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      <p ns="0" title="Legal Information" snippet="...the site design, any homemade graphics, and the content of those design&#039;s &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;, pages not already covered by the existing copyrights of Palladium and Big &#10;" size="7713" wordcount="1341" timestamp="2005-03-01T23:32:50Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Micron Power Armour Mk 309" snippet="The entire Mk 3.09 has an AR of 19. &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Meaning&lt;/span&gt; that any unmodified roll to strike of 19 or higher will penetrate the armou&#10;" size="15653" wordcount="2427" timestamp="2005-07-10T05:06:42Z" />
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