make the truth be known. Don't be shy.
Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: …This too, regrettably, resulted in a massive failure.
Mr. Alves: Never perishing for all those years. This was the development that changed the route of the entire project and why I came here today.
Bored Investor: Hahaha! Gnarly!
Bored Investor: So that was it? Give us a whole damn lecture then wave around some foul “Schrodinger” rat?
Mr. Alves: Schrodinger’s theory is not at all involved with this phenomenon. Or even an accurate description of this situation.
Bored Investor: Figure of speech just misses you, huh. Of course the intellectuals can’t read a joke when they see one.
Mr. Alves: It didn’t sound like a joke.
Bored Investor: Then go on, you cocky thing! Bring on the semantics then.
Mr. Alves: It didn’t sound like a joke because it wasn’t funny.
Mr. Alves: But let’s not stray from the demonstration here-
Bored Investor: No, you know what?
Bored Investor: I’m starting to get a tiiiiny bit fed up with this condescending tone being thrown at us in every direction from this guy!
Bored Investor: Acting like he’s the next Einstein, or.. or Nostradamus and what not.
Sensitive Investor: I thought he’s been quite cordial with us so far… also neither of those people are biologists.
Bored Investor: Oh, fuck off.
Mr. Alves: You were the one who asked me to adjust my discretion.
Bored Investor: Well, this isn’t a lecture hall. I didn’t come to this conference to be patronized about something YOU are supposed to sell to US.
Mr. Alves: I’d say I've been dumbing it down even more than I should have.
Bored Investor: What are you trying to say??
Bored Investor: That because we’ve spent most of our lives investing in our prosperity for YOUR future, which we don’t always have… you know, time to learn a bunch of this… brainiac nonsense, that it makes us inferior to you???
Mr. Alves: If that resonates then you answered your own question.
Bored Investor: So that’s how you wanna start off with us, eh?
Sensitive Investor: Oh dear.
Unconvinced Investor: Jeez, here we go.
Bored Investor: Then do me a favor and drown in the boiling grease water of your nothing planet, YOU SMUG, CLINICAL CUNT!!!!!
Unconvinced Investor: Pipe down. We talked about this.
Mr. Alves: If you’d like for this conference to conclude faster, it might be best we set our acrimony aside so that we could get to the point.
Mr. D’eglantine: I’d have to agree.
Bored Investor: Too bad you’re the big man's favorite, or I’d have you catapulted to that expired, cast off planet you earth waste love to keep on life support!
Mr. Alves: Earth remains necessary towards our modern research and advancement. Euoda is above preferential treatment towards particular colonies, especially in my case.
Bored Investor: Oh, please.
Bored Investor: Earth was always fated to be the stepping stone to true prosperity and heaven-born life. And we’ll drink it up dry if we have to. I mean there’s plenty of water to go around. I’m sure Florida has some to spare, heh.
Mr. Alves: And that planet continues to feed your martian economy.
Mr. Alves: Unless Mars could stand on its own, I wouldn’t even consider it a legitimate residence.
Mr. Alves: More like a glorified sandbox jerryrigged by some ambitious ideamen 60 years ago.
Bored Investor: KEEP MY MOTHERPLANET OUT OF YOUR DAMN MOUTH!
Mr. D’eglantine: Everyone, compose yourselves.
Mr. D’eglantine: Let’s try and speed this along, Mr. Alves.
Bored Investor: Please. I’m over this. We've got parties to go to and businesses to bust. Get to the point.
Mr. D’eglantine: Let us continue.
Mr. D’eglantine: And you can put the rat down now…
Mr. Alves: Anyway,
Mr. Alves: I’d like to move on to the real reason I’ve looked into this project, and what it has to do with my own proposition.
Mr. Alves: With the rats being in a suspended state, the implication was that their cells' mechanisms would suspend as well, effectively interrupting malignant cells to continue forming.
Mr. Alves: So the former project lead directed them to experiment with it on an actively participating terminally ill research patient, blighted with several highly aggressive cancers.
Mr. Alves: They injected it on the cancerous sites expecting it to freeze its cell growth. But it did not bring a satisfying result like they had hoped.
Unconvinced Investor: Heh. And how did that turn out for you all? No light bulb to shine over your curiosities? No fantastical celebratory eureka moment?
Unconvinced Investor: Nothing... quenching?
Mr. Alves: Unfortunately, no.
Mr. Alves: I wouldn't say so.
Unconvinced Investor: Heheh, then if I’m able to connect the dots…
Mr. Alves: ...
Sleepy Investor: ...
Sensitive Investor: ...
Bored Investor: …Well? Don’t act all humble now.
Bored Investor: We all know exactly what kind of deviant practices you greedy boffins like to meddle in. You wouldn’t have your guests say the quiet part out loud for you, now would you?
Mr. D’eglantine: I suppose if transparency is desired,
Mr. D’eglantine: Mr. Alves, why don't you just share the truth?
Mr. D’eglantine: It would put our regrets to rest. And it's been long overdue that we entrust our guests to the entire picture.
Mr. D’eglantine: Euoda has many secrets. But our partners have never been the kind to judge our sacrifices.
Mr. D’eglantine: Would you all say this is true?
Bored Investor: Of course, sir.
Bored Investor: The suns brilliance is kind to sin. It will always forgive your perverted leering.
Bored Investor: So go ahead, Mr. Alves. Make the truth be known. Don't be shy.
Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: …
Mr. Alves: …This too, regrettably, resulted in a massive failure.
Mr. Alves: It had ended in the subject's combustion.
prologue I END
Author's Comment:
10/04/2025
Thanks for waiting so long for this. I had to postpone it multiple times, but it's finally out so I can just breathe lol. Anyway, welcome to the start of MOIRAI!!!
There's a lot of interesting things to expect out of this story and I hope you enjoy diving in and learning about these guys that I've been drawing stupid shit about for months. I'm relieved to finally able to really illustrate them the way I want and properly (canonically) express their real personalities.
We'll start with the most popular boy in school. Mr. Alves.
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