Let’s say G is once again magically related to our accepted G on Earth.
Now it does have an atmospheric speed of 1200 KPH, but this is Space. It does a made up speed of “3,000 G” to a Tie Fighters “4,150 G”. Now, the Falcon is actually slow in realspace. And on the way out, our heroes do a lot of initial flying in realspace, then one long shot jump in Hyperspace. What we see in the film is on the way in, they make these short skips through hyperspace and then fly a little in realspace. Now what’s odd is the Kessel Run is through that huge cloud, called the Akkadese Maelstrom. For reference, the nearest star to Earth is Proxima Centari and it is 4.25 Light Years away. The NORMAL Kessel Run is 20 Parsecs, meaning it would be ~.016% the breadth of the Galaxy or 65 Light Years. FYI, the Star Wars Galaxy is only 120,000 Light Years wide, meaning that Han’s Kessel Run covered ~.01% of the breadth of the Galaxy. That means twelve of them is 39.144 Light Years. That would mean a Parsec is 3.262 Light Years (which is another reference specific to Earth, but that is beside the point. Well for our purposes, let’s say that this is a magical universal constant, so it exactly matches our Parsec. Up until this point, I haven’t said how far a Parsec actually is. Sure its awesome Han was able to take a shortcut through the Maw, but not really relevant to his speed. He is bragging he is so fast, but really its just a different distance? Would a marathon runner be like “I’m so fast I ran those twenty-six miles in fifteen miles”… No. The Kessel Runįirst of all, Han Solo took a shortcut. So now that I have ranted about why a Parsec is even a measure of distance in the Star Wars universe, let’s go into why doing the Kessel Run in twelve of them is still relatively dumb.Īnd I know the line is LESS than 12 Parsecs, but one– he admits he was rounding down in SOLO and two– it is easier for me to just use twelve moving forward. Basically something a little more galactically tangible. Or the distance you cover at hyperspeed in a galactic day (whatever that standard is. Point is, in a Galaxy with tens of thousands of planets and thousands of species from all over, it would be weird to base the standard unit of measurement off of any one planet.Ī more appropriate unit would be based on a degree of rotation of the galaxy, or a distance between the two brightest objects. In the end, it is just silly to base a galactic standard off the orbit of a single planet. And in the wake of the Galatic Civil War, Coruscant stops mattering. So it would likely have to be something well before that. (It is over 4,000 years old by the time the First Order comes into existence). however, there was Hyperspace travel well before that. It has only been the seat of the Republic and the Empire for a little over 1,000 years…. Now you may say “What about Coruscant” and that is kinda fair. To you, “6 feet” would be different than mine.
Well fine maybe that’s what’s supposed to be, but that is the measurement equivalent of measuring feet using your actual foot.
Now you might say maybe it’s the Parsec of a different planet and its sun. If that line is 1 pixel thick, I would need a line 4.8 million pixels long for it to work. Did nobody else notice Obi-Wan's look when Han said the parsec line? He cocked his head and squinted, as if he knew Han was trying to bullshit them.And actually its worse than that. Of course, the whole Kessel Run retcon wasn't necessary in my opinion. This means that Han Solo's line in ANH means that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in ~60 LY instead of 39. That means the arc length would be 229 million kilometers instead of 149.6 million, which leads to an actual parsec definition of almost 5 light-years, instead of 3.26. We have the orbital characteristics of Coruscant (the planet's orbit fluctuates from 207 to 251 million kilometers), and because Coruscant is invariably the galactic standard, the planet's average orbit radius (and the Star Wars definition of AU) is 229 million kilometers. This is wrong, though, because the parsec is a unit of distance equal to the radius of a circle that has an arc length of 1 AU as a result of sweeping out an angle of 1 arc-second (1/3600th of a degree), and the astronomical unit (AU) is defined as the average orbital distance of Earth from the sun, which is 149.6 million kilometers. The Star Wars wiki defines the parsec as 3.26 light-years, just as it is defined in the real world.