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Event is an Effective Event or Delegated Event

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Every Event has a name and is defined on either a Lifecycle or Assigner.

A Delegated Event is a kind of forwarding address that routes a Signal to a Forwarded Effective Event which is, by definition, not further delegated.

An Effective Event is an Event that does, in fact, have a local effect. And by 'effect' we mean an Event Response on a State Model. With a Creation Event it will be to signal the MX environment to create an instance of a Class in a Lifecycle State Model.