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17[[header:Arkanis Sector]]
18Located near Hutt controlled space, the Arkanis Sector played a key role in galactic affairs during the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War. The Clone Wars began on Geonosis, which also served as the initial building site of the first Death Star. Key Imperial military outposts were located throughout the sector, including Sentinel Base and the Arkanis Officer Academy. The remote desert world of Tatooine was also located in the Arkanis Sector.
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20!!Arkanis
21->'''Location:''' Arkanis System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories
22->'''Native species:''' Human (Arkanisian)
23
24A human dominated world that was home to an Imperial Officer Academy. While the planet was captured by and joined the New Republic near the end of the Galactic Civil War, many Arkanisians retained Imperial sympathies.
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26* AcademyOfEvil: The planet was home to an Imperial Officer Academy. There was also a secret, highly exclusive 'academy within an academy' known as the Commandant's Cadets run by Brendol Hux, of which one of the prerequisites to join was killing another cadet. Most of these recruits were [[HarmfulToMinors between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, though they could be even younger]].
27* AristocratsAreEvil: The planet is part of an autocracy with a few other worlds in the Arkanis sector, known as the Regency Worlds, and they were quick to ally with TheEmpire, receiving many perks. Even after the Empire fell, many Arkanisians continued to support the Empire's ideals [[spoiler: and outright allied with the First Order]].
28* PerpetualStorm: Rain is very common on Arkanis, with heavy rain occurring on average 2-3 days a week. Sunny days are considered rare.
29* UndyingLoyalty: Many Arkanisians remained loyal to the Empire after its fall, [[spoiler:and joined the First Order to bring its successor state into power]].
30
31[[folder:Armitage Hux's mother]]
32!!Armitage Hux's mother
33!!!'''Species:''' Human
34
35-> '''Appearances:''' ''Literature/AftermathLifeDebt'' [[note]] mentioned only [[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAgeOfResistance Age of Resistance]]'' [[note]] mentioned in flashback [[/note]] | ''Film/TheLastJedi'' [[note]] mentioned [[/note]]
36
37-->'''Admiral Brooks:''' ''"Given you found his mother in a kitchen, you'd think your illegitimate son could at least serve a drink, Commandant Hux."''
38
39A kitchen worker whom Brendol Hux had an affair with, resulting in Armitage Hux's birth.
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41* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Hux appears to have some level of care or strong feeling for her, as when Poe Dameron starts cracking a YourMom joke about her, Hux completely [[BerserkButton flips out]].
42* TheGhost: She is only ever mentioned rather than appearing in person, though she was still alive and living on Arkanis during the Siege of Arkanis in 5 ABY.
43* NoNameGiven: Her name is not mentioned, with Gallius Rax merely referring to her as "some...kitchen woman".
44* SmallRoleBigImpact: She is the mother of General Hux, who eventually became a leader of the First Order, bringing widespread death and terror upon the galaxy.
45* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know how involved she was in her son's life or what ultimately happened to her. When Rae Sloane evacuated Brendol and Armitage from Arkanis during the New Republic's siege, she was told not to concern herself with Armitage's mother and she was presumably left behind.
46[[/folder]]
47
48[[folder:Maratelle Hux]]
49!!Maratelle Hux
50!!!'''Species:''' Human
51
52-> '''Appearances:''' ''Literature/AftermathLifeDebt'' [[note]]mentioned only[[/note]]
53
54--> '''Gallius Rax:''' ''"[Brendol] has a child -- a bastard boy, as I understand. Not born of his wife, Maratelle, but of some... kitchen woman."''
55
56The wife of Brendol Hux, though she is not the mother of his son, [[BastardBastard Armitage]].
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58* AwfulWeddedLife: We don't get any details about their marriage, but taking into account that Brendol cheated on her with the kitchen staff and didn't seem to care that she was left behind in the middle of a siege, [[ImpliedTrope it doesn't look promising]].
59* TheGhost: She is only ever mentioned in ''Aftermath: Life Debt'', though she was still alive and living on Arkanis in 5 ABY.
60* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never learn what happened to her after the Siege of Arkanis; when Rae Sloane got Brendol and Armitage off the planet, she was told not to concern herself with Maratelle, who was presumably left behind when her husband fled to the Unknown Regions.
61[[/folder]]
62
63[[folder:Arkanisians on other pages]]
64* General Armitage Hux on the [[Characters/StarWarsTheFirstOrder First Order]] page.
65* Senator Carise Sindian on the [[Characters/StarWarsNewRepublicSenate New Republic Senate]] page.
66[[/folder]]
67
68!!Geonosis
69[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geonosis_sw.png]]
70->'''Location:''' Geonosis System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories
71->'''Native species:''' Geonosian
72
73A large, red, rocky world close to Tatooine. It was a key world to the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars and the construction site of the first Death Star. Has many moons, including one (barely) habitable ice moon called Bahryn, as well as an impressive ring system.
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75* AfterTheEnd: Father Time was not kind to Geonosis. Sometime between thousands to millions of years before the Battle of Yavin, a great cataclysm occurred that resulted in the destruction of its moon, forming a hostile ring system that wipes out nearly all life on the planet, leaving only the Geonoisians and a few other remaining hardy species to repopulate. The planet itself barely recovered before TheEmpire came into the picture [[FinalSolution and finished the job.]]
76* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: An interesting example of "All Planets are ''Mars''-like", since it more heavily resembles Mars, in both looks and climate, than anything on Earth.
77* AsteroidThicket: Is home to a particularly hostile ring system. TruthInTelevision, however, since ring systems are far more chaotic than a much more vast asteroid field.
78* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: It's less than a parsec away from Tatooine, which helps Anakin and Padmé reach it far faster than the Jedi and Republic forces.
79* ForbiddenZone: By the time of ''Rebels'', Geonosis is under "quarantine", enforced by Imperial patrols if anyone starts snooping around.
80* GhostPlanet: After the Geonosians were wiped out by the Empire, complete with an aura of death that can be sensed by any Force-user in range.
81* HostileWeather: Heavy dust storms are a major issue on Geonosis.
82* MeaningfulName: The fact that the first major war in the franchise begins on a planet which has a name sounding similar to "genesis" can’t be suprising.
83* IndustrialWorld: Geonosis is a downplayed example. It's outwardly a fairly standard desert planet dotted with the city-spires of the Geonosians and even a small sea, but its economy revolves entirely around industrial construction, especially of droids -- beneath those cities are immense, cavernous factories where vast numbers of droids are continuously being built.
84* SacrificialPlanet: Was all but completely wiped of any living things as the Death Star was nearing completion.
85* SingleBiomePlanet: All of Geonosis is just oddly shaped rock spires and harsh deserts.
86* WretchedHive: A desolate wasteland that is home to sadistic insectoids who produce droids for killing, queens who use brain worms to control sentient beings, and horrific gladiator games.
87
88[[folder:Geonosian]]
89!!Geonosians
90[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geonosian_sw_7840.jpg]]
91
92Geonosians were insect-like beings, complete with wings, nesting in colonies, who conspired with the Separatists to develop plans for the first Death Star.
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94* AirborneMooks: The winged warrior caste. Also double as EliteMooks in their hierarchy, as they are slightly larger than the Separatist droids.
95* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted. Not all Geonosians are necessarily evil, and their genocide at the Empire's hands is seen as a particular MoralEventHorizon the Rebel Alliance tries to use to get more people to join their cause.
96* BeastlyBloodsports: A major part of Geonosian culture. Given how quickly their population can grow, days or even weeks long gladiatorial games are an important way to cut down the population and gives the survivors a chance to gain in stature.
97* BlackSpeech: Non-Geonosians infected with brainworms will instantly speak fluent Geonosian, even if they're of species where that language would be very difficult to master, let alone speak.
98* DeathByAdaptation: In ''Legends'', there was nothing suggesting that the species suffered from a genocide campaign despite their involvement in the Death Star's construction and survived for at least fifty more years. In canon, while not every Geonosian was killed during the planet's "sterilization", it would seem the species as a whole is endangered unless there are other Geonosian hives off-world.
99* HeroKiller: In addition to killing many Clones during the Second Battle of Geonosis, one Geonosian kills Sember Vey, Iskat's Jedi Master during the First Battle of Geonosis.
100* HiveCasteSystem: Their society is made of up multiple castes, which include the winged warriors and wingless drones.
101* InsectoidAliens: They're a race of bipedal, human-sized bugs.
102* InTheBack: One Geonosian kills Fvorn this way during ''Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade''.
103* InUniverseNickname: They are sometimes simply called "Bugs" by clone troopers and other Republic forces.
104* {{Mooks}}: During the Geonosis scenes in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''' Geonosis arc. In terms of the Geonosian hierarchy, the wingless drone caste are the basic mooks.
105* NightOfTheLivingMooks: There are undead Geonosians controlled by brain parasites in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E7LegacyOfTerror Legacy of Terror]]".
106* RacialRemnant: After the Clone Wars, the Empire proceeded to bomb the planet from orbit, wiping out nearly all the planet's queens and hives. At least two survived, Klik-Klak and a Geonosian Queen egg, which hatched into the next Karina the Great seen in ''Darth Vader'', building a new race of Geonosian battle droids.
107* RayGun: They carry sonic blasters, which fire [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sonic waves of energy]].
108* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: They let out a high-pitched shriek before getting killed.
109* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being only fought once by Iskat Akaris and her master, a Geonosian killing Fvorn in an ambush during one part of the Jedi strike team's venturing through the tunnel causes Iskat to see and feel through the Force her first experience of death. In addition, another one killing Sember Vey during the First Battle of Geonosis causes Iskat to be without a Jedi Master, which fuels her uneasiness and anger, leading her to turn to the Dark Side by the Clone Wars' end and become the Thirteenth Sister.
110* StarfishLanguage: The Geonosian language is heavy on insect-like sounds such as clicking and buzzing.
111* TookALevelInBadass: In ''The Clone Wars'', they are shown to be much more dangerous than they were back in ''Attack of the Clones'' due to being intelligent creatures instead of mindless automatons like most Separatist military (a practice later repeated with the Umbarans). This also contributed to the infamously high clone body count in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E5LandingAtPointRain Landing at Point Rain]]".
112* WallpaperCamouflage: During the events of ''[[Literature/StarWarsInquisitorRiseOfTheRedBlade Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade]]'', a couple Geonosians blended in with their surroundings to get the drop on Sember Vey, her Padawan Iskat Akaris, and a couple other Jedi, after killing Fvorn.
113* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once the Empire decides to move the Death Star's construction site away from Geonosis, they proceeded to "sterilize" the planet, partially because the Geonosians are no longer essential for a work force but mostly because they want [[HeKnowsTooMuch to keep the Death Star a secret]].
114* ZergRush: Their combat tactics amount to swarming their enemies.
115[[/folder]]
116
117[[folder:Karina the Great]]
118!!Queen Karina the Great
119[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karina_the_great_sw_6074.jpg]]
120
121->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
122->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''[[note]]As an unhatched egg[[/note]] | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]''
123
124-->''"My empire is forever! My empire cannot end!"''
125
126The true leader of the Geonosians during the Clone Wars, Karina resided beneath the Progate Temple, where she laid eggs and issued orders to public leaders like Poggle the Lesser. After the sterilization of Geonosis, another recently hatched but infertile queen took the name.
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128* AdiposeRex: Although, unlike most examples, it's only due to having a bloated egg sac instead of being obese.
129* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Unlike most Geonosians, the Geonosian queens are the only ones that have been seen speaking Basic. However, [[YouNoTakeCandle it's incredibly broken Basic]]. The second Karina apparently learned to speak Basic from the Separatist droids around her.
130* ExplosiveBreeder: Like all insect queens, Karina the Great can lay an egg every eight seconds. Nearly all of the Geonosian queens, however, lost their ability to breed thanks to the Empire's [[FinalSolution sterilization of the planet]].
131* HiveQueen: Of the Geonosian Hive. This HiveMind can also extend to non-Geonosians and dead Geonosians through the use of parasitic brain worms.
132* LargeHam: It seems every Geonosian queen speaks in an over the top manner, despite their scratchy voice and broken Basic.
133* LegacyCharacter: Every Geonosian queen is called Karina the Great, according to [[WordOfGod Pablo Hidalgo]]. This explains the seemingly UnexplainedRecovery of Karina between ''The Clone Wars'' and ''Darth Vader''. They were two different queens. On the other hand, WordOfGod also implies that the second Karina is only going by that name as a result of losing her sanity.
134* RapidAging: Geonosian queens can grow from a larva to a full-grown adult within the span of two galactic standard years if they are supplied with enough oil jelly.
135* YouNoTakeCandle: Because Geonosians don't normally speak Basic, the queens' attempts at speaking it amount to this.
136
137!!!Tropes applying only to Karina the Great from the Clone Wars era:
138* BlindedByTheLight: She hates bright lights and the clone troopers use this to momentarily stun her.
139* BuriedAlive: The clone troopers destroy the infrastructure of the Progate Temple, causing the catacombs to collapse on her.
140* MindControl: She had plans for assimilating Jedi into her HiveMind through brain worms.
141* {{Necromancer}}: She's able to control undead Geonosians, but instead of through typical necromancy, it's through brain parasites (whether they can reanimate the corpses of other species remains a mystery).
142* OrcusOnHisThrone: Justified. Not only is she a HiveQueen, her egg sac keeps her from even moving from her spot. This was also a contributing factor in her demise when the Progate Temple collapsed around her.
143* PuppeteerParasite: Her brain worms, which she can use to enslave the minds of dead Geonosians and other species (but dead members of other species is ambiguous). They start looking for new hosts after Karina was buried, taking over a medical frigate's clone crew.
144* ShadowDictator: Played with. The Geonosians know she exists, but until the events of "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E7LegacyOfTerror Legacy of Terror]]", the Geonosians having a queen was only a rumor to off-worlders.
145
146!!!Tropes applying only to Karina the Great from the Galactic Civil War era:
147* TheCaligula: Thanks to being born infertile, she's not quite right in the head. She's decided to substitute battle droids for natural offspring and a substitute for the Geonosian species as a whole when in reality, [[VestigialEmpire she doesn't have much of an empire left to rule]]. WordOfGod implies that she calls herself "Karina the Great" because she's gone insane and is only working with the very little knowledge she has of Geonosis prior to the sterilization since she was born after it, and not just the initial assumption that every queen was called "Karina the Great".
148* {{Cyborg}}: Due to her infertile status, she's replaced her giant egg sac with a giant droid factory womb.
149* LastOfHerKind: She hatched from the last queen egg that survived the sterilization of Geonosis, under the care of Klik-Klak. And since she cannot reproduce naturally without a droid womb factory, she will likely be the last Geonosian Queen as well as the last Geonosian in general.
150* ReplacementGoldfish: The Geonosian battle droids are seen as her "children", not machines, no doubt to cope with the fact that she cannot reproduce.
151* VestigialEmpire: She calls her Geonosian battle droid "children" the future of Geonosis, when the Geonosian species is endangered and she's an infertile queen.
152[[/folder]]
153
154[[folder:Archduke Poggle the Lesser]]
155!!Archduke Poggle the Lesser
156->See his entry on the [[Characters/StarWarsSeparatistAlliance Separatist Alliance]] page.
157[[/folder]]
158
159[[folder:Klik-Klak]]
160!!Klik-Klak
161[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/klik_klak_sw.jpg]]
162
163->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Wood
164->'''Appearances:''' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]''
165
166Klik-Klak is a male Geonosian living in the depths of an old temple on Geonosis, controlling a leftover droid army. He is one of the last of his kind, but protects a queen egg in hope of resurrecting his species.
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168* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: For the last queen egg, thanks to Saw's cruelty.
169* BeautyEqualsGoodness: While still an insect, Klik-Klak has a much cuter design than most of his people, and a much sweeter variant of the Geonosian language, due to his sympathetic portrayal.
170* TheCaretaker: He protects and guards the last queen egg.
171* TheEngineer: Due to presumably being a worker, he has kept a shield generator and small droid army up and running for protection.
172* {{Expy}}: As a Geonosian reactivating a droid factory to build an army that comes into conflict with the protagonists years after the end of the Clone Wars, he fills a similar role to Gizor Dellso from the 501st campaign in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII''.
173* LastOfHisKind: Perhaps the last Geonosian worker drone on the planet, as Ezra could not detect any kind of sentient life when he first came to Geonosis. He did have [[HopeSpot a shot of not being the last one]] by taking care of the last queen egg in order for her to repopulate the planet, but it is ultimately revealed in ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader Darth Vader]]'' that the queen is sterile and could only reproduce battle droid mockeries with a womb factory, making him possibly the [[ShaggyDogStory last natural Geonosian left]].
174* NonMaliciousMonster: Ezra points out that he was just protecting himself from Saw's men, as they had come there with weapons and as the apparent SoleSurvivor he has reason to be afraid.
175* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Klik-Klak is named for the first thing he said to Ezra, as he isn't capable of speaking Basic.
176* RogueDrone: Donwplayed. Due to his queen being an egg, he is very independent for a member of the drone caste, but is making sure that his race survives.
177* RunningOnAllFours: Klik-Klak is capable of doing so in order to move faster, and is able to outrun Ezra this way.
178* ShaggyDogStory: His protection of the last queen egg to bring back the Geonosian race amounts to this when WordOfGod reveals that the egg will hatch into the sterilized mad queen from ''Darth Vader''.
179* ShoutOut: The prawns from ''Film/District9'' were cited by WordOfGod as being an inspiration to Klik-Klak and his ordeal. Both the prawns and the Geonosians were powerful civilizations, but [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen are reduced to being fugitive survivors]] that meet abuse from people they run into due to FantasticRacism and WhatMeasureIsANonHuman(-oid). All they want to do is [[NonMaliciousMonster live]].
180* SoleSurvivor: Of the Geonosian sterilization along with the unhatched queen egg. However, WordOfGod suggests that the deeper underground tunnels may have spared several more from the sterilization.
181* TheUnintelligible: Due to his species not speaking the language, though he can clearly understand Basic. Unfortunately due to this, his attempts to tell them about the Death Star his people built are confused for first the egg, and then the poison canisters that killed his people.
182[[/folder]]
183
184!!Tatooine
185->See [[Characters/StarWarsTatooine its own page]].
186
187!!Trask
188[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trask_sw.png]]
189->'''Location:''' Kol Iben System, Arkanis Sector, Outer Rim Territories
190->'''Immigrated species:''' Quarren, Mon Calamari, "Frog"
191
192An estuary moon in the same system as the gas giant Kol Iben. Much of the population consists of aquatic species, including many Mon Calamari and Quarren who settled on the moon to escape the politics of their homeworld.
193----
194* BlackMarket: The moon is mostly known for being a black market port.
195* SingleBiomePlanet: Most of the moon is covered in water, with the settlements being on platforms built on top of the ocean.
196
197[[folder:The Frog Lady]]
198!!"The Frog Lady"
199[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frog_lady_sw_mando.png]]
200
201!!!'''Species:''' "Frog"
202
203->'''Portrayed by:''' Misty Rosas
204->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
205->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheMandalorian''
206
207A humanoid amphibian that barters passage with the Mandalorian in exchange for the whereabouts of a Mandalorian covert.
208----
209* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: Invokes this, once the ice spiders start advancing. There is precisely one shot between her grabbing her clothes and being fully dressed.
210* DeathGlare: More like a "don't even ''think'' about it" look, but she gives a stern look to Grogu at the end of "The Passenger" when she notices him eying her eggs.
211* EasilyForgiven: She is implied to have realized that Grogu has been feasting on her eggs, but in the following episode she's such a puddle of love that she doesn't mind babysitting him for a few hours, and even lets him play with her newborn children. Grogu ''is'' just another baby, after all.
212* FailedASpotCheck: Despite how precious they are to her and the fact that getting them to safety so they can be fertilized by her husband is the reason she asked for Mando's help, she doesn't seem to notice that several of her eggs went missing after Grogu ate them.
213* HiddenDepths: She has a holdout blaster and knows how to rewire a translator from a dead protocol droid to use to talk to Mando.
214* HotSpringsEpisode: A {{downplayed}} version in that it's relegated to a single scene; the frog lady locates some hot springs to warm both herself and her eggs from the freezing cold.
215* LanguageBarrier: Mando doesn't know how to speak her language and she can't speak anything other than her own, so it takes a while for them to understand each other until she rewires Zero's head for use as a translator.
216* MamaBear: She's determined to get her last clutch of eggs to her husband in time to be fertilized. When Mando tries to put off escaping the ice planet she rewires Zero and uses him to give Mando an earful so he'll get moving again. She also takes up arms to help fight off the spider swarm and protect Grogu.
217* NoNameGiven: The subtitles and credits only call her "the Frog Lady", and she's otherwise known as the titular character of "The Passenger".
218* OverlyLongTongue: To be expected of an archetypical frog-like species. She uses it to lash at and grab things from afar.
219* RunningOnAllFours: She usually walks on two legs but when she needs to move at speed she drops to all fours and leaps around.
220* TranslationYes: Barely a second of croaking translates to "the precious cargo is my spawn, I need my eggs fertilized by the equinox or the last eggs I can lay will die, jumping into hyperspace will kill the eggs, my husband has settled on the moon of Trask in the system Kol Iben".
221--> '''The Mandalorian''': She said all that?
222--> '''Peli''': I paraphrased.
223[[/folder]]
224
225[[folder:The Frog Man]]
226!!"The Frog Man"
227[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frog_man_sw_mando2.png]]
228
229!!!'''Species:''' Frog
230
231->'''Portrayed by:''' John Cameron
232->'''Appearances:''' ''Series/TheMandalorian''
233
234The husband of the Frog Lady, who sought out a place habitable for their species and found a home on Trask.
235----
236* NiceGuy: He graciously thanks the Mandalorian for escorting his wife to him, and the couple babysit the Child while he goes on a mission and let the Child play with their newborn tadpoles.
237* NoNameGiven: The subtitles and credits only call him "the Frog Man".
238[[/folder]]
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