Big Spud
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Nickname or "wireless code name" used by the Colonials for a large asteroid in the same field that the mining ship Majahual found another asteroid with an extensive ore deposit (Scar).
Notes
- This may be an homage to the use of an actual potato by the special effects team during the asteroid belt scene in the movie The Empire Strikes Back.