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 12 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, lets 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 short cut the 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 26 miles in 15 miles". So now that I have ranted about why a Parsec is even a measure of distance in the Star Wars universe, lets go into why doing the Kessel Run in 12 of them is still relatively dumb.Īnd I know the line is LESS than 12 Parsecs, but 1- he admits he was rounding down in SOLO and 2- it is easier for me to just use 12 moving forward.įirst of all, Han Solo took a shortcut. Basically something a little more galactically tangible. In the end it is just silly to base a galactic standard off the orbit of a single planet.Ī more appropriate unit would be based on a degree of rotation of the galaxy, or a distance between the 2 brightest objects, or the distance you cover at hyperspeed in a galactic day (whatever that standard is. And in the wake of the Galatic Civil War, Coruscant stops mattering. So it would likely have to be something well before that. however there was Hyperspace Travel well before that (it is over 4,000 years old by the time the First Order comes into existence). 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. 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. They aren't all the same, so 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 its the 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. I guess that counts for something.ĪNYWAY, let me tell you that even though the new Solo: A Star Wars story "fixed" the Parsec conundrum of time vs distance, it still leave a huge gaping hole in the form of WHY IS A PARSEC EVEN A UNIT OF MEASURE TO THEM!Īnd actually its worse than that. Well I have a Master's Degree in Applied Physics, specifically focused on shock physics/weaponeering.
What are my qualifications to talk about such things? Well I am a member of the 501st legion (AT-AT driver), own all the old dictionaries and technical books and have watched the movies like a million times. See what I mean when I say "Star Wars is ruined"? Then my next post about how said Kamikaze maneuver in TLJ was not NEARLY powerful enough and is really a better move than using something like the Death Star. But take a moment to read my previous Science based posts about how Star Killer base is ultimately a worse weapon than the Original Death Star and how I predicted how the infamous Solo shield bypass maneuver makes the "War" part of Star Wars pointless by itself being a super kamikaze weapon.
Hold on, I don't mean to say this franchise we LOVE is ruined. But that does not mean that I can't be critical of certain details THAT RUIN THE TOTALITY OF STAR WARS. I LOVE Star Wars and find each of them highly entertaining in their own way. I understand is it Space Fantasy and should not be taken seriously.
#HAN SOLO PARSEC MOVIE#
With each new Star Wars movie that comes out, I find myself being critical of the Science in it.
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