Oh here's some "fun" canon: Ilum/Starkiller Base, upon becoming a star, is renamed "Solo" in honor of Han Solo, because he happened to get stabbed there
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
"How do we honor Han Solo's sacrifice?" "Let's name the star made out of the planet his son murdered him on, which also killed billions, after him"
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I'll note briefly a planet of Earth's size becoming a star is super ridiculous but so is everything else about Starkiller
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Smaller than Earth actually; it's described as twice the size of the Death Star, which is much smaller than Earth
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Replying to @AmyVeeres @BootlegGirl and
A moon that size probably wouldn't even be round! I mean, I guess I'd have to see the exact figures...
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Replying to @nivenus @AmyVeeres and
That is, in fact, why Obi-Wan immediately identifies it as an artificial structure while Han is still in denial about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and
At the same time though there's no lower bound on the word "moon", unlike the term "planet" - the only definition of a moon is a natural object that orbits a planet The Death Star is still significantly bigger than Phobos and Deimos, which most of us learned were Mars' moons
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and
(Asimov was very insistent that "Moon" should just be a proper name for Earth's moon and the general term should be "natural satellite", and artificial satellites should always be specified as such He lost both battles and we're better off for it probably)
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The line "That's no natural satellite, that's an ARTIFICIAL satellite" has no oomph
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