Han had it right.

Ya rubes.

In 'A New Hope', the dastardly rogue Han Solo bragged aboot his ship, the Millennium Falcon, making the Kessel run in 'less than twelve parsecs'.

What is a parsec? A parsec is an astronomical unit of length, simply put. The fact that it is a measure of distance and not time has lead many nerds to believe that it was simply an error in the writing.

Ya rubes.



See, the planet of Kessel is on the far side of a black hole cluster known as "The Maw" (See above image). Most space-goers prefer to give the Maw some distance lest they get sucked in. Now see, the closer you get to a black hole cluster, the less distance you travel and the faster you get there.

Or not at all, depending on one's point of reference, or if you get too close and end up getting all your mass compacted.

So you see? Solo was insinuating that he once traveled so close to the Maw as to cut the standard 18-parsec distance down to twelve.

Han had it right.

Ya rubes.