Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā TOĀ EVERY ALDERAANIAN WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE: this is Princess Leia Organa. to the newcomers: i would ordinarily be very grateful that you responded to our call for UNITY. but as things stand today, i wish you hadnāt come. an imperial star destroyer is heading in this direction and will reach us within minutes. there is no time to escape by standard lanes. no time to attain hyperspace. it wants to kill the last alderaanians and without the espirion fleet on our side, iām afraid it has enough firepower to do the job. but we will NOT SURRENDER. we will DEFEND ourselves, but we wonāt land one more blow than necessary. we are not our enemy. WE ARE ALDERAAN. we answer rage with wisdon. we answer fear with imagination. we answer war with HOPE. if one life with a single drop of alderaanian blood survives, alderaan survives. if one life with a passion for alderaanian creativity survives, alderaan survives. and we are, each of us, important. and whatever happens, i bow to all of you and TO OUR FUTURE.