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Reidi Artom

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this explorer was generally considered the first being to map the Cularin System. A near-human whose species lived for hundreds of years, Reidi left her homeworld and stowed aboard a starship. When the ship was attacked and the pilot killed, Reidi took command of the craft and repair it. She assumed ownership of the craft, renaming it the Trailblazer, and set out on her own to make a living as an explorer. No less than six star systems were discovered during her career, and many were named with variations on her own name. Many of these systems were later renamed to conform to the galactic standard established by the Old Republic. During a routine mission, she was pulled out of hyperspace by the proximity of the comet cloud which surrounded the Cularin System, some 200 years before the Battle of Naboo. She named the planets and the system after herself, until a search revealed that an older name had been logged. She accepted this fact, and returned to Cularin to settle the planet with the help of the Tarasin. After establishing the cities of Gadren and Hedrett, she left Cularin and headed into the Unknown Regions, and was never seen again. Just before the onset of the Clone Wars, a collection of documents written by Artom were discovered by a group of explorers, who were assisted by the Tarasin of the Vriisan irstat who had served as their caretaker for more than two centuries. Among the documents was Artom's "manifesto for expansion," in which she implored future readers to seek out a way to live in harmony with new races and new worlds, rather than simply stripping them of resources and abandoning them.