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LOL, now a days it would be a portable DVD player.
I’ve never understood this line – since parsec is a unit of length and not time, how is it noteworthy? They found a shortcut? Otherwise is it not like saying ‘I ran the marathon in 42 kilometres’?
Actually, that’s about the gist of it. The Kessel Run is a smuggling run that goes by a group of black holes called the Maw. The trick with hyperdrives is that, in order to avoid being ripped apart, you have to not only be fast, but also try to avoid gravity wells, such as black holes. The less than 12 parsecs is referring to how close the Falcon’s route took it to the Maw, and obviously it would need to be very fast in order to get that close.
Shadow, since the worst author in the entire Star Wars Universe came up with that explanation, I’d rather believe that it’s a translation error from Galactic Standard to English than trust anything that came out of Kevin J. Anderson’s keyboard.
The Jedi Academy Trilogy remains to this day the only series of books I have actually THROWN AWAY after reading. Anderson is a plague and a blight upon the world.
Pudoo!
If you think Anderson is bad, clearly you’ve never read Barbara Hambly.
the script for A New Hope includes stage directions for Obi wan:
**”It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!”
Ben reacts to Solo’s stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation. **
so novel retcons ignored, it was apparently intended to be just as it sounds.. Solo boasting about his ships speed and not knowing what he’s talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzL-LpmLSKs&feature=g-user-u
Yes, it has been explained since, but at the time and to the lay person, it does sound like a simple blooper… and perhaps it was originally. These days there are entire books devoted to explaining how Superman’s powers would actually work within the laws of physics. Did the comic authors ever worry about it at the time? 😉 I admit, perhaps Lucas did know what he was talking about when he scripted that. Maybe I’m not giving him enough credit.
True story. Geeks will be geeks, but while we are geeking it out, please remember that this was initially designed to be quick entertainment for the ever age joe, and that George Lucas does not actually possess an astrophysics degree. 😉
Over-geeking the details is, of course, an inherent risk in any Scifi. In actuality, asking such questions (or even what the cough drop packet-style rank insignia mean) is like questioning the physics of how the One Ring is able to modify behavior patterns.
to put the whole “12 parsec thing is impossible” debate to rest, i’m going to expand on what shadowknight said. the Kessel Run, normally an 18 parsec route of a hyperspace lane does stray dangerously close to the Maw Cluster. Han was able to shorten the distance by using gravity to his advantage, which was warped due to the proximity to the cluster. he didn’t beat the “time” it took, rather he took the shortest possible route through the Kessel Run in “less than 12 parsecs”. its like cutting corners on an interstellar spacial scale.
The joke is a reference to how ill thought the line was likely originally meant. The fact fans have since been able to make it work quite satisfactorily is wonderful.
When I originally watched it, I figured Han was just making shit up to try and sound impressive. It wouldn’t exactly be out of character for him, would it?
From what I understand, the original INTENTION was that he was supposed to come off as “just making it up” which was why parsec (distance) was used in place of a unit of time.
For some reason people just assumed he was being truthful, somehow.
Yeah… that’s just Han trying to sell his abilities to make an extra credit, of course he doesn’t exactly know what he’s getting himself (and chewie) into. The force works in mysterious ways…
This how you keep a script going or you wouldn’t have a movie…