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De acordo com o que os salvagers - que são especialistas - parecem saber - pelo menos a Rey faz - ele não pode sair do planeta, ou mesmo se mover bem.
Rey scarcely glanced in the other vessel’s direction. “That one’s garbage! We need something that’ll move, not just get off the ground—if we’re lucky!” (this and all other quotes from Alan Dean Foster novelization)
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As BB-8 looked on, she shouted back to him, “I’ve piloted all kinds of craft, but nobody’s flown this old crate in years!”
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O motivo da rampa foi porque Plutt trabalhou nela de vez em quando
“Hey! Some moof-milker installed a compressor on the ignition line!”
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Dado que era improvável que fosse levado embora, a maioria dos catadores não teria se incomodado em tentar roubá-lo, porque isso arriscou derrubar a vingança de Unkar Plutt, que não era o mais gentil dos personagens. Kinda como roubar de Jabba - realmente uma má ideia.
O Visual Dictionary nos mostra um limpador que perdeu os dois braços para os capangas de Plutt. Ele envia dois bandidos para levar o dróide BB-8 de Rey pela força.
“Of course you do,” Naka replied soothingly. “Jakku is no place for a madman.” He looked to his left. “We’re not far from Niima Outpost, but I’m not going to take you there. Local commerce is more or less run by a corpulent sack of slurge who goes by the name of Plutt. I’ve had words with him in the past and don’t wish to confront him again.”
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E as pessoas provavelmente tinham alguma pista de que Plutt poderia rastrear o navio (Rey não sabia, mas ela tinha apenas 19 anos)
“How—how did you find me?”
He smiled. It did not improve his appearance. “The ship you stole. The Millennium Falcon. You can’t really track a ship while it’s in hyperspace—but when it emerges, and particularly after it sets down somewhere, there are ways. Expensive, but in the case of valuable property, often worth it. Definitely worth it in the case of the Falcon. It happens to be fitted with a covert Imperial homing device. Old technology, but still quite functional. To which my presence here can attest. Didn’t take much to get the necessary relays working.”