jesus christ on the cross

Han pretended that he didn't hear her. Instead, he checked the Falcon'scontrols and struggled to keep his patience even though his companion had soobviously lost hers. He flipped switches on the control console, ignoring theprincess's look of disdain. Clearly, she doubted that this assemblage of spare partsand welded hunks of scrap metal would hold together even if they did manage to getbeyond the blockade. Han pushed a button on the intercom. "Chewie…come on!" Then, winking atLeia, he said, "This baby's still got a few surprise left in her." "I'll be surprised if we start moving." Before Han could make a carefully honed retort, the Falcon was jolted by a blastof Imperial laser fire that flashed outside the cockpit window. They could all see thesquad of Imperial stormtroopers rushing with drawn weapons into the far end of theice hangar. Han knew that the Falcon's dented hull might resist the force of thosehand weapons, but would be destroyed by the more powerful bazooka-shaped weaponthat two of the Imperial troopers were hurriedly setting up.