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  "name": "Lantern Crab",
  "aliases": [],
  "type": "character",
  "reality": "fictionalized",
  "loreStatus": "established",
  "summary": "Walks sideways, glows forward.",
  "traits": [
    "A teal shell and a lantern on a thin stalk. It walks sideways and glows forward, as the keepers like to say.",
    "Hunts Seven from about 30 metres away and keeps coming. A hit takes 7 points off a 100-point shield.",
    "Home: Pelagia."
  ],
  "style": [],
  "collections": [
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  ],
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    "url": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-source-starlight-crab-card-v1.webp",
    "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-source-starlight-crab-card-v1-480.webp",
    "alt": "Lantern Crab in an existing Starlight Menagerie gameplay image.",
    "caption": "Reused in-game creature reference from Starlight Menagerie. The full source frame is preserved.",
    "status": "approved",
    "version": 1,
    "sourceLabel": "Starlight Menagerie creature reference",
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    "selectedUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-source-starlight-crab-card-v1-1200.webp",
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  "variants": [],
  "appearances": [
    {
      "title": "Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html",
      "collectionId": "starlight-menagerie"
    },
    {
      "title": "The creatures",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/creatures.html",
      "description": "Named in this published page."
    },
    {
      "title": "The map of Doorly Orbital",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/map.html",
      "description": "Named in this published page."
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "starlight-menagerie-encyclopedia",
      "title": "Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html"
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-30",
      "text": "Added from the named source to the Field Guide."
    }
  ],
  "spoilers": [],
  "questions": [
    "Inspired by Crab; the guide describes its game depiction."
  ],
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      "kind": "scene",
      "url": "/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/crab-three.webp",
      "previewUrl": "/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/crab-three.webp",
      "alt": "Lantern Crab in the Starlight Menagerie.",
      "caption": "Lantern Crab in the Starlight Menagerie.",
      "status": "approved",
      "version": 1,
      "sourceLabel": "Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia",
      "sourceUrl": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html",
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  "revision": 1,
  "updated": "2026-10-30"
}