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+# Galactic Bot
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+Welcome to the Galactic Bot repository.  
+I've decided to open this up as I struggle to find motivation and time to work on this, so contributions welcome.  
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+I do require that any contributions conform to the linter rules present and code should strive to be legible and follow generally good programming practises. Pull requests must explain what they change/add and why.
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+Discussion and questions are to be had in the [discord server](https://discord.gg/WDCTKGp).
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+I will hopefully expand on this file and add others to help document this project, as it stands there is very little internal documentation.
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