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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links gplcontinue="1|0|E-111" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="0" title="Boran Jarrett" missing="" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" />
      <page pageid="8" ns="0" title="AJ Olsen" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-29T15:12:26Z" lastrevid="603" counter="" length="11337" />
      <page pageid="209" ns="0" title="AP-34" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-29T14:50:25Z" lastrevid="599" counter="" length="1334" new="" />
      <page pageid="5" ns="0" title="Admiral Carteret" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-16T16:56:23Z" lastrevid="494" counter="" length="690" />
      <page pageid="3" ns="0" title="Admiral Croft" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-16T16:47:27Z" lastrevid="476" counter="" length="538" />
      <page pageid="197" ns="0" title="Arktus" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-24T13:30:09Z" lastrevid="589" counter="" length="1855" />
      <page pageid="144" ns="0" title="AutoChef" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-16T17:06:07Z" lastrevid="511" counter="" length="2276" />
      <page pageid="172" ns="0" title="Azzah Solie" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-16T16:40:34Z" lastrevid="457" counter="" length="1636" />
      <page pageid="71" ns="0" title="Duke of Silverfall" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-18T04:41:53Z" lastrevid="137" counter="" length="33" redirect="" new="" />
      <page pageid="69" ns="0" title="Duke of Waverley" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2015-09-29T15:12:26Z" lastrevid="135" counter="" length="22" redirect="" new="" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>