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Reuters Station, Andromeda - The inhabitants of the planet LS7498 in the galaxy NGC3690 have filed a class action lawsuit against the Primary Landowners of the planet and the owners of a nearby asteroid, the Quantum Minerals Corporation in an effort to block plans for a Merger of the two bodies. The merger would allow mineral extraction to continue on Asteroid NLO476, a rich producer of Dilithium Crystals, at a fraction of the current cost by utilizing the resources available on LS7498. The Inhabitants are seeking an injunction of the merger application citing the case of "Human Kind Vs. Google Mirth" 1 as precedent. 1 "Human Kind Vs. Google Mirth" famously resulted in the near extinguishment of all Human life when Google Earth and Google Moon executed a plan to merge their two bodies into a single object. The merger had promised shorter commutes and was acting acting upon the advise of advertising executives to re-new their companies image.