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Golden Gate Knights instructor Alain Block and Gary Ripper, dressed as Darth Vader, demonstrate light saber moves during class in San Francisco.

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Golden Gate Knights instructor Alain Block, right, teaches during class in San Francisco.

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Jim Collum and other students work on their light saber skills during a Golden Gate Knights class in San Francisco.

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Aaron Cheng jumps over a light saber swung by fellow student Starshine Medeiros during a Golden Gate Knights class.

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Sophianna Ardinger meditates after a Golden Gate Knights class.

The Golden Gate Knights, a group of San Francisco Star Wars fans who want to travel to a galaxy not that far away have created a combat choreography class for Jedis-in-training with their weapon of choice: the light saber.

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Editor's note: The images were photographed on Feb. 10, but made available to NBC News today.

Sometimes my heart goes out to the long-suffering civil servants who work on the front lines of political protest. That goes for the workers in the Odessa City Hall and also for some of the police officers and sanitation workers who are forced to deal with the Occupy demonstrators. I’m pretty sure that many of them just want to do their job and go home at a reasonable time without causing or getting into trouble.

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A Ukrainian wearing a Darth Vader costume speaks to a policeman in the city hall of the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa on Nov. 14, 2011. "Darth Vader" demanded a plot of land on which to park his spaceship.

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In an event that was well covered by local media, a man dressed as the Star Wars villain visited the mayor's office this week to claim a free land plot citing Ukrainian legislation which grants every citizen the right to own 1,000 square meters of land.

His visit followed a decision by city authorities to grant attractive land plots along the sea coast to a group of people for free, prompting public concerns about corruption, according to local media. Read more...

Watch the youtube video below to see Vader’s visit to city hall.

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