diff --git a/PyRoute/unique_sectors.py b/PyRoute/unique_sectors.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+"""
+Created on Jan 12, 2025
+
+@author: CyberiaResurrection
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import codecs
+
+logger = logging.getLogger('PyRoute')
+
+
+def process():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description='Traveller trade route sector list deduplicator.'
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--infile',
+        help='file with list of sector names to process',
+        default="sectorlist.txt"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--outfile',
+        help='file to write deduplicated list of sector names to',
+        default="sectorlist_uniq.txt"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--log-level',
+        default='INFO'
+    )
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    set_logging(args.log_level)
+
+    srcfile = args.infile
+    outfile = args.outfile
+    if outfile is None:
+        outfile = srcfile
+
+    # read srcfile in, line by line:
+    try:
+        with codecs.open(srcfile, 'r', 'utf-8') as infile:
+            lines = [line for line in infile]
+    except FileNotFoundError as e:
+        logger.error("Sector file " + srcfile + " not found.  Cannot continue.")
+        raise e
+
+    line_set = set()
+    for line in lines:
+        line_set.add(line)
+
+    lines = list(line_set)
+    lines.sort()
+
+    try:
+        with codecs.open(outfile, "w", "utf-8") as targfile:
+            targfile.writelines(lines)
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error("Deduplicated sector file " + outfile + " could not be created.  Cannot continue")
+        raise e
+
+    logger.info("process complete")
+
+
+def set_logging(level):
+    logger.setLevel(level)
+    formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
+    # create console handler and set level to debug
+    ch = logging.StreamHandler()
+    ch.setLevel(level)
+    ch.setFormatter(formatter)
+    logger.addHandler(ch)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    process()