Question: Han Solo took the Millennium Falcon on a shortcut through space to make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. Now that you've got all of that *useful* 's time to do the Problem of the Week! May the Force be with you! I mean, it wouldn't be as cool if he did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs and 3 lightyears and 4 trillion miles. He wouldn't be Han Solo if he didn't fudge the numbers a little to be even more amazing. So, armed with a superior nav computer, Han Solo took the Millennium Falcon (under threat of an exploding cargo and Imperial ships chasing him) on a Kessel Run that was only 12 parsecs long! The Kessel Run, which we could just call a generic route that got you from Kessel to past the Imperial blockade, and not an actual path, was usually 18 parsecs. This created the Kessel Run - the inherent danger of the Maw kept the Imperial ships away, making smuggling possible for the gutsy and foolhardy. These Imperial star destroyers were big - too big to get too close to the Maw, a cluster of black holes that were close to the planet Kessel and at the center of the Akkadese Maelstrom. The "safer" routes to Kessel were guarded by Imperial blockades. The Kessel Run was a hyperspace route within a maelstrom that smugglers used to smuggle the illicit substances mined on Kessel. It can travel shorter, and therefore more hazardous routes, while in hyperspace. The Millennium Falcon's nav computer lets the Falcon travel shorter distances (less zigzagging) to get to its destination faster. But, the Millennium Falcon got a major navigation computer upgrade, making it the most superior nav computer, making the Millennium Falcon the fastest ship in the galaxy. Ships probably have to zig zag to their destination, making complicated calculations the entire way. This makes distance a big factor in how quickly a ship can make it from point A to point B. ![]() The further you're going, the more likely you are to collide. The first thing we need to understand is that ship in the Star Wars universe are not able to travel in a straight line when they go into hyperspace - it's too risky because they're highly likely to collide with celestial objects. Until you take more Star Wars space physics into account. Which leads you to the conclusion that Han Solo is bragging about how his ship did a smuggling run over a shorter distance than other ships do? This never really made sense. In fact, one parsec is equal to 3.26 lightyears (also a unit of distance). But what is a parsec? A parsec is a unit of distance, not time.
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