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Intro

For this Hybrid Star Battle Series I will be sharing a new puzzle each week combining Star Battle with another puzzle genre. This week's genre is Tapa-Like Loop, probably my favorite loop genre (for the moment, at least). It goes without saying, but this series is inspired by the astounding Sudoku Variants Project - Thanks Richard!

This puzzle was originally created as a Secret Santa gift for superrabbit, a great pencil puzzle solver and setter, and she has graciously agreed to let me publish it here. Hope you enjoy!

Rules

Standard Star Battle and Tapa-Like Loop rules apply, plus a no-overlap clause.

• Star Battle: Place stars into some cells such that each row and column contains exactly 2 stars (1 star in the example). Stars may not touch one another, not even diagonally.
• Tapa-Like Loop: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some empty cells. Clues represent the numbers of consecutive cells occupied by the loop each time it enters the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue.
• Stars may not overlap the loop or the clues.

Links

Solve on Penpa+. You may use shading instead of stars if you wish - answer checker only checks for the loop.

Example (Penpa+ link):