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Star Wars once tracked every background alien

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Before Disney wiped the slate clean, Lucasfilm employed a specific lore-keeper just to manage a colossal internal database. This system aggressively cataloged the backstory, exact timeline placement, and blaster type of every single obscure background character who ever sneezed in a cantina, preventing comic book writers from accidentally breaking the universe.

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