Maria Installation Problem - Failed to stop mysql.service

I have been trying to remove and reinstall mariadb on my system however I keep running into issues when trying to purge the previous install.

root@Server:/home/nicholas# sudo apt-get --purge autoremove mariadb-client-10.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mariadb-server-10.2 : PreDepends: mariadb-common (>= 1:10.2.26+maria~bionic) but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: galera-3 (>= 25.3)
                       Depends: mariadb-client-10.2 (>= 1:10.2.26+maria~bionic) but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: mariadb-server-core-10.2 (>= 1:10.2.26+maria~bionic) but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: socat but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

When I attempt to fix the broken install. It works fine up until right after I have to enter a root password. I get this message following that.

Failed to start mysql.service: Unit mysql.service is not loaded properly: Invalid argument.
See system logs and 'systemctl status mysql.service' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed.
● mysql.service
   Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:32: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:33: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:34: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:35: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:36: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:37: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:38: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:39: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mysql.service:40: Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Aug 22 15:27:24 Server systemd[1]: mysql.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing.
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.2 (--configure):
 installed mariadb-server-10.2 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mariadb-server-10.2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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