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[[The exterior of the Millennium Falcon, watching as an Imperial Fighter approaches the Death Star in the distance. Voices from inside...]]
Luke: He's heading for that small moon.
Obi-Wan: That's no moon - it's a space station.
[[The same view.]]
Luke: It's too big to be a space station.
Obi-Wan: But it's too
small
to be a moon.
[[Three hours pass]]
[[The Millennium Falcon in side view.]]
Obi-Wan: Fine! What if we agree it's not a moon, but we make a new category called "dwarf moon"?
Luke: And what's the cutoff, asshole?! Is this
ship
a dwarf moon now?
Obi-Wan: Screw you.
{{Title text: GENERAL JAN DODONNA: An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has reinvigorated the arguments of the 'artificial moonlet' and 'rogue planet-station' camps. I fear this question is fracturing the Rebellion.}}
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