Initiate Crowe, myself, and one other responded to an unknown signature in Kansas. After trailing their emissions, Crowe and I located a marked Rheinland Bustard claiming to be a passenger liner doing rounds in Kansas, although the ship's armament and IFF left a lot to question. After some questioning, the ship appeared to be returning to Rheinland after a trek into Kansas to locate either the whereabouts or remains of the child of the patron they had aboard. About midway through, Initiate Crowe and I were joined by Fleet Captain With, but Crowe departed soon afterwards.
The ship's captain appeared to be speaking in code, which makes interpreting it tricky, but it's likely they were looking for someone related to Insurgent fighting in Kansas, or who was part of a convoy that lead to the invasion. By the Captain's own testimony, their patron was 'satisfied' with their outing, telling me they either found who they were looking for, or discovered sufficient evidence connected to them.
Still, an apology was given, and on top of a 'favor' of varying usefulness, we can hopefully expect a message from their patron.
Allegedly. Perhaps.
Comm logs attached. Report filed under GOLD level encryption.
[25.05.2024 07:37:54] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Evening
[25.05.2024 07:38:16] TFP)-Blackjack: Oh, that's big.
[25.05.2024 07:38:19] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Fuck me, no wonder we picked up the drive trail..
[25.05.2024 07:38:27] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Ah, we did get a refit recently
[25.05.2024 07:38:49] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Can I help you... beings of indeterminite orientation and/or configuration?
[25.05.2024 07:39:29] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Human, no cybernetics, despite the transponder. I mean, I am anyway.
[25.05.2024 07:39:37] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Can't speak for Blackjack.
[25.05.2024 07:39:46] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Ah, in our line of work we try to make as few assumptions as possible
[25.05.2024 07:39:56] TFP)-Blackjack: I ain't letting bots in my head, thank you.
[25.05.2024 07:40:12] BDM|LV-Bifrost: A curious sentiment from someone in the Technocracy, but I share that sentiment
[25.05.2024 07:40:38] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Hey, get a scan of that thing. That bad boy can hold so many strikecraft.
[25.05.2024 07:40:49] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Contact, thirteen and closing.
[25.05.2024 07:40:55] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Chrysanthemums.. here?
[25.05.2024 07:40:57] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Strikecraft is such an aggressive term
[25.05.2024 07:41:08] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Our cruise line prefers 'pleasure craft'
[25.05.2024 07:41:20] Yellowfin: Closing? Well, I wasn't planning to, but now that you mentioned it.
[25.05.2024 07:41:37] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: You popped within twelve clicks for a second. I'm cautious.
[25.05.2024 07:41:53] Yellowfin: That was just the lane junction. You are thirteen klicks from it.
[25.05.2024 07:42:04] TFP)-Blackjack: Got you there.
[25.05.2024 07:42:07] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: In any event,
[25.05.2024 07:42:09] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Come now, Hudson is a beautiful system and about half way through our cruise waypoint - there's no need for too much suspicion
[25.05.2024 07:42:21] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: What's the Buro doing walking on good Libertonian graves?
[25.05.2024 07:42:41] BDM|LV-Bifrost: One moment, we've got a script for this
[25.05.2024 07:42:51] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Not subtle, are they?
[25.05.2024 07:43:01] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Any route alleged or otherwise taken by this ship - real or imaginary
[25.05.2024 07:43:08] BDM|LV-Bifrost: is strictly for sightseeing
[25.05.2024 07:43:20] BDM|LV-Bifrost: And holds no nefarious purpose whatsoever
[25.05.2024 07:43:23] Yellowfin: Uh huh.
[25.05.2024 07:43:24] TFP)-Blackjack: Mmm. Deliciously procured.
[25.05.2024 07:44:10] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: You'll have to forgive us if we aren't taken for fools. I'll assume you're familiar with Libertonian history?
[25.05.2024 07:44:43] BDM|LV-Bifrost: History isn't quite our specialty given that we're a pleasure cruise line and all
[25.05.2024 07:45:28] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Asshole. So anyway, Kansas. Quite the graveyard. Lot of wrecks you'd have seen on your pleasure cruise, assuming we -
[25.05.2024 07:45:43] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Allegedly
[25.05.2024 07:45:51] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: weren't somehow tailing an identical drive trail from a ship of comparable size on a very unusual route.
[25.05.2024 07:45:54] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Allegedly.
[25.05.2024 07:46:57] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: So, Kansas and history.
[25.05.2024 07:47:16] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Neither confirming nor denying anything - I'm sure it's not an unusual hobby of some to inspect certain landmarks
[25.05.2024 07:47:19] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Task Force Prometheus is what remains of the Hellfire Legion. The pieces starting to fall into place?
[25.05.2024 07:47:22] BDM|LV-Bifrost: featured in rather significant events
[25.05.2024 07:47:59] BDM|LV-Bifrost: I see
[25.05.2024 07:48:21] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: A little arrogant to assume we'd have left nothing behind.
[25.05.2024 07:48:46] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Well, I don't see - but it seemed polite to agree for agreeableness
[25.05.2024 07:49:29] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Pardon my confusion, but what exactly can we do for you?
[25.05.2024 07:49:44] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Hospitality is our business, I'm sure we can accommodate
[25.05.2024 07:50:25] TFP)-Blackjack: Yeah, yeah. Your liner cover is very convincing.
[25.05.2024 07:50:32] Yellowfin: Shouldn't you have like....passengers on board, if you're doing a sightseeing cruise?
[25.05.2024 07:50:44] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Business has been slow
[25.05.2024 07:50:46] TFP)-Blackjack: Should probably have some floozies aboard, too.
[25.05.2024 07:50:51] TFP)-Blackjack: That might be why.
[25.05.2024 07:50:57] BDM|LV-Bifrost: There's a recession on, as you know
[25.05.2024 07:51:08] TFP)-Blackjack: I heard.
[25.05.2024 07:51:19] TFP)-Blackjack: Doesn't mean it's nice to go poking around in people's graveyards.
[25.05.2024 07:51:25] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Allegedly
[25.05.2024 07:51:26] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Shit, you're more a pleasure cruise than the Bifrost.
[25.05.2024 07:51:40] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Come now, no need to be hurtful
[25.05.2024 07:51:42] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Cigars, gin, whiskey, wine, vodka, the works.
[25.05.2024 07:51:57] Yellowfin: It's a bit of a mess in here, yeah.
[25.05.2024 07:52:26] TFP)-Blackjack: I told it to the scrappers looking for a quick credit in Vespucci, so I'm gonna say it to you too.
[25.05.2024 07:52:39] TFP)-Blackjack: We don't like people poking around grave sites without a good reason.
[25.05.2024 07:52:43] TFP)-Blackjack: So what's yours?
[25.05.2024 07:53:25] Yellowfin: Last time I was in Kansas, I *did* have a good reason.
[25.05.2024 07:53:44] BDM|LV-Bifrost: If you must know, there may or may not have been a patron of ours which may have possibly had a child that participated
[25.05.2024 07:53:49] BDM|LV-Bifrost: in the Liberty-Rheinland war
[25.05.2024 07:54:12] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Hypothetically speaking, this person may have disappeared in the vicinity
[25.05.2024 07:54:27] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Hypothetically speaking, this person has a name.
[25.05.2024 07:54:43] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Yes, they may indeed
[25.05.2024 07:54:53] TFP)-Blackjack: Un-hypothetically, there's a feminist here who isn't part of this conversation.
[25.05.2024 07:55:08] TFP)-Blackjack: No offense, feminist.
[25.05.2024 07:55:19] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: So Hans Doe goes missing in the former Commonwealth and you roll in an entire carrier looking for them.
[25.05.2024 07:55:25] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Must be a pretty important Hans.
[25.05.2024 07:55:50] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Few could afford to rent out a cruise liner, if that is indeed the case
[25.05.2024 07:56:39] Yellowfin: I feel like there are smaller, faster, subtler ships you could use for recon of that sort.
[25.05.2024 07:56:44] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: I don't suppose it occured to you that this is something you may, you know, ask the locals about.
[25.05.2024 07:56:58] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Recon? That's such an ugly word
[25.05.2024 07:57:15] BDM|LV-Bifrost: We prefer an outing
[25.05.2024 07:57:25] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: It's an ugly abbreviation. I always preferred the full thing, Reconnaissance.
[25.05.2024 07:57:31] Yellowfin: Yeah, it's a great word.
[25.05.2024 07:57:35] TFP)-Blackjack: Sounds too froggish.
[25.05.2024 07:57:42] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Sounds quite ominous
[25.05.2024 07:57:59] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Not so bad when you say it with a Leeds accent.
[25.05.2024 07:58:06] BDM|LV-Bifrost: A cruise line has no need for "faster, subtler ships"
[25.05.2024 07:58:25] BDM|LV-Bifrost: in any part of space where they may or may not have allegedly visited
[25.05.2024 07:58:49] Yellowfin: You're not holding a press conference, you don't really need all the allegeds and hypotheticals.
[25.05.2024 07:59:37] BDM|LV-Bifrost: It's quite a dangerous thing, to speak in definitives without the requisite caution
[25.05.2024 08:01:29] Yellowfin: So....did you end up finding that hypothetical person of interest?
[25.05.2024 08:01:42] Yellowfin: I'm assuming not, with the way you're speaking of them.
[25.05.2024 08:01:50] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Let me guess, they found them hypothetically.
[25.05.2024 08:01:55] BDM|LV-Bifrost: All of our patrons have been fully satisfied with the voyage so far
[25.05.2024 08:02:20] TFP)-Blackjack: At least I don't have to crack open the network, then.
[25.05.2024 08:02:20] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Well, that's certainly more definitive than I was expecting.
[25.05.2024 08:02:45] BDM|LV-Bifrost: We take great pride in our hospitality, our services do not come without a hefty premium, after all
[25.05.2024 08:03:19] TFP)-Blackjack: Right.
[25.05.2024 08:03:23] Yellowfin: What are your usual destinations? Maybe I should book a cruise.
[25.05.2024 08:03:44] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Guadalajara and Wichita, by the sound of it.
[25.05.2024 08:03:56] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Our cruise line is rather boutique, when a suitable client shows up - we plan around their needs
[25.05.2024 08:05:31] TFP)-Blackjack: Sure wonder where the next trip will be, then.
[25.05.2024 08:05:34] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Can you pass a message along for me?
[25.05.2024 08:05:38] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Of course
[25.05.2024 08:06:23] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: I'd like you to have your "patron", should they be willing, to contact us personally.
[25.05.2024 08:06:40] Yellowfin: Oh, there's another one.
[25.05.2024 08:06:42] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Perhaps they can speak with more authority on the manner of your outing.
[25.05.2024 08:06:46] BDM|LV-Bifrost: That can be arranged, certainly
[25.05.2024 08:06:56] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Alleged outing
[25.05.2024 08:07:01] TFP)-Catalyst!: What's all this?
[25.05.2024 08:07:03] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: Yeah, yeah.
[25.05.2024 08:07:20] BDM|LV-Bifrost: These fine folk are just accompanying us on a stop along our cruise
[25.05.2024 08:07:25] TFP)-Blackjack: Just a quaint little 'liner' conducting a pleasure 'cruise'.
[25.05.2024 08:07:33] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: *The pilot's voice perks up a bit* Fleet Captain With, is that you?
[25.05.2024 08:07:40] TFP)-Catalyst!: Aye.
[25.05.2024 08:08:08] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Ah, a fellow captain - salutations!
[25.05.2024 08:08:20] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Though it seems your title is more martial than ours
[25.05.2024 08:08:27] TFP)-Catalyst!: And with whom are we speakin'?
[25.05.2024 08:08:28] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: We trailed this thing's drive sigs all the way from Kansas. They're neither confirming nor denying anything.
[25.05.2024 08:08:38] BDM|LV-Bifrost: The name is Kapitan Montag
[25.05.2024 08:08:54] TFP)-Catalyst!: Wasn't aware you lot named yourselves after weekdays.
[25.05.2024 08:09:09] BDM|LV-Bifrost: From the Bureau of Delightful Maritimeadventures
[25.05.2024 08:09:11] TFP)-Catalyst!: Given the pleasure cruise, maybe Kapitan Freitag would be more fitting.
[25.05.2024 08:09:25] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Alas, there is a Kapitan Freitag in our company
[25.05.2024 08:09:32] BDM|LV-Bifrost: we do not quite get along, as they say
[25.05.2024 08:09:36] TFP)-Catalyst!: I'm sure.
[25.05.2024 08:09:50] Yellowfin: You could really come up with some cooler cover names.
[25.05.2024 08:09:58] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Cover names?
[25.05.2024 08:10:09] BDM|LV-Bifrost: No, I come from a long line of Montags
[25.05.2024 08:10:12] TFP)-Blackjack: Those are the most Rheinland-ish names I've ever heard.
[25.05.2024 08:10:15] Yellowfin: I'm sure you do.
[25.05.2024 08:10:19] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: I wasn't aware you were multilingual, Fleet Captain.
[25.05.2024 08:10:34] TFP)-Catalyst!: Unsurprising given I don't think we've even met.
[25.05.2024 08:10:56] TFP)-Catalyst!: Nah, don't speak much German. Just enough to deal with these sorts.
[25.05.2024 08:11:19] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Ha, ours is a strictly standard speaking liner
[25.05.2024 08:11:28] BDM|LV-Bifrost: we wouldn't want to alienate our guests
[25.05.2024 08:11:36] TFP)-Catalyst!: Pretty non-standard hardware, though.
[25.05.2024 08:11:36] Yellowfin: You don't have any guests.
[25.05.2024 08:11:50] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Again, there's a recession on
[25.05.2024 08:11:58] TFP)-Catalyst!: For the past three centuries.
[25.05.2024 08:12:00] TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe: This patron of yours, were they Libertonian or a Rheinlander?
[25.05.2024 08:12:17] Yellowfin: Your commitment to this whole bit is admirable, but I'm pretty sure nobody here is buying it.
[25.05.2024 08:12:24] BDM|LV-Bifrost: It's been... a difficult three centuries for the hospitality business of course
[25.05.2024 08:12:48] BDM|LV-Bifrost: We're not quite at Liberty to say much about our patron without their express consent
[25.05.2024 08:13:01] TFP)-Blackjack: Fair enough.
[25.05.2024 08:14:31] TFP)-Catalyst!: Well, can you tell us /anything/ about what the bloody hell you're doin' bringing that "luxury liner" 'round these parts?
[25.05.2024 08:14:46] TFP)-Blackjack: Might be a stretch, but your patron's name wouldn't happen to start with a 'K' and go bump in the night.
[25.05.2024 08:15:21] BDM|LV-Bifrost: It's more likely than you may believe
[25.05.2024 08:15:36] TFP)-Blackjack: Very bumpy, then.
[25.05.2024 08:15:57] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Ah, our patron is no longer indisposed in the viewing room
[25.05.2024 08:16:20] BDM|LV-Bifrost: He conveys his apologies for any inconvenience that may have transpired from any flight we may or may not have undertaken
[25.05.2024 08:16:22] TFP)-Catalyst!: You talkin' about the Brigand Bitch?
[25.05.2024 08:17:02] BDM|LV-Bifrost: and gives his condolences to the lost and an offer of a favor as a token of apology
[25.05.2024 08:17:04] TFP)-Blackjack: Aye. She's had business with Rheinlanders before.
[25.05.2024 08:17:12] TFP)-Blackjack: There might still be connections.
[25.05.2024 08:17:35] TFP)-Catalyst!: Would love to hear more about that.
[25.05.2024 08:17:38] TFP)-Catalyst!: So what's with the GC?
[25.05.2024 08:18:14] TFP)-Catalyst!: What kind of favor?
[25.05.2024 08:18:14] Paolo.Chadvator: HAIL
[25.05.2024 08:18:21] Yellowfin: Hey, Outcast.
[25.05.2024 08:18:24] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Unfortunately, he is not quite in a state to speak directly, but that's the extent of what he requested I relay
[25.05.2024 08:18:48] TFP)-Catalyst!: Right. So how do we cash in this "favor"?
[25.05.2024 08:19:06] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Well, we are a cruise liner and we do take clients - perhaps payment in kind may be appropriate
[25.05.2024 08:19:15] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Pro bono, as it were
[25.05.2024 08:19:49] TFP)-Catalyst!: No thanks.
[25.05.2024 08:20:01] TFP)-Catalyst!: Not much one fer spooky luxury cruises.
[25.05.2024 08:20:06] TFP)-Blackjack: We'll keep it in the pocket, at the least.
[25.05.2024 08:20:39] BDM|LV-Bifrost: No need to make any decisions now, I'm sure some day one of our cruises may become exactly what you're looking for
[25.05.2024 08:20:51] TFP)-Blackjack: Oh, I'm sure it will.
[25.05.2024 08:21:21] TFP)-Catalyst!: Your official rank still LC?
[25.05.2024 08:21:36] Yellowfin: Can you fucking not drag....whatever this is into our pleasant conversation?
[25.05.2024 08:21:47] TFP)-Catalyst!: Bloody hell.
[25.05.2024 08:22:05] TFP)-Blackjack: Pretty rude.
[25.05.2024 08:22:05] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Good evening, Maltesian - I take it you're also here to take in this beautiful sight?
[25.05.2024 08:22:16] BDM|LV-Bifrost: No, it seems you're more intent on violence
[25.05.2024 08:22:19] TFP)-Catalyst!: Maybe we oughta take out the trash.
[25.05.2024 08:22:43] TFP)-Blackjack: Last I knew, yeah.
[25.05.2024 08:22:49] TFP)-Catalyst!: LC, what do you think?
[25.05.2024 08:23:20] TFP)-Blackjack: About the sniffer, or the other thing?
[25.05.2024 08:23:23] TFP)-Catalyst!: The sniffer.
[25.05.2024 08:23:49] BDM|LV-Bifrost: We've got several more hours scheduled here, do not feel rushed into a decision on our account
[25.05.2024 08:24:03] TFP)-Catalyst!: Don't much like bunters, nor Maltese.
[25.05.2024 08:24:27] TFP)-Blackjack: I'm in a fighter, With. I'm not sure how much of a dent we'd make in that thing.
[25.05.2024 08:24:46] TFP)-Catalyst!: Well, I've got plenty of bombs. Ah well, up to you.
[25.05.2024 08:24:59] TFP)-Blackjack: He's also got buddies.
[25.05.2024 08:25:35] TFP)-Catalyst!: [She sighs.] So we here just to play this spook's idiotic game, then?
[25.05.2024 08:26:24] Yellowfin: Well, I was just passing through. But you're holding this...meeting like ten k from Manitoba, so I figured it wasn't-
[25.05.2024 08:26:27] Yellowfin: very secretive.
[25.05.2024 08:26:39] BDM|LV-Bifrost: So it would seem
[25.05.2024 08:26:48] Yellowfin: And given how little actual information the "liner" has revealed, I guess that was accurate.
[25.05.2024 08:27:47] TFP)-Blackjack: We got a good enough reason from him, at least.
[25.05.2024 08:28:03] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Rogue vessels, if you fire on our vessel we will defend ourselves.
[25.05.2024 08:28:07] Yellowfin: True, there's something.
[25.05.2024 08:28:23] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Well, that's three shots too much for my taste.
[25.05.2024 08:28:40] TFP)-Catalyst!: LC, permission to defend the civilian pleasure liner?
[25.05.2024 08:28:52] TFP)-Blackjack: Go for it.
[25.05.2024 08:29:37] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Well, it seems the rogues have been disposed of
[25.05.2024 08:29:38] TFP)-Blackjack: Ah, hell.
[25.05.2024 08:29:45] TFP)-Blackjack: Let's see what this lattice can do.
[25.05.2024 08:30:00] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Outcast vessel, please leave this area - you're disturbing a rather delightful conversation
[25.05.2024 08:30:15] Paolo.Chadvator: OK
[25.05.2024 08:30:51] TFP)-Blackjack: Man, I love this thing.
[25.05.2024 08:31:02] TFP)-Catalyst!: [Another sigh, much more wistful.] Miss my own.
[25.05.2024 08:31:25] TFP)-Blackjack: Can likely find more to fix up.
[25.05.2024 08:31:41] TFP)-Catalyst!: Would make me so fuckin' happy if we did.
[25.05.2024 08:32:30] TFP)-Blackjack: Honestly, Captain, I don't know what else there is to chat about. I got my apology, and that's all I really wanted.
[25.05.2024 08:33:01] TFP)-Blackjack: But please do hit us up about any further treks.
[25.05.2024 08:33:04] TFP)-Blackjack: Or other business.
[25.05.2024 08:33:12] TFP)-Blackjack: But knock next time, will ya?
[25.05.2024 08:33:21] TFP)-Catalyst!: Aye, nice to know what's goin' on.
[25.05.2024 08:33:23] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Now that we know the etiquette, we'll be sure to keep it
[25.05.2024 08:34:03] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Our patron is quite sorry for the inconvenience, and says if you change your mind
[25.05.2024 08:34:27] BDM|LV-Bifrost: you can contact the Bureau of Delightful Maritimeadventures for a free cruise
[25.05.2024 08:34:38] BDM|LV-Bifrost: We specialize in small vessel hospitality and transport
[25.05.2024 08:34:42] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Sight seeing, as it were
[25.05.2024 08:34:54] TFP)-Catalyst!: We'll be sure to keep it in mind.
[25.05.2024 08:34:59] BDM|LV-Bifrost: And we take great pride in our discretion
[25.05.2024 08:35:05] TFP)-Blackjack: Right. I'll keep it in mind the next time I want to take a cruise around my own backyard.
[25.05.2024 08:36:16] TFP)-Blackjack: Well, With, I think we're good here.
[25.05.2024 08:36:22] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Well then, if everyone is satisfied
[25.05.2024 08:36:29] TFP)-Catalyst!: On your wing, then.
[25.05.2024 08:36:30] BDM|LV-Bifrost: I believe we should move to our next waypoint on our tour
[25.05.2024 08:36:31] TFP)-Blackjack: Let's RTB.
[25.05.2024 08:36:36] BDM|LV-Bifrost: Safe travels to you all
[25.05.2024 08:36:40] TFP)-Blackjack: Aye.
[25.05.2024 08:36:43] TFP)-Catalyst!: Likewise.
Libera te ex Infernis.
West, out.
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