Our friend Jim over at Life Without Buildings just scooped the scoop of the century. Any dork worth their salt knows the inspiration for Han Solo’s bachelor space-freighter was a cheeseburger with an olive next to it. Or was it?

While flipping through an Otto Wagner book, one of Otto’s designs caught his attention. A failed bank that Wagner was cooking up is . . . and you can see it clear as day . . . a blueprint for the Millenium Falcon:

A long time ago...

in a catacomb far, far away.

This bank was intended to hold the spoils of Germany, a holographic battle chess parlour, and an array of escape pods. The coincidences are too crazy!