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This is our most desperate hour. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

— Leia  ·  Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

A brass lantern casts a turquoise beam toward a small pale paper pyramid.
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It's an urgent plea for rescue. The speaker calls the situation the most desperate hour and places all hope in one named person, calling them the only hope left. The stakes feel enormous because everything hangs on a single answer to the call.

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