Then the revisionism would make more sense, but really, it doesnt matter if you just think of it as a simple production mistake. That would have been a good time to mention how far it can travel reliability and Han's piloting skill through Imperial territory. If he is going to make Greedo shoot first, changing a word isnt a big deal.Īlso, the part about the Falcon's reliability and pilot skill didnt come up until later. I'm surprised Lucas didnt alter that line when he re-released A New Hope. It doesnt matter if someone years later trys to make it logical, it was just a minor mistake when they made the film. I have no clue what Han Solo was talking. Its not like he said the Falcon made the Kessel Run in 3 days and under 12 parsecs. Its the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. Any ship can travel the distance, Han is specifically talking about speed before and after the mention of parsecs. Seriously, i was like 10 when i heard this line(re-release), and i had no problem understanding it. besides that, travelling in a straight line, avoiding various gravity wells, is harder than you'd imagine, all credit to the falcon's onboard computers, and Solo's experience.īut the millennium falcon did it in under 40 parsec, without getting busted. and according to canon, hypertravel actually takes time, thats why they say "we are about to come out of hyperspace", while Luke is doing the blast shield training. takes time for the engines to prepare, for the astronavigation computer to do the calculations, and for the capacitors to recharge. thus taking much longer, both in distance, and in time. jumping to shit systems like degobah, where there's nothing, not even a cheap ass refuelling station. meaning he did many straight-to-target jumps, coming out of hyperspace behind asteroids, or nearly in range of many star-destroyers, while other blockade runners make the same run in 60, 80, or even 100 light years. Han Solo managed to do the complicated kessel run, which is full of imperial blockades, in under 40 light years of distance. "i made the kessel run in under 40 light years" "i made the kessel run in under 12 parsecs" The best measurements to date say the star is about 79 light-years away - just 24 parsecs.Why do we assume the parsec line in star wars was a mistake? It’s close to the upper right of the Moon at first light. The angles are so tiny, though, that the technique works best for objects that are within a few thousand parsecs.Ī star whose distance is easily measured with the technique is in good view early tomorrow: Regulus, the bright heart of Leo. How much it changes reveals the object’s distance. As a result of that shift, the viewing angle to an object changes over the course of a year. The word “parsec” is short for “parallax second.” It’s based on the apparent motion of an object as Earth moves from one side of the Sun to the other. It’s equal to about three and a quarter light-years. It measures the distances to objects beyond the solar system - stars, galaxies, and others. In fact, it’s the most commonly used unit of distance in modern astrophysics. While the Kessel run is fictional, the parsec isn’t. A good ship and a good pilot, though, can take a dangerous shortcut - and cut the distance down to about 12 parsecs. But in “Solo,” the most recent movie, it’s explained that the Kessel run isn’t a straight path - it maneuvers around several objects along the way. Gorchestopher H at 17:33 13 It was completely intentional. Clearly Han didn't spend 20 years doing the Kessel run. At 1.5c it would take you almost 20 years to travel 12 parsecs. Since a parsec is a unit of distance, not time, that didn’t seem to make any sense. 12 The wiki explanation doesn't explain how it would be possible for him to even travel 12 parsecs in a ship that can only go 'point 5 past light speed'. In the original “Star Wars” movie, Han Solo brags that his ship, the Millennium Falcon, can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
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