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      <p ns="0" title="Barrayaran Imperial Service military uniforms" snippet="...ial Service: the Space Forces, the Landing Forces and others. The implicit &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of the Stritsh is that a soldier cannot be a real badass if he does not hav&#10;" size="35807" wordcount="5574" timestamp="2019-12-17T19:26:51Z" />
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