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Alderaan was a fictional planet featured in the Star Wars space opera franchise [in the Alderaan Sector of the Core Worlds]. It is blue-green in appearance and is depicted as a terrestrial planet with humanoid inhabitants. It is the home planet of Princess Leia Organa, one of the lead characters in the film series. In the original 1977 film, Star Wars, Alderaan is destroyed by the Death Star, a giant space station capable of destroying entire planets.[
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