People
"Are you telling me," he said, "that you set yourself up to become President of the Galaxy just to steal that ship?"
— Douglas Adams
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The narration questions whether someone engineered an entire political rise to the galaxy's highest office purely as an elaborate scheme to steal a spaceship. It's a comedic reveal that treats an absurdly grand ambition as nothing more than a means to a much smaller end.
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