"It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!"īen reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation. In the revised fourth draft of A New Hope in 1976, the description for "Kessel Run" is put as follows: Han and Chewie make the time (and distance) while escaping from an Imperial customs ship. Crispin's The Han Solo Trilogy, the Maw cluster of black holes distorts space and time, so the distance of the run is shortened by flying close to it. A few months later, Han Solo beat both his own and BoShek's records in a run he made with Luke Skywalker. The smuggler BoShek actually beat Solo's record in his ship, Infinity, but without cargo to weigh him down. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". The Kessel Run was one of the most heavily used smuggling routes in the Galactic Empire. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid. It took travelers in realspace around The Maw leading them to an uninhabitable-but far easier to navigate-area of space called The Pit, which was an asteroid cluster encased in a nebula arm, making sensors as well as pilots go virtually blind. It's nowhere near the roller-coaster ride we saw in Solo.An Imperial-class Star Destroyer pursuing a YT-1250 on the Kessel Run Because hyperspace was involved, Han was breaking physics, but his exchange with Chewbacca about the precise distance shows he's willing to fudge the numbers to make the feat seem more impressive.īut just where is this maelstrom in The Clone Wars and Rebels depictions of Kessel? On The Clone Wars, it's only by clouds and flashes of lightning their route is a straight shot through a tunnel lined by beacons. Ultimately Han navigated the hyperspace route in just over (not under) 12 parsecs. To make matters even more perilous, the Millennium Falcon ran afoul of a summa-verminoth, an enormous, tentacled creature. Escaping Kessel while being pursued, Solo navigated the Akkadese Maelstrom, a massive cluster of matter that contains carbonbergs, ice chunks and other obstacles, and crossed the Maw, an unstable grouping of black holes. The 2018 film depicted the events behind Solo's boast, and partially justified all previous interpretations of the feat simultaneously. But how does this jibe with the depiction of the Kessel run in Solo: A Star Wars Story? It appears that when ships make a routine trip to Kessel, there just isn't much to brag about. Getting past the Republic ships orbiting Corsucant was far more difficult. Once the cargo is loaded, the vessel simply flies back out. Their ship, Silver Angel, simply leaves Corsucant, makes the jump to hyperspace, and then arrives at Kessel. The trip to the planet is uncomplicated in itself, much like a similar journey in the premiere episode of Star Wars Rebels. The latest episode of The Clone Wars sheds more light on Han's feat, as Ahsoka and her new friends, Trace and Rafa Martez, fly to Kessel to deliver a shipment of spice to the infamous Pyke Syndicate. Because a "parsec" is measures distance rather than time, Han's bravado has been alternately interpreted over the years as evidence of his physics-breaking abilities, his willingness to lie, or his ignorance. Much of its reputation comes from Han's boasting in A New Hope that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. RELATED: Star Wars: Why Are the Jedi Blamed for the Clone Wars?
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