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ISS astronauts be like: "Hold your fire. There's no life forms." (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflightmemes

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The command was dumb, but the action wasn't.

It was implied that the plans were unable to be copied, otherwise the rebels would have sent a copy instead of the original. Vader would have been handed the original and the copy (or several) would have made it back to the leadership.

The empire needs to find the original to know it's no longer in rebel hands, so destroying it would have been losing that evidence.

The stormtroopers were on planet looking for the escape pod contents, so they're actions (mostly) make sense.

[–] VirtualOdour 1 points 2 months ago

Implied because the rebels are also badly written? There's nothing in-world explaining why a basic digital file can't be copied, I guess it's metachlorians, right?