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Old 01-09-2009, 01:18 PM   #67 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo View Post
All they had to do is put some grating to cover up those exhaust tubes on the Death Star. But noooooooooooooooooooooooo, some stupid bureaucrat in the Imperial High Command had to go bitching about cost overruns. I told him don't worry about that shit, Vader would sign off on it....
Actually, it was a bit more difficult than that. Some of the higher-ups were going on about how the parts were on a long-term backorder out on Druckenwell in the Doldur Sector. It would only have been a cost overrun if they rush-ordered the parts or got them from somewhere else.

Mm-hm.
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