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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
saw this map in a star wars book a few weeks ago at Sams...
>> Anonymous
but the map is missing Han Solo's famed "12 parsec Kessel run" route! DOH! ;o)
>> Anonymous
Wild Space.
>> Anonymous
>>77113
Which might acutally be accurate if he went through the MAW. Black holes and all ya'know?
>> Anonymous
Waiting for someone to post the Yuuzhan Vong invasion route with the caption:

I'm in your Galaxy, Stealing you Planets.
>> Anonymous
there are two explanations for the parsec run that make perfect sense to me...Lucas had no idea what the hell a parsec was when he wrote the script...or he did but wanted to show what a brag solo was (explaining obi-wans pained look at the comment). I'd like to think the Alec Guiness knew what a parsec was and couldn't hide the look, but Lucas had o idea what a parsec was when he wrote the line, and led to later be fixed in with speculations about the Maw by fixing the story after it was written.
>> The Lorax
Guh.

Kessel is surrounded by black holes and galactic gravitational shit that rapes a ship, thus forcing normal , non-daring, non-Han non-Chewie ships to take looooong hyperspace detours to get to the prison planet. Han's boast is that he smuggled some cargo into Kessel by using shortcut hyperspace routes that no sane pilot would risk, thus making a shorter beeline to Kessel through the rape-you-black-holes
>> Anonymous
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run
>> Anonymous
>>77643

Another explanation I've heard is that Lucas did know what a parsec was, but it was Han's mistake. He was trying to show off for the silly planet-dwelling people, and made himself look like an idiot in the process.
>> Anonymous
spoiler: sonic the hedgehog
>> Anonymous
>>77756

Han was a fucking starship captain, navigator, and pilot. He would know what a parsec is.

As time goes by and he makes more movies with furry crap in them, it's becoming more and more clear that Lucas is just an overly inflated idiot. I seriously doubt he knew what a parsec was (he probably heard the 'sec' part of it and thought it stood for "seconds" or some such).
>> Anonymous
Why the fuck would anyone in the star wars universe be using a parsec? It's based on the parallax caused by earth's orbit around the sun.
>> Anonymous
the same reason why people in Star Wars speak English.
>> Anonymous
>>77764
Actually it does stand for 'second'. Only it's arc second, not the time unit second.