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For those of you who don't know, the Kessel Run's an 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel's mines. Worlds along the Kessel Run included Fwillsving, Randa, Rion, and possibly Zerm.Been doing the kessel-run lately?
Im all metric, since well, I live in a part of the world thats not holding on for its bare life to feet and inches because we "dont have a relationship to meters"
It took travelers in real space 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. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid.
Han Solo bragged that his Millennium Falcon, "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs." But, a parsec's a unit of distance, not of time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. 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 less than the standard distance. By navigation closer to the black holes, Solo managed to use bent space to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs. The smuggler, BoShek, actually beat Solo's record in his ship, Infinity, but without cargo to weigh him down. But a few months later, Han Solo beat both his own and BoShek's records in a run he made with Luke Skywalker ... OK, OK, I guess were all bozos on this bus, or at least geeks!
