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Originally Posted by nKoan
And then we can make a course called the Kessel Run and see who can do it in the fewest number of parsecs.
/end me now for making such an awful geeky joke that even I'm ashamed of.
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Originally Posted by sperry
You wanna get geeky... the reason Han and Chewie's Kessle run is impressive is not because they're fast (remember a parsec is a unit of distance, not time or speed), it's because they're such great smugglers they can run straight through the Emperial blockades thus avoiding taking the "long route" that all the crappier smugglers have to take to avoid the heat that the Falcon can either out-run, out-fight, or out-smart.
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Originally Posted by M3n2c3
And just for the geek record, according to the Star Wars expanded universe the Kessel run takes pilots past the Maw Cluster, a dangerous group of black holes. The contest comes from trying to shorten the distance of the run, which is normally measured at a safe 18 parsecs. For Solo to have taken it in 12 parsecs means that not only does he have a fast, durable ship that can come dangerously close to the Maw Cluster, but also balls made of durasteel.
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Thats nice and all but did you know that Lucas stole the idea for the original three films from an old Samuri film called "The Hidden Fortress". Thats why 4,5, and 6 kicked ass, and 1,2, and 3 sucked.