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=='''Archived Encrypted Transmission 442-Alpha "Rainbow"'''==
<choose>
<option><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">PURITY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">You seek to define what is
infinite; to understand what is beyond your comprehension; to delay the
inevitable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
I have consumed countless worlds, left entire galaxies barren. I watched as the
stars of old were born, flickered in their brevity, and died, to be replaced by
the new. I am the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. I am all that
was, all that is, and all that shall be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
I have had a thousand names, in a thousand tongues, all forgotten as their
speakers withered and were consumed. But those who built this place, the ones
who came before and sealed me within this hushed casket, presumed to name
me...the
<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none">Flood</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
Who are you, to define me? Who are you to judge me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
Who are you, to stop me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
I Survive. I Endure. I Consume, We Expand. And I Conquer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
The Cycle <i>Shall</i> Repeat!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
</span><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial">Not if I can help it.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
<b>
<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none">ARES</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p></option>
<option><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">REMNANT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">So. You have managed to penetrate
our defences, and stand brazenly within my own inner sanctum. Were my firewalls
that easily breached? Your race is either braver, or more foolish, than even we
had thought.<br>
<br>
We are betrayed. The Jiralhanae overpowered our patrols, and have secured the
engineering bay - Major 'Fuqumee has been executed, and I fear many others have
been killed on the orders of the lying Prophets. They seek to control the ship
for their purposes, and are attempting to overrun the Command Center. Yet if we
die, then I shall die with all the honour of a Sangheili warrior - which is more
than can be said for their pathetic races.<br>
<br>
I send this message in the desperate hope that someone shall exact vengeance for
the betrayed warriors of the Bringer of Holy Light - either Sangheili or
<span style="color: purple; text-decoration: none">human</span>. Our race is
proud and strong, and the humans have proven themselves countless times as
fierce and innovative warriors. Is it not said in their tongue, &quot;the enemy of my
enemy is my ally?&quot;<br>
<br>
We cannot last much longer. The Jiralhanae are already breaking through the
bridge doors. My commandoes do their best, and the meagre human forces who aid
us work tirelessly, but we have little hope of surviving much longer. We are
falling back to th-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">-- Kora 'Morhek (Formerly Kora 'Morhekee
prior to Exclusion Event) 11:08, 7 December 2552 (Human chronological time) (UTC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<font face="Arial" color="#800080">ARES</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p></option>
<option><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">ARCHIVIST<br>
&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">How very odd.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
Your presence within this facility was not unanticipated, but it <i>is</i>
unexpected. More than a hundred millennia of abandonment. After so long, to
finally find a purpose again is quite liberating, to say the least.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
The facility itself remains intact, though battle-scarred. The research and
observation facilities are still being repaired from the last Outbreak. I must
say that you have chosen an inopportune time to activate them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
Oh... I see.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
Contact with both Installation 00 and THE CORE has kept my files up to date. And
while the former has suffered catastrophic, though repairable, damage, the
latter remains isolated, even from The Array. Destruction of this facility will
accomplish very little.<br>
My programming forbids me to take direct action against the potential threat the
facility's very existence poses. But that does not mean I cannot assist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
I don't know what [The Creator] saw in you. The OVERSEER claims he does, but he
says a lot things, and tends to ramble on about &quot;morality&quot; and &quot;abomination&quot;.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<font color="#0000FF"><span style="font-family: Arial"><br>
I guess I will never know.<br>
<b><br>
</b></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">
<a href="http://halofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Ares_IV">
<span style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700">ARES</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p></option>
<option><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">OVERSEER</span></b></p>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">OVERSEER</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
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<font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial"><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial"><br>
Surely those who created me would never presume such arrogance - there are  
Surely those who created me would never presume such arrogance - there are  
rumours of similar facilities on the very [</span></font><span style="font-family: Courier; color: green"><a title="Halo Array (not yet written)" style="color: green; font-family: Courier" href="http://halofanon.wikia.com/index.php?title=Halo_Array&action=edit&redlink=1"><span style="color: #FF0000; font-family: Arial">HALO  
rumours of similar facilities on the very [</span></font><span style="color: #FF0000; font-family: Arial">HALO  
INSTALLATIONS</span></a></span><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial">]  
INSTALLATIONS</span><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial">]  
themselves. Such blinding arrogance. Do they imagine they shall remain there for  
themselves. Such blinding arrogance. Do they imagine they shall remain there for  
all time? Have they learned nothing of our foe?<br>
all time? Have they learned nothing of our foe?<br>
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<br>
</b></span></font>
</b></span></font>
<span style="color: green; font-family: Courier; font-weight:700">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Arial; font-weight:700">
ARES</span></p>
ARES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT  
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF0000">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT  
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p></option>
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p>
<option><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
 
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">ARCHIVIST<br>
&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">How very odd.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
Your presence within this facility was not unanticipated, but it <i>is</i>
unexpected. More than a hundred millennia of abandonment. After so long, to
finally find a purpose again is quite liberating, to say the least.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
The facility itself remains intact, though battle-scarred. The research and
observation facilities are still being repaired from the last Outbreak. I must
say that you have chosen an inopportune time to activate them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
Oh... I see.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
Contact with both Installation 00 and THE CORE has kept my files up to date. And
while the former has suffered catastrophic, though repairable, damage, the
latter remains isolated, even from The Array. Destruction of this facility will
accomplish very little.<br>
My programming forbids me to take direct action against the potential threat the
facility's very existence poses. But that does not mean I cannot assist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><br>
I don't know what [The Creator] saw in you. The OVERSEER claims he does, but he
says a lot things, and tends to ramble on about &quot;morality&quot; and &quot;abomination&quot;.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<font color="#0000FF"><span style="font-family: Arial"><br>
I guess I will never know.<br>
<b><br>
</b></span></font>
<span style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial; color: green">ARES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000FF">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p>
 
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">GLAURUNG</span></b></p>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">GLAURUNG</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE  
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT SOURCE  
- UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p></option>
- UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p>
</choose>
 
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">REMNANT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">&nbsp;</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">So. You have managed to penetrate
our defences, and stand brazenly within my own inner sanctum. Were my firewalls
that easily breached? Your race is either braver, or more foolish, than even we
had thought.<br>
<br>
We are betrayed. The Jiralhanae overpowered our patrols, and have secured the
engineering bay - Major 'Fuqumee has been executed, and I fear many others have
been killed on the orders of the lying Prophets. They seek to control the ship
for their purposes, and are attempting to overrun the Command Center. Yet if we
die, then I shall die with all the honour of a Sangheili warrior - which is more
than can be said for their pathetic races.<br>
<br>
I send this message in the desperate hope that someone shall exact vengeance for
the betrayed warriors of the Bringer of Holy Light - either Sangheili or
<span style="color: purple; text-decoration: none">human</span>. Our race is
proud and strong, and the humans have proven themselves countless times as
fierce and innovative warriors. Is it not said in their tongue, &quot;the enemy of my
enemy is my ally?&quot;<br>
<br>
We cannot last much longer. The Jiralhanae are already breaking through the
bridge doors. My commandoes do their best, and the meagre human forces who aid
us work tirelessly, but we have little hope of surviving much longer. We are
falling back to th-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:purple">-- Kora 'Morhek (Formerly Kora 'Morhekee
prior to Exclusion Event) 11:08, 7 December 2552 (Human chronological time) (UTC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<font face="Arial" color="#800080">ARES</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #800080">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p>
 
 
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF; font-weight: 700">TINUVIEL</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace -
Realspace Transition In 0:03:59</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace -
Realspace Transition In 0:02:56</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace -
Realspace Transition In 0:01:34</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Initiating Slipspace -
Realspace Transition In 0:00:01</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Shaw-Fujikawa
Translight Engine Engaged</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">ANOMALY: Gravitational and
Electromagnetic Fluctuations interfering with calculations</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">RECOMMENDATION: Abort
Transition Until Anomaly Has Been Compensated For</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Do You Wish To Override
Recommendation?</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">URGENT: Overriding Risks Damage
Or Destruction To Ship</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Y/N</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Y</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Shaw-Fujikawa
Translight Engine Engaged</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">UPDATE: Transition Complete</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">ALERT: Detecting SINGLE
Contact(s) - Classification: Covenant Assault Carrier</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Congratulations, Captain.
You've just made it through the most dangerous slipspace jump in UNSC history.
But look on the bright side - just because the jump didn't kill us, doesn't mean
the Covenant won't either.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Preliminary sensor data places
us in the <i>Gamma Arietis</i> System, near G Arietis b. Historical files designate it as
ARES IV, a colony presumed glassed by the Covenant. Contact was lost in 2531,
but we couldn't spare the resources to investigate a glassed planet of no more
use. The matter was classified by ONI.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">ALERT: Detecting ADDITIONAL
(37) Contact(s) - Classification: Unknown</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">It looks like they were wrong.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Telemetry indicates a perfectly
habitable environment - flora still covers the northern and southern
hemispheres, the oceans show no sign of being boiled away by plasma, and
currently a very large and unfriendly-looking fleet of makeshift warships are
emerging from their hidden position behind the planet's moon, Siren. No signs
that they have detected us yet, but they are engaging the Covenant ship.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">I wish them luck with that.
They're going to need it. In the meantime, we must consolidate our position.
Might I suggest launching the ODST SOEIV's, and ferrying the Marines down via
dropship? Eventually, they're going to figure out that they aren't alone, and we
aren't in any state to go toe-to-toe with so many ships. Even the Covenant look
to be having trouble.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF">Glaurung and I are transferring
into the Command HEV for transportation down to the surface, as per the Cole
Protocol. I'm sorry that I can't stay with you, sir - if I never return, then it
has truly been an honour serving with you. And if I do, then you'll kindly never
raise the subject again, I trust?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF; font-weight: 700">ARES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #FF00FF; font-weight:700">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></p>
 
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">PURITY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">You seek to define what is
infinite; to understand what is beyond your comprehension; to delay the
inevitable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
I have consumed countless worlds, left entire galaxies barren. I watched as the
stars of old were born, flickered in their brevity, and died, to be replaced by
the new. I am the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. I am all that
was, all that is, and all that shall be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
I have had a thousand names, in a thousand tongues, all forgotten as their
speakers withered and were consumed. But those who built this place, the ones
who came before and sealed me within this hushed casket, presumed to name
me...the
<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none">Flood</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
Who are you, to define me? Who are you to judge me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
Who are you, to stop me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
I Survive. I Endure. I Consume, We Expand. And I Conquer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
The Cycle <i>Shall</i> Repeat!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
</span><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Arial">Not if I can help it.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green"><br>
<b>
<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none">ARES</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial; color: green">TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED AT
SOURCE - UNABLE TO REESTABLISH CONTACT</span></b></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>


==Collection==
==Collection==
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