Mar 10
passage to Alderaan, Han Solo is astounded that Luke and Obiwan
haven't heard of the of the Millenium Falcon, "the ship that made the
Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs". Lots of people note that this is an expression of distance, not time
... so what's the big deal? Well I think the clue is in something Han says later on... “Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy…without
precise calculations you could fly right through a star or bounce too
close to a supernova, and that would end your trip real quick,
wouldn’t it?” So I got thinking that 12 parsecs is significant because the Falcon is
able to navigate around space obstacles (e.g. stars, black holes and
other things with large gravitational fields) in such a way that the
route that most normal ships would have to take is significantly
reduced. Later I discovered that this is explained on the Star Wars Wiki and
wish I'd just read that first. =) http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Parsec
“the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.”
In the movie "Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope" while negotiatingpassage to Alderaan, Han Solo is astounded that Luke and Obiwan
haven't heard of the of the Millenium Falcon, "the ship that made the
Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs". Lots of people note that this is an expression of distance, not time
... so what's the big deal? Well I think the clue is in something Han says later on... “Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy…without
precise calculations you could fly right through a star or bounce too
close to a supernova, and that would end your trip real quick,
wouldn’t it?” So I got thinking that 12 parsecs is significant because the Falcon is
able to navigate around space obstacles (e.g. stars, black holes and
other things with large gravitational fields) in such a way that the
route that most normal ships would have to take is significantly
reduced. Later I discovered that this is explained on the Star Wars Wiki and
wish I'd just read that first. =) http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Parsec
