"GENERAL JAN DODONNA: An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has reinvigorated the arguments of the 'Artificial Moonlet' and the 'Rogue Planet-Station' camps. I fear this question is fracturing the Rebellion."
OT: That's no moon....
It can't be a moon. It's not orbiting anything.
It can't be a moon. It's not orbiting anything.
I think an assumption that could have been made at that point of the movie is that it WAS orbiting Alderaan.
"It's heading for that small rogue planetoid formerly known as a moon."
Rogue planets don't orbit a Sun anymore, but they are still planets.