When I was a kid I got a new basketball and gave the dog the old one. About 10 or 20 minutes later you heard a pop, and right after that, the dog walked by with the bladder to the ball in her mouth. (German Shepherd)
Whether or not shooting was justified, people throwing rocks are not peaceful protestors. Unfortunately, a couple of the dead were not even protesting, they were simply downrange
or the most likely, i think is Lucas never HEARD of a parsec, didn’t know what the parallax of a second meant, and made up a word that already existed. Gene Roddenberry claimed he had never heard of Benjamin Spock when he named the Star Trek First Officer
because it Builds Character