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[โ€“] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not nearly into the SW lore enough nowadays to respond adequately to that. I'm old enough to have seen the original release in theaters, and I never heard that justification back in the decade or two that followed. As such, it honestly sounds like a retrofitted justification someone was finally able to come up with. And even that still sounds sus because of the time-dilating effects such celestial bodies would cause (although this is sci-fi, so I'm sure there can be a retrofitted explanation of how to get away with that, too).

[โ€“] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's almost definitely a retcon, I'm just a shitposter. Also star wars is fantasy dressed like sci-fi ๐Ÿ˜Š